I was searching around the web for funny articles like the one I found yesterday on Ivanna Trump, and that I shared with everyone in my post, The woman I argued with was Ivanna Trump?!! If you didn't read it go ahead and do so, otherwise you won't know what I am talking about!
As I was saying, I was searching ...clicking here and there at links, for something that would make me laugh, or to make my nephew Alex laugh. I love when someone has a good laugh. Don't you? Especially if it's one of those funny, contagious laughs, like my nephew's. And, he must have had a good one since he posted the following in facebook:
The woman I argued with was Ivanna Trump?!!
- Then he comments on Sandra's Facebook wall:
Alex Longoria Just read your moms blog about your flight.... sorry you had a rough one but I couldn't help but laugh the way she told the story!! hahahaha!! kiss kiss :)
Oh...yes! I could just see him laughing...Now, back to my navigational search.
By first hand experience, I know that some people want FLYING BRATS...,
banned from airplanes. But now... I have found out that screaming
children should be banned from bars. FROM BARS! How outrageous...
What is this world coming to!! Some kids drive their parents to drink..
and other drinkers mind? Don't they have any feelings? Shame on them!
Read and cry...poor, unwanted, screaming kids, now people want to
ban them from bars!
Check out the following article by Karen Ingram...
Screaming children should be banned from bars
By Karen Ingram
Published: Friday, September 17, 2010
Updated: Friday, September 17, 2010 09:09
- Smoking used to be allowed in bars, but some people thought it violated their rights, so it was banned indoors. I can understand it being banned from movie theaters, airplanes, hospitals and restaurants, but a bar, whose sole purpose is to serve drugs? It makes no sense. No one goes to a bar to be healthy.
But I understand times change, as do laws, so even though I think bars got a raw deal out of the arrangement, I don't think complaining is going to change it.
Instead, I want to jump on the bandwagon. Smoking isn't the only thing that should be banned from bars. There are things going on in bars that are unjust and unfair to me as a citizen, and like all American citizens, I feel sensitive when my rights are violated.
One of the unfortunate consequences of the smoking ban in Manhattan is the presence of more children in bars. The only explanation I can come up with for why these seemingly average people would want to bring their children into a somewhat seedy locale, where alcoholics are slumped over the bar 30 feet from their table, is because bar food is cheaper than Applebee's. In this economy, it's kind of understandable. Kind of.
The bad thing about this is I am subjected to the shrill voices, piercing screams, tantrums, stares and smells of these unruly offspring.
Watching small children wander around my barstool with soggy, half-chewed food hanging out of their mouths, touching everything within reach is disgusting. Listening to their incessant babble is annoying. Their screams and tantrums are downright painful, and I don't just mean painful to watch — the noise causes me physical pain.
If I sigh, roll my eyes or shoot the parents dirty looks, however, I'm the bad guy. How dare I suggest their "most beautiful, precious child" is a pain in the rear? How dare I suggest their lax parenting skills are spoiling "precious" rotten? How dare I suggest they take the source of ear-bleeding pain outside until it shuts up?
As it turns out, I'm not alone. According to a Sept. 9 article on shine.yahoo.com, entitled "Message to parents getting louder: No screaming babies allowed," a number of bars and restaurants around the country have begun banning screaming children. The same article references a poll by a fare comparison website called Skyscanner that states 60 percent of people traveling in an airplane would prefer families with children to be segregated to their own section.
According to the article, nearly 20 percent of travelers said they want completely child-free flights.
I don't blame them a bit. If people choose to become parents, then further refuse to quiet their disruptive child, why should I just have to sit there and take it? I'm a paying customer, just like everybody else.
If I'm trying to drink liquor at two in the afternoon on a Saturday and your child's screams are giving me a homicidal headache, I believe my rights are being violated. Screaming and non-screaming sections in bars don't work for the same reason smoking and non-smoking ones don't: I can still hear them (or, in the case of smoking, smell).
Children, particularly screamers, should be banned from bars and at least 20 feet away from any doorway. I don't think it will be long before such a ban becomes plausible.
As I recall, before smoking was banned completely, it would frequently be banned from bars until after a certain time of night. According to the above article, some restaurants are doing the same thing with children — no kids after 5 p.m. Not screaming children, mind you, but all children.
Perhaps, in a not too distant, shiny future, I will be able to enjoy the bars child-free.
Well, I got a kick out of this one...I am sure Alex did too. How about you? Leave
a comment!
I was kidding above with "what's this world coming to"...I agree with the author on
children no being at bars, but for different reasons. However, children are children
and they will behave as such. All I know is that the way things are getting out of
proportion,one of these days, we will read, "VOTE YES, on banning screaming children
from cars. After all...Why do you have to put up with screaming children in the car next to
you at a red light!"
And by the way...it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a parent/child area in an
airplane..after all, paying $800.00 for a 2 year old child, like my grandson,
deserves it. Aren't we paying customers too?
Dear Alex, I hope you enjoyed this...Tia loves you!
