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Originally posted by TalkSock
Yes, but he was watching a movie. In a restaurant. While eating pizza. That isn't considered rude? Or antisocial? If you're just going to watch TV, why not just stay at home?
If nothing else, wouldn't you be afraid of getting pizza all over it? I mean it was at least a couple hundred dollars.
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I have no idea -- it seems extremely anti-social to me; my children are not allowed to have toys at the table (or Yu-Gi-Oh
ugh cards), except the two-year old, who is allowed something to distract him so that we can all eat together. At restaurants, however, we're a little more lenient -- but there's NO FREAKING WAY I'd allow a DVD player at the table. Maybe a game boy for a short period of time if it's starting to take a long time for dinner to arrive. One rule in our house about game boys is that if you cannot respond to people when they speak to you (and grunts don't count as responses), you're not allowed to play game boy. My kids find that the pause button comes in rather handy.
But I don't know this family's situation. Perhaps it is the only way for the parents to have an evening out without having a stark-raving five-year-old running around. I'm not about to throw stones over that.
