Oh fuck me…now you’re basically claiming to have had child-hating adult sensibilities your whole life. LHOD and I are seldom on the same side, but I agree 100% with his assessment of you. Kalhoun and I are not often in agreement either, but I’ve been cheering her as she bitchslapped you over the last several pages too. You’re fairly creepy to start with, but putting on airs of superiority over your creepiness makes you pathetic as well. Not too many years from now, when you’re the aging, childless hipster looking at an increasingly lonely life, try not to become one of those pitiful losers who stay too long at everybody else’s parties just for the warmth of human contact.
How do you think that children learn how to behave in a formal restaurant, etc, if they are not exposed to it at a young age. I often take my 17 month old to fine dining restaurants and he is learning…if kids think that dining out equals Chukee-Cheese, they will act that way. If they are exposed to a different environments early and often they will understand that there is a time and a place for everything.
Before you tell me that my kid in a high chair (BTW happily eating aged cheese, duck, artichokes and other assorted goodies) is ruining your dining experience because of what might happen–I think that you need more compelling dining companions. You would never even notice me unless you were looking for a reason to be irritated.
Had you remotely considered the possibility of teaching your child how to act at places like Chuck E. Cheese until he is old enough (and sufficiently well-mannered) to behave at places where adults are paying for and expecting an atmosphere in which they can enjoy fine dining?
Gah, the clueless and entitled parent rides again.
What an incredible argument, I am swayed. :rolleyes:
There is cluelessness but it’s not on the part of parents.
Running around screaming is the APPROPRIATE way to act at Chuck E. Cheese’s. Trying to get them to act another way there is retarded.
You really are just dirt stupid as it regards this topic aren’t you?
Yes, it really is terrible, innit?
I can assure you that I have seen how you and your ilk look at me when I bring my child into a fine dining restaurant. I am just as sure that you, again, would never notice us if you were not looking to be offended. If it turns out that he cannot handle the environment we leave. I do not expect others to be disrupted because I am trying to be a responsible parent and teach my child.
If you think that Chuck E Cheese is a proper learning environment for teaching children to behave in restaurants, you sir, are more clueless than I.
Running around and screaming are literally not appropriate things to do anywhere. The staff of Chuck E. Cheese (at least the one I worked at) spends half their time telling kids to STOP RUNNING and STOP CLIMBING ON THE GAMES because that is a LAWSUIT WAITING TO HAPPEN. Chuck E. Cheese also isn’t your babysitter. You are expected to supervise your kid at all times and not let him wander around and get into things. I know of 3 separate occasions on which the GM of my store called the police to pick up kids whose parents had left them there–note: abandoning your child at a restraunt is illegal.
ETA: if you kid wasn’t screamy, you probably wouldn’t be getting any dirty looks.
Ok, evidently I have not been clear. You would not notice me with my child because he sits in a highchair and eats part of what I order. At no time does he run around scream, cry or any of the rest of your issues–Even in Chuck E Cheese (where he has been once). I cannot understand how you have parsed what I have written to think that my child is a LAWSUIT WAITING TO HAPPEN.
To your edit–I take my child to fine dining restaurants–He is stoked to get some duck, maybe some foie. He is certainly not screamy.
Denny’s isn’t fine dining.
I meant that the running kids and the climbing kids are lawsuits waiting to happen. If your kid isn’t screamy, then nobody has a problem. Why are you complaining?
Also, you left a participle dangling–your parents should have taught you better.
Well that’s a good argument, and totally makes me want to change my mind. Oh lordy, I can see the light! Bring me your drooling children so that I may pat them on the head and wish them well!!
Slowly this time, people give me dirty looks when I bring my son into a fine dining restaurant. For you obviously I have to explain that fine dining does not equal Chuck E Cheese. To put it in your perspective–if you and Bubba were to go to the local Olive Garden for your anniversary to get away from your 13 brats by 10 different fathers, you would be annoyed by the sight of a child. I get it. Even if my kid never made a sound you would be annoyed.
If the kid never made a sound, I’d likely not pay him any attention. If I were leaving my house to get away from children, it might cross my mind to be annoyed. However, since I don’t have any and never will, that isn’t true. If your kid started to cry and you just sat there and let him, I’d be pissed.
Listen, I think you have lost the plot. At no time did I say that I would let my son run amok. I never do. My complaint is in regards to those who see a child an immediately assume that his very presence will ruin their dining experience. That would never happen–even at Chuck E Cheese.
Ok, but who thinks that? Nobody in this thread has stated that position, I’ve never met anybody who holds that position. And I hate kids as much as I think anybody could–I have a year old niece I’ve never met because I don’t allow kids in my house. If people give you dirty looks in restraunts, maybe it’s something else you’re doing that annoys them. Maybe you’re paranoid and just imagining it.
What in the world would make you think that I dine at Denny’s and call it fine dining? The funniest thing is that-as a lurker-you are one of the posters that I usually agree with. I thought that you embodied liertarian thought–I felt that you were unfairly denigrated on this board.
You proved me wrong.
How weird and sad. I genuinely pity you.
You mean a preposition?