I hate most of the things that other people have said (with the exception, now that I've been enlightened, of post-nasal drip or whatever it is).
But I do have to comment on
people who dont make their kids wear seatbelts
and
people who let their kids run around supermarkets
because one of my pet peeves -- and not to pick on you, souxi, because I can completely understand where you're coming from, having felt the same before I had my kids -- is people who assume that if children are misbehaving it's because their parents "let" them do it. I probably would STILL think that if I had docile kids, or even average kids. But I have extremely challenging kids.
I never "let" them run around or slip out of their seatbelts or all kinds of other things they do -- they just do them, and it is a constant -- and I do mean constant -- challenge to get them to behave normally. Often, I chastise them or chase them down or whatever's necessary, but I know it's possible that there are times people see me in supermarkets or wherever not screaming at them or apparently not doing all I might do, and that's generally because either I'm momentarily distracted or I've learned to pick my battles or I'm already trying to get them to stop doing something much worse than that.
And I can imagine non-parents, or parents of relatively docile kids, at this point secretly thinking, "Well, if she would just be strict and firm about it at all times, they would stop misbehaving." All I can say is ... um, yeah. Believe me, I've heard those arguments a gazillion times. Come back and tell me the same thing after you've spent a year or so around my sons, or kids like them. Most people have absolutely no idea. There are a few who do, and I have never heard that kind of advice coming from them.
Anyway, this feels a lot like Del's defense of sinus-disease sufferers. Until you've walked a mile in our shoes ...