Kids and resturants

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Registered: 09-15-2003
Kids and resturants
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Sun, 12-12-2004 - 11:57am

Hey all...


Did you have rules about resturants and babies? Or did you just take them everywhere?


Dh and I went to a VERY pricy resturant as a treat for ourselves a couple of weekends ago. All dressed up and having cocktails. Anyway, right next to us is a party with an 8 month old whining in a high chair. Mind you, our reservations were for 8 pm and they sat after we did.


This is incredibly rude, imo, for many reasons.


First of all, most 8 month olds are done by 8 o'clock. Secondly, there are just some resturants that are not meant for babies... a $75 dollar-a-plate resturant being one of them, imo. I do think that older

Meldi

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Registered: 01-29-2004
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 8:52am

Even if she got it on sale??? I don't admire the laying out of $1,500. I admire women who are put together enough and pay attention to fashion. Along with the Chanel bag are usually nice jeans, a Burberry sweater and maybe a nice Piana shawl. I love that kind of thing. It's not me. For instance, today I'm actually not wearing a maternity shirt, but have on a normal fitting t-shirt.

But, someday, I wouldn't mind it if I were able to follow fashion a little more.

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Registered: 09-15-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:02am

Aspen gets stressed over tv too. Even on Sesame St when an elephant is jumping and the whole screen is shaking, she says, "Oh no, oh no!"


Meldi

Meldi
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In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:07am
Buddha baby is a great description - I have met some - DS is not actually one of them. He's just always been the kind of kid who does better the more stimulating his environment is, and the activity of people and eating interesting things are both very high on his list of entertaining things. Being up where he could see people's faces, much more than the motion, was why he loved his front pack - walking with him in it in the apartment or hallways bored him immeasurably but being out on busy sidewalks he loved. He was quite delighted to be out people watching, flirting shamelessly with the waitresses, gesticulating grandly with a breadstick. He's still that way. I will be very surprised if he doesn't end up a politician, a lawyer or an actor - variations of the same thing I guess!
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Registered: 09-15-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:09am

I know this is totally lame of me, totally projecting, but sometimes (esp. lately) just SEEING a baby when I am out trying to relax makes me stress. It's because of where I am in my life. I am around babies (who eventually cry) all day long. My alarm clock is a crying baby. If I saw you at the movies with a baby in a sling or carrier, I would sit there wondering "When is THAT one going to go off?"


And I do think that you can't predict. You cannot be sure that your baby will 100% of the time, sleep through the movie or the meal, whatever. So, why set yourself up?


Meldi

Meldi
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Registered: 10-09-2004
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:10am
You must live in a very different area of the Midwest than where I'm from.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:23am
No. "Follows fashion" to me has nothing whatsoever to do with admirability.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:31am
Only if you believe that other people's children are ticking time bombs which have the power to "ruin" your evening.
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Registered: 09-25-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:42am
Thank you. . .you said that better than I, obviously.

Virgo

Virgo
 
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Registered: 09-25-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:43am

I can understand where you're perspective on this comes from if you can try to understand where my perspective comes from.


Virgo
 
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Registered: 03-27-2000
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 9:51am
i was responding to virgo who said she couldn't understand how a screaming baby by a rehearsal dinner could actually ruin it.

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