Would You Be Upset if We Take Our Three Year Old With Us to Dinner Tonight for New Years Eve?

[Anonymous]

Annual Bump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A 3yo at a restaurant at 10pm -- you are out of your mind. Lots of people take their kids out tonight but at a kid-appropriate hour and to kid-appropriate restaurants. That does not include a steakhouse at 10pm. If you want to keep your child up till midnight that's your business, but don't make it everyone else's too. I wouldn't be surprised if the restaurant takes one look at your toddler and tells you they lost your reservation. You've responded to the other PPs saying this is your tradition and your family sitter fell through - well, time to get a new tradition.

This is OP. You are VERY insensitive. My child is actually pretty well behaved when we go out to restaurants, which is frequently. To say that the restaurant would turn us away once they saw our child is beyond cruel. i was looking more for tips on how to handle the situation because it is what it is - meaning, we have no choice at this point but to bring her. Anyhow,I hope your new years resolution for 2013 is to get a new personality.

Do you mean 2015?

[Anonymous]

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A 3yo at a restaurant at 10pm -- you are out of your mind. Lots of people take their kids out tonight but at a kid-appropriate hour and to kid-appropriate restaurants. That does not include a steakhouse at 10pm. If you want to keep your child up till midnight that's your business, but don't make it everyone else's too. I wouldn't be surprised if the restaurant takes one look at your toddler and tells you they lost your reservation. You've responded to the other PPs saying this is your tradition and your family sitter fell through - well, time to get a new tradition.

This is OP. You are VERY insensitive. My child is actually pretty well behaved when we go out to restaurants, which is frequently. To say that the restaurant would turn us away once they saw our child is beyond cruel. i was looking more for tips on how to handle the situation because it is what it is - meaning, we have no choice at this point but to bring her. Anyhow,I hope your new years resolution for 2013 is to get a new personality.

Do you mean 2015?

The original post was in 2012 for new year's 2013. You are responding after someone gave it an annual bump to remind us of a DCUM classic.

[Anonymous]

OMG.. I saw this listed again as a recent thread and thought Good God - there are 2 of these people out there??? Whew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
A 3yo at a restaurant at 10pm -- you are out of your mind. Lots of people take their kids out tonight but at a kid-appropriate hour and to kid-appropriate restaurants. That does not include a steakhouse at 10pm. If you want to keep your child up till midnight that's your business, but don't make it everyone else's too. I wouldn't be surprised if the restaurant takes one look at your toddler and tells you they lost your reservation. You've responded to the other PPs saying this is your tradition and your family sitter fell through - well, time to get a new tradition.


This is OP. You are VERY insensitive. My child is actually pretty well behaved when we go out to restaurants, which is frequently. To say that the restaurant would turn us away once they saw our child is beyond cruel. i was looking more for tips on how to handle the situation because it is what it is - meaning, we have no choice at this point but to bring her. Anyhow,I hope your new years resolution for 2013 is to get a new personality.


Do you mean 2015?


The original post was in 2012 for new year's 2013. You are responding after someone gave it an annual bump to remind us of a DCUM classic.

You must be the OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
A 3yo at a restaurant at 10pm -- you are out of your mind. Lots of people take their kids out tonight but at a kid-appropriate hour and to kid-appropriate restaurants. That does not include a steakhouse at 10pm. If you want to keep your child up till midnight that's your business, but don't make it everyone else's too. I wouldn't be surprised if the restaurant takes one look at your toddler and tells you they lost your reservation. You've responded to the other PPs saying this is your tradition and your family sitter fell through - well, time to get a new tradition.


This is OP. You are VERY insensitive. My child is actually pretty well behaved when we go out to restaurants, which is frequently. To say that the restaurant would turn us away once they saw our child is beyond cruel. i was looking more for tips on how to handle the situation because it is what it is - meaning, we have no choice at this point but to bring her. Anyhow,I hope your new years resolution for 2013 is to get a new personality.


Do you mean 2015?


The original post was in 2012 for new year's 2013. You are responding after someone gave it an annual bump to remind us of a DCUM classic.

You must be the OP.

Nope. Just someone who thinks that the original thread was one of the funniest I've read on DCUM. But it's past history. If you want to keep the joke going, there's a new thread for 2014/2015 going on. Go ahead and join the merriment over there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd raise an eyebrow about having a 3 year old out that late but would stop caring pretty much immediately.

This.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't care, as long as one of you leaves with the child at the first sign of any behavior that would disturb other diners.

Talking above a conversational volume, singing, whining, crying, banging silverware, noise from any electronics used to distract the child, etc.

If your child can behave as expected for a location I see no reason why he shouldn't be there, but I also don't think it's reasonable to expect your 3yo to act like a mini-adult for however long your dinner takes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd raise an eyebrow about having a 3 year old out that late but would stop caring pretty much immediately.

This.

yup. you do you.

[Anonymous]

I love that people are responding to this like it's a new post. Like the PP, I initially thought it must be a spoof of the original. But the original is too perfect to imitate.

The only surprising thing to me is how relatively short the thread stayed - only 19 pages! I think there are more DCUM addicts these days; a good post on a tiff at the playground can get 19 pages of responses....

[Anonymous]

You sound selfish.

and pretty dumb, too

[Anonymous]

The three yo is now about 6.

[Anonymous]

I remember this thread from what I thought was last year. 2012? Seriously?

[Anonymous]

This was an awesome and hilarious thread. Did anyone ever see that mom???