# Damnit, she's only 18 months old, she's gonna touch that hot plate no matter what you say! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 8, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnit-shes-only-18-months-old-shes-gonna-touch-that-hot-plate-no-matter-what-you-say/621306 "2012-05-08T18:53:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnit-shes-only-18-months-old-shes-gonna-touch-that-hot-plate-no-matter-what-you-say/621306/381 "2012-05-22T02:40:38Z")
I thought of this thread Saturday night. We attended a good friends wedding and their very small reception was held at Ruth’s Chris steakhouse. Their big gimmick is that they bake butter onto the plates before adding your steak and the plates are billed as being 600 degrees. Of the 10 people attending 3 touched the plates to “see if it was really that hot” so I’m no longer blaming the toddler for doing the same 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnit-shes-only-18-months-old-shes-gonna-touch-that-hot-plate-no-matter-what-you-say/621306/382 "2012-05-22T04:42:48Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Can’t say I’m surprised at the casinos. I’m moderately surprised at House of Blues, though. Really? That place was a screaming zoo, I can’t imagine anyone taking a child in there. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnit-shes-only-18-months-old-shes-gonna-touch-that-hot-plate-no-matter-what-you-say/621306/383 "2012-05-22T05:14:30Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Really? That place was a screaming zoo, I can’t imagine anyone taking a child in there. I tend to mostly go to House of Blues Atlantic City in the offseason, it’s never that terribly crazy. Haven’t been there since the kid was born though. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnit-shes-only-18-months-old-shes-gonna-touch-that-hot-plate-no-matter-what-you-say/621306/384 "2012-05-22T06:48:47Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > I tend to mostly go to House of Blues Atlantic City in the offseason, it’s never that terribly crazy. Haven’t been there since the kid was born though. Ah. I had never been there before, but this one was _packed_ and very noisy. On a Thursday night, before tourist season has really started. I shudder to think what it is like on a weekend in the summer! ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnit-shes-only-18-months-old-shes-gonna-touch-that-hot-plate-no-matter-what-you-say/621306/385 "2012-05-23T03:12:10Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Ah. I had never been there before, but this one was _packed_ and very noisy. On a Thursday night, before tourist season has really started. I shudder to think what it is like on a weekend in the summer! Atlantic City offseason, being that it’s on the Jersey coast in winter, is ACTUALLY an off season. 😛 Disney only has “slightly less crowded because some kids are in school” season. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnit-shes-only-18-months-old-shes-gonna-touch-that-hot-plate-no-matter-what-you-say/621306/386 "2012-05-24T01:58:42Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Atlantic City offseason, being that it’s on the Jersey coast in winter, is ACTUALLY an off season. 😛 Disney only has “slightly less crowded because some kids are in school” season. Sigh, it didn’t used to be that way. Used to be we’d see an obvious difference in traffic, more out of state plates, things like that. But apparently more folks are taking kids out of school, or Disney has become more of a destination for non-parents. “Summer hours” seem to start earlier every year. Just makes it harder to try to figure out how to get around on the freeways! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnit-shes-only-18-months-old-shes-gonna-touch-that-hot-plate-no-matter-what-you-say/621306/387 "2012-05-25T19:28:28Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Seems like 2 out of 3 servers in restaurants I go to have no concept of what small children will or will not do. In fairness to them, the most likely don’t have kids of their own and are probably clueless, but if a good portion of your customers come in with small kids, you probably should learn or they won’t want to come back. > > My youngest is about to be 18 months. She feeds herself but she doesn’t really understand if you say “hot plate” that she shouldn’t touch it because she might burn herself. My wife and I are pretty good at intercepting these things and moving them out of her reach when they reach the table, but every once in a while, she’s too damn fast and the waiter/waitress is not thinking when setting something extremely hot down on the table within her reach, all the time saying “this plate is extremely hot!” Well, no shit Sherlock. You probably shouldn’t be sitting it down near the toddler. > > When we order water all around, again, 1 out of 5 times the server is going to bring a standard glass filled with ice water and set it down directly in front of her. WTF are you thinking? > > So far, no extreme damage has been done, but it does give me pause with regard to the critical thinking skills of some of our youth. wow, I remember when I was young, and waited tables, we were nowhere that foolish. hell, I cringed when parents asked for crackers for their 18 month old. 75% of the time the kid didn’t eat the crackers, they would just crush them and distribute them liberally about their general area. If you wanted a good tip, you learned kids quick. rules were: lots of napkins, always take straws, cups with spill resistant lids, plenty of ketchup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damnit-shes-only-18-months-old-shes-gonna-touch-that-hot-plate-no-matter-what-you-say/621306.md?page=19)