Businesses saying keep the rowdy children at home.

[Xath]

I think that the problem is that too many people are taking this as a "no kids allowed" sign, rather than a "please behave appropriately" sign. Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a difference between childish exhuberence and uncontrollable demon-screamers. Allow me to demonstrate with several true examples from my retail and restaraunt experience.

1. CE - Child gets excited and lets out a yelp.
2. DS - Child screams at the top of lungs for (timed) 45 minutes.

1. CE - Child bounces up and down in chair
2. DS - Child runs around restaraunt, tripping waiter into dropping 5 entrees onto the floor.

1. CE - Child has dirty diaper, parents change it.
2. DS - Child removes fecal matter from diaper, throws it onto floor in various places all over the store, and then steps on it to really grind it into the carpet. Angry retail employee forced to clean it with a mop and a sponge.


Keep your fecal throwing demon screamers at home. I'm all for childish exhuberence, but there's a difference between that and bad parenting.

 

[Rel]

Keep your fecal throwing demon screamers at home.

Thanks for the new .sig.

 

[Harmon]

My wife and I are expecting in a few months, we have no intention of going to the theater with our little one until she can behave. Should she act up during then out we go. Why should we screw up someone elses evening out?

Cafes and resturants are no different- kids are acting up, then leave. Someone else is trying to relax.

People pay sitters so they don't have to listen to screaming kids where they go to relax, so why do they have to listen to someone elses?

If you take offense to this line of thinking and say "he'll find out," ya, I will, but I will do my dammedest to apologize and get my screaming kid out of everyone elses area of relaxation.

 

[Xath]

Thanks for the new .sig.

*gasp* I feel special!

 

[Rel]

*gasp* I feel special!

You are special! Remember that you're "all that and a bag of dice".

 

[StupidSmurf]

You are special! Remember that you're "all that and a bag of dice".

Just remember, you're a unique and special person, just like everyone else!

 

[Dark Jezter]

Keep your fecal throwing demon screamers at home.

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that.

 

[jaerdaph]

I can't wait to some of you have children of your own someday. Boy will you be in for a shock.

 

[Rel]

I can't wait to some of you have children of your own someday. Boy will you be in for a shock.

Are you suggesting that people who take the position that kids shouldn't be allowed to scream or run out of control in private stores and restaurants can't be familiar with how children tend to behave? Because I can assure you that this isn't the case.

 

[jaerdaph]

Are you suggesting that people who take the position that kids shouldn't be allowed to scream or run out of control in private stores and restaurants can't be familiar with how children tend to behave? Because I can assure you that this isn't the case.

Lighten up, it was a joke.

Edit: No personal offense intended, Rel.