Welcome to Buttcrack Burgers! Two in your party?
Will that be smoking or non-smoking?
Screaming children or non-screaming children?
Rabbit-felching or non-rabbit-felching?
Flatulence or non-flatulence?
Right this way, please!
How about a college dorm for a place they don’t belong? Our residence director or whatever he is and his wife just had a baby. A newborn baby, living in an apartment in a college dorm. Who alternatly wakes up that end of the building with her middle of the night wailing, and is sleeping at 2 in the afternoon, resulting in normal speaking voices in that end of the hall getting a stern warning.
Hell, sounds like my first year on dorm anyway.
They also don’t beling in the row in front of me at the movie Darkness Falls I saw last night. or in any row in that theatre. It’s a damned horror movie about the Tooth Fairy! I hope your kids lose a tooth tonight. Then see if they want that quarter.
My gym has a daycare. Keeps the kids happy and means the parents don’t have to hire a babysitter. We never have random kids running around.
So does ours, however it also has swim lessons and karate lessons for young ones, hence the brats in the locker room.
There are moms who are considerate enough to keep their children under control and reasonably quiet. But there are also the ones that just relax in the sauna and hot tub area and let their little monsters run free after swim lessons and whatnot.
The gym rule is" “no boys past their third birthday are allowed in the women’s locker room”. But there are several that I KNOW are past that age. (*and yes, I call management if I see them).
If the moms would keep them away from the rest of the ladies in the gym (the locker room is designed with lots of little locker “alcoves”), but nooooo they have to have the little peeping toms right out in the main shower/hot tub/steam room area.
It’s very disconcerting to have some curious little boy staring at your naked body while trying to relax iin the hot tub or sauna! And that can’t be that great a thing for a parent to allow a small boy to see either!! (though I’m sure many men will disagree with me).
To clarify; it was the lil’ urchin at the door who bugged me, it was the big barrell shaped redneck woman with her arms folded behind the urchin, trying to intimidate the sale at my front door that offended me. The big ol’ sign out front is kinda design to keep her ilk out of the building. Does that make me a snob, oh well…
With regard to my general problem with kids in general, you, my dear, just hit the nail on the head. Nine times out of ten, it aint the kids, they will be what they are, it’s often the example of the parents being reflected.
I can tell you of the time that I complained about the rednecks who keep bringing their kids of innappropriate gender into the locker rooms as well, age is a factor, but ten years is too old… and Restaurants, Chuckie Cheese, okay, but get the kids the hell of the Sushi bar, they likely arent gonna eat Japanese food anyway.
It’s nice to encounter a parent who “gets it.”
I note your location, you were born in the Ozarks and moved to the big city late, didnt you, Gomer?
I offer you my college memoirs. The time we got a new roommate who basically lived on campus to avoid child support somehow. One sunday afternoon, he has his 3 year old over (Dumb in and of itself) and then tells us he’s going out from smokes and will we watch the kid. He was gone for three hours, we ended up calling his ex wife to come get junior. She was embarrased and apologized which was cool, but we got some insight to the divorce…
Oh my, looks like somebody got wooshed!
I think I can top all of you. How about an eight-month-old baby . . . at the symphony.
I saw this with my own eyes, not to mention heard it with my own ears. I was flabergasted. The kid only made a couple of brief outbursts during the performance but that was way more than enough. First, it visibly threw off the performers. Second, everyone in the auditorium felt like they were sitting on a ticking time bomb. It was awful. I simply cannot imagine what made the parents think that this could possibly be OK or, even more incomprehenisble, what possessed the management to allow it. I have recuring nightmares that the parents sucessfully argued that they shouldn’t have to purchase an extra ticket.
I’m usually quite tolerant of small children in “adult” situations like nice restaurants, especially if the parents are making a good-faith effort to teach them proper behaviour. We were all kids once and had to be properly socialized and we ought to help pass it along. However, parents who don’t even bother to try or bring their kids to completely inappropriate places are another thing entirely.
Let’s be quite clear on this, though there are some meritorious exceptions, most parents do this kind of thing because they are inconsiderate, self-centered pigs. It’s a sort of tragedy-of-the-commons applied to child care. Their reasoning runs. “Yes, I know little Mortimer is an uncontrollable terror. He drive’s me nuts. However, it doesn’t drive me any more nuts if he drives you nuts too, so I just bring him along and do whatever I want to do. See, I’m going to have to listen to my baby wail anyway, right? So in between wails, I’d rather be listening to the symphony than not. Yes, of course bringing my baby to the symphony bothers everyone else. What’s your point?”
ganglian, the jerkstore called, and…
Flurk it.
Sorry dads, but Hooters is not the place to bring your children when it is your weekend.
Aaron is not quite six months old, and there are lots of places we’ll take him, and lots of places we won’t.
We’ve taken him to the sports club, because he really digs basketball, and they have a nice big projection screen TV that showed basketball. And it’s not a bar bar; it’s a restaurant that serves alcohol. He behaved just fine, with no screaming, crying or anything. He just hung out with us and watched the game.
However, we won’t take him to a movie or live performance. That’s what Gramma is for – to babysit so we can go out and do things. It’s not that Aaron isn’t a well-behaved child, it’s that he’s not old enough to be able to control his behavior yet. Next month, soccerbaby and I are going to New York to see a play with her chorus. Aaron gets to spend time with his grandparents. It’s not that Aaron shouldn’t see the play, because he likes watching that on television. It’s that I can’t be sure how he’s going to behave. The orchestra may be too loud, or the lights may scare him, or it may go over too long and become hungry or cranky and be disruptive as a result. As far as I’m concerned, we’ve got a lot of time to teach him how to behave at a movie or play or whatever. And he will learn how to behave appropriately in these places.
Robin
MsRobyn - you sound like a really cool parent!
How about my house? I do not have children, few of my friends have kids. Babies in containers are fine. Older kids unable to tell when to leave the cat alone are a problem. If your kid disappears for a minute and comes back without an eyeball don’t blame me.
Kid proof houses look very different to mine. I have sharp corners, non locked cupboards with poisons in them and heavy books all around. My knives are within reach in the kitchen, my cat plays rough. There are a thousand ways for your kid to die in my house, did it never occur to you that people without sprogs may not live in a way suitable for them?
Let’s meet up in a local park or something please. I like kids, I like you but my house is not child proof and you do not come here often enough for me to make it so.
God Bless The Bellagio
from their site:
You must be 18 years of age or a registered hotel guest to enter Bellagio.
The following exceptions apply to minors who are at least 5 years of age and accompanied by an adult at least 18 years of age:
Restaurant reservations for Aqua, Circo, Jasmine, Le Cirque, Picasso, Shintaro or Prime
Attending a wedding in our Wedding Chapels
Attending a convention function
Attending a performance of “O”
Gallery of Fine Art
Children of hotel guests and non-hotel guests are allowed if accompanied by an adult. Non-hotel guests with children must have their tickets in hand prior to arriving to Bellagio.
Visiting a Via Bellagio shop by appointment only
Strollers are allowed for hotel guests only.
AMEN!!
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Lovable Rogue
Laughed out loud so hard it scared my dog! I guess I just have a sick sense of humor. (ps. sprog=rugrat, correct?).
correct!