Travel pains

If you've happend to read my latest post on the babes site you may stop here and come back at another time. This post will be nothing more than a summary of my latest travel to the states.
In the recent past (with recent I mean the last 10 years) I unfortuneately never arrived in in Minneapolis at the planned arrival time. It almost seems that there is a curse on me or the town...
This time my flight out of Germany was late. But do to very strong tail winds and the captains great flying, we caught up time and arrived early in NYC. (Now that was a very unusual expierience for me). I went through immigrations (meeting another very "friendly" immigrations officer, which shall be told about at another time), which is a very time consuming procedure, then through customs, thinking "Wow, I actually don't have to rush to the next gate!", onlt to arrive at the gate and see my outgoing flight is delayed. So I now have another 2 (!) hours of time to kill. Something difficult if you travel on your own, but together with a two-year old, something almost not accomplishable. Especially considering the fact, that airports have no facilities for children. Not that I expect a playground or anything large than that. But maybe a tiny slide or something... I know what you're thinking, these germans have expectations one can hardly meet up to. And it's not as if you find these facilities at a german airport (or any other country I know of, or been to). But seriously, the airlines know that they have difficulties with their flights leaving on-time (even though EVERY airline will tell you something different, of course). So why don't they put a little tiny bit of money into the waiting comfort for passengers tavelling with children? It would help other travellers as well because it would reduce the bored, and therefore loud, children in the waiting area!