screaming kids

[HAPPYCHAPPIE]

Why do they allow screaming kids with dirty nappies on in pubs when I'm trying to enjoy half a pint of stout? The parents should be breathalyzed because they might be drunk in charge of a push chair especially when they scratch the side of my car on the way out.

[VINNY100_2]

Well thats covered most of the population then,Where we going next?

[HAPPYCHAPPIE]

The pensioners reported my question VINNY!!

[VINNY100_2]

Perhaps they were not very Happy -Chappie!!

[Zen]

Should leave your car at home if you are going to the pub.

[smudge]

Absolutely right Zen - although HC did say he was only enjoying half a pint of stout!

I know what you mean about screaming kids though HC, especially when having a nice 'quiet' meal or shopping in the supermarket!

[woofgang]

still not happy, chappie??

I am sorry the question you posted on oldies got pulled because when these questions are posted, the usual response is solidly on the side of the oldies!!

[woofgang]

happychappie was raging about us crumblies. I posted to ask him if he was having a bad day

[BigDogsWang]

I'm all in favour of banning young children from pubs. I have a 7 year old myself, and very rarely take him in pubs, because most of the time you cannot see across the room for fag smoke. Hardly a healthy environment for adults let alone kids.

[smudge]

Hear, hear BDW!

[45703]

We were in the pub some time ago on a Sunday lunchtime enjoying my Sunday roast when this lady started to change her baby�s nappy, the waitress pointed to the baby changing room ,as the lady got up she said �its only a baby what�s your problem?� and walked off in a huff. She was sober her partner was as pi$$ed as you can get!! Agree BDW.

[mongos bird]

I agree with you happy chappie, I wait-on in a quaint country pub and it's a bl00dy nightmare at weekends!  Trying to navigate through huggins of marauding kids with (heavy) plates laden with steaming food is no mean feat.  I have come very close to scalding children, mainly due to falling over their toys left strewn in my path.   The parents then glare at me, sweep up their 'little darlings'  showering them with kisses  'did the nasty lady nearly scald you for life my little cherub'!!    If the little blighters wish to play 'army' or football then parents should take them to a park or a place which caters for  boisterous behavior, ie Brewsters or Wacky Warehouse. 

[flaming]

I am a crumblie but I have never been able to stand screaming kids, especially in pubs.  There used to be a prohibition on children under 14 in bars.

Some pubs. (I think it is Whitbread's chain) won't have children or babies on the premises. Look out for those. I don't go near some places at the weekend because I know as a single or with one friend I am going to be over-run. I feel sorry for mongos-bird.  You wanmt to see in the 'ladies' of places - often the icky nappies are dumped in cubicles.  I must point out though that a lot of the single men who whinge now turn into fathers later on, letting their sprogs loose on society!

[Grunty]

flaming - there still is a prohibition of under 14s in bars.  A bar is a room wholly or mainly used for the sale of liquor (simplified wording).  If it is a dining room for example, the pub can argue that selling drink is a secondary use.

45703 - You might be interested to know that there is an offence of being drunk in charge of a child under 7.

We have to pay the police and teachers to spend a large proportion of their time teaching kids how to behave.  Seeing them with some of their parents, I understand why.

[flaming]

Thanks,  Grunty.  There's hardly any true bars nowadays, so that's how the pub. chains get round it, then, they all serve food, often in one interconnecting set of rooms?  Who'd be a teacher ?