[Morgana]

Is it just me, am I getting old or was there actually a day and age when folks dined out and acted civil?

Seems as I recall my Grandmother telling me "when we go out be on your best behavior".

When did we lost this?

[NormsRevenge]

Now, that is a parrrrty!

Which ones are the adults?

[tomkat]

Lemme guess . . .

[556x45]

During the ‘let it all hang out’/’if it feels good do it’ era. I also remember being told to be on our best behavior before going out....and we dressed for the occassion. Im sad these days are gone.

[PJ-Comix]

WHERE in Florida was this fight?

[SamAdams76]

One of the happiest days of my life was when my kids got too old to want to go to Chuck E Cheese. I hated that place with a passion. Cardboard pizza, watered down beer, and the noise of 400 undisciplined kids screaming at the top of their lungs. Spending $40 for a plastic cup of tokens that later transformed into several hundred prize tickets that could get exchanged for a cheap plastic toy that invariably broke by the time you pulled back in your driveway.

I'll never forget that night. I came home from work on a Friday night and asked them where they wanted to go to dinner - knowing it was Chuck E Cheese every time before. But this time, they screamed "Applebees".

Only a minor step up on the casual eating circuit but an important milestone nevertheless.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The pizza is not good enough to fight over, people.

Now mess with my Pizza Hut or Dominoes’ pizza and you’ve got WWW III!

[JimSEA]

Back in the olden days, bars were the places for fights. Never where kids might be around.

[Pontiac]

Seems as I recall my Grandmother telling me "when we go out be on your best behavior". When did we lost this?

When my wife wants to throw a birthday party for the grandkids and suggest Chucky Cheese it is always ‘Nope I won’t do Chucky Cheese.

Cheap nasty pizza and cheap nasty customers who don’t discipline their kids.

Chucky Cheese serves beer. So you have low class people getting drunked up and letting their kids run wild playing video games.

Then when the kids start fighting that leads to the parents fighting.

So there you have the recipe for this sort of behavior in public.

[\/\/ayne]

Sometimes Ricky, Lucy, Fred and Ethel had problems...

[jiggyboy]

Is it just me, am I getting old or was there actually a day and age when folks dined out and acted civil?

Maybe it's as simple as "the day before the first Chuck E. Cheese opened" ? (Or maybe opened in a certain kind of neighborhood.)

[umgud]

The Chuck E Cheese in my town is in a decent part of town, but for many years, you couldn’t take white kids there due to an overabundance disruptive blacks. Seems to be a magnet.

[W.]

Like Little Squeezer’s Pizza on the corner of Reynolds and Heatherdowns in Toledo, OH. What a dump it was...

[leaning conservative]

Yes, there was a day when this would never have happened. In certain groups they possess no shame or manners or class. Feel so sorry for the kids.

[Secret Agent Man]

when we started up with entitlement mentality, privilged classes, protected classes, and the like.

[bgill]

Those days are nothing but a distant memory to old folks and totally unknown to the under 35 crowd. So much for civilization.

[Former Proud Canadian]

When did we lose this?

November, 1992.

[smokingfrog]

Cat Fight!