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Felicity Jones's avatar

The child on standby before public chaos. Perfect description. I am always tempted to trip them up when they run past.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Oh now that would be excellent.

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Shell Plant's avatar

Hahaha! As a parent I enjoyed this.

Don't get me wrong, I love my two, they are relatively well behaved and I like to think I'm a well behaved parent too. But it is the hardest, hardest, hardest job I've ever done, with an exorbitant amount of sacrifice. So when someone tells me they are pregnant my response is similar!

Also, badly behaved parents. They are the worst!

I probably wouldn't have brought my two into your place. At the end of the day they are children and it's not fair to expect them to not get ants in their pants in a fancy restaurant. There are enough family friendly places around. I'd prefer to go somewhere posh as a special treat date night.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Well, it sounds like you’re the perfect parent. We could never understand why people would bring in their children and let them disturb others. I sometimes wonder if they did that at the cinema or a theatre.

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Shell Plant's avatar

Well, good days and bad days!

I don't understand it either. We were in a family friendly restaurant yesterday and after a while, the kids started going bonkers. That was stressful enough for me without it being a posh place. Your restaurant was awesome fun for me, but (no offence) boring as hell for an eight year old boy who needs to run around and work out his energy. It's not fair or fun for anyone, children included.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

We did have a bouncy castle downstairs.

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Shell Plant's avatar

😂 Every parent's dream!

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Sarah Umar's avatar

No one can ever tell me my cat isn't my CHILD! And he also isn't allowed to come to restaurants with me but I'm sure he'd be a delightful little diner.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Oh I’m sure he’d be a gentleman. He would probably tip well also.

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Vicki's avatar

I so remember that day of telling you both and yes Andrew - Donna’s reaction was better than yours 🤣

She loves seeing you two, even at 16 which is pretty good going lol

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Hehe. One day she’ll be a famous make up artist.

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Willem Harvey's avatar

Nothing on earth is worse than other people's children!!!

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Completely agree.

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Mark Diacono's avatar

never mind golden grahams what about golden nuggets hmmmmm

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Ohhhhh, if only.

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Michelle's avatar

Love the entitlement of the type of parents who take their children to restaurants serving 7 course taster menus and ask staff to knock up nuggets and chips for their little darlings….

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Vanilla Black's avatar

And that probably happens very often.

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Sue Magee's avatar

I bet KitKat cereal is awesome. 🤣

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Vanilla Black's avatar

We’ll let you know.

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