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 - 4:46pm
And I think there's nothing wrong with buying two dresses only if that's all you need. Just as I think there's nothing wrong with having 6 or 8 if you can afford it and you "need" them for multiple dressy events.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:46pm
Congrats. I think you just justified several working posters' desire not to have "unreasonably low" internet access too.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:47pm

"And how does agonizing over purchases somehow make things better for those doing without???"

This isn't a hard question to answer. I could go and buy myself a new pair of shoes I don't need, or I could give the money to a program here in town that provides uniforms and work tools for the working poor. It's a simple choice on my part.

"I think that is a lot of misplaced guilt on your part. God isnt asking you to be a martyr."

Thanks, but how do you know?

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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:50pm
Jesus blessed the woman because of her impulse, which was to serve him. The money had already been spent, there was no use excoriating her at that point. Jesus said that the poor will always be with you and you will always be able to help them. We usually read the first clause of that sentence and ignore the second. And the gospel says that when Judas complained about the cost of the ointment, it was not out of concern for the poor, but because he was in the habit of stealing from the common purse and would have liked a cut of the money she spent on the ointment rather than seeing it go to Christ.
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Registered: 01-29-2004
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:50pm
Sure, but I don't understand the guilt or the "convicted" feeling. Splurge and be done with it. I just don't think your splurges are worth wasting a moment's worry over. Especially if you more than tithe. (I will respectfully refrain from the whole tithe thing anyway, but wanted to add, if your church just wants regular, plain vanilla "tithe," then it's too much of a burden to put on yourself to more than tithe.) Money is just paper/alloys. It was meant to be spent or saved. There shouldn't be so much guilt or convicted feeling attached to it whatever your religion.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:50pm
Hollie and Virgo can have all the fancy technology they want.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:52pm

I don't think they would ask you so you wouldn't need to worry.


I have high speed internet and it certainly is not $200 a month.


"I do not want to be a princess! I want to be myself"

Mallory (age 3)

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:52pm

"How do you suggest I go about taking precautions re: a drunk dinner companion?" Oh, I dunno, when someone orders a drink, make the face at them that you make when you see people in restaurants with babies.

"And how would you ever know how much umbrage I might take at a drunken fellow diner?" Because you mentioned that you found a crying baby more disruptive on this thread, and you went to quite some pains to ridicule OKMrsmommy at one point for not caring to go to weddings, etc. where people would be drinking, perhaps to excess.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:52pm

Regardless, she could have turned right around and sold the ointment and given the money directly to the poor without giving Judas a chance to take his cut of it.


You might, based on some of your previous posts, think I'm unnecessarily joyless because I won't take my small children travelling or change their bedtime for special occasions.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 4:53pm
Yeah, me too. I've been to a Latin American wedding (Nicaraguan marrying a woman from El Salvador) and the bride wore a gorgeous multi-colored skirt with a white blouse and a black veil.

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