Diners Deliver Scolding Note to Mom and Screaming Toddler

[liberalhistorian]

17. Bingo! They were nasty and cowardly

and just what did they expect the mother to do? Trust me, she already KNOWS that her baby is making noise. I've raised a child, and I've sat near or around screaming kids. Annoying as hell, I agree, but I understand what parents are dealing with and families also have a right to leave their homes and enjoy a night out. They may not get to do that a lot.

Now, if this had been a tony, upscale, fancy hoighty-toity place where wine is a million dollars a glass and they charge forty dollars for a dinner consisting of two tiny scallops on a plate and everything else is ala carte, then the women would have had a point because that's not the place to take young children or boisterous families and that would, indeed, ruin what people would expect to be quiet, intimate dinners. But this was Texas Roadhouse, for Christ's sake, where noise and boisterous families are a part of the decor and to be expected. If you don't want to be bothered by noise when you're out and about, then stay at home.