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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: air-horns in restaurants
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 10:10:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 10:10:55 1985
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> Here here (Hi Ron-bob!)  I've often gotten just as pissed off as
> you Ron.  I think the thing that really gets me is when I go out on my
> lunch hour (at work), and I have to wait for these mothers and their kids--
> who don't work,

Mothers who don't work?  How many children have you raised?
Raising children is work.

> and have nothing better to do at 11:30 in the morning-- to be seated!

Nothing better to do?  Oh, yeah, raising children is a real
bore.  Nothing to do, most of the time.

> I mean they can eat anytime they want whereas I have one hour
> to eat and get back to work.

They can eat any time they want?  You are suggesting, perhaps,
that a parent has more free time than someone with no children?

> Then the kid starts screamin his little face
> off to boot (although that doesn't bother me nearly as much as waiting for
> some mother with her three kids to finish eating so I can sit down for
> my lunch).

> Why can't these mothers continue doing their shopping till say 2pm?
> This way those of us who work for a living and get one hour for lunch
> won't have to wait (and inevitably be late getting back to work)!!

> Melanie
> ihnp4!mhuxt!techpub

Right, continue shopping for 2-3 hours after the children
start crying for lunch.  If you want to hear real screaming,
try *not* feeding a child for 2-3 hours after hunger strikes.
I suppose it's OK for the screaming to disturb other shoppers?

(Sounds like you really have 2 1/2 hours for lunch, since you
don't want the mothers allowed in the restaurant from 11:30
until 2:00.)

I suggest you build your own restaurant and only allow "desirable"
people in.  Or go to a different restaurant.  Or make reservations.
Or brown bag it.  But who are you to decide who should be allowed
in a restaurant (other than your own), and when?

I suppose you think that mothers and children should be locked
up at home until all the children are at least 5?

Gary Samuelson
ittvax!bunker!garys