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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: air-horns in restaurants
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 09:37:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 09:37:26 1985
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> So how about a little sympathy for the folks who have chosen 
> to endure what our parents had to endure? Sure, it's a strain to eat next
> to a noisy child, but think of the poor parents: they get it all the time.
> Nobody should complain about children unless they were never one themselves.

     Why should I have sympathy for the poor parents?  If the kids have a
reason to scream (fresh wounds, sudden illness, etc.) the parents *should*
be doing something about it.  If the kids don't have a reason to scream,
and the parents allow them to do it in a public restaurant, I see no
reason to be sympathetic towards them.
    As far as 'endure what our parents had to endure' goes, I guess that
the author is saying that *his* parents were the kind that allowed him
to scream for no reason.  Please don't assume that *all* parents are that
irresponsible.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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    "Oh no.  It wasn't the airplanes.  'Twas beauty killed the beast."-King K.