People who hate children

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I had the most awesome 10th grade English teacher. She came to us from a school in Deep South Alabama–allegedly, she had taught in a one room schoolhouse with a chalkboard and no desks. She was a great teacher. The year she started here our school’s exit exam scores on the English part were up by some 60%. Anyway, one day she was lecturing about prepositions.

Teacher: A preposition is anything a bunny can do to a log. It can go over the log, beneath the log, across the log, through the log, around the log, it can sit on the log…

Some Kid: Can it fuck the log?

Teacher (without missing a beat): Yes, but that’s a verb. Now if you’ll all turn to page 432…

I miss her. [/hijack]

Oh snap:) Just when I was doing the telling, I got told. SWF, I have been responding to a post that said that children should not be in “formal” restraunts. That is my only complaint.

I understood them to be making a sweeping generalisation, rather than saying that nobody should ever ever ever take their kids out to a nice place. My bad.

Sorry, it’s just that I don’t know of any “fine dining” establishments that offer high chairs. YMMV.

You are a right cunt, aren’t you? There is a big line between Denny’s and a 5 star establishment. I can tell you that my little guy is well versed in foie, aged cheese, etc. Also. he has used a high chair.

Excuse me?

Just when I thought this thread was petering out, too.

You heard me.

Not very nice. Uncalled for, in fact.

Oh, OK. So you weren’t trying to insult me by insinuating that I think that Denny’s is a five star establishment?

Yes, it was vulgar language – against board rules, in fact. But you’ve proven yourself, time and again, to have absolutely no empathy for anyone else, and total lack of caring whether you give offense – so excuse me for feeling a great lack of sympathy for your feeling offended.

There’s a difference between that, and calling someone a cunt.

OK–let’s call a spade a spade.

OK, St. Polycarp, why SHOULD I have empathy for people whol bring high chair age children to fine dining establishments?

Well, you should never have to have any empathy–you can choose to patonize establishments that do not allow children. It is up to the business owner to decide if anyone under the age of 16 should be allowed to dine. I fully support the right of each owner make that decision. Evidently there is a huge draw for this service-libertarianism, right?

PS I have happily left one establishment because they did not have high chairs–live and let live.

Are you saying there IS a huge draw for having highchairs in fine dining establishments?

Enough of a draw that they have them.

If you say so. That’s not been my experience. .

But, how would your experience translate? Have you ever asked for a high chair in a fine dining establishment?

No, because I don’t bring small children to restaurants, which is rather the point.