I hate parents of little kids who don't know how to behave in restaurants

[demnan]

Jumping all around running up and asking me stupid questions -- they aren't as cute to me as they are to you!

Let the flames begin!

[Bouncy Ball]

1. WELL FUCK YOU VERY MUCH!

Just kidding! Hee hee, aren't I precious?

Actually I have a kid, but I've never allowed her to run around restaurants so you can't be talking to ME!

[demnan]

2. Na, not unless you hate single middle aged women

who venture forth to actually show themselves in public and go to restaurants!

Actually I'm pretty tolerant of kids, I love them and I'm friendly but when their parents develop a self righteous attitude about women my age who don't' have kids and dare to go to a restaurant and have a little fun --- I get crazy!

[Bouncy Ball]

7. Well, I read that thread and

if some people were talking really loudly at the next table about graphic sex stuff, that *would* bother me, as my 10 year old IS old enough to understand that (but not old enough to need to know about vibrators and such) and plus, who wants to hear someone else's kinky sex talk while you're eating? Blech.

[demnan]

17. I can understand "why do rude people . . ."

when it comes to "why do middle aged women . . ." I take offense. I suffer enough problems trying to get a decent job in this society and being single I've suffer uncountable slights from people who thought I was gay and hated me for being a single woman, wanted to deny me a job because I'm a single middle-aged woman or whatever.

I think its a bad characteristic, as if someone had posted, " I really don't like black people who . . ." that's what I found offensive.

[opiate69]

3. *pulls up a chair by the fire...

:popcorn:

[youthere]

13. Mind if I join you and Dark Leftist?

:popcorn:

[opiate69]

16. By all means.. but, I think we're gonna need more booze...

[Huckebein the Raven]

4. Let me just pull up a chair here.....

Anyone want a drink ? I brought a six pack...

:popcorn: :evilgrin:

[demnan]

6. Baby, pour me a cold one!

and thanks for stopping by! :loveya:

[opiate69]

9. Just a Six? Well, I'll take one for now, and I'll get the next round...

[bettyellen]

11. snap, pour, ahhhhh

:toast:

[Arkana]

5. I agree, but you'll get flamed by the Beatnik parents who believe

that you should just "let the children express themselves!"

[MyUncle]

8. If parents want to let their kids be adults in resaurants....

just do what you would do to any rude adult.

[davidinalameda]

10. I agree

I was one of those brattly little kids too

if the parents can afford dinner out, can't they afford a baby sitter?

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. No little kid knows how to behave in a restaurant.

It's the parents' responsibility to take the kid outside if the acting up gets out of control.

[Taxloss]

14. I don't like kids in restaurants either.

It's a completely unnatural environment for a child.

Parents who let their child run around and scream in a restaurant should be asked to leave. It is completely inconsiderate to the other guests. The only reason kids run and scream is because they don;t like it there, so they should never have been taken there.

[ahem]

15. True story from a restaurant last week...

My hubby and I went to have dinner at a "family friendly" restaurant since he was *really* hungry and it was close. While we're eating, we see a kid run into a chair and knock it right out from under an elderly woman who was about to sit down. POW--she falls right on the floor. The parents reaction? "GET OVER HERE!", to their kid, but not even an apology to the woman. Several of us went to check on the woman. Thankfully she didn't break anything. Then hubby laid into the parents about not evening checking on the woman. He got a "fuck you" for his troubles.

Argh.

[LibDemAlways]

20. I started a thread several weeks ago about

a kid who ruined lunch for a whole roomful of restaurant patrons (including me and my parents) with 20 minutes of ear shattering screams and plate throwing. His mother and her friend ignored the whole thing. I realize the mother was the one at fault for not taking him out, but it was the kid who was doing the screaming.

I couldn't believe how many DUers were of the opinion that I should have stayed home and that the kid had a God-given right to screech his little brains out in public.

That this is even an issue is beyond me. I have a twelve year old, and when she got antsy in a restaurant when she was small, I removed her immediately. People paying good money to eat out should not have to listen to the screams of a tired, cranky child. Period.

[hickman1937]

18. Why do some people treat their kids with less courtesy than they

treat their friends? Would they drag their friends into a restaurant, then ignore said friends, while they chat. Take your kids to McDonalds to teach them restaurant manners, then take them to places with waitstaff, and for God sake, talk to them, play with them, make it about them, or leave them at home. Rant off.

[demnan]

19. Look, foks this was a copy cat thread

I just felt so insulted that someone would decide that middle aged single women should not be found in restaurants it drove me to the destraction of creating copy-cat threads!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3169640

[Telly Savalas]

21. This has been up 2.5 hours with only 19 responses???

Looks like DU is suffering from "noisy kid in restaurant" thread fatigue. :o

[JVS]

22. I'll see you that and raise it to "Kids should be seen and not heard"

:-)