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April 30, 2013 at 4:23 am #607327
cardogMemberLuna Park Café (Monday 4/29/2013). We love Luna Park Café! This rant is to the lady sitting in the corner window booth who was rude to one of our children celebrating a children’s birthday at Luna Park Café. If you don’t want to deal with loud, laughing children having a good time at a birthday party, then don’t go out to eat at a restaurant that has a coin-operated racing car 15 feet from your booth. Stay classy my friend!
CL Rants and Raves with rude mug shot:
April 30, 2013 at 4:41 am #789217
yes2wsParticipantJust my 2-cents..
The words, “stay classy my friend” followed by the posting of the picture just don’t seem like a good mix. If I were you I would consider removing the pic. Your words make a better point without it.
April 30, 2013 at 6:21 am #789218
CaitParticipantHey I know and like her.
April 30, 2013 at 10:11 am #789219
JoBParticipantdid it occur to you that she may have been been in pain or otherwise be having a bad day?
or that maybe your love for your children prompted you to be far more lenient with the amount of noise they were making in a public venue than you should?
either way you missed a golden opportunity to teach your children compassion and tolerance for others …
even curmudgeons …
too many people are big on demanding respect and tolerance for their own behavior but slow to give the respect they demand to others..
you might ask yourself if you would have taught your children a better lesson by diverting your children to a quieter activity for a while and going over to speak quietly and respectfully to the woman instead of taking her picture and name calling on the forum.
perhaps our parents went to far in the direction of respecting our elders and children should be seen and not heard in public direction .. but respecting others is a difficult lesson for all children too learn and they won’t learn it if we don’t teach them by example.
April 30, 2013 at 11:45 am #789220
yes2wsParticipantJob, you put it into the words I couldn’t seem to find.
April 30, 2013 at 11:53 am #789221
yes2wsParticipantI see that the picture’s still there. I thought maybe after having posted it, you might realize that you went a bit too far. I get that it was a birthday party and all, but can you realize even part of what Job said might be true?
April 30, 2013 at 1:14 pm #789222
anonymeParticipantNot only do I think the rant is petty, I’m pretty sure the photo is a violation of WSB rules. It is the OP who doesn’t understand the meaning of “classy”.
April 30, 2013 at 1:17 pm #789223
beaner66ParticipantI am sure there is way more to this story than cardog is fessing up to. JoB, thanks for sharing your wise perspective. Be kind, even if others’ aren’t… ESPECIALLY if others aren’t.
Happy birthday to your little one!
April 30, 2013 at 1:26 pm #789224
Genesee HillParticipantPosting a photo like that is pretty lame. And I am an expert in lame.
April 30, 2013 at 1:46 pm #789225
BonnieParticipantThat is really not nice to post her photo. I agree with you that if you’re having a hard day maybe Luna Park wouldn’t be the best place to go but you shouldn’t post a photo of her.
April 30, 2013 at 2:15 pm #789226
kayoParticipantWhile I agree that Luna Park may not be the best choice if you are not interested in hanging out with loud kids, she has a right to not be hassled by someone else’s kids (and I am a parent of small kids and yes, they can be annoying.). I would also like to know what precipitated the rude behavior on her part. I am sure she is a perfectly nice and reasonable person and I don’t think publicly shaming her for expressing her annoyance is very nice of you. And I say this as someone who has gotten “the look” regarding my kids a number of times from people when out and about. You just have to develop thicker skin about it and ignore it. Public shaming – not so much.
April 30, 2013 at 2:30 pm #789227
MercyMoiParticipantI’m sure this post will be pulled soon, just wanted to add my two cents worth of how posting her picture is rude. How would you like it if she posted a picture of the loud, laughing child with a caption about “obnoxious rug rat” or something equally rude? Yes, Luna Park has fun rides and a family atmosphere and maybe she felt things were getting a little too Chuck E. Cheese’s or something. It’s just a matter of opinions that respectful adults can sort out without public shaming anybody.
April 30, 2013 at 2:31 pm #789228
Just_A_Nice_PersonMemberFoul CAR DOG! I wish I had a picture of you. I go to Luna Park frequently, and while I am not the person in the pix, just because there are kid friendly toys does NOT mean that your kid’s birthday party should intrude on others unless, or course, you rented the entire restaurant. Did you?
Wish I had been sitting there to see your contribution as you would probably have viewed me as also being rude to your kid(s). But I would have also left regardless of whether my food had come when your crew arrived just so that I would not have had to have words with you.
