Were those people out of line giving a note to the table with a crying baby?

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  • writerchick4 - 9 years ago

    I think those women were trippin' if they expected a quiet dining experience at Texas RoadHouse. Walking across the floor and stepping on all those peanut shells can be louder than a child.

    And I wish a heifa would slam a note on my table talking about 'Thanks for ruining our dining experience' because my baby was being loud. That would be the last time she slammed a note ANYWHERE.

  • Cappadonna - 9 years ago

    I'm with Ron and Karen you're dead wrong.

    Yes, you're annoyed with a crying baby. But its a child and children cry and make noise. So people with kids need to hide until they're babies grow facial hair? Also, weren't these people at some sort of Fuddruckers or Friday? Its a family diner straight out office space, not an organic tapas bar downtown.

    And just proves that Karen and Rod are different people. Who would have thought the cheerful Karen was secretly a grumpy old lady hosing down the neighborhood kids for sitting on her lawn.

  • SugahBabe - 9 years ago

    Now Rod, you know you ain't right for that pic. I laughed long and hard at it.
    You not gonna setup my Karen like that. Cause she does look like she was giving zero fucks about that baby.
    Karen's the greatest.

    It was rude. I would have left early had I felt that inconvenienced. Don't get me wrong, I'm not on a soapbox. As a matter of fact, I'm a reformed babies-in-public hater. And no, I don't have kids. So that's not what changed my mind.

    I flew a lot for my previous job and I really dreaded sitting beside babies. Until one night after working two 16-hour days and travelling for 4 hours, there was a lady with a baby sitting beside me for the final leg home. I wondered if this was my comeuppance for laughing at Stevie Wonder memes.

    I realized that the mother did everything possible to calm her fussy baby and nothing worked and she was so embarrassed. I think my body language was a dead giveaway that I wasn't happy. I realized I was being a judgy asshole and that the lady and her baby had to get from point A to point B and that babies/kids were gonna cry because it's often the only means of expressing themselves. So I chilled. It helped that the baby was a cutie pie and stopped crying after awhile. But stepping back really helped and I've made a conscious decision ever since to chill and observe before I go too hard and think that I should punt a kid.

    I still don't really like kids that much but more than that, I dislike parents who feel they're entitled to be assholes because they have kids or parents who allow their kids to terrorize the rest of us. Like Karen, I may run up on a kid that's being an asshole. I'm just a lot more relaxed about it nowadays and I'm willing to be a little more nuanced in my thinking.

    So Karen, no, I don't think you hate kids. It could just be an automatic thing you put up because most stories are about how parents aren't controlling their little demons, I mean, darlings.

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