The management at this restaurant is lucky this wasn't my family and wife, as I imagine the impending scene would have turned a lot of customers out the door. I'm not one to shy from confrontation.
It would seem appropriate to me that Applebees' Executive Management needs to hear from good folks like those Freepin' around on here to ensure they understand that "normal" people that "eat" at their restaurant also believe in family and our children's necessary requirement for nourishment ... much of which is lacking in Similac and other engineered foods.
My wife managed to dig up a couple of useful email addresses. FREEP AWAY!!!!!!!
mscanlon@tandk.com
feedback@tandk.com
swarr@tandk.com
It would seem to me that the woman was trolling for a law suite. The kid is seven months old, ween it lady.
Cover the udder and nobody has a problem.
Can’t your wife use a pump and take the milk with her in a bottle?
In keeping with the Applebee tradition if she had covered her breast with honey and barbeque sauce things would have been OK. (How can anyone eat their junk?
Why the use of scare quotes around "eat"?
The fact that this person had a copy of the bill, right there in her hot little hand, speaks more to either her exhibitionism OR her desire to get attention by causing trouble.
I’m all for breast feeding done properly.
Breastfeed in the bathroom. Heck, pissing is a normal bodily function, but I don’t do it at the booth.
Modesty is appropriate. Someone walking around with a copy of the public law is NOT just there for a meal. I would bet nothing she said about the meal is accurate either.
Appleby has marginal food, but there is nothing wrong with their behavior. Sorry, but other folks have rights too. That includes a meal without watching someone making a display of herself.
I know a girl - actually, I am related to her, unfortunately, who would whip out a tit anywhere and everywhere, and proclaim it as HER RIGHT.
It made me really uncomfortable.
But if that is what you want...
Eventually, even my liberal dumb-ass brother divorced her. He couldn’t stand the constant drama.
She brought a copy of the law, but not a shawl so she could cover herself? No sympathy here.
My philosophy is thus:
"My dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
A woman breast feeds a baby in public, what’s the big deal? The hypocrites in this country are beyond belief as if the sight of a piece of the woman’s breast area the size of an “M&M peanut candy” when exposed is going to destory our morality in America is ridiculous. I remember ten years ago our hypocrites in the media would show Black women’s nipples in African documentaries. Today those offending “nipples” are digitally edited out. I have more of a problem with having to observe men wearing shaggy pants with their butts hanging out or other members of society who reside in large cities scratching their crotch in public.
I think you and your family should stay home when your baby is hungry.
My daughter breastfeeds her baby everywhere she goes and NEVER has she ever been ordered to stop or take her baby elsewhere.
It is possible to feed an infant without flashing boobs all over the place.
Hmmmmmmm. Is it on the menu? No outside food! ;0
It's not being "rejected",lady.It's just not the type of thing that should be done in public.If your child gets hungry in public give him/her a bottle or take him/her into the ladies' room.
And fear not,lady....hundreds and hundreds of millions of American and European kids in recent years have grown up very healthy indeed after having been given *nothing but* cow's milk and/or formula so an occasional bottle for little Mary or Billy will *not* do a *bit* of harm.
Um, no. Apparently she's analogically impaired. This would be like saying, "OK, Rosa, now you can sit anywhere you want, but you have to cover up with this blanket."
That having been said, I think she's right in the sense that if the law says Applebee's has to allow her to breastfeed, they can't then make it conditional without running afoul of the law.
Speaking as a caveman, bared breasts are a welcome sight — until the baby shows up. Then the recreational equipment becomes ulititarian and loses my interest.
Breast feeding in public doesn’t bother me I think it bothers some of the chicks though.
>><When her baby, Michael, got hungry, she began to nurse him discreetly, she said.
I can’t imagine making a big deal about somebody breast feeding but as a point of logic , it wasn’t totally discreet if the baby wasn’t covered.