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Society's Stance on Crying Babies in Fancy Restaurants

 

Last night I was getting lots of studying done (torts, commercial paper, secured transactions) at the Peninsula hotel. And then this baby showed up. Accompanied by parents, of course.

The baby cried for an hour straight, and I wish I were exaggerating.

So…what’s society’s stance on taking crying babies into fancy restaurants? Are we cool with it? Do we sympathize with the parents who have enough to worry about without trying to hunt down a trustworthy babysitter on a weeknight…or do we want (deserve?) some peace and quiet when we’re paying to eat at a nice place? ($16 for lobster ravioli appetizer, which, I learned, contained four pieces of ravioli…COME on.)

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Submitted by ricklax on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 06:35.


Babies in restaurants are

Submitted by Steve Pirates (not verified) on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 17:16.

Babies in restaurants are fine. Screaming in restaurants is bad. Screaming babies in restaurants must therefor be determined using a balancing test.

Babies are cute, but aside from re-population are pretty useless.
Screaming really bugs the hell out of me and disrupts my "game".

Screaming babies cons outweigh their pros.
No screaming babies. If a baby starts screaming, one parent should attend to it. The most egalitarian way to decide is to flip a coin. If you don't have a coin, flip the baby. If it lands heads up, then someone takes care of it. If it lands heads down.... well, that's a whole new problem then, isn't it?

 Thanks, Counselor King

Submitted by ricklax on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 19:04.

 Thanks, Counselor King Solomon.


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