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Originally Posted by kayanne
As follow up to the earlier discussion about special needs or extenuating circumstances:
I still remember the one and only time that I had an out of control crying child in public that I couldn't control, nor could I simply leave. My baby was sick, I had taken him to the doctor, diagnosed with an ear infection, stopped at the pharmacy on the way home to fill his prescription. Poor baby was wailing in pain, and of course there was a line at the drug store. I felt like I could feel the angry stares of everyone around me. I kept apologizing, explaining that he has an ear infection and I REALLY need to get this prescription filled right away. But I was mortified about the situation.
My guess is few people were actually feeling angry toward your child or you. Probably they were just watching, maybe wondering what was wrong with the baby, maybe wondering if you were in the Rx line directly related to the baby's crying, wondering if the baby might be contagious. Few people are hostile enough to glare at a sick child in pain.
But babies are an easy target, esp. because of parental amnesia and all the people who pull out the BS "my baby never made noise in public" line. Because we all know that's not true no matter what someone claims years after the fact. Babies make noise, period. Sometimes they are sad, sometimes they are happy but either way, they are noisy.
Yup. Anyone who did this idiocy to my baby is going to get some choice words from me or my wife. And especially in a raucous, ear-splitting madhouse like Texas Roadhouse.
Newsflash: Babies are allowed to make noise just like everyone else, in a noisy setting.
no what I keep doing is to project my experiences into it, which may be worse than what went on here.
I'm sharing my thoughts opinions and ideas, and think its safe to say, we agree to disagree.
Well, I'm still waiting for those training videos on 6 month olds, and you've ignored me on that, so I'm thinking some of it IS imaginary.
And I asked you if you had ever actually been yelled at, cussed at, or had angry outbursts in your direction, at restaurants, and you haven't responded to that either.
I doubt that in a noisy venue full of other noisy people that a note was left just because it was a baby making normal baby noises.
In order to reach that level there had to have been something else to the story.
Either the women were major cranks, possible, but hey they picked a Texas Roadhouse so I can't imagine they thought it would be a quiet meal, or the baby was very disruptive. Considering the mom said she had been making attempts to quiet the child, I'm going to guess the level of noise coming from the baby was out of the ordinary, even for a Texas Roadhouse.
The note was rude any way you look at it, but lets not pretend that the baby was not yelling or screaming and being disruptive. C'mon even the mom admits that he was.
They were looking for or expecting a public altercation. The middle aged woman slammed the note on their table, and then went and sat back down.
Surely they didn't think the young parents were just going to get up and meekly leave?
They avoided a shouting match. Instead, the couple with the baby called the manager, which is what the two women should have done, in the first place. That's not an "altercation". That's appropriate recourse.
They avoided a shouting match. Instead, the couple with the baby called the manager, which is what the two women should have done, in the first place. That's not an "altercation". That's appropriate recourse.
No, there were words between the young couple, and the older ladies. That's when the younger couple called the manager.
I doubt that in a noisy venue full of other noisy people that a note was left just because it was a baby making normal baby noises.
In order to reach that level there had to have been something else to the story. Either the women were major cranks, possible, but hey they picked a Texas Roadhouse so I can't imagine they thought it would be a quiet meal, or the baby was very disruptive. Considering the mom said she had been making attempts to quiet the child, I'm going to guess the level of noise coming from the baby was out of the ordinary, even for a Texas Roadhouse.
The note was rude any way you look at it, but lets not pretend that the baby was not yelling or screaming and being disruptive. C'mon even the mom admits that he was.
I'd agree with you but I feel like I'm starting to see something more frequently where people go to a place and expect an experience grossly out of line with the commonly understood attributes of the place.
There was a recent thread, can't recall where, maybe the travel or one of the city/state sections about a family at a big resort. IIRC, not a super high end one, but a very decent, family oriented one. The place had and adult-only pool and a family pool. The parents said they were at the family pool and their kids were splashing around and having a good time, nothing out of line. According to them there were a couple clusters of old people, fully dressed (not poolside attire), shooting icy stares and flinching and grousing about. At the FAMILY pool. Makes no sense, unless these oldsters just like to get bothered...which I'm not ruling out.
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I'd agree with you but I feel like I'm starting to see something more frequently where people go to a place and expect an experience grossly out of line with the commonly understood attributes of the place.
There was a recent thread, can't recall where, maybe the travel or one of the city/state sections about a family at a big resort. IIRC, not a super high end one, but a very decent, family oriented one. The place had and adult-only pool and a family pool. The parents said they were at the family pool and their kids were splashing around and having a good time, nothing out of line. According to them there were a couple clusters of old people, fully dressed (not poolside attire), shooting icy stares and flinching and grousing about. At the FAMILY pool. Makes no sense, unless these oldsters just like to get bothered...which I'm not ruling out.
There's a wonderful park here with a river running through it, that was designated an off-leash dog park by the city. There was a family with a child, who clearly had a dog phobia. The child flinched and screamed out every time a dog ran by and the parents kept saying can you please come get your dog? Can you please control your dog? Um, no, we can't. People can be weird. It's not like the dogs were even approaching the child, just zooming around the park.
And yes, there were clear signs and doggie poop bag stations indicating this was an off-leash park.
As a mother of 2 I have always tried to keep my kids noise to a minimum when in a restaurant. It's just common courtesy. With that said, kids will be kids and I never would bring my kids to a "nice" restaurant when they were small. If it's a McDonalds, Applebees', etc, I think kid noise is more acceptable.
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