Let's start out with a story that I would describe either as amazing or as inspiring:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/12/blind-superman-saves-colorado-teenager-after-fall-from-horse/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-sb-n%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk1%7C218697
Good for the blind man, he did more in a crisis than many of us that can see would have.
What do you think of young children in nice restaurants?
http://smallbusiness.aol.com/2011/07/12/restaurant-bans-young-children/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-sb-n%7Cdl7%7Csec3_lnk1%7C218716
I can go either way on this one. I do agree that if kids misbehave it is the parents that should step in and if they don't they really are fault. However, I think a more viable solution would be to turn on or two booths in a small closed family room and require reservations for parents that want to bring their kids in.
You can sometimes fool someone, sometimes someone can fool you, but can you fool a flamingo?
http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-zoo-uses-fake-eggs-mama-flamingoes-rest-133626057.html
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The story about the blind man is both amazing and inspiring. What a caring man and amazing he could get her back across the field, including a barbed wire fence. I suspect the two will have a lifelong bond.
I really have no problem with the guy banning children, although it's a case of everyone paying for the "sins" of a few, I suppose. In many cases, it's not the kids, but the parents who are at fault or aren't thinking. When it comes to babies, I think it's unrealistic to expect them to sit quietly in a carrier while parents enjoy a lengthy dinner. When it comes to toddlers, I also think it's unreasonable for them to contain their energy and, if dinner is fashionably late, they're either hungry or tired and few restaurants of that type have a "kid's menu." I know many parents who insist on dinner at home being a case of the children learning to behave at the table, what's acceptable and not. When they may be excused from the table and what behavior is expected, if they finish early and the parents or others are still eating. If a restaurant is "upscale," most patrons are there to enjoy a leisurely (and usually expensive) dinner, engage in quiet conversation with any dinner companions and generally come away relaxed and replete. This is difficult, if one is trying to talk over a screaming child, a temper tantrum, kids running loose, all of which I've seen more than once. It does not add to what one would call "ambiance."
I'm divided on the flamingo issue. Unless we have real problems with flamingos becoming extinct, my gut reaction is it's cruel to take the eggs away from the mothers. I don't know how many eggs a flamingo lays, but they appear to have a strong mother-nurture nature. Leave at least one egg for the mother, if not all. I don't think the "fake" eggs are going to work. I'd think, as soon as the mother realizes she's getting no chicks from the eggs, she's going to go back to laying more, I'd suspect.
Amazing job the blind man did! Better than a lot of sighted people could have or would have done.
I have no problem with the guy banning little kids. If parents object, they can hire a sitter or go and eat somewhere else.
Somehow I doubt the flamingo moms will tumble to their eggs being fakes. But I do think they should leave the occasional real egg. There's not only the hatching to consider, but don't most birds "imprint" on who or whatever they first see after hatching? They may be robbing the baby birds of their only experience of mothering.
Hi DR
The story about the blind man is probably my favorite story this year.
The restaurant is a case of everyone paying for the sins of the few. There are a cople of kickers here that make me lean towards the restaurant. It is an expensive restaurant. So one family can ruin a special event, birthday or anniversary etc for a family that saved up for a long time to go out to that restaurant.
I do think the restaurant could make a couple of concessions though. like nobody under six after five.
I'm also divided on the Flamingo issue although using fake eggs seeoms like a scam to be.
Bill
Hi Pat
I honestly don't think I could have done as well as the blind man did in that situation.
That makes three of us that lean on the side of the restaurant.
Interesting take on the Flamingo story. It does seem that the flamingos could tell the difference. Leasving a real egg once in a while is a great idea.
Bill
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