Stop bringing your toddler to the movie theater. (1 Viewer)

[El Floppo]

Their pancakes are huge, bigger than the plate. A two year old couldnt eat a quarter of one.

if the parents were willing to pay for them who gives a ####

exactly. service industry provides a service- how many pancakes the people ask for is irrelevant.

cook the pancakes and then ask the parents to take the kid outside until it stops screaming (shouldn't have to ask that, but some parents are idiots).

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

This restaurant owner in Maine agreeshttp://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/people-are-congratulating-this-diner-owner-after-she-screame?bffbtrending&utm_term=4ldqphx#.jdkoavQnba

Good for her.

sorry. The kid was probably annoying but hey response on facebook from someone running a customer focused business proves who the lunatic is.

Just because she's a lunatic doesn't mean she's wrong.

 

[Spin]

Had my my first screaming kid on a plane experience. Kid was about 2. Man that sucked. Thank god my son is well behaved in public and only had his moments in the privacy of our home.

Taking my kids and my nephew to Dallas in a few weeks. Nervous about how they're gonna do on the flight. Hope we don't end up with them screaming the whole way. It's a relatively short trip, ~1.5 hours, but with a 3 year old, 2 year old and 8 month old, it could end up sucking for everyone around us. We booked the latest flight possible, hoping they'll just sleep.

 

[General Tso]

Pancake lady seems to have a way with getting kids to shut up. She should parlay it into an iPhone app or something.

 

[Scoresman]

Diner owner could've been more graceful in her approach and in her FB post, but the kid was a disruption to the entire place and other customers and ultimately she was right. Most sane/capable parents I know would've taken the kid outside to occupy them. They were either oblivious or they're the kind of parents who are pretty much terrible at parenting and let their unique little snowflakes do whatever they want. Glad they got served some humble pie (in pancake form).

The real travesty is that there's no gif of the diner owner screaming at the kid to post in the "kids getting owned" thread.

 

[PIK95]

This restaurant owner in Maine agreeshttp://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/people-are-congratulating-this-diner-owner-after-she-screame?bffbtrending&utm_term=4ldqphx#.jdkoavQnba

Good for her.

sorry. The kid was probably annoying but hey response on facebook from someone running a customer focused business proves who the lunatic is.

Just because she's a lunatic doesn't mean she's wrong.

This. When my kids were little we didn't go to any restaurants or diners besides chains. And we wouldn't even go into the chains in the evening so not to disturb the working folks or date nights. If my kid cried for thirty seconds I went outside with them. People suxor these days.

 

[belljr]

Had my my first screaming kid on a plane experience. Kid was about 2. Man that sucked. Thank god my son is well behaved in public and only had his moments in the privacy of our home.

My daughter was 18 months to 2. And I had the worst experience of my life. We were delayed and she just was not doing well. I tried everything in my power to shut her up. After 30 minutes of walking, rocking bouncing she finally fell asleep.

God it sucked

 

[Scoresman]

Some friends of ours used to bring a little bag of goodies for the people on the plane sitting around them (including ear plugs) with a note saying something like "Hi, my name is _______ and this is my first long flight. I apologize in advance if I get a little upset and start to cry. I hope you can understand." It went over pretty well and it turns out the kid didnt make a peep.

 

[RUSF18]

Some friends of ours used to bring a little bag of goodies for the people on the plane sitting around them (including ear plugs) with a note saying something like "Hi, my name is _______ and this is my first long flight. I apologize in advance if I get a little upset and start to cry. I hope you can understand." It went over pretty well and it turns out the kid didnt make a peep.

Nicely done. I don't even care if a kid screams from start to finish as long as I see effort by the parents to make the situation better.

 

[cstu]

Mother's side of the story.

 

[FattyVM]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

 

[shadyridr]

Mother's side of the story.

oof so she admits she had no problem inconveniencing everyone else instead of herself by going outside in the rain. They didnt have a car? Both people are morons as is usually the case in this situation. Bad parenting and bad customer relations.

 

[SWC]

I am the <1% in this country, but I don't get movies at the theater. I mean, it's at least a $30- outing, dealing with obnoxious people and rat like children, sitting indoors for 2 hours hoping to be entertained, while you can wait what, 2 months, until the film is on demand or streaming crap?

