How would you react to a stranger shooshing your child at a restaurant?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like there is something wrong with the kid and/or the parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH usually asks if the kid is retarded. Works every time.

Well, isn't your "DH" a big guy. Insulting a child, boy, that is just so manly. And the insult, well, it's witty enough to be printed in The New Yorker. If he made a statement like that to me or my wife in front of my child, I would ask him to step outside to discuss the matter further. I'm funny that way, when an adult insults a child I like to give the adult an opportunity to pick on someone his own size. When I was a child I had to put up with a-holes like your husband who thought it was nothing to insult and hurt a child. I'm betting your husband is just like so many people I have met through out the years and he will decline my offer because he is nothing more than a punk ass coward who only insults people he thinks can't fight back. And don't bother writing back with, we'll just sue you for assault. First, your husband will not have the balls to step outside. Second, I'll give him the first punch so I'll be doing nothing more than defending myself. Third, and sweetheart I know of what I speak, when he tells the cop that the dispute started because he was verbally abusing a child, the cop will explain to him that he's probably better off taking the ass whipping he deserved than going to court to testify that the fight started as a result of him verbally abusing a child. Fourth, you can be sure that if we did end up in court that his employer, your neighbors, the parents at your kid's school, the people at your church, social services and just about anyone in your community will know why -- that your husband is a guy who admitted under sworn oath that he verbally abuses children. So next time he is in D.C., Chevy Chase or Bethesda he better think twice before he opens his mouth and insults a child because he maybe talking to my child.

Thanks. I just opened this post, and I could not believe that the poster said this, others laughed, and no one said anything.

[Anonymous]

Oh the crazies really came out for this one. Let's not invite them back

[Anonymous]

I can't believe old people shushing a three year old is worth 15 pages of posts.

The Ruths Chris/Mortons battle not included.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH usually asks if the kid is retarded. Works every time.

Well, isn't your "DH" a big guy. Insulting a child, boy, that is just so manly. And the insult, well, it's witty enough to be printed in The New Yorker. If he made a statement like that to me or my wife in front of my child, I would ask him to step outside to discuss the matter further. I'm funny that way, when an adult insults a child I like to give the adult an opportunity to pick on someone his own size. When I was a child I had to put up with a-holes like your husband who thought it was nothing to insult and hurt a child. I'm betting your husband is just like so many people I have met through out the years and he will decline my offer because he is nothing more than a punk ass coward who only insults people he thinks can't fight back. And don't bother writing back with, we'll just sue you for assault. First, your husband will not have the balls to step outside. Second, I'll give him the first punch so I'll be doing nothing more than defending myself. Third, and sweetheart I know of what I speak, when he tells the cop that the dispute started because he was verbally abusing a child, the cop will explain to him that he's probably better off taking the ass whipping he deserved than going to court to testify that the fight started as a result of him verbally abusing a child. Fourth, you can be sure that if we did end up in court that his employer, your neighbors, the parents at your kid's school, the people at your church, social services and just about anyone in your community will know why -- that your husband is a guy who admitted under sworn oath that he verbally abuses children. So next time he is in D.C., Chevy Chase or Bethesda he better think twice before he opens his mouth and insults a child because he maybe talking to my child.

I honestly wish there were more people like you. Please consider also spending some time in Arlington.

And for the other poster whose DH "asks if the kid is retarded"...my heart bleeds for your children to have to be raised by such a monster and by a weak (maybe terrified?)mother who will do nothing to protect them. I am genuinely so, so sorry for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like autism spectrum behavior to me . . . child gives an unhibited "HI" to people he doesn't know, then overreacts to auditory stimuli ("the loud SHHHHH).

Is this a joke? If not you need to identify yourself by name because an anonymous comment like this is THE MOST punk ass cowardly trash thing I've seen on here. Would you tell your parents and friends and kid's teachers and family that you said something like this? Didn't think so. You are beyond pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I was wondering something similar. If I took my 16 year old son with autism out to an IHOP, and he made a loud noise, would you tell him to shush?

If he said "hi" I'd probably say "hi" back. If he made a loud and strange noise, I'd probably just keep eating my pancakes.

And then you'd get on DCUM and bitch about what a hideous mother this woman is and that she chooses not to control her son who should know better so others have to do it for her. Come on, DCUM is THE JUNGLE. No one is safe and nothing is sacred. People's basest and meanest thoughts come out when hiding behind an anonymous message board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP must be very insecure if she has the need to solicit agreement from a bunch of cyberstrangers- on the DCUM!

