Oh, Molly was not the one who said that. It was on the restaurant bill!! See the last item under "Miscellaneous":
They shoulda smacked her and smacked her good.
Oh, Molly was not the one who said that. It was on the restaurant bill!! See the last item under "Miscellaneous":
Perhaps you mean they should have smacked the waitress who put the phrase on the bill....
That would have been interesting....
I was on a ski trip to Tahoe a bunch of years ago and was having dinner with my group at the top of the only casino in town.
When we were finally seated, there were 2 or 3 couples at a table next to us who had finished dinner and were just talking over coffee. Unfortunately, they also had 3 or 4 kids that were literally running around the tables in the restaurant playing.
As one of the hellions ran by me, I grabbed his arm, looked him in the eye and said "get your ass over to your table and sit down!!!@" I then stood up and said to the adults "This is a restaurant, not a playground. If you don't know how to teach your children how to behave in a restaurant then you have no damn business being in here!!!!!
They didn't say a word, they got up and left............
It was unbelievable how these people could allow their children to behave as they were doing in this restaurant..........
I’m on the verge of giving birth to my fifth child; my oldest is a Marine, my youngest just turned 2. None of them are perfect; all have gone to restaurants since they were very small. I TAUGHT them how to behave in restaurants, primarily by starting with fast food and child-friendly family restaurants (which a kid-friendly section would certainly imply this one was) and then graduating to more sophisticated venues. Learning to eat politely in restaurants is part of training the barbarian out of children. That lesson is a big step to learning to behave in other more stressful public areas, like airplanes.
I am proud to say that, outside of quickly-controlled outbursts from my autistic son when he was a preschooler, I have NEVER had a problem with any of my children in public; they have always been beautifully behaved, and I have never hesitated to tell them so.
Now, any good server or manager, upon seeing a child growing restless and especially if food was slow, would go to the table and offer something to calm the child: crayons, crackers, bread, chips, SOMETHING. We don’t have both ends of this story, but the fact that the restaurant doesn’t seem to offer much to defend itself certainly implies the parents are in the right here.
My sympathy is with the parents here. Those of you who are hating on this child and her parents: keep in mind that children who don’t experience public restaurants often never learn how to behave in public places, and often grow into remarkably rude and ill-behaved adults.