/slight hijack for the purpose of self-gratification/
I’ve often been told that my son was SO good and well-behaved in public or the presence of others.
He just turned TWO at the beginning of October 2002.
I’m such a proud Dad!
/here endeth the slight hijack for the purpose of self-gratification/
Dude, please do! I couldn’t go to the Vegas deal, but I’d be there for this one! Especially since I don’t actually work in that West TX town!
But before that they should be able to do whatever the fuck they please??!!??
/Mr. Hand/
What are you, on DOPE!!
/Mr. Hand/
Going by logic I would guess that they shouldn’t be taught proper behavior and manners until after their 10th birthday.
Nice.
I can clearly recall being 6 years old and out at a restaurant with my family and my dad’s parents. I was not behaving and my mom took me outside for a little discussion.
We did not talk.
The problem with parents today is that they see everything with their kids as a learning experience
WSLer, sugar, I don’t think that’s what magic8ball meant. I think the spirit of it was “The parental units and chilluns should start early, and be ready to be well-behaved in public by around age 10. Before that, its kinda understandable, because kids are kids. After that point, its not acceptable, because they should be mature and had enough ‘little discussions’ to know better.”
I, for one, wished they started learning to behave ** real ** early, and kept that good behavior.
WSLer By the reasoning of some of the dumber rocks on this board no one has any reason to be upset if a child is acting up in a restaurant. After all, you are there for FOOD! Kids have a right to be kids, don’t you know.
Tranquilizing darts, now there’s an idea.
Do you know how long it’s been since someone called me "sugar?
(Swoons)
Anyway, yeah I agree with you, but I think magic8ball should have fleshed things out a bit more.
“Sugar?”
(WSLer walks off, with a confused/bemused expression on his face.)
I worked as a front desk clerk for a smallish chain called . . . oh, let’s call it Pays Inn.
I know y’all think I’m just sweetness and light based on my posts here, but, believe it or not, I can be a battle ax if I need to. (Granted, at [then] 30, a youngish battle ax, but still.)
The hotel used to make me work those nights when the tiresome, obnoxious, idiotic, giggly, rude, loud, shrieking, door-slamming teenagers came through.
I would ask them twice to nicely to keep it down and then on my third trip up . . .
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK THIS IS, ROMPER ROOM? YOU THINK YOUR COLLECTIVE ASS IS THE ONLY ONE IN THIS HOTEL? YOU THINK OUR GUESTS PAY 60 BUCKS A NIGHT TO HEAR YOU SCREAM AT EACH OTHER AND POUND UP AND DOWN THE HALLS ATTACKING EACH OTHER WITH WET TOWELS AND SILLY STRING? NEWS FLASH: THEY DON’T. BUT WHILE YOU MAY NOT BE THE ONLY ONES HERE, YOU’RE THE ONLY ONES HERE WHO HAVE PARENTS I CAN CALL, AND TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS I CAN WRITE LONG NASTY LETTERS TO, AND DO MY BEST TO SEE IF YOU DON’T RETURN FROM THIS LITTLE OUT-OF-TOWN FUN-FEST TO FIND YOUR ASSES GROUNDED, IF NOT SUSPENDED. IT’S NOT MY FAULT YOUR PARENTS DIDN’T RAISE YOU RIGHT, AND I’LL BE DAMNED IF I’LL DO IT FOR THEM. NOW GET IN YOUR ROOMS AND SHUT THE HELL UP, UNLESS WHAT YOU REALLY WANT IS TO FIND OUT WHAT IT’S LIKE TO SLEEP ON THE SCHOOL BUS. AND YOU – THAT DOESN’T BELONG TO YOU, DOES IT? THEN PUT IT BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT. FECKING KIDS.
That generally worked.
This reminds me of the speech I get from my mom EVERY time a kids cries in a resturaunt or store. The speech is basically , " When You and your sister were little , we could take you ANYWHERE and you never cried or fought EVER. People would stop in the street and compliment us on our cute , well behaved children.
When I was about 8 that speech made me a little proud , now I HATE it .
[sup]Sounds like something my kids would say.[/sup]
On a side note, I was at Knoxville just a few weeks ago (and not at all there for anything dealing with the rail car accident…nope), and went out of my way to see the Sunsphere, as featured on The Simpsons.
I was not impressed, but had fun anyways.
I love Jodi’s battleax speech.
Funny, I can’t see Jodi ever being like that.
I only saw the Sun-Sphere from the interstate (the only thing I did in Knoxville was sleep and use the airport - I flew in there, we drove to the Blue Ridge parkway in North Carolina, drove back, and I flew out.) The “fabulous” part came from the old Knoxville World’s Fair commercials. I distinctly remember ads for the World’s Fair that mentioned seeing “the fabulous Sun-Sphere!”