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: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 3:54pm
No, I don't think she meant "besides the whole 'conspicuous consumerism' subthread." Believe it or not, choosing not to do something doesn't automatically mean thinking everyone else should do the same. Try contrasting what Lois said she does with Felicia's gasps over Lois NOT buying a different dress for every party she attends and perhaps you'll see what I mean.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 3:58pm
yes, often the problem is rooted in parents whose tolerance of their own childrens' behavior is way too high.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 3:59pm
Get a sitter.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:09pm

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Nope. Instead I would have found greater motivation to enjoy everything to the fullest despite glitches or crying babies.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:10pm
Why should she limit herself to only two dressy dresses, only to have the money she could have spent on clothes be spent by her Dh's next wife on HER clothes?

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Registered: 10-18-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:12pm
I took dd to about 12-15 movies before she was 9 mo old. NOT ONCE did I need to leave because she cried. Every time I took her, I nursed her at the beg of the movie and she fell right asleep and would sleep for hte whole movie. Taking her wasn't rude. If she had disturbed another patron, it would have been rude. But she didn't. The guy munching 4 buckets of popcorn and slurping his drink 5 rows behind me was more disturbing than she ever was. But you don't see me saying that fat people shouldn't go to movies.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:12pm

What?


You've taken my statement that I've never actually had a meal with an out and out drunken companion, and turned it into a statement that I prefer drunks to babies?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:15pm

Again, I don't think you're a low class hick, but if you don't value fancy, expensive events, you simply have no frame of reference.


Hey, BOTH of my miscarriages were much worse events than any events ruined by a crying baby - so the he%l what?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:17pm
I guess so.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:19pm
If I had 160 people and a full band at my wedding I would be pretty surprised if one crying' baby would ruin anything.

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