My parents and I went out to have dinner tonight at a local Chilis. Not long after we had gotten our drinks and were waiting for our food, a family was sat next to us: a man, a woman, a boy of perhaps 2-3 years old, and a little baby maybe 6-8 months. It was past six already. Naturally, this is a late dinnertime for a kid that small so the boy of ( Read more... )

This is short, but worth noting, I think. My friend and I were at Red Lobster waiting for a table to free up and there was this group of adults with four small children with them, all loud and obnoxious. The father of some of the kids even said "I don't think this is a good idea..." when he realized the kids would NOT listen to them ( Read more... )

a pizzeria in Atlanta has now instituted a policy that semi-bans crying kids from the restaurant.

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I'm stuck in the airport all night (admittedly, my own fault; I missed my flight due to extremely poor planning and a series of misadventures), so my friend and I were talking about children, specifically on airplanes, and how much they annoyed us. This spread to the problem of children in nice restaurants. My friend said, "It should just be like ( Read more... )