Kids and resturants
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Kids and resturants
| 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

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"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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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.
&nbs
"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.
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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