Kids are the fucking worst.
If you take a little kid to a restaurant you are responsible for either entertaining them enough to sit, or taking them for a little walk during the waiting periods. If you also brought your inlaws, that walk is a win-win.
It’s also a good idea to have them “help” you cut up their food, as much to keep their hands busy as to teach them how to use utensils. If you really want to stretch it out, because they eat fast and then get bored again, have them “help” cut yours as well.
I was the arcade hbic at a Dave& Buster’s. They usually had me scheduled by myself in the morning to get shit done without anyone around. Well we had a family group come in one afternoon, and with the arcade almost empty you can imagine what the smaller children tended to do. I told one, you need to stop running around and screaming you’re going to hurt yourself. Not ten minutes later little homie ran straight in between a “hit the button as hard as you can” game and another child about twice his size.
I accept that I am a terrible person, but that shit was funny af.
While that does sound funny as fuck, at least dave and busters is that kinda place.
I feel the same when adults are talking the most disgusting shit around me in public. They don’t get the hate kids do, though.
Yeah, obnoxious people in public suck no matter their age
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And before somebody throws out the caricature of the parent just letting their kid run wild, yes of course that happens. But most parents don’t want that and are trying their best
The examples you’ve dismissed are what this entire conversation is about. You’ve dismissed the entire issue, which makes your input meaningless.
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The kids aren’t the issue here, the shitty parents are
Looking at this again - if the parents are the problem and explicitly not the kids, why is this post about the kid getting hurt and the adults laughing with glee?
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I think both of you are talking about extremes here lol.
One person is talking about shitty parents that refuse to correct their kids and the other about people that hate kids in general. Both can be true and annoying.
I do agree there are some completely unhinged people/comments in the comments section here…
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I’m talking about the op, picturing kids running around being a nuisance to the whole restaurant, which if the parents don’t do something about it then yes, shitty parenting
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The entire point is what you consider “annoying” I consider “being a fucking kid.”
Shitty parent detected
You’re making some broad assumptions. They don’t have to be silent, but a restaurant isn’t the place to be running around getting in servers way and disrupting other tables, and parents who let their kids do that lack discipline and are encouraging anti social behaviour
The point here is that people don’t want no kids at all, just no mini-terrorists running amok.
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You can tell by how the words say exactly what they mean
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I suppose we should ask you the same question. You’re reading something personal into other people’s words.
Yes, kids that run around and can’t be quiet should be at my candlelit restaurant, at a bar where drunk people are lurching around, at a rowdy concert, unrestrained at an axe throwing place, and especially at a music/theater performance, or a funeral/religious service where their parents refuse to parent them…
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Does America not have “Family Friendly” restaraunts at all? Like not “Chuck E Cheese” but casual dining for families with outdoor playgrounds or an indoor play room?
My friends and I go out EVERY SATURDAY and 6 kids in total and they know the rules "Cause a ruckus out there on the other side of the heavy windows where I can supervise but still hold a grown up conversation.
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I didnt mean it like that, I legitimately dont know. I know Chuck e cheese is a thing (great play area, terrible food) high end restaurants are obviously a thing, as is family casual like TGI Fridays and chain places, but do they have playgrounds?
Its a stupidly common thing in Australia. The food is (usually) a solid 6 or 7, sometimes an 8, the bar is pretty well stocked and the play area is like an average public park. Easiest way to explain it is like a TINY casino, theres usually some function rooms, a small (or overwhelmingly large if its a predatory shithole) area with slot machines, and a restaraunt (sometimes a few) and a play area.
If I wanted to go out to eat and had to choose between Chuck E Cheese and a restaraunt where I have to spend the whole night managing my childs behavior to not upset others and those were my ONLY options without the ball ache of organising and paying babysitters. I probably wouldnt go out.
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Can you read or nah?
Kids are people. There are some annoying, there are some nice, overall they’re okay. If a person wouldn’t say “I laugh when adults get hurt because adults annoy me just by being adults”, then they shouldn’t say the same about kids.
In short, I hate people who hate kids.
I misread that as “taking” and it seemed like a very specific complaint to make here.
Well, it has happened before, too.
I would imagine how justified your annoyance would be would depend on where in the restaurant it happened, heh.
I’m curious what consequences the “adults” got. Cause this really seems like something made up. But then again I remember when I was a kid and how inappropriate the adults behavior was. My bad, nevermind the beginning of this comment.
About kneed a small boy in the face the other day. Him and his brother were chasing each other are the store at top speed and missed me by one inch. If I had been standing still the little fucker would have lost some teeth.
Glad you sidestepped, not worth the risk of damage to your ACL
Lawsuit if America
And sometimes it even has nothing to do with me sticking my foot out when they run by…
Didn’t they invent drive-thru’s, takeout and DoorDash for people with kids? Ta-da!
The Whirly Dirly
sweet sweet sound!!!
There are few worse sounds than crying and gas powered lawn tools, but I’ll gladly listen to the crying for this satisfaction
I already awarded a different thing my first laugh of the day, but I like this one more.
The source of my dark sense of humor is largely my father joking that crying kids should get smacked in restaurants. It went like this (two different voices):
“Somebody smack that kid…” I’ll do it!
Made me laugh till I was gasping for air. And now I have a sense of humor that focuses on the absurd such that you’d think me an asshole if you didn’t know my values. Thanks, Dad.
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Rude people are annoying, regardless of age.
Bad parents bad.
