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warrrreagl · 07-10-2006, 07:40 PM

I started a thread a long time ago about my continuing saga vs restaurants and restaurant patrons, but I can't find it anywhere. Maybe it was v.1 or v.2 and my mind is slipping. So here's the sequel.

Tonight, Grancey and I were eating at our favorite local Mexican place. The food isn't spectacular but it's consistent and VERY clean, which is a huge plus in our book. Normally, when the hostess asks "Smoking or non?" Grancey has to elbow me because she knows I'm about to say, "The non-toddler section, please." We just hate going out to dinner and having to sit next to babies and toddlers. We know they have to eat somewhere, but I'd just rather it be somewhere that we don't have to look at them or listen to them.

So tonight, Karma has sandwiched us amongst a pocket of toddler-full tables and we're surrounded. I'm trying to stare directly down at my plate the whole time I'm eating because I know if I look up I'll see some kid staring at me with a mixture of boogers and cheese hanging off his chin. I just can't look. All of a sudden, coming from the table next to me, I hear the father of two toddlers say to the waiter, "Yeah, just 30 seconds is all it takes. 30 seconds. Thanks."

I look up and I see the waiter headed off to the kitchen with a baby formula bottle in his hand!!! WTF??!! This guy's disease-ridden child's baby bottle is about to go into the microwave where my food is prepared? Sure enough, about a minute later the waiter reappears and hands the guy back his baby's bottle.

For those of you in the restaurant-know, is this common? Am I out of line to be put off by this? I am prohibited by Grancey from speaking out to the father or the restaurant in any fashion, but she said I could ask all of you about it.

What do you think?

07-10-2006, 07:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	Son of "Warrrreagl vs Restaurants" I started a thread a long time ago about my continuing saga vs restaurants and restaurant patrons, but I can't find it anywhere. Maybe it was v.1 or v.2 and my mind is slipping. So here's the sequel. Tonight, Grancey and I were eating at our favorite local Mexican place. The food isn't spectacular but it's consistent and VERY clean, which is a huge plus in our book. Normally, when the hostess asks "Smoking or non?" Grancey has to elbow me because she knows I'm about to say, "The non-toddler section, please." We just hate going out to dinner and having to sit next to babies and toddlers. We know they have to eat somewhere, but I'd just rather it be somewhere that we don't have to look at them or listen to them. So tonight, Karma has sandwiched us amongst a pocket of toddler-full tables and we're surrounded. I'm trying to stare directly down at my plate the whole time I'm eating because I know if I look up I'll see some kid staring at me with a mixture of boogers and cheese hanging off his chin. I just can't look. All of a sudden, coming from the table next to me, I hear the father of two toddlers say to the waiter, "Yeah, just 30 seconds is all it takes. 30 seconds. Thanks." I look up and I see the waiter headed off to the kitchen with a baby formula bottle in his hand!!! WTF??!! This guy's disease-ridden child's baby bottle is about to go into the microwave where my food is prepared? Sure enough, about a minute later the waiter reappears and hands the guy back his baby's bottle. For those of you in the restaurant-know, is this common? Am I out of line to be put off by this? I am prohibited by Grancey from speaking out to the father or the restaurant in any fashion, but she said I could ask all of you about it. What do you think? __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed. Last edited by warrrreagl; 07-10-2006 at 08:43 PM..