Does it annoy you when someone's kids are acitng up when you at a restaurant?

Question

or do you just ignore it?

Answer 1

Yes it does annoy me I am a waitress and it is very annoying when kids run around.

Answer 2

yep...but i can't do anything about it so i ignore them...thank goodness i don't have to hang aroung those people :)

Answer 3

Nope... I actually enjoy it... today there was this kid at the table next to us... n he was saying more meat over n over n over... I turned purple... that's how much I laughed :D

I also hate it when ppl leave their kids at home so they would have a "romantic" night...

ALSO... I hate the types of parents who tell their kids don't do this n don't do that...

A kid is a kid... they should do whatever they want... that's what my dad used to tell me... otherwise they'll grow up to have problems...

Answer 4

It sure is annoying but often parents either don't hear them or chose not to and  don't care  when  their kids ruin other patron's meals.  It isn'treally the kid's fault blame the parents.  You might ask the host or hostess to move you to a quieter area.

Answer 5

it depends how irritating the child is being, but i zone it out usually. what i enjoy is when the parent goes off on their kids. lol not physically, but when they start yelling and threatening their kid, i think its kinda funny.

Answer 6

As a customer I have learned to ignore it. As a waitress it used to down right scare me at times. A restaurant is a fast busy place with waiters racing around, often carrying plates of hot food or hot drinks or just heavily laden trays. It  made my job even harder having to keep one eye on kids who just couldn't  sit still. I once saw a kid  get drenched in soft drink  because  he was running around without watching where he was going and slammed into a waitress who was carrying a tray  with about 8 glasses of coke on it!

Answer 7

If the same people do it 3 or more times, it's time to tell the management that you will have to discontinue eating there because of the constant disturbance. This will encourage the manager to police the dining rooms. A restaurant is not a circus. It's a place for people to eat food in peace and quiet. Part of the price of admission, when you eat at a restaurant, is a comfortable atmosphere with no rude people.

Answer 8

it only annoys me if it keeps going on and on and on.

Answer 9

I try to ignore it.  This used to really bother me until I had kids of my own.  Now I understand what those poor parents go through.

Answer 10

Parents - - when you are in a restaurant PLEASE make your children stay in their seats.  It is a safety issue.  As a server, you have no idea how many times I have almost dropped HOT HEAVY plates on some kids head cause they tear around a table and run into me.  

And of course MY RESTAURANT would get sued because someone else couldn't be bothered to parent their own children and make them behave.  It isn't a jungle gym people, its a dining establishment.

Please please make your kids sit down and behave.  They could seriously get hurt or burnt.  No one wants that.

oh, and.... it gets on EVERY ONES nerves dining around you if your little brat is running around like you own the place.

Answer 11

Sometimes it does.  I used to say (especially before I had kids of my own) that there should be a kids and no kids section in restaurants (like smoking and no smoking).  

There are obviously different types of restaurants, with different noise levels, and different degrees of formality--some are clearly more appropriate for families with children than others.  When my son was little, I learned quickly which ones had quick enough service and children's menus and things to keep him entertained (aquarium, jukebox, etc.).  

Even so, there were a couple of times we had to leave before we had planned because he was getting fussy or loud and I didn't want to bother others.  

Many kids just aren't disciplined these days--the parents may be young, or inexperience, or just lazy, or determined not to spank their kids, but they just let them do whatever they please.  So I don't blame the kids for acting up, but I do get annoyed if it doesn't look like the parents are even trying to get a handle on it.

I try to ignore it, because as a mother I know that kids can be loud and embarrassing at times, but if it were really close to me and I felt like I could be of help in some way, I might offer to hold a baby or help wipe up a spill or something so they could regain control of the situation.  I can only think of doing that a time or two and that was with people at the table with me that I already knew.

I do know one thing----never say "If/when I have children, they will NEVER act like that."  It's like a curse or something, and whatever you say they won't do, rest assured, they will!

Answer 12

I really do ignore it because I know when I leave I will luckily never see or hear them again.

Answer 13

Kids will be kids, remember what comes around goes around, and It isn't nice to judge someone, or their kids.

Answer 14

I'd love to answer this but I'd also like to know if you are one of the annoyed people or the parent embarrasses by the child's behavior. I am gonna answer the same either way but just wanna know. :)

Answer 15

It only annoys me if the parents make no effort to stop it.  Just a couple weeks ago I was in a restaurant and these stupid parents thought it was a good idea to bring in toy guns for their kids.  The guns made loud noises non stop and the parents made no effort to stop the kids.  

My daughter isn't old enough to be a problem yet but I can tell you I will raise her the same way my mother and father raised me.  There is NO WAY I would of acted up like above in a restaurant (or any place else) because I knew there was consequences.

Answer 16

no there kids and you were a kid once too they are just really bored and arelokking 4 something 2 do