Rant Thread

[Axial Rose]

Honestly . . . without exaggeration . . . I'm not a hyper sensitive, easily angered SOB . . . however . . . when I'm pulling up to the car in front of me and another car wants to wedge in but I don't want to slam on my brakes
but my wife is over there WAVING HIM IN . . . oh holy s*it . . . that turns me into Mister Screaming A**hole are you f*c*ing kidding me!

Who thinks I should put her hands in the back of the seat and use hand cuffs?

Me, that's who!

[Frank211]

My rant......
Space X launched yesterday a rocket, going into space,(was a beautiful sight i might add) apparently, SOME didn't know what it was, SOME thought we were being attacked by North Korea,Russia, some thought it was ALIENS....,me ,i just don't understand how some think we're being attacked ? Rocket is going up not coming down. Well thats just how i look at it..... Its a trip the way some think and feel. Rant over.

[Duuuuuuuude]

It seems that it would have been wise to notify the locals via various media sources to the event beforehand.

[hpiguy]

Originally Posted by Duuuuuuuude

It seems that it would have been wise to notify the locals via various media sources to the event beforehand.

If only we had the technology to spread news to the masses on various devices.

[JatoTheRipper]

How many of your are annoyed to no end by brats are restaurants?

I understand kids can be moody, irritable little bastards that have little to no patience for sitting around waiting for food. But be the parent in their lives and they'll better listen to you at restaurants. And if they scream or cry be respectful and take the brats outside! I'm sorry if that interrupted your Facebook time on your phone, but you chose to be a parent not me.

Oh and if you allow your kid to watch videos on a phone or tablet with the volume above talking level anywhere in public you are an asshole and I wish for a life of misery for you.

When I go out to eat I want to eat in peace and enjoy my experience.

[2mtech]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

How many of your are annoyed to no end by brats are restaurants?

I understand kids can be moody, irritable little bastards that have little to no patience for sitting around waiting for food. But be the parent in their lives and they'll better listen to you at restaurants. And if they scream or cry be respectful and take the brats outside! I'm sorry if that interrupted your Facebook time on your phone, but you chose to be a parent not me.

Oh and if you allow your kid to watch videos on a phone or tablet with the volume above talking level anywhere in public you are an asshole and I wish for a life of misery for you.

When I go out to eat I want to eat in peace and enjoy my experience.

Couldn't agree more. When my kids were little (meaning too young to be effectively controlled emotionally), they didn't get taken to sit-down-and-order restaurants. Would infuriate me when I could finally get a babysitter for an evening to go to a nice place and there would be some misbehaved, screaming brat two tables over with a parent seemingly oblivious to the disturbance created by their undisciplined offspring. When they were old enough to be taken out, it was a teachable moment in public behavior and they were effectively emotionally controlled.

I've had some embarrassed SO's when I'd ask people to have a little respect and deal with their brats. So be it.

Now, I seek them out when being escorted to a table and will decline seating in their vicinity. Pretty easy to tell the troublemakers on first sight. Likewise if they get seated near me I'll ask to be relocated. Present SO is more attuned and will usually catch it before I do (as she's in front of me) and move the host/hostess along.

Worst possible is adjacent booths with some idiot jumping around (juvenile or not) immediately behind me. Then I get nasty and don't apologize for it.

[Greatscott]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

How many of your are annoyed to no end by brats are restaurants?

I understand kids can be moody, irritable little bastards that have little to no patience for sitting around waiting for food. But be the parent in their lives and they'll better listen to you at restaurants. And if they scream or cry be respectful and take the brats outside! I'm sorry if that interrupted your Facebook time on your phone, but you chose to be a parent not me.

Oh and if you allow your kid to watch videos on a phone or tablet with the volume above talking level anywhere in public you are an asshole and I wish for a life of misery for you.

When I go out to eat I want to eat in peace and enjoy my experience.

Yup. I lost my sh*t one day when I got stabbed in the back of the head by a 3y/o with a fork. My head was bleeding and the dad kept telling me to calm down because I was scaring his kid. When they noticed the blood they just dropped money on the table and left.

And, I will never understand why some parents think it is ok to let the kid walk on the seats and the table, or to just ignore the kid completely and let them both other people while they are eating. Of course, there are venues that you must be tolerant of kids, like Red Robin, but when you are in a bar of a Mexican restaurant, you should not have to deal with kids at all...

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Greatscott

Yup. I lost my sh*t one day when I got stabbed in the back of the head by a 3y/o with a fork. My head was bleeding and the dad kept telling me to calm down because I was scaring his kid. When they noticed the blood they just dropped money on the table and left.

And, I will never understand why some parents think it is ok to let the kid walk on the seats and the table, or to just ignore the kid completely and let them both other people while they are eating. Of course, there are venues that you must be tolerant of kids, like Red Robin, but when you are in a bar of a Mexican restaurant, you should not have to deal with kids at all...

I bet if you stabbed the dad in the head with the fork he wouldn't have been so accepting. What an asshole. Assholes like that raise even bigger assholes.

[Duuuuuuuude]

God forbid you scare the kid that just stabbed you...lol.

[hpiguy]

When I was little I knew two things well; don't lie about cleaning your room by hiding it all under the bed and in the closet, and be on your best behavior in public. Holy shit, stabbed is on a whole other level. The Dad telling you to calm down is just mind bottling.

[Topher Builds]

And yeah, on the kid note, I was walking my dog around the park, always keep him on a short leash around people or other dogs in case he needs to be corrected, and this little 6 year old boy walking by us jumps towards Paxton and starts barking at him. Real smooth kid.

Luckily Paxton didn’t have a face sandwich for dinner that day but the mom was quiet when it happened so I stopped, took my headphones out and looked the kid in the eye and told him, calmly, that he should never bark at dogs. It’s a bad idea.

[CM9000]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

How many of your are annoyed to no end by bratty little kids in restaurants?

I understand kids can be moody, irritable little bastards that have little to no patience for sitting around waiting for food. But be the parent in their lives and they'll better listen to you at restaurants. And if they scream or cry be respectful and take the brats outside! I'm sorry if that interrupted your Facebook time on your phone, but you chose to be a parent not me.

Oh and if you allow your kid to watch videos on a phone or tablet with the volume above talking level anywhere in public you are an asshole and I wish for a life of misery for you.

When I go out to eat I want to eat in peace and enjoy my experience.

I understand your frustration against the the parents with spoiled kids. but guess what, free country.

Originally Posted by 2mtech

Couldn't agree more. When my kids were little (meaning too young to be effectively controlled emotionally), they didn't get taken to sit-down-and-order restaurants. Would infuriate me when I could finally get a babysitter for an evening to go to a nice place and there would be some misbehaved, screaming brat two tables over with a parent seemingly oblivious to the disturbance created by their undisciplined offspring. When they were old enough to be taken out, it was a teachable moment in public behavior and they were effectively emotionally controlled.

I've had some embarrassed SO's when I'd ask people to have a little respect and deal with their brats. So be it.

Now, I seek them out when being escorted to a table and will decline seating in their vicinity. Pretty easy to tell the troublemakers on first sight. Likewise if they get seated near me I'll ask to be relocated. Present SO is more attuned and will usually catch it before I do (as she's in front of me) and move the host/hostess along.

Worst possible is adjacent booths with some idiot jumping around (juvenile or not) immediately behind me. Then I get nasty and don't apologize for it.

get nasty with my kids, you might find yourself in the parking lot under my truck.

Originally Posted by Greatscott

Yup. I lost my sh*t one day when I got stabbed in the back of the head by a 3y/o with a fork. My head was bleeding and the dad kept telling me to calm down because I was scaring his kid. When they noticed the blood they just dropped money on the table and left.

And, I will never understand why some parents think it is ok to let the kid walk on the seats and the table, or to just ignore the kid completely and let them both other people while they are eating. Of course, there are venues that you must be tolerant of kids, like Red Robin, but when you are in a bar of a Mexican restaurant, you should not have to deal with kids at all...

its not okay for kids to be on tables or running around, I get it.

you were all kids once.

my 7 yr old is well behaved. my 15 month old can be pretty quiet. she eats and is happy. my 2 week old is not going out of the house yet until he hits 7 months old.

let me tell yall a little something, they are kids. its the parents you should be after. grow some tolerance. it turns the hair on your chest grey.


my rant, i cant stand parents who buy beer but wont get their kids some lemonade or gummy worms, or a slurpie. ffs.. clean yourself up.

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by CM9000

I understand your frustration against the the parents with spoiled kids. but guess what, free country.



get nasty with my kids, you might find yourself in the parking lot under my truck.



its not okay for kids to be on tables or running around, I get it.

you were all kids once.

my 7 yr old is well behaved. my 15 month old can be pretty quiet. she eats and is happy. my 2 week old is not going out of the house yet until he hits 7 months old.

let me tell yall a little something, they are kids. its the parents you should be after. grow some tolerance. it turns the hair on your chest grey.

We know it's a free country, but that's a douchebag attitude to think it's acceptable for kids to act like jerks in public. Entitled attitude. And causing a public disruption isn't the same as free speech.

People won't get nasty with your kids if you act like the parent and control them. Sometimes it takes the help of the village to raise a child the right way when the parent can't or won't do the job.

The great thing about this country is that if you threaten somebody or try to hurt them they have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary.

[1fox2go]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

We know it's a free country, but that's a douchebag attitude to think it's acceptable for kids to act like jerks in public. Entitled attitude. And causing a public disruption isn't the same as free speech.

People won't get nasty with your kids if you act like the parent and control them. Sometimes it takes the help of the village to raise a child the right way when the parent can't or won't do the job.

The great thing about this country is that if you threaten somebody or try to hurt them they have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary.

Whole heartedly agree. If you are gonna let your kids act like little assholes and claim free country, the blame lands on you. If your little hellion is going to cause chaos and potentially harm to me or my family then guess what I'm saying something about it. We can step outside if you want....

The comment about gummy worms and candy is misconstrued. I dont want a kid hyped up on sugar later in the evening and for all you know they have junk food at home. Kids see something in a store and want want want. They need to learn the word no other wise you get a bunch of whiny "adults" like we have now...crying over an election...really?

[Duuuuuuuude]

Here's the thing about whiny, unruly children: they do it for attention. The best way to get them to stop is to not pay attention to them when they behave that way.

Being a parent, that's a tough call in public. Sometimes it'll work itself out fairly quickly and everybody can get back to what they were doing, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the parent is ignoring their child in the hopes that they will stop, sometimes they're just shitty parents who don't care. Again, tough call.

My kid was fairly well behaved when he was little, but sometimes his world would still unwind and he'd go apeshit. Scolding him did nothing. You just have to ride it out and hope that it doesn't last long. It's just how kids are.

Letting your kids have free run of a place is a different matter though. Also the stabbing people with forks thing.

[CM9000]

All i can say is, if the kid is nonstop crying under the age of 3, deal with it. Above that, the parent(s) probably isnt doing there job.

My kids are quiet. And ive had somebody come up to me before and ask our family to leave because our kids were simply present. As we were quietly eating our dinner. Thats my experience. Thats why i have my opinion on people who think kids should not be at a restaurant.

We were all kids once. How else would we be here?

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[hpiguy]

Originally Posted by CM9000

All i can say is, if the kid is nonstop crying under the age of 3, deal with it. Above that, the parent(s) probably isnt doing there job.

My kids are quiet. And ive had somebody come up to me before and ask our family to leave because our kids were simply present. As we were quietly eating our dinner. Thats my experience. Thats why i have my opinion on people who think kids should not be at a restaurant.

We were all kids once. How else would we be here?

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But nobody in this thread made the blanket statement that kids shouldn't be allowed at restaurants. People were talking about undisciplined brats, including one who straight up stabbed someone with a fork. That's drastically different from quiet well behaved children. And yes, all children can be unruly and pitch fits when they are very young, that's part of it too. But knowing how to handle it as a parent is also part of it. As Duuuuude said, sometimes there's no calming them. So sometimes you may have to resort to other options depending on your surroundings, like going outside for a bit, or to the restroom, etc.

Running someone over with your truck because you had a knee jerk emotional response not only doesn't fix the problem, now your kids are missing one of their parents because you're in prison. And what kind of example is that setting for them moving forward?

I realize now where you're coming from based on your experience above. But, you have to think things through logically and rationally, and try and take emotion out of it. For everyone's sake, especially your own children. And yes we were all kids once. And from that, I remember a lot of the good examples my parents set. And I remember every single bad one that was set. Those are burned into your grey matter even more for a reason.

[Duuuuuuuude]

Originally Posted by CM9000

All i can say is, if the kid is nonstop crying under the age of 3, deal with it. Above that, the parent(s) probably isnt doing there job.

Ever have to take a toddler on a plane? That's fun.

[CM9000]

Originally Posted by hpiguy

But nobody in this thread made the blanket statement that kids shouldn't be allowed at restaurants. People were talking about undisciplined brats, including one who straight up stabbed someone with a fork. That's drastically different from quiet well behaved children. And yes, all children can be unruly and pitch fits when they are very young, that's part of it too. But knowing how to handle it as a parent is also part of it. As Duuuuude said, sometimes there's no calming them. So sometimes you may have to resort to other options depending on your surroundings, like going outside for a bit, or to the restroom, etc.

Running someone over with your truck because you had a knee jerk emotional response not only doesn't fix the problem, now your kids are missing one of their parents because you're in prison. And what kind of example is that setting for them moving forward?

I realize now where you're coming from based on your experience above. But, you have to think things through logically and rationally, and try and take emotion out of it. For everyone's sake, especially your own children. And yes we were all kids once. And from that, I remember a lot of the good examples my parents set. And I remember every single bad one that was set. Those are burned into your grey matter even more for a reason.

Assuming i ran him over.. Hmm.

Greatscott metioned that he should not ever have to deal with kids at a bar in a mexican restaurant.

I took an oath half this ****ed country couldnt give to shits about. Im out, and was not relieved of said oath. If a kid is ever threatened near me (mine or not).. Somebody is gonna have a long ****in day.

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[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by CM9000

All i can say is, if the kid is nonstop crying under the age of 3, deal with it. Above that, the parent(s) probably isnt doing there job.

My kids are quiet. And ive had somebody come up to me before and ask our family to leave because our kids were simply present. As we were quietly eating our dinner. Thats my experience. Thats why i have my opinion on people who think kids should not be at a restaurant.

We were all kids once. How else would we be here?

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Uh no. I will not deal with a 3 year old crying nonstop. I won't deal with anybody crying nonstop in public. If your kid is misbehaved and uncontrollable then leave them home with a babysitter. Again, you have an entitled attitude thinking it's acceptable to bother the entire restaurant just because of one little brat.

I love kids. I'd never ask kids to leave just because. There are assholes everywhere. That sounds more like an asshole situation.

Nobody is saying there's anything wrong with kids. We just have a problem with brats. I know I was a well behaved kid and I didn't cause issues in public.