Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtuxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!smuga From: smuga@mtuxo.UUCP (j.smuga) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: air-horns in restaurants Message-ID: <703@mtuxo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-May-85 12:34:09 EDT Article-I.D.: mtuxo.703 Posted: Fri May 17 12:34:09 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 18-May-85 02:01:38 EDT References: <-55000@ihdev.UUCP> <43400004@hpfcms.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 13 > I have been in expensive restaurants where parents ignore > their child as it screams, runs around the place, and even looks over my > shoulder as I eat. I think this is wrong. > > Yes, parents endure this all the time. I feel sorry for them (that's why > my wife and I don't have any children yet), > > Bill Gates I, too, feel sorry for parents who put up with bad behavior all the time. But don't get the idea that *all* parents suffer so. There is such a thing as a quiet, well-behaved child. They just aren't so noticeable as the loud ones.