Should restaurants serve screaming out of control children?

[proud2BlibKansan]

Poll question: Should restaurants serve screaming out of control children?

[elocs]

1. I think it is good to bring children to restaurants because it's an opportunity to teach them

how to behave in a public place. Unfortunately there are too many brain dead parents who could care less and allow the kids to run wild and generally behave poorly and they are impervious to the negative effect that has on the people around them who must endure the show.

[jobycom]

2. Nope. They should send them to GD, where they'd fit right in.

:P

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. LOL!

:rofl:

[Recovered Repug]

4. Only in season

and not from the Gulf Coast (possible oil contamination).

[Dr.Phool]

15. Only if they're cooked properly.

[LiberalLoner]

5. Oh, my goodness, no, everyone knows children are only edible when they are ripe, at puberty.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Here's a little advice for all the armchair QBs. If all these parents are pissing you off

TALK TO THEM DIRECTLY ABOUT IT.

Does anyone do that? I'm willing to bet, no.

Instead, they just get all chickenshit, and then grouse later about "self-centered stroller people taking up the supermarket aisle".

If someone is bugging you that much, try telling them that. At the time.

[hobbit709]

11. I have

and got cussed out on more than one occasion. Was threatened once, but the idiot backed down when he realized that I was bigger than him and the other people at my table were even bigger.

[REP]

14. I have, for all the good it does

My favorite was the group at the outdoor cafe who sent their awful children over to me so they could get some quiet time. After pointing out that I didn't know them and I don't babysit, I noticed that they were sitting next to my car. So I (after warning the other patrons, who were tired of the screaming, banging and shrieking as well) set the alarm off via remote, over and over again. By the third time, they got the message and left.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. they "sent their awful children over to me so they could get some quiet time."

Yeah, right.

[REP]

23. That's what they said.

Was that you?

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Yes. It was me.

Are you free tomorrow afternoon? I don't feel like changing diapers.

[REP]

37. Depends

No, I mean you should try Depends so you don't need your diaper changed.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. The thing about the car alarm is funnier, actually.

I used the same trick to get a bird to stop shitting on my side view mirror.

[proud2BlibKansan]

42. I did it to a guy looking in my car in a parking lot.

Saw him as I was walking to the car. Freaked him out too. Still makes me laugh.

[TheKentuckian]

25. If a parent doesn't see their kid acting a fool right in front of them

that might be part of the problem.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. I would agree. But if there's a real problem, bring it to their attention.

Like I said, someone was complaining about "parents with strollers who think they're the center of the universe, in the supermarket aisle"-- I have to wonder; did they ask them to move? Usually I give people the benefit of the doubt that they don't realize they're being rude or causing inconvenience. Sometimes people are nasty about it, but mostly they're apologetic when it's pointed out to them. In my experience.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. I also voted mustard, because pretty much any kind of meat tastes better with mustard.

:shrug:

[Mnemosyne]

8. Only if they are cooked right. n/t

[BlueJazz]

9. I voted for Hollandaise sauce. It tends to calm them down before the Slaughter.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. That was my choice as well

[hobbit709]

10. Baked or fried?

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Fried is too fattening

[keep_it_real]

12. Should all trains have one car for screaming out of control children?

So passengers don't have to hear the racket of screaming out of control children?

[Dr.Phool]

16. Yeah, but we called them brakemen.

Always crying about something.

[Dr.Phool]

17. I like children. I just don't think I could eat a whole one.

[BlueJazz]

20. LOL!!

[Dr. Strange]

18. It's a cookbook!

[pipi_k]

19. If they're screaming and out of control, they clearly haven't been cooked long enough

Otherwise, I say boil and mash them and mix with the whipped taters w/garlic

[KinMd]

24. Taste like chicken

[Hannah Bell]

27. Other: why are we still talking about this stupid topic on a political board?

who cares?

if you don't like restaurants with screaming children, go elsewhere or make your displeasure known to the management.

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. Because relevant topics make our brains hurt

Besides, American Idol is on its off season.

[Hannah Bell]

34. my apologies, i didn't even look at your poll, i see it's actually a joke.

that's better than the earlier thread that lasted a week. i refrained from posting on that one but every night there it was at the top of the charts, & when i saw the same topic again....

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. Same here. Didn't even click on one of those threads till today.

No need for an apology. We're good. :)

Now I am expecting one of my friends to pop in anytime and make a snarky comment. They've been in most of my threads today. I've been called a truther and a birther today. LOL

[Warren DeMontague]

31. Because last week was circumcision, and we don't start smoking bans until the 14th. nt

[Odin2005]

29. You are BAD!!!

:rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. And you love it

which make you bad too!

[soleiri]

32. Other.

Damn it, I'm vegetarian! :cry:

I do miss screaming children smothered in enchilada sauce.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. You know, when they talk about swaddling babies, they say to wrap them like a burrito.

Coincidence? I think not.

[soleiri]

35. mmmm burrito babies mmmm

there goes my diet!

[krispos42]

39. Can we get them with some sort of dry rub?

That Montreal steak seasoning is pretty tasty. :9

[Donnachaidh]

40. personally, after having run a restaurant for several years - I'm JUST as annoyed

at the people who whine about children as I am with the parent's of the children.

One point rarely brought up in these arguments -- there ARE people who are looking for ANY reason to complain about restaurant visits. Many of these people zero in on children, when quite frankly, they should be minding their own damned business in the first place.

YES -- there ARE parents that let their kids go hog wild - but they are NOT in the large percentages put forth by the whiners. Not even close.

Children are *not* adults, and to expect them to act like little adults shows just how ignorant some people are about kids. Perhaps parents have dragged them all over the place and the kid is hungry and tired. I guess it's okay that they just sit in their seat and pass out - just to make the lives of some *supposed* adults better?

I've dealt with MORE childish behavior from the very same adults who throw their little diva tantrums about *others* bothering them during a meal. Well guess what -- no one held a damned gun to your head to make you go out. GROW UP, put on your big boy pants and LEAVE the restaurant if it offends you so much.

Personally, the whining speaks volumes about the depth of character of the ADULTS doing the whining. I'll give odds that most children don't like YOU much, either. I certainly hope you treat your own children with a bit more respect. After all -- THEY are the ones who will be choosing YOUR nursing home..... :eyes:

[proud2BlibKansan]

43. Oh I hear ya

I have a friend I refuse to go with to a restaurant. She asks stupid questions. - How fresh is your lettuce? - and sends food back all the time. It takes her literally 10 minutes to place her order. I got tired of apologizing to wait staff and stopped going with her.

Oh and she has an obnoxious kid too. Figures. LOL

[Warren DeMontague]

45. It's not just restaurants-- it's any place of business, retail store, etc.

I spent years working for a funky, cool chain in a funky, cool town- and despite the general mellow-ness of the locals, I eventually made some observations about humanity that I think probably apply most everywhere. 60% of the people are just there to do what they're there to do, not causing trouble, not particularly memorable- 20% or so are just great; the kind of folks you end up being friends with outside of the store... then, then, then there's the other 10% or so...


And those are the people who, eventually, will cause you to have to stop doing that job. Because they just SUCK, and they are invariably looking for a reason to bitch, complain, or otherwise make some poor working schlub's life miserable.

[joneschick]

44. Well, not on the main menu for heavens sake!

--maybe on the daily menu that the waitstaff tells you about so that the freshest choices can be made....:hi: