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Cake day: March 31st, 2025

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  • Oh yeah you’re that dude who was commenting on my meme about kids being annoying in a restaurant. I didn’t feel the need to comment there because I had thought “person doesn’t realize that few people have problems with well behaved kids or understand that people know that kids OCCASIONALLY act out.”. But it looks like you’re doubling down.

    First, did you see anyone complaining about kids on playgrounds? Play places at fast food restaurants? Public parks? No? That’s because those are places for kids to be running around. Restaurants where adults are trying to relax is not for kids to be running around. Full stop. There is no “but”. YOU need to teach your child that their actions affect those around them.

    Secondly, YOU choose to have children and where you take them. If you take them to a place where you know they have the potential to inconvenience the people around them and they do, then you are inflicting them on others and that makes you a bad parent.

    And lastly, I can’t even remember the amount of children who stayed at their table, where maybe a little louder than would be necessary but ultimately settled down, or were well behaved and well mannered. But I do remember that the parents of those children were usually well put together and maintained people who seemed to have control over their life. An unruly child who was running around the restaurant is usually a symptom and not the problem.





















  • My retort usually has to do with people who when I tell them that I don’t want to have to tolerate children tell me that it’ll be different when the children are my own. I tell them that if they’re a good parent they probably have encountered a hundred times where their child has been difficult or unruly or just some form of stressful but all of those hundred times disappear during that one moment where they get to see their kid smile or overcome a challenge or succeed in some way. Which usually you know causes them to get you know happy or nostalgic thinking back on a moment like that. To which I then say I would trade 100 of those moments that you’re thinking about right now for one day of not having to get up before the sun.