Posted on 09/11/2009 7:57:34 AM PDT by wazoo1031
Most parents have experienced their young children getting restless when waiting for a meal in a restaurant. But not many get the bill at the end of it with a message describing their offspring as a 'little f*****'.
This is what happened to parents Craig and Kimberley Cartin at a Mexican restaurant in Halifax, West Yorkshire, where they received the receipt which had 'Thankyyou littell f*****' written on it.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212583/Family-horrified-getting-restaurant-describing-year-old-daughter-little-f--er.html#ixzz0QoIAO8Vk
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Hell, you oughta see my No Tipping site and read the posts from “wait personnel” (now deleted) as to what they do to yer food...???
Dick G
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Parents who’ve raised their kids so badly that they can’t be taken out in public without provoking angry responses to their behavior should stick to McDonalds and Chuckie Cheese.
Another grief is letting little kids order....
I little bourbon in the baby food before dining goes a long way.
“Parents who’ve raised their kids so badly that they can’t be taken out in public without provoking angry responses to their behavior should stick to McDonalds and Chuckie Cheese.”
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Not likely that “wait slugs” (servants) are qualified to comment on parenting, etc.
I don’t think 2 year olds have any place in a restaurant. Doesn’t anybody ever leave their kid with a babysitter anymore?
Wait staff are not servants, they are servers ‘Leona’, and they have my sympathy (and a 20% gratuity).
Not having kids does it for me! ;-)
No flaming. I’ve been to a couple of restaurants that have done that. Kid section and non-kid section.
My girlfriend is a veterinary tech and recently clued me in to the fact that amongst their profession, they will make cryptic, coded annotations on a client’s records to advise future veterinarians, borders, etc. that the (human) client is a butthole.
pretty lib response...
Well, I'm not a "wait slug", and I'll comment on peoples' parenting all I like. I'm not saying that the waiter should have written that on their bill, they should have been fired for that. But I've had meals I paid for ruined by some totally unconcerned parents' spoiled brats at adjacent tables, and I don't have much tolerance for it.
You’ll get no flaming from me! I love kids, (well-behaved and well-mannered kids)it’s usually the “proud” coddling parents that I can’t stand...
They have Mexican restaurants in Old Blighty?
And it is limousine liberals who think that wait staff are “servants” beneath them, rather than working people trying to perform a needed service to an ungrateful (and apparently elitist and snobby) public.
But go ahead and treat your “servants” with contempt. I am sure the saliva in your food adds good spice. ;)
I’ve worked in restaurants and been a parent as well. When my kids were little we decided to stay out of movie theaters and restaurants except when we had to stop for food when on the road, etc. A couple of times my daughter started to act up in a restaurant and I immediately carried her kicking and screaming out to the car until she knocked it off. It only took two times for her to realize that we meant business and she behaved after that. So, kids can be handled. Parents who can’t get their kids to behave in restaurants are going to have a lot more problems.
Having waited tables I’d say that noisy kids aren’t half as bad as the pigs who leave a horrid mess or those who try to get a free meal by constant complaining and harassment.
LOL! That guy’s picture is in the Dictionary under “Crumudgeon”...
not it they've been trained to do it... my two boys have placed their own orders almost since they could talk... they speak clearly and directly (with eye contact) to the waiter... and i ensure they know exactly what they are going to order before the ordering begins... the waiters seem to like it... they always comment on it and tend to be overly friendly to my kids throughout the entire meal...
Ummm, they have poor facsimile Mexican restaurants...the only good one we (Allegra and I) have found is the Texas Embassy Cantina in Trafalgar Square in London...it’s run by Texans!
a well-trained two-year old can handle a restaurant...
Same parents who end every sentence they say to their kids with, “Okay?”.
I don’t know about that.Not that we go to any upscale places but we’ve been taking our son out to eat since he was about a year old.He’s three now. He’s pretty mellow but on the rare occasion he does act up, we give him a couple of warnings then one of us takes him out to the vehicle.I want to teach him how to act in public and not to disturb other patrons. We taught him how to say please and thank you,also, and this gets some good reactions from the wait staff.
The kid looks like a brat. :)
On a trip home to Michigan’s UP from the St. Louis, we stopped for dinner in the Milwaukee area after five hours on the road. Our daughters were not yet 2 and 4. When we were seated, I asked for a highchair to contain my younger daughter. I was told they didn’t have any. I thought this was odd, since we had walked by two on the way in. When my two year old proved to be too squirmy, I went out to the car to bring in the car seat to keep her settled down. (Which worked, by the way.) They waitress said something like, “Oh, I didn’t think you were serious about the chair.” An eye rolling moment for me.
I think part of the problem is the parents that are more concerned about being the kids friend instead of their parent.
