S#$T that bothers you!!!! (rant thread) - Bilge

TM tiki mick Tiki Socialite SOCAL Joined: May 12, 2004 Posts: 4094	TM tiki mick Posted posted on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 10:29 AM On 2010-09-15 09:37, VampiressRN wrote: Thank goodness my dogs have their own walker (who WALKS them and let's them sniff the world). OK...I'm sure I will get in trouble for this...but screaming kids in restaurants totally urk me. Come on people, if I wanted to listen to kids scream I would come over to your house. I am paying for some nice ambiance and a meal not a tonsil solo from your table. Again, I totally agree! Here is a true story: I was a restaurant manager on a busy Friday night. There was this guy there with his 8 year old son, and the son was screaming. Over and over with this high pitched, keening wail! It was really ridiculous! A total temper tantrum and I could see that the guy was just letting him scream, to show the little monster that he would get no reaction. Of course, in the privacy of your own home that probably IS the way to handle it, but not in a busy eatery, and at all the other guest’s expense. I kept on walking by and looking at this screaming brat and his ignorant, stupid parent, hoping that they would get the hint. They did not, and it just went on and on. People around them were getting up and leaving. Towards the end of the shift, I was helping the waitresses get their orders out, when the guy approached me, all red-faced: “Excuse me, but do you have a problem?” I had to swallow my rage and look him in the eyes and say “No sir, I was just concerned if your child was alright or not”. Well, he glared at me, and demanded to know the name of the owner. I felt like dragging him into the kitchen and holding his head to the hot grill, searing him on both cheeks. That’s what he deserved. But, I had to take it…and play the “customer is always right” angle. Recently, an online survey showed that 95% of people feel that restaurants have the right to kick out someone with an uncontrollable brat that is screaming. But what has our country come to that such deplorable manners are permitted (and seem to be the norm) at all? I remember being a brat myself, and I also remember my mom taking us home if we misbehaved….doesn’t matter if we had reservations or not. Out of control? Then you get to go home and miss out on a fun meal with the foods we liked to eat! It is this sense of self entitlement people have that bothers me. Everything is ok! Kid screaming in a theater! No problem! Kid sticking his dirty hands in the salad bar? No Problem! Parents bringing Humvee sized double and triple strollers to Disneyland and keeping the kids there to 12:00 PM on a school night? No problem! People walking across an intersection at a snail’s pace and then glaring at you in defiance? No problem! Assholes tailgating you on the freeway when you are already doing 80? NO PROBLEM! People say the 70’s was the “Me” generation. I say that was nothing compared to the extreme self-centered behavior that is all too common nowadays!

On 2010-09-15 09:37, VampiressRN wrote:
Thank goodness my dogs have their own walker (who WALKS them and let's them sniff the world).

OK...I'm sure I will get in trouble for this...but screaming kids in restaurants totally urk me. Come on people, if I wanted to listen to kids scream I would come over to your house. I am paying for some nice ambiance and a meal not a tonsil solo from your table.

Again, I totally agree!

Here is a true story:

I was a restaurant manager on a busy Friday night. There was this guy there with his 8 year old son, and the son was screaming. Over and over with this high pitched, keening wail! It was really ridiculous! A total temper tantrum and I could see that the guy was just letting him scream, to show the little monster that he would get no reaction. Of course, in the privacy of your own home that probably IS the way to handle it, but not in a busy eatery, and at all the other guest’s expense.
I kept on walking by and looking at this screaming brat and his ignorant, stupid parent, hoping that they would get the hint. They did not, and it just went on and on. People around them were getting up and leaving.
Towards the end of the shift, I was helping the waitresses get their orders out, when the guy approached me, all red-faced: “Excuse me, but do you have a problem?”

I had to swallow my rage and look him in the eyes and say “No sir, I was just concerned if your child was alright or not”. Well, he glared at me, and demanded to know the name of the owner.

I felt like dragging him into the kitchen and holding his head to the hot grill, searing him on both cheeks. That’s what he deserved. But, I had to take it…and play the “customer is always right” angle.

Recently, an online survey showed that 95% of people feel that restaurants have the right to kick out someone with an uncontrollable brat that is screaming.

But what has our country come to that such deplorable manners are permitted (and seem to be the norm) at all?

I remember being a brat myself, and I also remember my mom taking us home if we misbehaved….doesn’t matter if we had reservations or not. Out of control? Then you get to go home and miss out on a fun meal with the foods we liked to eat!

It is this sense of self entitlement people have that bothers me. Everything is ok! Kid screaming in a theater! No problem! Kid sticking his dirty hands in the salad bar? No Problem! Parents bringing Humvee sized double and triple strollers to Disneyland and keeping the kids there to 12:00 PM on a school night? No problem! People walking across an intersection at a snail’s pace and then glaring at you in defiance? No problem! Assholes tailgating you on the freeway when you are already doing 80? NO PROBLEM!

People say the 70’s was the “Me” generation. I say that was nothing compared to the extreme self-centered behavior that is all too common nowadays!

Post #553977 by tiki mick on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 10:29 AM