Human Decency is officially down the toilet......

[Boxley]

Ooo, can we lay bets on when this will turn into a clique thread too? 2 buckets of pixie dust down on by page 5

Let's make it interesting.

I bet the term "snowflake" will be used by....page 6

 

[golfgal]

Why do I have this unnerving suspicion that the adult was being loud and the child (while inappropriately) was probably correct?

That being said......If you want to have a meal with any sense of proper atmosphere and decorumor palatable and somewhat nutricious food for that matter) I would suggest that Mickey D's not be your selection.

My first thought is that the Dad put the kid up to it .

 

[smkiya]

Let's make it interesting.

I bet the term "snowflake" will be used by....page 6

Since when is an adult telling a child to be quiet, and a child telling an adult to be quiet, equal.

Maybe in the snowflake's world, certainly not in the real world.

 

[smkiya]

My first thought is that the Dad put the kid up to it .

So was mine! Something my dh would do...

 

[Boxley]

Since when is an adult telling a child to be quiet, and a child telling an adult to be quiet, equal.

Maybe in the snowflake's world, certainly not in the real world.

There is the secret word everyone scream

 

[Wall-E1]

Well, I know where I will be taking my mother for her next birthday meal. If there is even the off chance of someone else, other than me, telling her to shut it...it gives me hope during this joyous holiday season.

 

[just4today]

This scenario is NOT the opposite of the previous one where the snowflake was trying to engage the codger in conversation by banging on the seat, poking the purse, and asking her name. In this case, the codger was doing nothing to engage the snowflake, was in fact minding her own business, when the snowflake interrupted. In both cases, the snowflakes interrupted.

I'm on Team Codger for this one too. The fact that the grandma didn't say anything says a lot about her restraint because she had every right, imo, to tell snowey to mind her own business.

 

[luvmy3]

Since when is an adult telling a child to be quiet, and a child telling an adult to be quiet, equal.

Maybe in the snowflake's world, certainly not in the real world.

I love it, When my dd gets whiny and dramatic about not getting her way, I'll have to remind her that we don't live in snowflake world

 

[golfgal]

I love it, When my dd gets whiny and dramatic about not getting her way, I'll have to remind her that we don't live in snowflake world

Oh our oldest is VERY familiar with the phrase "the world according to DS17". We used that many times to remind him the world does NOT revolve around him. It has taken 17 years but he finally gets it, most of the time anyway

 

[3jsmommy]

Though I agree that no young child should go around telling seniors to "be quiet"..I don't see how this is a reflection on human decency.

 

[golfgal]

Though I agree that no young child should go around telling seniors to "be quiet"..I don't see how this is a reflection on human decency.

It isn't the child telling the adult to be quite that is the problem, it is the fact that her Dad didn't say anything to her about being rude to someone.

 

[3jsmommy]

How do we know that he heard what she said?

 

[Boxley]

It isn't the child telling the adult to be quite that is the problem, it is the fact that her Dad didn't say anything to her about being rude to someone.

Were you listening in on their conversation? Besides, perhaps he did talk to her, but privately.

 

[clovergirl5]

Howdy girls....Did I hear snowflake

 

[Liberty Belle]

Well, I know where I will be taking my mother for her next birthday meal. If there is even the off chance of someone else, other than me, telling her to shut it...it gives me hope during this joyous holiday season.

Maybe I should take my MIL. I'll have to leave my sixteen year old at home, though. He'd die of embarrassment.

 

[Scurvy]

This scenario is NOT the opposite of the previous one where the snowflake was trying to engage the codger in conversation by banging on the seat, poking the purse, and asking her name. In this case, the codger was doing nothing to engage the snowflake, was in fact minding her own business, when the snowflake interrupted. In both cases, the snowflakes interrupted.

I'm on Team Codger for this one too. The fact that the grandma didn't say anything says a lot about her restraint because she had every right, imo, to tell snowey to mind her own business.

You saved me the trouble of typing what I was thinking. Thanks! As usual, I'm on Team Codger.

ETA - I don't think this is really a reflection of the state of human decency, but I do think it's a very poor reflection on the way that child is parented.

 

[Boxley]

Howdy girls....Did I hear snowflake

Secret word!

Ok I'll stop that now

 

[Carly_Roach]

An example of human decency going down the toilet is when an old man falls in his driveway on a busy street (and stays down) for over an hour before anyone passing by finally stops to see if he's alright or if he needs an ambulance. That's a classic case of "Human Decency is Officially Down the Toilet".

6 y/o's smarting off to older people they don't know has been happening for eons. Parents not correcting their 6 y/o's smarting off to older people has been happening for decades.

If a 6 y/o had interrupted my McDonald's lunch by telling me to be quiet, depending on my mood I may have responded with an even more infantile answer:

Why?

 

[merryweather20]

The sort of parent who wants a stranger to smile at her child who is misbehaving, who further expects the stranger not to mind when the child pokes their personal belongings, and who allows their children to ask adults personal questions, furthermore the adult should endlessly indulge any rude questions and not even think of giving the child a gentle rebuke to their rude questions.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I didn't see the other thread so can't comment on it. But as for this one... If that had been a child of mine (or a student of mine) I would have been totally mortified and dealt with it then and there. I don't care how loud the mother was (we don't even know that she was loud), that does not give you the excuse to do that. At the most, the adult could have politely said that she was being too loud and ask if she minded quieting down a little. But even that is a bit much. This is McDonald's, not a movie theatre.