On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:47:19 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:

> Please try to
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> train them at a noisy kid oriented place like the golden arches. I
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> don't want my dinner in a nice restaurant to be overwhelmed by the noise
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> of kids at a nearby table. If a kid has to be taken for a walk to keep
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> it occupied, maybe it is not time to take it to a restaurant.


Actually, when you think about it, any kid that supposedly can't avoid running or screaming indoors should not even go to McDonald's, simply because one never knows when some frail customer, elderly or not, might come in and get knocked over - or when someone with a migraine who HAS to get a bite right now might come in. It's just common courtesy.


> At any rate.... keep in mind that there are "family restaurants". Take
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> you kids to those places and leave the better places for people who are
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> spending extra in order not to have to deal other people's kids. People
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> who hire a baby sitter to watch their kids while they go out for dinner
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> don't do it so they can watch other people's kids acting up.


Exactly. An awful lot of embittered parents seem to think that only childfree folk don't want to have to put up with other customers' kids' running and screaming. They can't grasp that plenty of PARENTS want a quiet evening out too - so the latter hire sitters and look for a place that usually IS quiet. Until some clueless parent with kids comes in and ruins that.


Lenona.