Totally agree. I haven't been to a movie theater in years and may never go again. Once I sat in front of a woman who ate a hot dog and washed it down with a diet soda. For the next two hours, her putrid silent belches wafted over my air space. Disgusting. Like watching a film in a port-a-let.

the last time we went to a movie the lady behind us and her kids brought in an entire pizza i do not even know how that is psosible but they sat there and ate a pizza with the top of the box filliping up on our seat back over the edge i mean come on brohans that was just uncool take that to the bank

 

[cstu]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

 

[Rayderr]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

at home.

 

[Scoresman]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

You can eat at a diner with your kid just fine, but when your kid has a meltdown, do what good parents would do and take your kid outside.

 

[VA703]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

You can eat at a diner with your kid just fine, but when your kid has a meltdown, do what good parents would do and take your kid outside.

not true

a 'good' parent will show other kids how to behave by spanking the child pants down on the diner table

 

[cstu]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

You can eat at a diner with your kid just fine, but when your kid has a meltdown, do what good parents would do and take your kid outside.

not true

a 'good' parent will show other kids how to behave by spanking the child pants down on the diner table

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

at home.

They were on vacation.

 

[fred_1_15301]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

It's fine to eat at a diner with a toddler. It's not ok to stay at the diner as your toddler is screaming his head off for 40 minutes.

 

[cstu]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

It's fine to eat at a diner with a toddler. It's not ok to stay at the diner as your toddler is screaming his head off for 40 minutes.

Of course not, but I'm not convinced that's what happened here. Darla seemed like an uptight #### so I don't trust her judgement. Surprised the other diners haven't commented online (maybe they have, haven't looked).

 

[fred_1_15301]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

It's fine to eat at a diner with a toddler. It's not ok to stay at the diner as your toddler is screaming his head off for 40 minutes.

Of course not, but I'm not convinced that's what happened here. Darla seemed like an uptight #### so I don't trust her judgement. Surprised the other diners haven't commented online (maybe they have, haven't looked).

Yeah I'm actually surprised there isn't a video of the exchange. I agree that we don't have the full details of what happened. Probably somewhere in between how the owner and the patron are painting it. I'm in the minority here but I think the owner comes off looking much worse here.

 

[SWC]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

You can eat at a diner with your kid just fine, but when your kid has a meltdown, do what good parents would do and take your kid outside.

not true

a 'good' parent will show other kids how to behave by spanking the child pants down on the diner table

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

at home.

They were on vacation.

then they should not eat at all america is fat enough take that to the bank

 

[Scoresman]

The mother admitted in her interview that her kid was crying. All of the good parents I know have this automatic reflex to take their child and distract them/go outside/whatever whenever they sense a meltdown approaching. The mother in question here was apparently blinded by her overwhelming desire for pancakes to care about finding ways to soothe her child. If you just let your kid cry in a public place without doing anything, you're the worst.

 

[Rayderr]

Everyone should have exercised better judgment, but it starts with the parents.

If you can't eat at a ####ing diner with a kid where can you eat?

at home.

They were on vacation.

Eat in the car, eat at the hotel room, or take the kid out when he/sh starts having a meltdown.

My wife and I made a trip back to DC for Xmas when out daughter was just 8 months old. We stopped off at a McDonald's in WV for a quick bite to eat. We went inside and started eating. For some reason, our daughter started wailing. We tried feeding, her, rocking her, etc. But after a couple minutes it became clear she wasn't going to stop. Not wanting to disrupt the meals of other patrons, I took her outside while my wife finished eating. Daughter still kept crying. When my wife finished, she came out and took our daughter and I went back in and finished my dinner. Then cleaned up, we all got in the car and drove off (my daughter cried for about another 30 minutes before she finally fell asleep.)

Now, keep in mind, all of that was at a freaking McDonald's in Bum#### West Virginia. A restaurant that encourages parents to bring their kids so they can run around screaming their heads off at the playground in a rural part of a state whose state motto is "Hey, at least we ain't Mississippi."

SO why couldn't the parents do the same thing?

 

[Kanil]

Gonna need to see a pic of the mom before I decide who was more wrong. Diner owner is definitely not right though (already saw her pic).