Reminds me of that old Seinfeld episode where a succession of doctors make unflattering entries in Elaine's "file".
truth hurts, i know—but then all these opinions y’all have are modeled, shaped and reinforced by the—since the 60s—marxist indoctrination in the public schools...
I have a good story about 4 couples and their 10 kids entering a quiet restruant.
It was Sunday evening and we just arrived at our destination from about 200 miles out and we alway go to this place after we get set up at the hotel. When we walked in you could hear a pin drop and the glares that we just ruined a ton of peoples meals. The kids all wanted to sit at their own table, so we let them. And we all enjoyed our respective meals. The kids ordered their own food and were so well behaved that a few people came up to the adult table and complimented our kids behavior. They admitted that they thought that their meal time had been ruined when we entered, but were very impressed with how well all of our kids behaved. Moments like that tell you that at least you did something right.
Pretty odd that a site for conservative values and freedom would be so anit child. Since when is it anyone elses business how parents raise their children, or where they take them in public. Either one is for freedom or one is not. Selective freedom is not a founding principle.
We have three children. Youngest is 7 months, we do not go to restaurants right now due to the youngest being a baby. That, and well I have been unemployed for a couple of months, lol.
But seriously, a 2 year old can behave. We took our two older kids out all the time. The problem is that parents have little or no expectations for their children.
My son could sit at school all day (when he was 3 years old, he’s almost 5 now) and listen to the teacher and read and write. My daughter (3 now) will sit down and behave herself and eat like a little lady.
They learned not to interrupt conversations, and will say “Daddy, excuse me” when the adults are talking.
What happened to raising kids with manners? By no means are my children perfect! (believe me), but I am not embarrassed to take them out.
They also know that they can run around and go wild when they are in an appropriate area — park, backyard, playroom, etc. But when they are some place public, they know that they are to be little angels. And unless they are really tired, they do great!
Beat me by a couple of minutes.
My argument is this: Can the kids eat what is being served at the restaraunt? If you have to bring out the formula or McNuggets you purchased on the way over, then your child is not ready to dine with you in public. Period.
Most times I do not mind children screaming or crying, they are just being kids, but if they are brought in to an adult restaraunt, they darn well better behave themselves.
Finally, to the couples with small children, if that evening out is so important, and you can’t keep your kids in their seat or throwing food, or acting like the kind of animal my parents would have beat senseless had I done the same thing, pony up $30 for a sitter.
I’ve quit going out to dinner and movies...people can’t behave themselves, and I don’t need the grief.
My kids used to get asked if they needed a “trip to the bathroom.” It only took one or two such trips to put an end to bad behavior in public.
I only eat at one restuarant and tip 25%, I want to make sure they treat me nice...oh, yeah, and I always order the same thing so they get to skip the menus.
I hope you pointed this out to the manager...
A lot of my kids have waited on tables to help make ends meet. I respect working staff anyway, but that connection makes me respect them more, and to tip 20% rather than the 15% that I was taught.
If a kid misbehaves in a restaurant or church, take him outside for a while, until he quiets down.
My daughter grew up on rifle ranges and on regular hunting trips, and on boats, from a very young age. When I said stop, or quiet, she knew she better damned well obey.
She thanks me now, and set the same rules for my grandson.
In the real world self discipline can be a life saver. Kids don't learn self discipline being allowed to run crazy, no matter what the liberal "experts" claim.
I wish my parents had been a little tougher on me at times, I had to learn too much the hard way.
No problems since, and he's 7 now.
I have had to do that too. The conflict for me was whether she would interpret it as getting her way, and end up reinforcing the behavior. Those days are long gone. She's 23 now and behaves herself when dining out.
“I only eat at one restuarant and tip 25%, I want to make sure they treat me nice...oh, yeah, and I always order the same thing so they get to skip the menus.”
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I get it—kinda like...the small shop owners used to pay their weekly/monthly “insurance” money to the mob—just to make sure nothing bad happened! (community organizing)
Look where that attitude has gotten us—the obama kingdon!
I took my wife out for her birthday dinner to a really nice restaurant. We were seated then a family of 4 showed up and were seated next to us, including a 3 yr. old boy that yelled, ran around, and then grabbed the glass next to my wife and poured it on her new birthday dress. Not only was she shocked and upset, I was rather pi$$ed too, and told the boy’s father he needed to get a handle on the kid or there would be hell to pay. He smarted off to me and we decided to leave, and in doing so, I turned their table over on them and dared the father to do anything about it. We left to the cheers of all the other patrons, and the manager gave us a free meal when next we visited. By the way, the spaghetti and meatballs looked really good on his pants and her tennis skirt.
I take my grands to McDonalds where they have an indoor play area. I remove my hearing aids and everything is fine.
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