Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
The manager did the right thing, and has a lot of support.
First off, this took place in Canada. Canada which has been the whipping post for Trump for the last couple of months. Trump telling blatant lies about Canada and insulting us.
The fact that some rube would be stupid enough to wear a baseball cap that supports Trump, while visiting Canada, is not only the height of bad manners, but a provocation.
The hat represents bigotry,homophobia,mysogyny, and lies.
The manager did not refuse him service. The press has gotten the story slightly wrong. I know someone who is a friend of the manager. The actual story is that he ask the man to please remove his hat. The man said nothing, but just walked out and then complained. There was no real conversation. The motivation of the manager was that he felt the other customers would feel uncomfortable. I know it would ruin my dinner.
If it was a fast food joint, probably wouldn't care, but this is a fairly nice restaurant.
So you get your news from the MSM too huh? It shows. Enjoy your namby pamby PM.
You talk about crass and rude yet you are here bashing the president of the US?
I don't have a problem with it, good for the restaurant.
What a shame though that a Canadian business has better common sense compared to American businesses that would have jumped on the 'bash Trump' bandwagon.
Where I am most of the men where baseball caps all the time. This is not the 1920's.
I guess it depends on the restaurant.
I mean, McDonalds is fine. I suppose sports bars and such are fine.
But, most sit-down restaurants should have an expectation of basic manners.
Like, no standing on the furniture, no wearing hats while you eat, etc.
I don't see why one needs one's hat on to eat. My husband wears a hat sometimes, but he always removes it in restaurants if they are halfway decent sit-down places.
He's under 40, btw... so it's not some old person thing.
__________________
When in doubt, check it out: FAQ
I think it is silly for someone to wear their political affiliation on their sleeve or in this case their head but of course we could expect the near same response if that guy was donning a NRA hat.
I was following a car yesterday that had a BERNIE 2016 bumper sticker on it and I thought it was silly but I certainly wasn't triggered by it.
I always thought the word Liberal meant, free, open minded but Trump has certainly brought out the ugly in them.
You and I are in agreement re: wearing of one's political affiliation on their "sleeve" as it were.
I do not do this. I think doing it is an invitation to criticism.
I would not put a political bumper sticker on my car. I would not put a political sign in my front yard. I would not wear a political t-shirt unless I was working on a political campaign and even then, I would only do so while on campaign business.
__________________
When in doubt, check it out: FAQ
I mean, McDonalds is fine. I suppose sports bars and such are fine.
But, most sit-down restaurants should have an expectation of basic manners.
Like, no standing on the furniture, no wearing hats while you eat, etc.
I don't see why one needs one's hat on to eat. My husband wears a hat sometimes, but he always removes it in restaurants if they are halfway decent sit-down places.
He's under 40, btw... so it's not some old person thing.
I agree with this post. We dont wear hats in nice restaurants around here either, regardless of what they do in Oklahoma or Arizona or wherever that poster is from. It is not a young/old thing. It is a civilized/uncivilized thing. Someone wearing a baseball cap in a nice restaurant, cheapens the restaurant, and the experience of the other diners. Any nice restaurant in NYC will ask you to remove it, no matter what it says on it. Bars and casual restaurants are a different story.
But this only really matters if the manager asks everyone wearing hats to take them off, or if he singled out this one person because of what his hat said;
I agree with this post. We dont wear hats in nice restaurants around here either, regardless of what they do in Oklahoma or Arizona or wherever that poster is from. It is not a young/old thing. It is a civilized/uncivilized thing. Someone wearing a baseball cap in a nice restaurant, cheapens the restaurant, and the experience of the other diners. Any nice restaurant in NYC will ask you to remove it, no matter what it says on it. Bars and casual restaurants are a different story.
But this only really matters if the manager asks everyone wearing hats to take them off, or if he singled out this one person because of what his hat said;
I agree that you cannot have one person being asked to remove a hat and others not asked to.
I think an exception would be a hat with pornographic images or language considered by most polite people to be not suitable for a mixed crowd would be an exception.
Political hats would not typically fall under this sort of exception unless they contained any of the aforementioned pornography or foul language, of course.
__________________
When in doubt, check it out: FAQ
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