April 30, 2013 at 2:44 pm #789229
JoBParticipanti think it must have been a rough night in wsb land last night. i reported the post and asked them to remove the pic last night. i’ll do it again just in case it slipped through the cracks
April 30, 2013 at 2:54 pm #789230
SGParticipantPosting this pic is bad form. I’m sure you have done things you weren’t proud of. What if someone plastered your pic on the Internet doing it. Not cool. Not cool at all.
April 30, 2013 at 3:01 pm #789231
hopeyParticipantA parent who would publicly shame another adult is not someone I would trust to keep their children appropriately behaved at a restaurant. Can’t teach what you yourself don’t know. Just sayin. And yes I have kids.
April 30, 2013 at 3:05 pm #789232
JoBParticipantbtw ..
i go to luna park when i am having a bad day.
there is something about the atmosphere.. the service..the food and the music of my youth that generally has me smiling before i leave.
it’s not just a kids place
its date night where hubby courts me with music
April 30, 2013 at 3:13 pm #789233
JiggersMemberLOL.. before this thread is shutdown, I’d like to rant and wonder why all the holes in the walls in Luna Cafe that serves you food? That’s pretty disgusting to see. I don’t understand how they aren’t shutdown? Pretty dirty. And that’s not the only place that serves food that’s popular and has a lot of obvious maintenance issues. Isn’t there like a city code? Where are the health inspectors?
April 30, 2013 at 3:13 pm #789234
DBPMemberi think it must have been a rough night in wsb land last night. i reported the post and asked them to remove the pic last night. i’ll do it again just in case it slipped through the cracks —JoB
–Uh-huh. Yeah. If you don’t agree with someone’s opinion, kiss up and then try to have it censored. If this post gets pulled, you’ll know exactly where to find it.
April 30, 2013 at 3:57 pm #789235
BreezyParticipant@DBP, it is my understanding after reading this thread is the problem is not with the OP per se, but with the attachment of the woman’s photo.
April 30, 2013 at 4:00 pm #789236
WSN_HelenMemberThumbs up here in response to curmudgeon’s bird flip. I say this as a person frequently accompanied by my own two very small persons to our fine local eateries and I would gladly flip one off, in front of them, when a stranger puts a camera in front of my face. (Except my rant headline would read more Daily Mail tabloid-esque “Harried Mom of Tots Goes Out-of-this-World Loco at Luna Park, Keeps it Classy”.)
Pretty sure there is another side to this story we aren’t hearing. Barring mental illness, adults normally don’t lash out at children. How exactly were her actions rude? Did she make a child cry by scolding or telling them to calm down or were her words directed more towards the adults in the party? Did she slap a one year old? (Guess that’s more YouTube, as opposed to Craigslist, worthy.) I am sorry that she put a damper on the festivities but do also hope you used as a teaching moment for your child.
Take what folks have said here to heart. I know my 3 year old could relate, probably better than most, that grown ups get grumpy feelings too.
April 30, 2013 at 4:38 pm #789237
mama2monkeysMemberI’m the mom whose son was celebrating. We came in early so as not to disturb folks during dinner, we were trying to head out as the dinnertime was picking up. We were loud in the way that kids can be. The “nice” lady in the picture may be nice, but was not at that time. She glared at the children and at us. Within her hearing I asked the children to try and quiet down, AS WE WERE LEAVING, letting them know they were disturbing her. She and her friend were in the booth next to the door. My friend’s 7yo son wandered around the corner and she addressed him, hatefully “BOY, you better get away from that door”…let me be clear, this was not an adult being helpful in a “it takes a village kind of way” it was mean, she looked mean when she said it, she scared the child. The mother addressed it, politely, even though the rude woman was NOT conducting herself in a way that taught our children anything positive. It did give us an opportunity to teach them that some people are miserable and they try to spread their misery. We reminded them that our job is to not let that misery ruin our celebration…and we did not. I hope WSB does not pull this post. You’re all adults…don’t click on the link if you don’t want to or you object. No one forced you to go look.
April 30, 2013 at 4:55 pm #789238
Spring ChickenMemberGood on her for flipping you off, LOL. She’s a paying customer too, entitled to an enjoyable meal without your CAMERA in her face!
My advice is take the photo off craigslist because having done that makes you look like a real jerk.
April 30, 2013 at 5:19 pm #789239
brewParticipantIts really a pity we have people like this in our community…..and I am not talking of the Lady flipping the bird…
April 30, 2013 at 5:19 pm #789240
CaitParticipantI want to add that I’m so happy to see people come to her defense. Made my morning. The gal in this picture is someone who did something very kind for me a few weeks ago and while I won’t get into it, I can assure you that she doesn’t deserve this kind of treatment.
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