God, I hate noisy kids in restaurants -- they should stay home

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If you're saying this at TGIFridays or Chilis...dude....get a clue

But at a nice romantic rest, yes, we parents should stay out ;)

Childish chatter is OK unless you're in a Hushed Temple of Fine Cuisine.

Screaming tantrums & kids running around, getting in the way of the service staff--NEVER OK!

Seriously!

Hell my dad wouldn't tolerate me throwing a hissy fit in McDonalds.

If your child is prone to throwing tantrums either hire a babysitter, order takeout or spend the next 18 years taking your kids to Chuckie Cheese

Though it depends on what you define as a "hissy fit" or "throwing a tantrum". Family restaurants mean that families will be there. This means normal families, with kids who are not stepford children. Granted a kid throwing food and cursing would not be normal, but kids crying when they have to leave or running around to explore is normal. I'm in a childless marriage, and I have never understood adults who get pissed at children at places like Fridays or Applebees, that is where families with children belong. I get as annoyed as anyone else when I am at an expensive or romantic place with my wife, but at a family place, I expect families.

My parents let me be a kid at McDonald's, which included walking around ot meet other kids and asking dumb questions, clapping when I was happy and crying when I was sad. Even I was sad because my mom would not let me have another french fry, I was allowed to cry. Its hard to know what makes up a hissy fit, but when I see a kid crying even if it is something as stupid as not getting a fry, I don;t get pissed because that is what I think kids are entitled to do at family places.

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with breasts at all!!! :silly: :sarcasm:

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:popcorn: anyone?

I know!

;)

Molotov cocktail?

I might start a smoking thread later...

I knew it must be something like boredom for you to light that and toss it in the Lounge. :nuke:

Since when is it cool to have uncontrollable kids in public? If I had behaved that way, I'd be in a wheelchair by now.

Dat's da problem.

I work in a retail store. Nothing agitates me more than hearing a parent say to an unruly child "Sweetie, please, stop that...stop it...no...I don't want to have to ask you again...no...don't do that...stop...please, be good...don't do that again...I'm only going to say it one more time...if you keep doing that, I'm taking you home...stop it...please don't make me ask you again...". AAHHH!! Seriously, sometimes it goes on for a full 5 or 10 minutes! Drives me nuts.

For the sake or their own sanity, they have to learn how to tune out some of it. To us childless folks, they look completely oblivious.

Wait, I'm bored too. I think I'll go post one about cats and birds. :evilgrin:

I saw the fun popcorn, but I still participated in a serious discussion. I was going to back off just so you would not have another fool to watch, but I had to respond to something I read. Great popcorn post, I hope you are enjoying your snack and the entertainment. Don't forget to tip your waiters.

Something to the nature that they have the right to ask you to leave if you can't control your kids.

The letters just started to hit our local paper all in favor of the restaurant. There are restaurants designed especially for families and small kids. If your child cannot behave you need to remove them from the main restaurant area and either take them to the car or restroom until they calm down again (or home if they refuse to).

It's not my problem if kids can't behave themselves so don't make me suffer through it.

My co-worker and I like the salads from Bennigans but they tend to get a bunch of kids in there even during lunch hours. Our solution - we always grab one of the tables by the bar since the bar tables are too high to accomadate kid seats. (Plus in Delaware bars are non-smoking so we don't have to deal with that either).

(seems you have extra)

I don't ever want to even see a child before age 18.

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Um.... Free? For $1? :rofl:

"And it's free: Only a a dollar."

Something about Winnebagos and a baby's arm holding an apple in that one, too, if I remember right and I probably don't.

Redstone

eating that pizza no fun at all.

Until the fucking busybodies changed that.

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well done, sir! Just change your avatar to a DLC logo, and I think we have a winner

Won't be quiet for long, now.

Redstone

No Tom Cruise threads, either, so I HAD to do something... it's the American Way. Pioneer Spirit, and all that.

slaughtered, gutted, and carved into cutlets. (And they could probably pass them off as free-range veal.)

and the fucken idiot parents dont give a shit and let them get away with it.
When my kids were small and tried that the ex and I NEVER let them do that.

"'tha fuck you lookin' at?" But...I am good at keeping my anger in check in public, for the sake of others, not the assholes bothering me, nor would I use foul language around children...

So I turned around and stared at them. The guy got all rude cussing at me. I said "See how it feels PAL!" He grunted a few things and made the kid sit down.

I once accompanied my sister with her 7 yr old to the place and had to literally walk out after suffering through about 20 minutes of it. The noise, the noise, the NOISE! (In the infamous words of the Grinch) It was just plain freaking me out! :crazy:

...that makes all the noisy little tykes bearable- you can get NICELY liquored-up there! :rofl:

But the picture was an adult with steam coming out of his ears.

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no argument from me.

I like kids, well behaved and polite ones. :evilgrin:

A little quiet, please

Regarding Bridget Ismert, who wrote saying that people didn’t take children to upscale restaurants: What planet is she from? Parents today take the little darlings everywhere, including restaurants that are clearly meant for people old enough to refrain from wailing if there’s no food on the table the moment they sit down.

You wouldn’t sit a 4- or 5-year-old down at the kitchen table at home 20 minutes before you put food in front of him. Why then would you take a child that young to a sit-down place? The Golden Arches were invented for children. Take them there, and let those of us who are spending good money for a night out have some peace and quiet.

Elaine Hines

Kansas City