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This is an underrated joke

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You say joke but

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This is the full question and response in case anyone is curious. It’s awesome.

Dear Care and Feeding,

My wife and I and our 4-year-old son were out to dinner last week. It was a medium-nice restaurant, not fast food, but not super fancy either. My son is a normal, active little boy, and it’s hard for him to sit through a whole dinner, so we let him explore the restaurant a little. I noticed our waitress giving him the hairy eyeball, so we asked him to stop running. He was pretty good about it after that, but he did get underfoot when she was carrying a tray, and she spoke to him pretty sharply to go back to our table and sit down. I felt it was completely uncalled for, and she should have come and spoken to us personally instead of disciplining someone else’s child.

I tipped 5 percent and spoke briefly to her manager, who gave noncommittal replies. My wife agrees with me, but when we posted about it on Facebook, we got a lot of judgy responses.

—It’s Hard for a 4-Year-Old to Sit Still

Dear Sit Still,

Yeah, this is your fault. It’s hugely your fault. Of course it’s hard for a 4-year-old to sit still, which is why people usually stick to fast-dining establishments while working on restaurant manners. It’s why one parent usually responds to a fidgety kid who wants to “explore” by taking him outside the restaurant, where he can get his wiggles out while not taking laps around servers precariously carrying trays of (often extremely hot) food and drink.

A kid “exploring” a restaurant is not a thing. When you did intervene, it wasn’t to get him back in his seat. It was just to instruct him to “stop running.” You weren’t parenting, so a server did it for you. She was right. You were wrong.

Your son is not ready to eat at a “medium-nice” restaurant again until he is capable of behaving a little better. You can practice at home. You can practice at McDonald’s. You can try a real restaurant again with the understanding that one of you may need to take him out when he starts getting the urge to run an obstacle course.

I doubt that you will do this, but I encourage you to return the restaurant, apologize to the manager for complaining about your server, and leave her a proper tip.

Mend your wicked ways.

lazy-cat-corner

And that’s the tea!

It’s not complicated.

Your wine glass is on your right

Use the fork farthest from you and work your way in

Watch your damn kids

And tip your fucking waiters! Periodt!!!

captain-snark

And I can only imagine their reaction if the server had come over and told them their kid needed to sit down. They’d probably call over the manager and complain about her anyway for being rude and trying to tell them how to parent their kid.

Restaurants also tend to have some small low traveled areas like the front lobby or by the restrooms that one of them could have taken the kid just to stretch his legs and get an environment change.

But, why didn’t they? Because they couldn’t be arsed. Why actually parent your child when you could get the waitstaff to babysit. Wouldn’t want to ruin your meal with that nonsense.

saltghosts

I don’t understand the people on the bus who, after being forced to sit next to a stranger because it’s crowded, don’t IMMEDIATELY get up and take an empty seat as soon as possible! Is it me?! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME STRANGER!

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