On 2015-07-27 7:24 AM, Nancy Young wrote:

> We didn't go out to restaurants very often, but the idea that we'd
> run around raising a ruckus is laughable. I don't remember being
> taught restaurant manners, but my brothers and I knew we'd better
> behave.

Nor did we. It was for special occasions only. We weren't angels, but at
home we always ate in the dining room and we expected to behave at the
table.


> In the paper yesterday, they had a bunch of people commenting about
> that recent incident where a diner owner got fed up with a noisy kid and
> yelled at him/her to shut up. I was kind of surprised that most
> people sided with the restaurant owner, even the ones who disagreed
> did say they would have taken the child out before it got to that point.


I am not at all surprised that the comments sided with the owner. The
parents should have dealt with it.The self entitled twit went to social
media to smear the restaurant and it backfired.

There was a sort of similar incident in a small town in Ontario around
the same time. A woman claimed that she got kicked out of a restaurant
for breast feeding. The restaurant claimed she was kicked out for being
rowdy and arguing with other diners. She started a social media
campaign to blackball the restaurant and indignant commenters claimed
they were going to boycott the restaurant.

It was interesting to note how the story kept changing. First it was her
and a friend who got kicked out. Later on it was just her and her friend
showed up later and went in to verify that she had been kicked out for
breast feeding. One person commenting claimed to have been there and
backed the mother's initial story, though that one changed.

The nursing mother was not even really a customer. She was sitting at a
table in the middle of the patio nursing her child. She had been offered
a menu, declined to order food or beverages, even turned down an offer
of a free bottle of water.

Seriously. Who takes a nursing baby into an Irish pub and expects to sit
there breast feeding? Fer fryin out loud.... it is a bar. The whole
story stinks.