Restaurant Woes this Sunday afternoon... (page 2)

Stefanie

She didn't know that her kids didn't throw food because she wasn't even nearby, she was across the restaurant dealing with the other kids.

She shouldnt have been in charge if she already had her hands full!

lazyslob

Stefanie, "lazy slob" ???? You make it sound like something negative. What have I done this time?

It is a tough call when dealing with someone's children. Once time, in the parking lot of a Mall, I was getting into my work truck and I heard someone by the back of the truck. It is a hugh truck and I can't see behind it so I got out and walked round to check. There was this ten year old boy sitting on my back bumper! Now mind you the truck was running! His mother was tying the shoe of some other younger boy and this kid just hopped up onto my bumper to wait. I told him, in my parent voice, to get off the bumper! His mother came unglued at me, telling me I had no right to talk to her boy that way. And she was correct, she was right there, I should have told her off and not the kid. Maybe you should have walked over to the group and showed them the food in your hair. People are not reasonable when you're dealing with their kids. Mav

blondie

The best thing to do in a situation like this in the restaurant, is to talk to the manager and explain how the misbehavior is affecting your dining experience. Which you did. Imagine having to be the restaurant staff that had to tell that group to calm down.

IBlondie

avengers

Or did you stage the whole scene to get a free meal?
Very smart and devious.

hahha.

Mary

Ten minutes later one of the mother's kids came and started yelling me and told me I had no right to tell the kids anything...she said her kids weren't throwing anything........I told her that no one was around and she should watch over her kids better. She then started yelling at me.....I told her I could understand why her kids were the way they were because of her...

LOL! Yep, it absolutely amazes me how completed stupid some parents are when it comes to anyone, anyone who dares to complain about the behaviour of their children. If we had ever dared act like that in a restaurant when we were young (which we wouldn't), not only would we have got our asses smacked but good right there, but we would have been made to apologize to whoever we did that to and we wouldn't have gotten our allowance that week either. We knew better.

Years ago when I was going to Weight Watchers, I was sitting there waiting to get weighed and this 6 year old brat decided to totally demolish all the chair that had been placed in a semi-circle. I thought "where the hell is this kids' mother?" Anyway, she comes out from the back, takes a look at what he did and says "okay honey get your coat on and let's go." I quietly said "uh, look at what he did. Don't you think he should maybe put things back the way they were?" Well oh my god you would've thought that I just accused her son of murder. She went nuts and started yelling "well, did you think I was just going to leave it like that?!" I said "well obviously you were seeing as you just said to him: Let's go!" She was furious and started straightening up the chairs herself while her bratty kid just stood there not the least bit concerned. I thought "that's a real good way to teach him not to do that again." Brain dead idiot. After ranting and raving at me, she loudly declared that she wouldn't be coming back there ever again. After she left, the three women at the front desk thanked me, as I guess her kid destroyed something different every week while he was there and they were glad to get rid of her.

Scully

We have walked out of restaurants when there were unruly children ruining our dining experience after a complaint to the waitstaff and management yielded no results. Our children are with us, and they are well behaved in a restaurant. They know what behaviour is expected of them and to sit through a meal while other patrons' children are out of control would send a powerful message to our kids that poor behaviour is condoned, not just by business owners, but by us.

We don't eat out often, but when we do it's not uncommon to spend $100 on dinner. There's no way I'm going to spend that much only to have a bunch of unmannered obnoxious brats spoil the occasion.

Love, Scully

Eyebrow2

how annoying...It amazes me how unruly kids can get...even mine. But what amazes me even more is when there will be a group of kids with only one or two parents with them. BAD idea most of the time. People, old or young, can get stupid in large groups. Even the best behaved kids can get out of line when they get caught up in the fevor.

Its too bad they ruined it for you.

TresHappy

This is my last post on this one, I personally think all the "chaperones" (if you could call them that, obviously they weren't doing their jobs) are responsible and they should have kept their group together. Allowing teenagers to go over to an empty booth in another part of the restaurant is just inviting trouble. I am tired of other people's kids being unruly in public and their parents expect other adults to shrug it off. Last week I was at the grocery store when someone's brats starting running down an aisle and nearly ran me down and an elderly woman. The elderly woman was quite shaken and grabbed her cart to keep from falling. I got the manager on that one and she put those kids in their place and told them to go find their parents. The manager was quite fed up with the group and said he probably should have kicked them out earlier. I'll just eat at home next time.

TresHappy of the becoming anti-social class!

simplesally

I went to a restaurant, on a date, paid for a babysitter and waited for 1/2 hour to be seated. Then they seated us near a screaming child. The family was not even served yet. There was a large group tabled together next to us as well. I said she needed to find us another seat. So she sat us maybe 4 tables away. I said that would not do. Seat us downstairs where its lively but not irritating. I explained I was not going to pay for a babysitter and yet listen to that noise.

So, they ended up seating us in the 'adult' room. We had an enjoyable evening, thanks to single mom waitresses who understood what I saying.

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