Something like that. Nice work. Here’s a cookie.
So, where are we at now? The kid’s screaming, the other diner has come over and yelled at kid, mom has put her foot up other diner’s ass, other diner has stomped mom - did I miss anything?
Yeah, there’s a burning house involved somewhere now…and a Chili’s that has no crayons…plus a couple cavemen and Romans.
There was skull-bashing in there somewhere, too.
Somebody must slide someone else across the bar, or else it’s not a real brawl.
Oh, and nuns fighting girl scouts.
Don’t forget the law suit and some hurt feelings too.
Exactly! “if it’s taking her a little longer to calm down than usual…” Meaning: I am actively trying to calm her down, not just letting her run wild with no supervision (at which point you’d have the right to call me on it), and it’s taking longer than usual but I AM TRYING TO CALM HER DOWN AND DOING EVERYTHING IN MY POWER. Are you going to flip out when someone is trying to solve the problem but (for whatever reason) failing? If so, that makes you the douche in the equation.
Another reason for removing her other than making others feel more comfortable? Hey, did you ever think that maybe it’s the atmosphere of the restaurant that’s making her cry and carry on? Maybe the high-chair is uncomfortable, maybe the noise in the restaurant is bothering her, maybe you’re sitting near the kitchen area and the heat is bothering her, maybe she’s just in a bad mood and a trip to the quiet car will help her calm down.
And before you come out with the, “Well, maybe you shouldn’t have brought your kid to a place like that” response: I’m not fucking Kreskin, ok? I didn’t know my kid might react to a restaurant atmosphere in that manner. You take your kid with you, they flip out for whatever unforeseeable reason kids flip out for, and you deal with it. If, while I’m dealing with it (for my kid’s comfort, not yours), you decide that I’m not dealing with it fast enough or to the manner of your liking and decided to comment on it, you’ll be getting a response from me and you might not like it. I don’t see what’s so hard to figure out about this.
Can we break chairs over other people’s heads, too?
To quote you, I don’t give two shits why your kid is continuing to cry and bother everyone else in the restaurant - if she won’t stop, she has to go.
Not the kid’s. We have to draw the line somewhere.
The unstoppable force has met the immovable object. Let the wait staff deal with it.
ETA: Or, I should say, in keeping with my “fuck everyone else. every man for himself” philosophy, if you feel that you don’t give a shit about my feelings (and you shouldn’t) then go ahead and say whatever you want. I will, however, respond. That’s life.
“Waiter! There’s a crying baby in my soup!”
And this is precisely what makes you such a massive, fucking asshole. If you weren’t so busy playing the role of “unstoppable/immovable douchebag”, you’d do the decent thing and take your fucking kid out of the restaurant. At a certain point, it doesn’t really matter whether your’e trying to stifle them or not. If, after a few minutes of trying to soothe your kid, they’re still making a lot of noise - take your fucking kid out of the restaurant.
“Let the wait staff deal with it.” Really. What a selfish, passive-aggressive tool you are. Here’s hoping you get the dearly departed VCO3 as your waiter.
Just a question for those with the ‘it’s your problem not mine’ attitude.
Would it be any different if you were, say, with a friend who had too much to drink and was shouting at the top of their voice in an otherwise quiet restaurant?
Waiters are here to seat people, take orders, bring food and take money. Oh, and whine about tips :p. They are not here to arbitrate petty grievances. In fact, due to corporate pressures and codes of conduct and so forth, they often will not be able to tell you to shut the fuck up and get the fuck out, no matter how strongly they feel you should. And they do. Ooooh yes they do.
So your position, while *seeming *to be even handed, really isn’t. And makes you a massive tool if you try to pull that card to keep a freaking out toddler on the premises. I don’t care if you’d have to sign a blood compact with the Dark Prince to keep your sprogs at a reasonable decibel level : if you can’t do it in a timely fashion, it’s elementary fucking courtesy to take them out. Outside, I mean.
Ah, no, I’m responding to what she wrote, rather than what you seemingly think she wrote.
No, she said that parents should not bring kids out in “public areas” until they can behave. Dunno what you find hard to understand about that.
Yeah, it’s silly. That why her position is silly.
I would never have thought of that! :smack:
Oh wait. I did. Repeatedly.
Again, what she said is that people who have kids who can’t behave should not take them out.
So I ask you directly - should parents with children too young to behave take them out on public? Yes or no? are they 'assholes" if they do so?
You simply are not reading what is being written.
Shit, how many times must I say that I agree that parents have a positive duty to be considerate? Ten, twenty?
What I’m objecting to is the notion, written in black and white, that parents should not bring their kids out at all until they can “behave”.
For some bizzare reason, you wish to interpret Shot With Gun’s argument to mean - well, what the consensus means. If that was really the case, there would be no argument then, would there? Look at what she wrote.
This thread is about a crying infant at Chili’s. How can you twist this in any form other than ‘don’t bring your infant in the first place’?
Where are you getting all this “kiss my ass” stuff from? Not me, I assure you. Please read my posts, before attributing to me arguments others are making.
When I have a baby (which I will take with me wherever I go) and it cries in public, the fact that we am pissing off people like the OP who is as helpless as I am to make the kid shut up… will be a great comfort.
I love that your made-up names here are like halfway legit names and not some stupid made-up crap like “Britleighh and Ashtonne”.
I skipped a bunch of posts in this thread but will go on record as stating that I am opposed to any type of screaming in restaurants, whether it is from a baby, another customer with anger-management issues, the chef, etc. If I want to listen to screaming at the dinner table, I’ll just eat at home. (Ha. That’s a joke. In my house I lay down the iron fist of justice if anyone tries to give me lip at the dinner table.)
You are right on one thing. Nobody would expect a grown man to do that because it isn’t something a grown man would do. It’s something a immature idiot would do. And you think you will sue someone for making “any move” on you? For what? I hate to break it to you, but you are committing the intentional tort of assault by yelling in the child’s face. Do you honestly think a jury is going to award you dime one if someone stops you from doing that?
You have some serious issues. Spending your Friday night in Denny’s is probably the least of them. I’d suggest you had a beer and relax, but I know where that one would go…
This thread is surreal.
The number of times people are subjected to uncontrollable baby crying without parents trying to cure the problem is small. And yet so many people are stabbing each other with virtual forks over it.