So, as I mentioned in my last post, Friday night we went to Mellow Mushroom with some friends. Our table included six adults, four extremely active 3-year-olds and two infants.
We chose a seat in the corner, away from the main dining area, and also, allow me to mention that we were dining at old-people dinner hour - it was like 5:30 p.m. On a Friday. So, frankly, by all laws of coolness, the teenagers I'm about to discuss shouldn't have even been in the restaurant. They should have been at home raiding their parents' liquor cabinets or something.
Anyway, for the first half-hour or so, the kids all sat fairly quietly and calmly at their places, eating and drinking and playing with toys. But then Isaac discovered the big plastic mushrooms behind our table. He thought that would make a grand hiding place for a rousing game of hide-n-seek. Drew concurred. And, upon reflection, so did Alex and Hannah.
What started out as a relatively low-key game of hide-behind-the-mushrooms-and-giggle rapidly escalated to a full-out squealing, laughing run-fest. Obviously, we herded our children back to the table, but they were in no mood to sit. So, as a compromise, we allowed them to play around the mushrooms as long as they were QUIET ("use your inside voice!" was advised more than once) and didn't leave our area.
This was met with varying amounts of success, but overall, the kids stayed in one spot and kept their voices low, with the occasional high-pitched squeal or angry yell.
At one point, my friend Kelly leaned over to me and said, "Look at those teenagers next to us. You just know they're thinking, "When I have kids, they'll never act like that!"
And sure enough, when I glanced over at the table next to us, we were getting the glare. You know...every parent who has ever taken their offspring to a public place has gotten this look from a non-parent, at least once in their lives.
"Oh yes," I whispered back to Kelly. "They're thinking, my children would be sitting quietly and calmly and eating their pizza without dropping anything!"
Yeah. I remember when I was 18 and knew everything.
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Have you seen the show "The Babyborrowers?"
No, but I bet the premise is 18-year-olds who think they know everything getting hit with a big fat reality bomb.
I've watched a few episodes of Baby Borrowers and laughed my ass off! A couple episodes in 2 couples broke up...one guy completely left the show, and I think they've all changed their minds about kids!
My favorite was the ditzy blonde who's toddler pooped, and all she did was put a new diaper on him. She didn't even wipe! That kid's real mom was probably putting diaper creme on for the next month!
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