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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

So for you it's all about we have to put up with people who have no consideration for others? Really? Because there's some damn entitled people in this world. I guess we should bow to all of them. Let all the entitled people run everyone else out of places when they have as much right to be there as anyone else.


I am so tired of hearing people say oh this poor mom. The women were rude. If it happened to me I'd ask the manager to move me as far away from the kid as possible. If they wouldn't, didn't, or the kid was screaming so loud you could hear it across the restaurant I'd get my food to leave. And you'd better believe I would be making some calls about my dining experience.


I'm not sure why people with little kids think they are entitled to take them places when they simply cannot handle it. The mother in this OP even said her son SCREECHED at the top of his lungs. She KNEW her child was annoying. She said it's a stage he's going through. So why can't the parents of the screaming kid take their food to go until he gets out of this "phase"? Again, the women were wrong. I've said it with almost every post. But it's a two way street.




I didn't say you had to put up with anything. YOu can go complain to the manager. You can get up and leave. YOu can over and tell her off. Whatever you want to do. I am telling you what I do. That my time is too valuable to waste sitting around being pissed off over yet another Arsehole in the world. It doesn't bother THEM if you are pissed. It bothers you. What quality time are you having with your DH if you are sitting there fuming? None. So for me, I take the course of action that maximizes MY good feelings. Be it leaving, telling a manager or walking over to the table and telling her to F off!

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Also, it's easy to say just get your check and take a to go plate. On the few instances DH and I go out together ALONE it's so that we can have some us time. Away from our kids. So we can sit and talk and reconnect as a couple. Not because we absolutely have to have a steak from that certain restaurant. We want time to preserve our relationship. Date night. So getting our food to go kind of defeats the whole purpose of that.

Would you choose a restaurant that's known for being "family / kid friendly" and LOUD?

 

Probably not.



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Well, that is part of it too. Don't go to a family type restaurant and then complain because there are kid sthere.

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And I told you several times how I would handle it. But the point for me is still that if I want to go out to eat I should be able to without someone having a kid that screeches. And screeching is waaaaaaaaaaaay different than a happily babbling infant. Or even an infant that is talking loudly. Trust me, I have sat next to people with loud babies. They don't bother me. Usually the parents are very considerate. The parents in the OP do not seem that way to me. That's the point I'm trying to make. I'll do what I have to to have an enjoyable experience. Even if it comes to not going back to the restaurant. I just wish everyone would stop poo pooing this parents decision to take a screeching kid out to dinner.

My SIL let's her kids walk on empty tables, drink syrup out of the syrup bottles, chew on all the sugar packets and stuff them back in the little container, eat food off other people's plates, scream at the table, and just all around be brats. I can tell you without a doubt their behavior started very young and was not corrected. DH and I will not eat out with them because their children are so wild.

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Also, it's easy to say just get your check and take a to go plate. On the few instances DH and I go out together ALONE it's so that we can have some us time. Away from our kids. So we can sit and talk and reconnect as a couple. Not because we absolutely have to have a steak from that certain restaurant. We want time to preserve our relationship. Date night. So getting our food to go kind of defeats the whole purpose of that.

Would you choose a restaurant that's known for being "family / kid friendly" and LOUD?

 

Probably not.

 I, personally, don't consider steak houses for an evening meal a "family/kid friendly" restaurant.  Maybe earlier in the day or for lunch but no, not at dinnertime.



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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

Well, that is part of it too. Don't go to a family type restaurant and then complain because there are kid sthere.

 DH and I have gone to children's movies, for example the Minions movie, on date night.  We never complain if there is noise there because it's a children's movie.  You EXPECT that.



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Frankly, we don't know how crowded the restaurant was.

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
ed11563 wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

Also, it's easy to say just get your check and take a to go plate. On the few instances DH and I go out together ALONE it's so that we can have some us time. Away from our kids. So we can sit and talk and reconnect as a couple. Not because we absolutely have to have a steak from that certain restaurant. We want time to preserve our relationship. Date night. So getting our food to go kind of defeats the whole purpose of that.

Would you choose a restaurant that's known for being "family / kid friendly" and LOUD?

 

Probably not.

 I, personally, don't consider steak houses for an evening meal a "family/kid friendly" restaurant.  Maybe earlier in the day or for lunch but no, not at dinnertime.

 If it has high chairs and a kids' menu - it's a family restaurant.



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I don't think anyone gets annoyed by normal kid, or adult, sounds when out.

But the "happy baby noise" and a kid making high pitched shrieks are two totally different things. And we all know it.

The way I read the OP, the child was not directly beside the two women that were annoyed.

It reads like they were at least a table or two apart.

If that's the case, and it was noisy anyway, and the baby was loud enough to be heard over all of that, that kid was screeching. Not just making happy baby noises.

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Just because you CAN take your infant everywhere doesn't mean you SHOULD.

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