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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re:  Mothers in restaurants
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 13:43:02 EST
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The problem, Melanie, is that those children get hungry. It may be that
the mothers could have taken their kids to eat at 2:30, but if they are
hungry at 11 it seems rather cruel to make them wait 2 and a half hours
for lunch.

Do you see the *same* women every day for lunch? If so, then it may be that
they schedule lunch at your lunch time for no reason other than they like
it -- but then, mom may have to drop one of them off at pre-school or
take onother to violin class or something. If you see different women
with different kids every day for lunch then I would assume that they are
all out shopping.

I have gone shopping with my neices and nephews. It is about the most
gruelling thing I have ever done. You cannot shop quickly, because kids
don't walk fast and because they are interested in everything and you
have to let them watch whatever it is and then answer a dozen questions
about it. When they get bored, they get cranky and make a fuss. When they
are tired they get cranky and make a fuss. When they are hungry they get
cranky and make a fuss.

However, kids can be bribed. Telling them to behave well, and *then*
we can go to *a restaurant* for lunch -- this works. However, unless
you want to cheat you then have to pay up and take them to a restaurant
for lunch. And kids know when it is lunch time -- and like you, they
don't think 2:30 is a reasonable lunch time. I don't blame them -- I
*like* eating lunch at 2:30 and think that 11:30 is altogether too
early to eat lunch -- so they must feel the same way.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura