Ew, ew, ew!
Nov. 10th, 2005 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Remember that article I posted earlier? Well, in a fit of madness, I found some other posts on it, using google.
Including this lovely comment....
If the business doesn't want children (and things that are associated with children like crying, things getting touched, snot) then why don't they just put up a sign stating "No Children Allowed" and cut through all the cutesie BS.
Snot? Ew! I don't want any kid's snot anywhere other than in their nose, in their tissue, or in their mouth (hey, it'll end up there anyway....)
If your kid is so sick they're getting snot anywhere other than those approved places (and maybe their sleeve, I know, kids wipe their noses that way....), they need to be at home getting better instead of making the rest of us immediately ill.
Seriously, I'm tolerant of a lot of things. Changing a diaper in public? So long as it doesn't smell, doesn't get on anything, and goes in the trash, I'm fine. I'd rather not, but I know things happen. Crying on public transportation? Okay, you kinda have to be there, it's not like you decided on a whim to just hang out on busses and trains (given that I once spent an entire trans-atlantic flight screaming, I figure I have to pay my dues to society by not whining when other children do similar).
But once children or adults start dropping their messes where I can run into them, again, I say, EW.
Edit: Yes, I exaggerated the bus story for their consumption - don't tell, will you? I almost had to do it anyway. I was so miffed, getting on a bus with a child already crying.
Including this lovely comment....
If the business doesn't want children (and things that are associated with children like crying, things getting touched, snot) then why don't they just put up a sign stating "No Children Allowed" and cut through all the cutesie BS.
Snot? Ew! I don't want any kid's snot anywhere other than in their nose, in their tissue, or in their mouth (hey, it'll end up there anyway....)
If your kid is so sick they're getting snot anywhere other than those approved places (and maybe their sleeve, I know, kids wipe their noses that way....), they need to be at home getting better instead of making the rest of us immediately ill.
Seriously, I'm tolerant of a lot of things. Changing a diaper in public? So long as it doesn't smell, doesn't get on anything, and goes in the trash, I'm fine. I'd rather not, but I know things happen. Crying on public transportation? Okay, you kinda have to be there, it's not like you decided on a whim to just hang out on busses and trains (given that I once spent an entire trans-atlantic flight screaming, I figure I have to pay my dues to society by not whining when other children do similar).
But once children or adults start dropping their messes where I can run into them, again, I say, EW.
Edit: Yes, I exaggerated the bus story for their consumption - don't tell, will you? I almost had to do it anyway. I was so miffed, getting on a bus with a child already crying.
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Date: 2005-11-11 11:32 pm (UTC)In grade school we had normal 8 person tables, though they'd always make us fill in the tables as we got in, so if 4 kids wanted to sit together, and there were only 3 seats left at the current table... tough.
I always hated the cafeterias at all of my schools. They were a hot spot for misbehaving (even in high school! I was always appalled at how my classmates behaved in high school).