"tert in seattle" > wrote in message
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> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 10:22:08 AM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> I accept that. I had chronic ear infections when I was a kid. Painful!
>>> Then again, I wasn't flying all over the place as an infant. It
>>> simply wouldn't have been the first thing I thought of. Pardon moi
>>
>> It's really a different world. Airfare is so much cheaper, families
>> are so much more spread out, and children are included in adult
>> activities so much more.
>>
>> Bringing this back to the original topic:
>> eating in restaurants used to be a very special thing, once or
>> twice a year when I was a child. I wasn't taken to restaurants
>> until I could sit still and be quiet; we got dressed up and
>> I was on my best behavior. (I was a cute, precocious little girl,
>> and I made a perfect excuses for men to come over to the table to
>> chat up my mother. Win-win for everybody.)
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
> It is a different world -- my first memory of going to a restaurant is
> when my mom had her gallbladder removed and my dad took my sister and me
> out rather than feed us more sandwiches. I had a hamburger and fries and
> they tasted really good. It definitely wasn't a fancy place.
>
> We've taken our kids out ever since they were infants and aside from a
> couple of instances of tired crabbiness they've been great. We were at
> a nice place (Palisade) one time when A. dropped his spoon on the floor,
> and said to a gentleman at the next table, "gampa! gampa! I dopped my
> poon!" At that age he wasn't so great with consonant blends, and oh yeah
> any man with grey hair was "gampa". I thought it was really cute but
> gampa just ignored him.

Awww miserable devil! I would have loved it




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