Posted on 01/15/2014 4:05:37 AM PST by JoeProBono
No, the business isn’t the fault of their kid disrupting the dining experience of other diners. If the baby can’t be consoled within a few minutes in the restroom or the car, then you thank the chef and leave.
Children are not.
Children are not.
Yuck. Who wants a dog on the table eating the fish heads?
For what are you thanking the chef? He’s not your host: he’s your employee, if you’ve paid for a meal.
I have six children, the oldest is 16 and the youngest is 6. I can take them anywhere because they have known discipline all of there lives. I think by standing up and correcting the other tables children it embarrassed them.... and that is why they left.
People shouldn't put up with rude behavior, by children or adults.
I agree.
The last time that happened to me, I aske the owner to see if they wanted to pick up my tab, because THEIR KIDS ruined my diner!
It's not just restaurants, but church, movies, etc. Frankly you are risking getting the child sick because some other IDIOT did not cover a cough or sneeze and had the flu or other bug.
Is that the chef? Good grief! Can’t he put a net on that dirty looking hair? Ewww.
He should have asked them to leave. People spending hundreds of dollars for an evenening out deserve to not have it ruined by a crying baby.
As well it should be...and I'd include movies, plays, concerts and parties. GET A BABYSITTER!
Either leave the child with a babysitter or don’t go out.
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Exactly. Many parents today are just inconsiderate louts.
There are a few parents at my church who fit into that category. I raised 4 children, and I currently have 3 grandchildren, so I know that children sometimes get squirmy and noisy in church.
When they were old enough to understand, I made it a point to remind my children on the way to church about what kind of behavior I expected of them during Mass. When they were too little to comprehend such, I made it a point to sit near the exit and, then, take them into the vestibule if they got noisy.
Two of those three grandchildren have gone to Mass with me on several occasions, and they behave like angels even though they just turned 5 and 3, respectively, in November.
I really want to scream when I am straining to listen to the homily while a parent is not only allowing but encouraging a little one to be disruptive.
No...it;s the parents of the undiscipled kids who were the asses.
Seems to me he could have asked (or suggested)them if they would like their meal “to go”...and that way gotten them out of there.
What this dude did is similar to the guy who slapped the crying babies in WalMart and on the plane.
If he really wanted to be helpful, as opposed to demonstrating poor impulse control, a bad temper and a bullying attitude, he would have walked over to the kids and spoken kindly to them and brought them over to their parents and said the kids were in danger of evil tempered adults blasting them with curse words.
Jesus loved children. You people do not.
Hey, yldstrk....it isn’t all about you and what you want. That’s the attitude which causes these kinds of problems. When did people become so self-centered and inconsiderate?
We were out of town at a football game, and we were starving, so we stopped for lunch at a Ruby Tuesday’s...I don’t even like that place, but whatever. There were some small kids running around the restaurant, all around the feet of the servers....you should have seen the scared expressions on the faces of those folks when they had to stop suddenly to avoid spilling a tray of hot food on those children.
The yuppie parents-—I know they were liberals, they had that look-—were sitting oblivious by the window, chatting and smiling like a couple of morons. I went up to the salad bar, and one of the kids came and got a plate and tugged at my sleeve. I took him over to his parents and said, “Your child wants to be fed. Can you get off your butts and take care of it, please?”
Total shock and nasty resentment on their faces.
Do you see in any way that is selfish on your part? Because you don't mind screaming kids it's okay to ruin 20 or 30 other people's dinners?
From the whirlwind of posts defending the practice of texting in the movies (dinner, traffic, anyplace really) I guess the takeaway is that the chef should just “deal” with it. He wasn’t eating anyway.
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