I really don’t like eating in restaurants.
Once when I was on vacation at Estes Park with kids we walked up to what looked like a nice restaurant and they wouldn’t even let us in. No kids.
I come from a Catholic family. We love babies and we are not flummoxed by babies in church, babies everywhere. What is life all about?
Anyone that refers to a baby as “it” is on my S list too.
So if you want my money for your hoity toity 6 oz salmon, you will accept me with my child if I want, or I will find a better place that can actually extend the hospitality I am willing to pay for.
Raising children is draining and if we all want to go out for a nice dinner and not leave the kids behind with an axe murderer or child abuser just so the selfish people don’t have to be reminded how empty their lives of self are, we will find a place where we can do that.
So the people who don't want an out of control brat or a wailing baby at the next table are the selfish ones?
I think it would be a more pleasant world if more people used common sense. Some environments are more suitable for children than others.
It seems to me that buying a very expensive non-refundable ticket for *anything* when you have a young child has a lot of potential downside.
” not leave the kids behind with an axe murderer or child abuser”
A bit extreme there!! It’s healthy and good for young parents to have a date night without kids once in awhile.
Lots of non axe murder baby sitters you could find.
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.
“Once when I was on vacation at Estes Park with kids we walked up to what looked like a nice restaurant and they wouldn’t even let us in. No kids.
I come from a Catholic family. We love babies and we are not flummoxed by babies in church, babies everywhere. What is life all about?”
I so agree with you really!
I have seen more and more restaurants ban children. Some under 6 some under 10 and I agree with this ban. You know why?
It’s not the children’s fault! This is the problem of the parents. They don’t make their children behave. When I was a child if I did half the crap some of these kids do in restaurants, CPS would have been called on my parents by today’s standards.
Restaurants don’t want this. It is more than annoying other customers it is risk of a lawsuit if the kid, while running up and down the idles hurts someone.