Posted on 11/10/2005 5:42:34 AM PST by ellery
ROTFL!! Talk about OUTSIDE voices!!
We had our 3 children out to lunch with my mother in law. Of course it was after my MIL bought my oldest child (4 y.o.) a toy that I specifically told her not to buy because it falls apart and is a BIG choking hazard. He was also kinda throwing it in the air to do wheelies, he didn't stop doing that when I asked. We took it away from my son who then started to cry. We reprimanded him for crying and my MIL tried to get involved and ask my son in a dramatically sympathetic voice what was wrong. I, in a VERY firm voice (ok, I snapped at her), told her not to talk to him until he is done crying. When my hubby told my son to stop or he would be leaving, he quickly stopped. We don't put up with our kids being loud in restaurants. That includes standing on the booth bugging the next people over.
Sometimes children feel like misbehaving to see who is in charge.
He was definitely a 'hooligan' in training!
Sadly soccer moms vote. So do angry single professional women who cannot get a husband and see female friends of lesser achievements already married and raising a family.
children runnign amok in acoffee shop OMG! how can the yuppies stand it??? the horror!
You are so right. Where have manners gone? I work in a professional office and one day as I walked through the reception area, one of our clients had removed his sandals and had is bare feet up on the sofa. Unbelievable!
I love the fact that when we go out with the boys and they see an out of control child, they look at the child like they are aliens, and I have actually had my oldest ask me where the parents are.
I put these people in the same category as the rude, ignorant neighbors with the barking dogs.
Ah, such promise unfulfilled!
most of these people treat their kids like the universe revolves around them and expect other people to feel the same way. i always say that i really pity my kids the peers that they are in school with and will be in the workforce with, because it is not going to be pretty.
If these suburban SOWS don't like the rule, don't go there. If you don't like what's on TV, turn it off.
Amen. We are constantly complimented on the manners of our children by the waitstaff at restaurants when we go out. I don't know who smiles the most, hubby or me.
Moreover, her comment implies that she spends "every minute of the day" sitting in the coffee shop! That can't look good on her resume--"Experience: sitting in coffee shop every minute of the day while child runs rampant."
A proponent of the 'Dr. Spock' school of parenting. He inflicted more injury on this nation than the terrorists.
They're operating entirely out of emotion and "rights" and entitlement (as mentioned in earlier posts) rather than out of a sense of society and rules and simple common sense. (I hate to sound trite, but that "rules don't matter, it's all about how I feeeel and nothing else matters, and if you haven't experienced it yourself then you have no standing" says liberal to me.)
All that to say that I have come to learn that upon approaching one of these self-centered renegades, I must whip open my wallet to show a family picture like I'm a cop proving that I have "authority" as I make my case -- the same case I would have been making as a 20-year-old single man, of course. And still I get a bunch of crap. Half the time they don't get the point, the other half of the time it's "yeah but they're not that young now, are they!" Once in a while you just have to roll your eyes and push 'em out the door.
"Interesting business philosophy. Either this guy has never heard of "The customer is always right" or he's trying to be the Soup Nazi of coffee"
Probably neither. The customer is always right, except when they aren't. It's his coffee shop, so he can do what he wants. He's running a coffee shop, not a day care. Screaming brats make everyone miserable, and if the parents can't control their demon spawn, then he has the right to ask them to leave.
As for his "former cheerleaders and beauty queens" comment, he's absolutely right. Good for him for giving those snobs a taste of reality.
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