Crying baby in restaurant

[Marseeya]

So last night after class, I went out to a restaurant with a few classmates to get some dessert and talk about our final projects that are coming due. We were sitting there talking when this baby started fussing and fussing, and then it started crying loudly in earnest.

At first it was just a minor annoyance, and then it got to be really aggravating! We were all like, geez! Do something, wouldja???

Well, we started looking around because the cries were getting weird.

It turned out that it was a high school girl with one of those plastic babies and she was doing everything she could to shut it up! We were all laughing so hard, and she saw us laughing and she started laughing too, and then the people around them started laughing.

Where were those dolls when I was in high school? We just had to take care of a hollowed out egg. And I need to get one for my kids too!

Do your schools use those dolls?

 

[Christine]

Oh, that's too funny.

 

[anewvance]

OMG, i woulda been so embarrassed! At first I was gonna ask what sort of resturant it was, that usually gives my opinion on crying kids. I never saw the fake baby coming!

We never had to take home ec or the like in high school, they didn't even offer it. So no fake egg babies or doll babies to take care of. I was kinda jealous!

 

[ducklite]

Hopefully a lesson was learned...

Oops, hit enter by accident. That must have been really funny though!

Anne

 

[Marseeya]

Oh, that's too funny.

It was hilarious!

she was doing everything she could to comfort it -- rocking it, patting its butt, talking to it, jiggling it up and down. The look on her face was priceless!

I bet she'll think twice before having sex without protection.

 

[Marseeya]

OMG, i woulda been so embarrassed! At first I was gonna ask what sort of resturant it was, that usually gives my opinion on crying kids. I never saw the fake baby coming!

We never had to take home ec or the like in high school, they didn't even offer it. So no fake egg babies or doll babies to take care of. I was kinda jealous!

We had a good time with our egg babies -- decorating them and dressing them. And then this one boy from the class ran through the hallways, smashing them out of people's hands... I don't think too many eggs survived. The teacher had a field day with him, telling him he was going to "psychoanalyze" his actions.

He killed my baby!

 

[WhoopyPie]

Our HS uses them. I've had them in my house. Now they have the one's where they have to change and feed them and figure out why they are crying.

The older version just cried and you had to insert a key in the back and hold it till it coo'd. There is a way around that too as most teen's know.

I truly don't think it does anything to deter teen's.

 

[DeLaMer]

Plastic baby or not, she should have taken the baby outside, no?

 

[NMAmy]

I bet she'll think twice before having sex without protection.

I had to laugh at dd, 15, the other day. She's an only child at my house but at her dad's she is the oldest of 5 girls (step-sisters and half-sister.) She spends a lot of time babysitting when she's there--including her baby half-sister. DD told me in all seriousness, "I am not having sex until I'm married and I'm not sure if I will even then. Taking care of little kids is a total pain. I don't know how you did it, Mom."

That's so funny, though, Marseeya--I was already for a thread complaining about babies in restaurants and was going to get my popcorn out.

 

[Christine]

It was hilarious!

she was doing everything she could to comfort it -- rocking it, patting its butt, talking to it, jiggling it up and down. The look on her face was priceless!

I bet she'll think twice before having sex without protection.

I think you should have played into it and lectured her about taking a young baby out to a restaurant where paying customers are TRYING to enjoy a meal.

 

[stinkerbelle]

Plastic baby or not, she should have taken the baby outside, no?

could you imagine if she left it in the car?
imagine walking by an empty car in a cold parking lot...and hearing some baby screaming inside?

 

[jennyl772003]

When I was in highschool, we had "flour sack babies". The following year the school got the ones with the key. My sis had to take one home the next year, and the teacher had set it to cranky. My sister was not amused.

Ironically, we both had real babies when we were 19...

 

[goofygirl]

Good thing you didn't yell, "Does it need to be breastfed?" LOL

 

[ZachnElli]

I didn't see that coming either! They do use them around here. I know because we called to have a girl we have babysit come over one night and she couldn't because she had to take care of that baby doll that week. I guess it's quite realistic, she said she wasn't getting much sleep because it kept waking her up! I think they are a great idea, I hope all my kids get them when they are in high school!

 

[transparant]

There was a girl in Wendy's with one of these babies the other day - it too was crying it's fake little head off and the poor girl was getting totally frazzled standing there trying to get it to stop. LOL!

 

[Marseeya]

Plastic baby or not, she should have taken the baby outside, no?

I think a mom of a real baby probably would have at that point. Everyone was too busy laughing at this point, so it probably didn't matter and it did finally stop. It was quite a shock seeing this plastic head with all that racket coming from it!

 

[Marseeya]

could you imagine if she left it in the car?
imagine walking by an empty car in a cold parking lot...and hearing some baby screaming inside?

Don't they have some kind of microchip in them where the teacher would know if they were left unattended?

The cry sounded so real for a while! I'd have probably called the police if I heard that coming from a car.

 

[Imzadi]

We had a good time with our egg babies -- decorating them and dressing them. And then this one boy from the class ran through the hallways, smashing them out of people's hands... I don't think too many eggs survived. The teacher had a field day with him, telling him he was going to "psychoanalyze" his actions.

He killed my baby!

Didn't that turn out to be Ted Bundy?

 

[Tigger&Belle]

OK, I want to know how old the plastic baby was. Afterall, if it was too young, she should NOT have had it in a restaurant. Think of the germs it was exposed to. Hopefully it was at least a smoke free restaurant.

 

[Marseeya]

I think you should have played into it and lectured her about taking a young baby out to a restaurant where paying customers are TRYING to enjoy a meal.

I could never have done that, but I bet one of the women with me would have if we'd thought of it! She's loony enough to do something like that. We probably would have gotten beaten up by her parents.