On 7/27/2015 10:25 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-07-27 9:49 AM, sf wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 09:43:39 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-07-27 9:30 AM, sf wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:24:59 -0400, Nancy Young
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Did you see that it took 45 minutes to be served and the child was a
>>>> hungry 2 YO? I wouldn't want to wait 45 minutes for food, no matter
>>>> what the circumstance.
>>>
>>>
>>> There are times of the day not to take toddlers to restaurants. Kids
>>> tend to be grumpy at nap time and when they are hungry. Fast food
>>> restaurants are a more appropriate venue for someone with a kid who
>>> needs to be fed fast.
>>
>> Agree.
>>
>>> However, this is another case of credibility. The
>>> owner said they had ordered pancakes for the kid. The pancakes had been
>>> served but the parents had not fed them to the child. The hungry kid
>>> would have been sitting there looking at her food.
>>>
>> As if that's a believable story. I didn't read that version and I've
>> read both sides. Are you saying there's a third version now?
>>
>
> I don't know if it is a third version or if it is the one that was
> selectively edited for news bites, but in the article and interview
> linked below the owner said she served the kid three huge pancakes and
> the parents would not let her eat them, and that she had asked them to
> leave or to take the kid outside.
> http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/loca...post/30391407/
>
>
>
Apparently the parents think it's normal for a kid to sit and scream.
Some parents seem to don invisible earplugs. Maybe that's the norm in
your house but in public, nope.

The owner said they ordered three pancakes - three! Bigger than the
child's head! And they didn't even feed them to her. They were out of
her reach.

The kid was hungry, what's wrong with you people? Along with those
invisible earplugs they are also apparently blind. The kid can't reach
the pancakes! She's hungry! What are you trying to do, torture her?!

Yeah, I'm a grouchy old fart. Guess what? If I'd behaved that way on
the rare occasions we went out to eat that would have been the last time.

Same thing with going with her to the store. No whining, "I want this!
I want that!" Going shopping with Mom was a privilege, not a right. A
privilege easily taken away, and we knew it.

Jill