How to deal with this/the lost art of "sitting nicely"

gettingtheresometime

Why didn't the landlord deal with this?

Person_one

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Why didn't the landlord deal with this?

Yeah, where was Norman in all this?

SupergaryMonk

BarryBlue wrote: »

Oh, how I agree with this. People are welcome to bring their kids to the pub to sit in the garden or family area, particularly if they are eating. But I believe every pub should have a no-kids area. Pubs are primarily for drinking and that is not an activity for children.

Even when children do accompany their parents to a pub, they should be able to conduct themselves in a civilised manner and be able to sit at the table and keep themselves occupied. It is NOT acceptable for the little sods to run around the place annoying other diners/drinkers and screaming or crying all the time. It is up to the parents to keep them in check and up to the landlord to tell unruly ones to leave.

Wetherspoons have a sensible child policy regarding behaviour and a cut-off time for their presence. Shame they are not always keen to enforce it.

well said!

And Norman was down the Cash & Carry, but its his mothers Pasta bake tomorrow, so he needed to get supplies, I do adore his mothers Pasta bake

amistupid

There's no such thing as badly behaved kids any more, they've either got ADHD or consumed too many food additives.

gettingtheresometime

Well Norman had better have a word with who was ever in charge....I mean I'm sure the parents spent a fair bit of money yesterday bit they sound like fair weather customers....its the regulars he needs to look after isn't it?

scooby088

I would probably give the child a sip of my beer that'll calm them very quickly

SupergaryMonk

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Well Norman had better have a word with who was ever in charge....I mean I'm sure the parents spent a fair bit of money yesterday bit they sound like fair weather customers....its the regulars he needs to look after isn't it?

yes, but unfortunately his wife ( who was in charge) is more concerned about her bunions/gaut/insomnia, all of which I heard no end of

summerspring

My personal bugbear is the mums who let their young child run up and down the bus while it's moving, annoy all the other passengers, and sit unsupervised at the back of the bus while mum busies herself with the pushchair at the front.

One of these days the bus driver will hit the brakes hard and the little darling's going to go flying. This, however, doesn't seem to have entered the mothers head.

SupergaryMonk

summerspring wrote: »

My personal bugbear is the mums who let their young child run up and down the bus while it's moving, annoy all the other passengers, and sit unsupervised at the back of the bus while mum busies herself with the pushchair at the front.

One of these days the bus driver will hit the brakes hard and the little darling's going to go flying. This, however, doesn't seem to have entered the mothers head.

People simply do not seem to care any more, they just let them run wild

bluenoseam

I'd have phoned the licensing board, went outside & asked who's snot nosed little s**t this was & issuing a warning of my standard baby sitting rates which would immediately apply if they failed to supervise their offspring.