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In reply to the discussion: Diners Deliver Scolding Note to Mom and Screaming Toddler [View all]TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)102. I have no patience for parents raising special snowflakes.
None.
For goodness' sake, I am a grandmother! I've done my time, now let me eat in peace. haha
Seriously, anyone who thinks a screaming kid three feet away is the same thing as music and other loud ambient noise doesn't get out much.
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And they have peanuts hulls all over the floor and nobody expects it to be...
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2015
#20
I've never had a single bad experience, or meal, there. Not sure what your culinary...
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2015
#81
It's one of my favorite places to go back to over and over. I want to know from those who...
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2015
#130
Yes, those parents who tune out screaming and ignore the kids are especially bad.
we can do it
Dec 2015
#222
Grown ups would take their obnoxious, mis-behaving children out of the restuarant until they
smirkymonkey
Dec 2015
#89
So because one loud idiot is paying everyone else who is paying needs to deal with it?
we can do it
Dec 2015
#223
Oh, how kind of them! I'm sure that mother was totally oblivious and needed the clue
Proserpina
Dec 2015
#201
You obviously have never eaten there, the birthday wooden horse really increases the volume...
AuntPatsy
Dec 2015
#30
I agree 100 percent. Nothing will ruin a good dinner than rowdy or a screaming kid.
demosincebirth
Dec 2015
#111
Yep, there seem to be more and more Bratleys out there and fewer and fewer
smirkymonkey
Dec 2015
#99
No, it's because their parents teach them how to behave when in public and
smirkymonkey
Dec 2015
#198
I had to remove mine from time to time. I had nothing like perfect kids!
TexasMommaWithAHat
Dec 2015
#220
The only "Special Snowflakes" are these bratty children and their ill-mannered parents.
smirkymonkey
Dec 2015
#113
I generally don't go to family restaurants, so this problem rarely comes up in
smirkymonkey
Dec 2015
#141
It is this attitude that so many ill-bred people espouse these days that makes
smirkymonkey
Dec 2015
#106
Yes, amazing isn't it? I can't believe so many people are so opposed what used to
smirkymonkey
Dec 2015
#110
Screaming children bother me. I usually get up and move but try to do it without people..
BlueJazz
Dec 2015
#38
My worst dining experiences haven't involved kids... adults are usually 100x more annoying...
JCMach1
Dec 2015
#40
Fuck! Where do you eat when you go out to dinner??????? I guess people who dine at those...
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2015
#125
Sorry class-snobs, making themselves feel better by disparaging the proles. If it...
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2015
#135
So, you think I don't know what cooking is? What a weird thing to infer. And I'm never...
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2015
#159
So now you're the screaming child in the Road House? Here's your nasty note.
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2015
#184
Holy shit! Where do you eat when you go out to dinner? Most of us low-lifes must not...
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2015
#123
When this happens to me, I just smile and think, "Thank god it is not one of mine"
Throckmorton
Dec 2015
#103
I don't like screaming kids, not delt with in any restaurant! They should remove the kid, calm him
ViseGrip
Dec 2015
#131
I have a name for the two "middle-aged" women but it would get this hidden.
cherokeeprogressive
Dec 2015
#133