Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Sincerely, The Table Behind You

Episode Date: October 10, 2015

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Pat and Stu. Weekdays at 5 p.m. Eastern on the Blaze Radio Network. Okay. So we all have children or we've had children or we've had, okay, I got it. Don't look at me like, I never had children. What are you talking about? I know, okay, but you've been around them. All right, whether you'll like them or not, you've been around them.

And you also have been around children who are, you know, using the old children we're meant to be seen and not heard adage. which is true some of the time. True some of the time. We've all had children throw tantrums, throw hissy fits. Hell, we've had adults do that around us. We've all had adults, you know, reverting back to their childhood and throwing hissy fits in our lives.

I'm not saying that happened to me. at all. I know that people told me stories. And then we've had, you know, been out to dinner. Let's say we go out to dinner. You and I. We're sitting down

having a nice cold drink of Coca-Cola Zero on ice. Waiting for our steak dinner. Having our peanuts, throwing the shells on the floor. Let's say, I don't know, let's use

Texas Roadhouse, for example. And I'm waiting for my steak to come with my French fries that I'd like overcooked, please. A little bit, like a little bit crispy, please. That's fine. You can burn a couple. We'll kill the fries.

And, no, I don't want any vegetables. No, no, take those off the plate. And behind you is a screaming little kid. kid. Now, you say to yourself, okay, the kid's screaming back there. How long can it last? Right? Because as a parent, I have a child that is screaming at a restaurant. Now, I know that, you know, the roadhouse, the Texas roadhouse is, you know, a steakhouse, a big open bar steakhouse. And you go there and, you know, You can talk and people are conversing and drinking and having a good time.

And it's not the sit down in the shadows and have a nice meal, nice quiet meal. And we'll just talk quietly and converse. We've got our little lamp on the table and everybody wants to be quiet and not be seen really. And yes, I would like some of that. Please thank you. No, it's a steakhouse. Yeah, you want a beer. Yeah, give me some of those peanuts.

Yes, okay. Texas Roadhouse probably sings that happy birthday to people all the time, too. And it's been a long time so better than Texas Roadhouse. But according to one story, they claim that they're loud and proud. That's Texas Roadhouse. Right. I mean, they believe that. They believe that the Tex, hey, that's who we are.

We're a Texas Roadhouse. we We want Their quote is We are proud to be loud If you want to hear clinking wine glasses And clinking forks If you don't

This was her quote This is wait a minute The rep for Texas Roadhouse Told the news station We are proud to be loud If you want to hear clinking wine glasses And clinking forks

Then this probably isn't The place for you. Okay. Well, first of all, Texas Roadhouse rep, that's a horrible quote.

You should have left it at we're proud to be loud. Of course, anyway, whatever. This lady has her 10-month-old son at the restaurant, and he begins

yelling, according to the mother, excitedly. Now, despite, my attempts to quiet him. He wouldn't quiet. He wouldn't quiet down. Okay, let's stop right there for just a second.

At what point, as a parent, do you say, okay, it's gone on long enough? I'm starting to maybe be a little embarrassed, but I'm also a little frustrated because no matter what the loud and proud Texas Roadhouse claims from their representative, loud and proud is different than screaming kid in the booth next to you. Okay? Sorry to disappoint you, Texas Roadhouse, but it is.

Now, obviously, that's not the way they feel. Because the manager of Texas Roadhouse, after two ladies who were upset that this mother let her kid scream and not walk her out of the restaurant. Go for a walk. Maybe walk around the restaurant. Maybe carry the kid around the restaurant a little bit. Calm him down. You know, even if you're loud and proud,

the kid can kind of maybe get a feel that you don't need to be screaming like a little banshee. Okay? Calm the hell down. I'm sure. And I know that there's been times where maybe you, I don't know, take the kid outside. and say it's not acceptable behavior. Okay, you're 10 months old. So?

