Eat the rich
October 28th, 2007
When Motörhead suggested in 1987 that we should eat the rich (Aerosmith also rallied behind this call some years later too - Iron Maiden did not however even though I thought they did) I wonder if they happened to have a dining experience like the one Tracey and I had the other night in our local suburban Thai restaurant.
We booked in and rocked up to the restaurant fairly early in the evening because we were pretty hungry and didn’t want to be out all night. After convincing the extraordinarily rude woman behind the counter that Tracey’s name was Tracey and that we had booked a table (I said the table was booked under Tracey three times and Tracey said it twice) we were faced with several children running around the restaurant screaming whilst their ignorant parents chatted.
Fine, we said to each other, I’m sure the parents of these children will pull them into line as people start to fill the ‘not that cheap’ restaurant.
No.
Really it would have been too much for us to expect that either the parents of the stupid little yuppie larvae would exert some sort of parental control or the alternative that the staff would ask the parents to perhaps get their children to sit down and stop bothering the other patrons.
Tracey and I spoke about a number of things that evening as we tried to eat our full priced meals but neither of us heard a thing that the other said. The noise of these screaming children and then the group of young pretty couples trying to speak over them was so deafening that we longed for the comparatively mellow sound experience of the previous night that saw us standing next to the speakers at the Nick Cave and Grinderman concert.
So yeah there was some anger.
And some awful service.
But mainly anger at the two couples and their kids who have too much bloody money that it doesn’t matter to them about the simple act of dining out. There was a time when Tracey and I would have had to sacrifice an awful lot to have dinner out. Had this been one of those times then these arrogant suburbanites and their awful offspring would have really devastated us.
So if you are a ‘well off enough to waste money on a diesel t-shirt’ couple (a t-shirt and shorts at a restaurant? I mean really people!?) and don’t mind $16 meals for kiddies then think about the young couple in the corner who will eat packet pasta for the next three days so that they can enjoy this small step out of their otherwise struggling life.
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I feel your pain. There is nothing worse than sitting down in a nice restaurant and having to endure the presence of unruly children. I guess I’m just not a nice person, because I would have had some not so nice things to say to the parents.
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It’s funny Kellie because we every once and a while find ourselves wondering if we are bad people for not being so tolerant LOL.
I think if the kids had come up to our table I would have said something but it makes me angry because when dining out it is not my job to police this stuff and the staff should really have been on top of it - especially as it says on the menu how important it is for them to provide a ‘relaxing’ experience!
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It’s sounds like you guys are extremely tolerant! Especially compared to us! LOL
I think the food industry, like so many other industries, are too afraid to say anything that might piss someone off. I mean, c’mon. I would rather tick off one family/person, rather than 5. It’s called common sense. Like the whole bad apple scenario, ya know.
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