Ok that would mean that ALL posters on DCUM - including YOU, my dear - are very insecure. Well done.

[Anonymous]

The question bugging me (perhaps addressed in the interim 14 pages-- not self-motivated enough to read them all)...What is an IHOP-style place that is not IHOP? I'm dying to know. I'd like to know where I can satisfy my pancake cravings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The question bugging me (perhaps addressed in the interim 14 pages-- not self-motivated enough to read them all)...What is an IHOP-style place that is not IHOP? I'm dying to know. I'd like to know where I can satisfy my pancake cravings.

she ultimately admitted it WAS IHOP. about 7 pages ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The question bugging me (perhaps addressed in the interim 14 pages-- not self-motivated enough to read them all)...What is an IHOP-style place that is not IHOP? I'm dying to know. I'd like to know where I can satisfy my pancake cravings.

she ultimately admitted it WAS IHOP. about 7 pages ago

Hahaha, PP you keep up! She could have gotten away with it if IHOP weren't such a unique establishment, with their silver-dollar short stacks and lumberjack breakfasts. Okay, now I'll stop promoting a posting that clearly needs to die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I was wondering something similar. If I took my 16 year old son with autism out to an IHOP, and he made a loud noise, would you tell him to shush?

If he said "hi" I'd probably say "hi" back. If he made a loud and strange noise, I'd probably just keep eating my pancakes.

And then you'd get on DCUM and bitch about what a hideous mother this woman is and that she chooses not to control her son who should know better so others have to do it for her. Come on, DCUM is THE JUNGLE. No one is safe and nothing is sacred. People's basest and meanest thoughts come out when hiding behind an anonymous message board.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Don't get me wrong, I've snarked with the best of them, but picking on children with autism or parents who can't "control" an autistic child (seriously? "control" over an autistic child? what the hell is wrong with you) is something I don't do in person or anonymously. If that's your speed, go for it - karma's a bitch.

[Anonymous]

All I wanted was to post for a potty recommendation and then I got sucked into this thread. Damn you DCUM!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH usually asks if the kid is retarded. Works every time.

Well, isn't your "DH" a big guy. Insulting a child, boy, that is just so manly. And the insult, well, it's witty enough to be printed in The New Yorker. If he made a statement like that to me or my wife in front of my child, I would ask him to step outside to discuss the matter further. I'm funny that way, when an adult insults a child I like to give the adult an opportunity to pick on someone his own size. When I was a child I had to put up with a-holes like your husband who thought it was nothing to insult and hurt a child. I'm betting your husband is just like so many people I have met through out the years and he will decline my offer because he is nothing more than a punk ass coward who only insults people he thinks can't fight back. And don't bother writing back with, we'll just sue you for assault. First, your husband will not have the balls to step outside. Second, I'll give him the first punch so I'll be doing nothing more than defending myself. Third, and sweetheart I know of what I speak, when he tells the cop that the dispute started because he was verbally abusing a child, the cop will explain to him that he's probably better off taking the ass whipping he deserved than going to court to testify that the fight started as a result of him verbally abusing a child. Fourth, you can be sure that if we did end up in court that his employer, your neighbors, the parents at your kid's school, the people at your church, social services and just about anyone in your community will know why -- that your husband is a guy who admitted under sworn oath that he verbally abuses children. So next time he is in D.C., Chevy Chase or Bethesda he better think twice before he opens his mouth and insults a child because he maybe talking to my child.

Thanks. I just opened this post, and I could not believe that the poster said this, others laughed, and no one said anything.

Yes, I agree. You can bet any adult insulting my child like that will get what's coming to them. On a tangential note, we have a lot of aggressive dogs in town whose owners let them run off leash and we are always seeing scared kids getting chased, jumped on, and nipped at. My husband and I agree that any dog that comes near our kid like that will get a mouthful of our arm, and that bite will lead to its early demise. Some things are just not acceptable, and some people have to learn the hard way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's play a little game here. Instead of your adorable 3 year old, instead let's imagine it's the creepy, crazy old man wearing his pants inside out who is being loud and happy, and then seeks to engage you in conversation. After singing "I'm a little tea cup", he leans over your table and waves and says a big "Hi!" Do you say hi back? Or are you a big grumpy grump? I am looking for a family friendly restaurant that will welcome my crazy uncle.

I'd say, hello. When homeless people say hello to me, I say hello back. I don't pretend they don't exist. Most of the time, they just want someone to acknowledge them. Perhaps your "crazy uncle" just needs a compassionate niece. Not an asshole.