Maybe you talk to the children like, I don't know, you would a person because that's what they are. So two ladies, especially ones, gets up and puts a note down on the table. Thank you for ruining our dinner with your screaming kid. Okay. You know, they're pissed. I get it. However, however, okay, it said, thanks for ruining our dinner with your screaming kid,

sincerely the table behind you. And then they return to their seats. So rather than bending this hour, I'll read you the story because it's kind of, the way it's written is kind of, I don't know, it's got to be written by a roadhouse person. Rather than bending to the whims of the complaints, the restaurant manager sympathized with Leach.

Oh, I bet he did. I bet he did. He copped to the family's meal and told the women, hey, you can finish your dinner, but then you need to leave quietly. Okay, so, A, he copse the crying baby's mother's family, and he tells the two ladies that were pissed, Hey, you can finish your meal, but you're going to have them leave quietly after that.

Okay. What's wrong with this picture? Hey, the screaming kid mom gets no comp. Screw that. You weren't trying to calm your kid down. You weren't trying. I get that you, you know, you've got a 10-month-old kid, and it's good to be out and about out in the public and go to a restaurant.

But now's the time. Now is the time to create a human being that says, oh, this particular action isn't appropriate. So I guess I won't do it. But now if I go to a restaurant and start screaming, nobody will stop me. It will be okay. And I get a free meal for my family.

I'm going to continue my bad behavior. And the two ladies that were pissed at the restaurant for allowing it to happen, they get zipped. They don't even get a free loaf of bread. They don't even get the sodas comped. They get, hey, finish your meal and get out. Okay. Now, okay, that's the way you want to be.

And, you know, the mom, I look, we all had kids in restaurants. I get it. I get it. You know, that's why I asked earlier at what point do we say that's enough. Because, look, kids are kids. And babies are babies. And they're going to cry. and they're going to be upset, and there's going to be something that happened,

and they're going to be all wound up. However, there is a point. And, I mean, it's different for everyone I know. And apparently with this lady, the point is not during the entire dinner time at the restaurant. It'll be sometime two weeks later when, we're going to go out to a restaurant again. You can't act like you did last time. either A, how did I act last time? Because I don't remember.

I was just being a little punk kid and screaming. Or B, got your free meal, didn't I? I'm going to continue to do it. So zip it. There's got to be a point when it's annoying and you have to stop it. Other human beings around you expect to have a, you know, out in public, you expect to have the same kind of enjoyable experience for everyone. That's the whole point.

We're all going to this restaurant and we're saying, hey, we're here. Yes, we're all different. But we're in this one environment and we're going to have fun and enjoy the food that this environment, food and drink, that this environment is creating for us. And this environment is loud and proud. I'm sorry, proud to be loud, and that's okay. But are they proud to be screaming kids in booths all around the damn restaurant? No.

No. And there was, there's plenty of places, you know, there's plenty, look, look, there's plenty of places that you can go to where there's no kids allowed. There's plenty of restaurants that have, you know, no kids, no kids policy, that's fine. That's their business, right? It's like the smoking thing. I mean, why make, you don't need to make a law. You say, we have a no-kid policy, no kids. You want to come here, just an adult, just adults.

So you either come there or you don't, right? So there's places that have kids, I got it. So you're going to have a screaming kid. There's a difference between screaming a little 10-month-old and the raging around the, I wonder in a year from now, when that kid is walking and he starts screaming and running up and down between the aisles through the booze, I wonder if the same thing will happen where the manager will say, oh, that's okay. I know you're bothering the entire restaurant, but we're going to comp you a free meal. And everybody else is in the restaurant that got annoyed with your kid running around screaming and making noise up and down.

Yeah, no, that's fine. They can just finish their meal and get out. You may want to rethink that, Texas Roadhouse. You may want to rethink that. And as far as the mother goes, Katie Leach, stop it. Your kid is not more important than the rest of the world. Okay? Your kid is more important than the rest of the world to you.

To the rest of us? Just a screaming little kid. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. Don't miss the morning blaze with Doc and Skip. The latest failure of VF35 is lighter pilots, those who weigh last, could when they eject, have their neck snap. Generally speaking, when you eject from a plane, you don't want the neck to snap. Right, you're ejecting to save the life of the pilot.

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