Oops, sorry, I forgot where I was. Won’t do it again, I promise.
There ya go again, making shit up about what I posted. You’re an expert at making shit up to talk about. Let’s call that THREE times you’ve resorted to that dishonest bullshit to take a poke at me.
Let everyone know when you’re ready to have an actually discussion instead of making up stuff and making demands that people give you information.
Maybe others are willing to play your games, but I’m done with you.
You should stick to the Wow thread where your posts have actual value.
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Convenient if you don’t read what you reply to. Check post #328 where I said “Asking them nicely didn’t work”. You posted in #329. Or you can stick to your lie, whichever.
Crazy for screaming at a kid who’s been screaming for 10 mins while his parents do nothing? Yeah, if that’s crazy, then I’m fucking nuts.
And by the way, if screaming at a kid counts as crazy, then I’ll bet half the parents in the country are crazy.
It’s not bad based on what you get and the time of the week. I had a friend who worked at a Denny’s for a while. He told me they cleaned the restaurant every Wed night. He warned me never to go on Mon or Tuesday. And the clam chowder I had that Friday was the best chowder I’ve ever had, so I suppose different strokes for different folks apply here.
You deal with it your way, I’ll deal with it my way. For the record, according to people who have reported stuff like this to management, my way works better 
Management’s problem? Did you conveniently forget the fact that this kid would still be screaming in my ear the next booth over? Oh yeah, that sounds completely like management’s problem! Waiter, I’ll have an Iced Tea with a side of deafness please! I don’t need to have a conversation with my friends because, hey! this kid’s all the noise I need! Why don’t I take my friends somewhere else where we can share a burger with a side of screaming?
You’re fucking blind if you think a screaming kid is only management’s problem. It is their problem, it’s the problem of the waiters, it’s every other patron’s problem, and it’s MY problem because I was sitting right next to them.
And you’re crazier than me if you think screaming at a kid is assault. That sounds like you graduated from the lawschool of Bullshit and Hyperbole
You can name call all you want, but you can’t argue with results! That baby deserved to be screamed at, I did it, and it worked.
Huh, apparently it is an actual expression. Ignorance fought.
I’m perfectly willing to admit that someone should let their whelp scream at a table in public for more than a minute ***if ***someone will give me an example of what they’d be doing (which would take more than a minute) and/or explain why all that can’t be tried in a more private area once it’s become apparent that the kid isn’t going to immediately quiet down again.
I quoted you verbatim. You said you didn’t have time to respond, because you had actual work to get done. Both that post *and the fact that you’re catching up and responding yet again *belie that statement. The problem is not whatever other things are keeping you exactly busy enough to have time to tell me I’m an idiot but not back it up with evidence: the problem is that, for whatever reason, you just don’t want to actually debate anything.
I choose to believe it’s 'cause you know I’m right and are just afraid to admit it, because that’s the scenario that reflects best on me. Duh?
My god! How dare I try to get you to *discuss *things with me and *demonstrate *that I’m wrong instead of just *telling *me that I’m wrong and expecting me to take your word for it! Horrors!
And I’m sure it proved to any who witnessed the event what a total fucking psycho you are. I suppose that’s a positive.
Come on - let’s not stop now - 5 more pages and we can overtake the Health Care Horror Story thread, and in less time to boot! 
There’s some Cracker Barrel-ish place that has a breakfast item called the Farmer’s Daughter. That’s a fun one to order.
I’m sorry, but this post is inadequte. Please provide the actual tasks along with a timeline. Submit this to SFG for her approval.
Some of you people are two biscuits short of a barnyard buster.
You did it and it worked!
It worked because the parents didn’t stand up to you. It would have been sweet justice when you shit your pants if the parents stood up to you.
Be proud of yourself if you want, but also be grateful that you still have all of your teeth.
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Now I’m hungry.
Well, for one thing, if the child is crying because he’s hungry, it could take a couple of tries to find something he’s willing to eat, especially if he’s already upset. That’s not going to happen in the restroom, and might best be done at the table instead of lugging diaper bag and baby out. Gathering up baby and his stuff is going to take some time that might be better spent getting him settled.
If he’s not hungry he might be tired, more than anticipated when you left home. Again, gathering him up, stuffing him into outside clothes, and carrying him out of the room will probably take more time than trying something to soothe him there in the seat, or on your lap, and might just be counter-productive by getting him more stimulated.
And can we get past this “scream” thing? Most children cry when they get upset, but rarely do they actually scream. It’s a loaded word and bad form. Not that crazy about “whelp” either.
See, was that so hard?
Do you really think it will take more than a minute to try to offer the kid a few items, though? (Serious question, not snarky.) At least with babies, my experience with crying ones generally tends to be that if you’re offering them a nipple, if they’re hungry-crying, they’re going to take it pretty quickly; another 45 seconds of shoving it in their face isn’t going to help matters any.
Other things to calm the kid down, which may take longer, could certainly be done in a bathroom, in a foyer, in a lobby, or outside if the weather’s nice (obviously not in the midwest in the middle of winter). Again, maybe this is just the way I was raised, but to me it’s not considerate to do all that fussing in a place where you’re disturbing others. When the baby starts up crying, if you can’t immediately solve the problem (i.e., within a minute or so), you remove yourself if at all possible. Sure, it’s more work for you, but it’s about consideration for everyone else in the room.
Yes, I was using deliberately antagonistic language. Pretty sure I worked “spawn” in there once or twice, too. Thanks for noticing.
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What worries me is that some of the idiots in this thread are breeding…
Easier to clean up the blood when you’ve got a sink right there, natch’.
I assumed “them” referred to the child. Even if it referred to the parents, you still made it up after you were called on your psychotic behavior.
No, crazy for your general behavior, which is why I alluded to your previous insanity of assuming everyone who has a drink is an alcoholic. This is just another sign of it. And if a parent is screaming into the face of their child, they have issues.
We have different expectations of restaurants, clearly.
You aren’t very smart, are you? It’s up to management whether they allow screaming kids in there or not. It’s not up to you. What is up to you is whether you eat there or not. If they take the family’s side not yours, you leave. You don’t determine their policies. Were I running the place, I’d ask the family to keep the kid quiet, or leave if they could not. If I saw you act in that fashion, I would throw your ass out onto the street. Which would be a win for everyone, in fact.
No, I know what the tort of assault entails, sparky. In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally and voluntarily causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact. You creaming into the child’s face was both intentional and voluntary, and I don’t think I would have a lot of trouble demonstrating, especially from your other comments, that the intention was to create that apprehension with either the parents or the child. That’s assault. Not necessarily criminal assault, but you were the pussy who initially brought up suing.
eewww! :eek:
Yeah, I probably think that qualifies under a whole 'nother area of laws…