My friend Sarah recently had a fantastic experience eating sushi in Manhattan. This echos my experience eating brunch at Bluebird cafe this morning. There was a huge group of parents and kids sitting at a huge table in the middle of the restaurant. There was one kid in particular who was sitting in his high chair with a radius of destruction all around him. He’d basically cast his food like a sumo with salt before a match. His nasty ass pacifier was on the ground for the 10th time. When his parents picked him up and left, there was a puddle of some sort in the high chair, which was promptly positioned up against the wall next to our table by the waitstaff. It was awesome.
#1 by the tipsyone on 11/13/2006 - 2:53 pm
unfortunately it doesn’t just happen in restaurants. I don’t know wtf people think these days, or perhaps it’s the area i live in, but you get these people who take their kids out in public and just f’n ignore them. we we’re in the square and these two ladies came in with at least 6 kids ranging in age from 2 to probably 10. i mean a brood, dude. anyway, there presence is overpowering due to the shear size of the group. trying to get to a table, who sits where, whatnot. and it’s cold outside and one of the little boogers has got the door wide open. so as these people are navigating a small, but busy restaurant, i have to watch the three or four year old desperately trying to go back out into the street. takes them about 15 mins. to get settled and sit down. all the kids are going crazy and the one is still trying to figure out how to open the door and the two bitches that brought them in are just smiling, having a conversation while the world falls apart around them. i’ve heard the argument that you have to have kids to realize what it’s like, but i’ve got two and i’m continually amazed with the absolute incompetence and lack of respect for other people that may be around. it’s worse in the neighborhood around the condo, too. the land of the bluetooth and volvo wagon or expedition xlt. ever seen a couple in a restaurant together having dinner together but having two different conversations on their respective bluetooth’s for the entire meal? occassionally acknowledging the fact that the other one’s there and gradually increasing volume to compensate for the other dinner partner? of course, i think they ought to f’n outlaw cellphones and the blueteeth anyway, but that’s for other reasons…
#2 by Chris on 11/13/2006 - 4:15 pm
I was at Kroger a while ago and was standing in the self checkout line. There was a sorority bitch standing in the line yakking on a cell phone. She didn’t notice that one of the self checkouts was free. So this girl who was behind her tapped her on the shoulder and pointed it out. She immediately started saying to whoever was on the other end of the line “yeah this bitch just totally tapped me on the shoulder trying to hurry me up. What a bitch!” at top volume. I had to restrain myself from snatching the phone out of her hand and overhanding it back to the frozen foods.
Somedays I feel like I’m in the movie “Falling Down”. it could go either way.
#3 by the tipsyone on 11/13/2006 - 4:32 pm
see, i probably couldn’t restrain myself at that point. what a whorebag. hang on. i’m texting you this from my cellphone and these assholes are honking at me because the light is green. wtf!!!