Going out to eat. To a nice restaurant. AND I'm taking my kids.

I'll check back for flames later.

:P

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and don't forget the cell phone

Exposing the public to your CHILDREN?

What are you thinking??

in the smoking section?

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Also find out what secret spices they use in their cornflake breading.
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Delicious food. :woohoo:

yes INDEED

Contrary to popular opinion, it IS possible to teach kids how to behave in public (not be perfect angels, necessarily, but to avoid being rowdy, annoying, rude, and destructive).

I've actually seen well-behaved children with my own eyes!

The parents have two things in common:

1) They feel that they have the right to correct their children's behavior

2) They know how to do it effectively

They behave like perfect gentlemen when we're paying through the nose and are wild animals when it's mass market family-friendly fare. I'm trying to figure out why behavior is inversely proportional to expense.

an inverse amount of food consumed versus cost.

If they ate for free, they ate as though it were their last meal.

If it was something I had to pay for, they barely touched it.

over why he cannot have the $5.99 salad bar added to his meal.:)

We also once had a waitress almost bust a gut, when our 6 yr old ordered crab legs..Our kids have always been connoisseurs, and as long as they ate it all, they could order whatever they wanted.. We had kids who would order salmon, crab, grilled shrimp, NY steak..you name it :)

He's six now and that hasn't changed. Oy!

the oldest triplet (and despite rumors to the contrary :eyes: ) they do indeed exist, the oldest boy (who was barely 5 at the time, insisted on ordering the catfish from the adult menu. The other two contented themselves with stuff like hamburgers and chicken strips from the kids' menu. But not the eldest.

And he ate the whole thing. It was a big piece of catfish. We gaped in admiration of him.

And he still loves catfish. He ate it when we went out for dinner on my birthday last month.

(You do know I was kidding, right?)

They seemed extremely real when I had dinner at their house last night.

They wanted REAL food.. and when they were a bit older, they seemed to try and out do each other in their choices..:)We never complained, as long as they ate what they ordered..
When we lived in New Mexico, the country club we belonged to, had monthly "crab cracks" and they learned about king crab at a very early age..
The Club served it in HUGE stainless bowls and it was "all you can eat", so they never bothered with the cole slaw & baked beans or dessert..

My youngest once told a waitress "I'll take the crayons, but I want a real menu"..(he was too young to read, but he still wanted a real menu :rofl:..)

I always had a good appetite at an early age (still do, for the most part). Whenever my grandmother was in town (she lived about 45 miles away) and we'd go to this one restaurant for dinner, I would order whatever Grandma wanted in a child's portion and she would order what I wanted in the adult portion. Then, we'd trade plates. I was only 8 when she died.

And they don't act like small clowns.

;)

If there is a play land it's OK.

Oh, dear God, that is so last week.

BoyMidlo took out the sous chef on his way to the restroom and BabyMidlo sat on the bar singing "best of both worlds" all night.

Series. Why are kids in restaurants such a bother?

Even if it's another "best of both worlds", the image of a child incurring chaos by imitating the most excellent Peter Garret is classic.

Okay, searched youtube and found numerous offenses by varying offenders... The real thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW10iJDDjo0

but it was the Hannah Montana version.


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and I have no idea, and will hopefully never have any idea, of what the others are like.

I also looked up Peter on Wikipedia, and have found that despite not winning the top seat in Australian politics, that he's managed to serve consistently in seemingly important positions. This makes me happy.

Win-win!

Cheers.

including the preteens.

Everyone knows Cracker Barrel is strictly for lunch.

No alcohol and all that. :eyes:

Must I think of everything? Apparent-fucking-ly so.

Asshole.

:rofl:

The ketchup bottles will be upscaled douches, and all of your taco salads will be served in bags

TeenMidlo in her smallest hooters outfit

Don't you know that she is so hideous that she is one step from the elephant man?

:eyes:

I had to break it to her that my friend Lori, who has a beautiful piece of property on the lake where she hosts weddings, had to reduce the price of her property just because TM, (AKA hideously deformed monster girl) set foot on it.

Hoping to get said property at a fire sale.

the hooters outfit is just so I can know when to shut guys off from the bar at the old "DSRestorama"

If guys hit on that nasty ass, then they're clearly too drunk to drive home.

That poor kid. I hope people are kind to her when she is wandering the streets with a bag over her head.

For that action I'd require something more like a bank vault with a hole drilled through the side

comments about TeenMidlo's hideousness.

You fucker.

Exposing kids to good food is one of the best lessons a parent can give them, second to actually teaching them how to cook.

I loved going to nice restaurants as a kid and ordering weird stuff we never got at home. By the time I was 10, I had learned to eat raw oysters and clams, stuffed squid and escargot. By the time I was 20, I was paying for college by working in those same restaurant kitchens.

Of course, if your kids are disruptive little brats, I'll stab them with a salad fork. :P

by our table and tell us how well behaved they were. They enjoying eating at nice places and being treated as though they are more worthy than a kid's pack of nuggets.

Not that there is anything wrong with that. They've eaten their share of fast food, as well. Usually on the road when we couldn't find anything suitable.

years ago my friends and I decided to have dinner at Che Panasie. they brought along their four year old son, who even at that age was pretty well behaved in restaraunts. He happened to be going to the same pre-school as Alice Water's daughter. We were seated next to a couple who who were obviously having a "working dinner", their table was covered with papers with UC logos and from what we could eaves drop on they reviewing some sort of boring University policy. Both of these people kept making somwhat loud, catty remarks about children in fancy restaraunts.

At one point Alice came over to chat with us, she and the kids mother are friends. While she was chatting the woman from UC tapped her on the shoulder and told how inappropriate and annoying it is to have to deal with children in up scale restaraunts. With out missing a beat Alice said, " well these people are my friends, including Louis (the kid) if you have a problem with this you can always leave."
We had a wonderful meal.

My parents took my brothers and me to nice restaraunts a couple times a year. our mother wanted to "road test" our table manners.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that the other patrons at Olive Garden do not mind you breastfeeding while you light Teen Midlo's Marlboro.:rofl:

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