A Round Of Applause, Please!

   It's happened to us all at one time or another. You make a reservation at your favourite restaurant for a nice dinner out with your someone special. You get nicely dressed, and hit the high spot for some culinary excellence. That's when someone else's little snot nosed brat starts throwing a hissy at the table right next to you. You ask the waiter to check if there might be a table to move to, but the eatery is jammed. You might also ask the parents of the little shit as politely as possible to have Johnny or Katy shut the fuck up (not using those words), only to be met with a stony stare from said parents as the brat continues wailing and throwing stuff, including food, around.
   In Texas, one restaurant owner has taken some steps to make your dining experience more pleasurable by banning kids under 8. After 7:00 p.m. Cue the applause. It seems the owner had been getting complaints from patrons who were subjected to behaviour from kids who need to be put on lithium. Or Ritalin. Some customers were saying they left their kids home with a sitter, but were still subject to others running amok, screaming and throwing things. The kind of shit that if I tried at a family meal at a restaurant growing up would have resulted in my dad rendering me unable to sit down for a week.
   And it seems this place isn't the only one to go kid-free either. A restaurant in Pennsylvania banned kids under 6 a couple of years ago, and one in Virginia banned anyone under 18!
   Now I don't have a problem with people taking their kids out for a meal. I did it plenty of times myself. But I never took them to a high end place. It was Rotten Ronnies or a pizza joint. When my wife and I wanted an evening out, we'd book a table at a real nice place, and get a sitter!
   And while not all young kids misbehave at a restaurant, enough do for me to give a Ratbag seal of approval to the Texas place.
   'Nuff said.