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Boyfriend and I take his daughter out to eat at least once a week. Her favorite place is a regional chicken wing chain. It's a great family place, we always get great service, and their wings are awesome. We were seated in a busier section last night and didn't notice anything amiss at first. I got up to go to the bathrooms which are down a hall way and quiet a ways from our section, definatley way out of view. When I step outside the bathroom door there is an adorable 12-18 month old little girl staring at me and no adults insight. She tried to go in the bathroom but I stopped her as it was empty. Then she reached up for me to pick her up which I did not do. At the same time our waitress came around the corner. I asked her if she knew where the girls parents might be and she said yes they were seated two tables away from Boyfriend and I. 
I looked at her startled and she said the kid and her two brothers were roaming about the restaurant. I shook my head and walked away from the little one who took off in another direction away from where her parents and I were sitting.
So that was rather jarring but it gets worse. The older brothers were 3 and 5 at the oldest. They were running back and forth between the arcade games and their table screaming and demanding money to play the games. Then their food comes and they charge the table and make an absolute mess of everything. They were standing on their chairs yelling dumping their wings on the table and painting with their fries in ketchup and bbq sauce. The parents are both ignoring them. At one point mom says if they didn't sit down they MAY not get a bedtime snack. They don't sit down, and she says she might not give them any money to play anymore games.
Boyfriend and I roll our eyes. Boyfriend asks his daughter who is 5 and has been watching this circus what she thinks of it. She says "I think you'd spank my butt and put me to bed if I was bad like that" being 5 she was loud
Our waitress heard her and winked at her. Within ten minutes the boys say there done eating and the baby starts shrieking which apparently indicates she's done. They then race back to the arcade games and start fighting while the toddler begins touring the restaurant again. Mom of course gives them money to play games and they continue howling. At this point our waitress comes over and Boyfriend asks if they were in her section she sighs and says No thankfully and then tells us that the book mom and dad seem engrossed in and are ignoring their children to deal with is a cross word puzzle. Yep a cross word puzzle was important enough to inconvience the rest of us. This was a nicer dressed couple too. They appeared to be in their late 30's early 40's upper-middle class and completely incapable or interested in handling their children.
Parents like these make me fear for the future.
-Bitsy
I looked at her startled and she said the kid and her two brothers were roaming about the restaurant. I shook my head and walked away from the little one who took off in another direction away from where her parents and I were sitting. So that was rather jarring but it gets worse. The older brothers were 3 and 5 at the oldest. They were running back and forth between the arcade games and their table screaming and demanding money to play the games. Then their food comes and they charge the table and make an absolute mess of everything. They were standing on their chairs yelling dumping their wings on the table and painting with their fries in ketchup and bbq sauce. The parents are both ignoring them. At one point mom says if they didn't sit down they MAY not get a bedtime snack. They don't sit down, and she says she might not give them any money to play anymore games.
Boyfriend and I roll our eyes. Boyfriend asks his daughter who is 5 and has been watching this circus what she thinks of it. She says "I think you'd spank my butt and put me to bed if I was bad like that" being 5 she was loud
Our waitress heard her and winked at her. Within ten minutes the boys say there done eating and the baby starts shrieking which apparently indicates she's done. They then race back to the arcade games and start fighting while the toddler begins touring the restaurant again. Mom of course gives them money to play games and they continue howling. At this point our waitress comes over and Boyfriend asks if they were in her section she sighs and says No thankfully and then tells us that the book mom and dad seem engrossed in and are ignoring their children to deal with is a cross word puzzle. Yep a cross word puzzle was important enough to inconvience the rest of us. This was a nicer dressed couple too. They appeared to be in their late 30's early 40's upper-middle class and completely incapable or interested in handling their children.Parents like these make me fear for the future.
-Bitsy
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