If anyone would be lying it would have been me at the ticket window and that is it.
No, because they might have asked every time the 10 year old went through the turnstiles. That is what they do.
I disagree with catering to picky eaters. If you don't allow them to constantly eat garbage on the kids menu and fead them real food, they'll eat it. Several of my friends have done that with their kids with zero problems.
Your friends do not have truly picky eaters.
Same mom: I ate everything I was asked to eat. 2 years later, my brother showed up and as a kid ate three or so foods. Peanut butter and honey sandwiches (once our lunches got mixed up and I ate his sandwich though it tasted vile, and he came home with mine because there was No way he was eating it though he was very hungry), hamburgers with only ketchup (he would not eat it if it had had anything else on it...if a tomato slice had been taken off he could taste it* and he refused), and something else. I once ate his potatoes for him when mom was out of the room because I just wanted dinner to be done.
Same mom, same situation, different kid.
My dad's next two kids were the same. They would NOT eat if they didn't want it. By the time my sister was born (when I was 25) dad and stepmom had given up lol.
And now? I, the one that ate everything no matter how it tasted or made me gag, have all the fun environmental allergies and some food allergies. As an adult I went vegetarian to limit the vile foods in my life. All the siblings? Ridiculously healthy, no allergies. Well no the first half brother has weak lungs but then he's the one of us that smokes. They protected their systems as children by being picky. I did not. And I pay the price.
"They may ask you or your kid at the turnstyles".
And when someone says that, it can still be read as "they'll ask so you'll have to ask the kid to lie" and the same conversation happens.
Even if OP told his kid to lie about his age, which he isn't,
He isn't because it's hardly a price difference, but he would have had to, because as you know, they ask the kids.
Kids menus should just be the regular menu with smaller portions and maybe fruit rather than fries.
They never have been. Kids have different palates. I remember how bell peppers used to taste to me. Nothing but bitterness. How could people eat them? As my tastebuds changed I could taste the sweetness in them.
My husband's mom was born in '38 and in rural Korea; you could not get a more old school person. Given that her youth was spent in a county occupied by the Japanese she was crystal clear that life isn't fair and if you're lucky you don't die right now. And yet she dipped the spicy foods in water so her kids could eat the food without hurting from the heat. Rinsed the kimchi, any spicy meat, etc, in water. Even she recognizes that kids have different tastebuds.
They used to hate spicy things and cry when I would make anything with even the slightest kick. Now they love it but go through more water at meal times.
Water isn't really helpful for spicy stuff in the mouth. Might look to dairy or perhaps some bread.
*that brother is so sensitive. He was upstairs in their huge house, riding his exercise bike in his closed-door bedroom. I peeled an orange. He started sneezing. He could smell it all the way upstairs and through doors. I don't bring oranges there anymore.
