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is that really necessary?
Feb. 26th, 2006 12:04 amSo Melynda, Tyler and I went out to dinner at NXNW. It's a nicer sort of place, with a brewery in house. While they do have a kids menu according to the website, it's not a "family" type establishment where children are encouraged to be loud and color on the table. For the environment and the money one lays out for dinner, one does not expect to subjected to the sort of irritations that would be par for the course at Chuck E Cheese.
Which is why Tyler lost his temper this evening. At another table there was a girl probably somewhere between ten and twelve years old. She was loudly, repeatedly banging her spoon against her glass. Her parents were sitting right there, not saying a word about it. Now it was reasonably busy and there was a good amount of background noise. But this was loud, annoying and ongoing. Tyler finally threw his napkin on the table and stalked over there. He leaned over and looked the kid square in the face to ask "Is that really necessary?" Thankfully, it stopped after that.
Seriously, there's no excuse to let your children run amok in public. It's not cute or special when they behave badly. That girl was far too old to be doing something like that. If your children can't behave with a modicum of decent manners, then get a damned babysitter for them. The rest of us don't need to put up with that sort of thing, especially not in a nice restaraunt.
Our neighbors continue to be passive aggressive fuckwits. So we turned the music up. Hah! Take that. We've just been hanging around, playing some cards, having wild and inappropriate conversations, episodes of Cops, Demolition Man and the Birdcage. It can't be all bad, right.
Which is why Tyler lost his temper this evening. At another table there was a girl probably somewhere between ten and twelve years old. She was loudly, repeatedly banging her spoon against her glass. Her parents were sitting right there, not saying a word about it. Now it was reasonably busy and there was a good amount of background noise. But this was loud, annoying and ongoing. Tyler finally threw his napkin on the table and stalked over there. He leaned over and looked the kid square in the face to ask "Is that really necessary?" Thankfully, it stopped after that.
Seriously, there's no excuse to let your children run amok in public. It's not cute or special when they behave badly. That girl was far too old to be doing something like that. If your children can't behave with a modicum of decent manners, then get a damned babysitter for them. The rest of us don't need to put up with that sort of thing, especially not in a nice restaraunt.
Our neighbors continue to be passive aggressive fuckwits. So we turned the music up. Hah! Take that. We've just been hanging around, playing some cards, having wild and inappropriate conversations, episodes of Cops, Demolition Man and the Birdcage. It can't be all bad, right.