We're sitting at a local breakfast joint, enjoying a decent buffet, me, my two room mates and their two year old, and a pair of friends who came up from Mass to help me roof. We're eating and talking and we hear from the 2 year old "mama potty". Only, 2 year old did not announce this *BEFORE* she went potty. ~gah~
Me and the pair of friends continued talking while mama had to take kiddo out to car to change her and dad had to take the booster seat to the bathroom to wash.
Wow, way to have a meal interrupted. I so don't have the patience to deal with that.
CF rules.
I'm so old, no one I know has kids. Ha!
Another reason that I refuse to even associate with people with young kids. Why is it totally acceptable for a kid wearing a shit bag leaking all over the seat to be at the table in the restaurant, but I can't have my quiet, clean and well-mannered dog at a restaurant?
(11-29-2009 11:42 PM)anastasia Wrote: [ -> ]Another reason that refuse to even associate with people with young kids. Why is it totally acceptable for a kid wearing a shit bag leaking all over the seat to be at the table in the restaurant, but I can't have my quiet, clean and well-mannered dog at a restaurant?
Good question. Some would argue that others might be allergic to dogs, but I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to kids, so I believe that if one isn't allowed, the other shouldn't be either.
Similar to dogs v. kids in a restaurant I never understood why it is acceptable for a kid to run screaming through a restaurant. If I were to run screaming through the place at the very least the manager would tell me to knock it off and sit down and more likely I'd be given the boot. They might even call the cops who would take a dim view on my shenanigans.
Now that seems like an excellent way to get publicity and make a point. A bunch of CFers all meet at a popular restaurant, not fast-food, though, and just sit and wait for some brat to pull a stunt like that. A place like Bob Evans or Denny's would work. Then, as soon as the kid acts up, and is dealt with, or not, one adult CFer after another does the same thing. Make sure someone is recording everything.
(11-30-2009 01:10 AM)Eddy Wrote: [ -> ]If I were to run screaming through the place…
I would pay to see that. LOL
I often say that to DH if we're in a place like a restaurant and some worthless brat is shrieking at top volume. What would happen if I did that? We were in an Office Depot once and some 6 year old started screaming like I'd never heard. I told DH that the only way screaming like that would be acceptable would be if someone was stabbing the little shit in the eye. If I had a kid and it was shrieking like that I'd probably say something along the same lines: "Kid, you better have someone stabbing you in the eye if you're going to scream like that." And then someone would call the police on me.
That is so gross. I'm cringing imagining the stench. Ugh.
As for shrieking - some parents encourage their kids to scream like that. I'm sure we've all seen it. It's really appalling.
What I find just as appalling along with the screaming kid(s) are the idiot parents who use the excuse "How else is junior going to learn to behave in public?' or "Kids do that, you know."
(11-30-2009 05:30 PM)Dog Holliday Wrote: [ -> ]What I find just as appalling along with the screaming kid(s) are the idiot parents who use the excuse "How else is junior going to learn to behave in public?' or "Kids do that, you know."
Yeah, only if you don't apply firm and consistent discipline.
It all comes down to discipline and teaching ... which the current generation of baby producers never learned at their parent's knees ...
They learn how to behave in public by being disciplined. I remember many times where my parents would have me sit in the car and even a few where I got spanked when I got home for misbehaving.
(11-30-2009 07:22 PM)faeriecat Wrote: [ -> ]It all comes down to discipline and teaching ... which the current generation of baby producers never learned at their parent's knees ...
Have to agree. Parents these days don't bother to teach proper behavior. Ideally, the parent would make it very clear to the kid what the expectations for their behavior would be in the restaurant, store, etc, and then discipline the kid if it didn't behave accordingly. Rare occurance for that to happen these days.