Unfortunately, the parents do not always take them to Circus Circus or Excelsior. Every hotel that I have stayed in has been overrun with screaming rug rats. Sheezus, I was in the casino last night, just trying to get to the ladies’ room, and I had to walk around a long line of babies in strollers. What are babies in strollers doing in the middle of a casino?
I hate all children, whether they are well-behaved or not. I’m sure that I will get flamed for saying that, but it is the way it is. Parents seem to think that everyone should love their children, perhaps because they do, but I can’t stand the little pieces of shit. I raised two of them, and I am fucking done with them. If they come back with grandchildren, I will leave the house and let my husband deal with them.
If you were my wife, we’d argue over who deals with them, because I feel the same way. Fortunately for family togetherness, my wife still can fawn over other family members carpet crawlers. If they don’t know how to fetch me a beer or mix a drink, they’re useless to me.
Actually, it’s the attitude that “there’s always more money in the ATM machine”. No offense - it’s just that you’ve accidentally encapsulated something much larger than a weekend in Vegas.
I respectfully disagree with you, which is kind of a first, for me. If people don’t let go of their money and spend it, the economy will never pick up.
Every once in a while, someone will come along and post something that makes me really glad for my own mom, even though she is riddled with deep-seated problems of her own. This is one of those posts. I salute you, Morella! I would ask why someone who openly hates all children would have not one, but TWO, of her own, but I have learned not to discuss this topic with foaming-at-the-mouth child-haters, so I’ll just leave it as a rhetorical question. And back away slowly.
Two years ago, my wife and I saw Petite Messe Solennelle at the Washington National Opera. I paid about $100 each for two tickets, plus $100 for dinner with wine, about $15 for parking, and maybe $20 for babysitting.
At the end of the evening, we were left with the nutritional benefits of the dinner and the memory of the evening. Did that make “good fiscal sense?” Neither the restaurant, the child care provider, or Placido Domingo held out even the possibility of returning even a fraction of the money they charged us, by the way.
I don’t think gambling is inherently poor fiscal sense. Treated as an entertainment expense, it’s no more or less wasteful than a spa treatment or a night at the opera.
Judging by your contributions to the board so far, I would venture to say that your offspring are undoubtedly going to be immensely valuable to society. Thanks for breeding!
I got an earful of this stupid ass argument when I told my ex that I was planning to take a vacation to Vegas to visit my brother, who I hadn’t seen in 6 years, and taking my kids with me.
Jesus Christ, we see shit at home and he lets our daughter watch shit on TV that’s worse than anything she’d see in Las Vegas.
OMG, you go to a major tourist destination that offers cheap hotel rooms, cheap food, and cheap flights, not to mention beautiful hotel pools…and you find KIDS? Are you freaking serious?
Um, hello. Playing at the hotel pool IS something for them to do! When the kids were young, we spent $300 a night to stay at a Disney-branded hotel, and thousands of dollars for Disney World passes only to spend a majority of our time at the pool! And it was their choice.
Why do you think they build those great casino pools? To lure adults like you away from the casinos? No! They built them to give kids something fun to do while their parents (drum roll, please)…GAMBLE!
Why do the hotels place their restaurants in the interior, when they could easily build them along the perimeter, right next to an entrance? I’ll tell you why – They strategically place the all-you-can-eat-for-$7.99 buffets inside the casino because they want to force folks, including kids, to walk past the slot machines in order to get there. Not only do they hope to capture some walk-by business, but they are also marketing to a future generation of gamblers.
Imagine that! Wanting to attract gamblers to a place like Vegas?
Morella, I’d be on board with your rant if you were pitting some particular ill-behaved brats ruining your vacation, or being obnoxious in a nice restaurant, or something. Lord knows it does happen, and it’s annoying.
But you’re not. Your OP is pitting the mere presence of kids in one of the most popular tourist cities in the world, and to that I must say: What the fuck do you care? Who the fuck are you to tell anybody where they can and can’t take their kids on vacation? Maybe these parents have a perfect plan in place to keep the little ones occupied. Maybe they don’t. You don’t know. But more to the point, what the fuck is it to you?
Then later in the thread you confess to being offended by the very existence of kids, even your own potential grandchidren. Nice. I’d say somebody in the OP is being nascissistic, but it ain’t who you think.
P.S. I don’t have any kids and don’t want any. Your attitude still pisses me off.
Not speaking for Morella, but I love and adore my children (who are getting a little old to be called children as they are both in college). Everyone else’s children - I can’t be bothered (unless, of course, they are trained to bring drinks and snacks to the adults - my laziness overrides my dislike.) I won’t complain about them in a place like Vegas, unless they are disrupting my concentration at the blackjack table or at the strip clubs (being Vegas, it takes a lot to further disrupt one’s concentration). I will complain if they are running and yelling outside my door at 5:30pm, but I’d also complain about the drunkards just getting home doing the same thing.
I’m going to just stick with the truly asshole parents. I remember my uncle taking me and his kids to the casino in Atlantic City. We were twelve, ten, and seven. The dipshit couldn’t let us out of his sight for five minutes so he made us stand outside the casino while he went off and gambled. We weren’t even allowed to go to the beach. The guards felt so bad for us that we were allowed to at least look inside and watch all of the people gambling inside.
That was 22 years ago and I still remember it. He was an asshole. And I’m sure we annoyed people, playing in the hallway. We were BORED.
While I certainly understand this point, if the parents did a little research, they’d see that HR Las Vegas is overrun with drunk, half naked women, people making out in the hallways, and let’s not even get started on Rehab. If I had to pick the least child friendly casino hotel in Vegas, this one would most certainly be near the top of this list. Hard Rock is where 20 somethings come to play, there ain’t a child friendly thing about it.
So some kids in Orange County, CA were 30 yards from your front door making noise? Poor baby. That puts them across the street in most subdivisions - hardly an intrusion into your personal space.
I live in Orange County, and I am surrounded by kids of multiple ages on a constant basis. I don’t find the horrors that you seem to attract - so perhaps the problem is you.
They are not lies - it is my opinion that you are a hateful old bat who treats children and their parents as lesser people. Thus, you experience only terrible things from said children and their parents. This is my opinion, based on your extensive posting history. How can my opinion be a lie?
I haven’t posted anything in reply to you in ages - months, maybe? I don’t even know. This thread was on the front page of the BBQ pit on a message board I read nearly daily, and I was interested in the subject. It didn’t exactly take extensive sleuthing to find it. If you are experiencing feelings of persecution, that’s your problem.
If I did want to find you, for some unknown reason, I do in fact have a search function. Everyone does. Did you really not know this? Or were you trying to be pithy?
Well if you really don’t want to see kids maybe you should pony up for one of those resorts that are adults only or couples only. Otherwise, when you go to a popular tourist destination there are going to be other people there, and those people might well be annoying to you in some way.
Exactly - annoying, bratty kids with annoying, stupid parents exist everywhere, just like other annoying people exist everywhere. I could get behind a rant about them in particular. But I can’t get behind a rant where you claim that an entire US city should be devoid of children just for your own convenience. Especially one that clearly *does *cater to families with children.