By Anonymous - 11/03/2011 02:27 - United States

Today, for our last kid-free dinner before the birth of our 4th child, we chose a Japanese hibachi restaurant. They sat us with a family with a toddler, who started screaming at the first flame trick, causing the chef to cease to do anything entertaining. FML
I agree, your life sucks 34 780
You deserved it 4 595

Same thing different taste

Top comments

dynky 3

I would have complained if I'd been sat with a toddler.

mintcar 9

It's called speaking up. Seriously though, people should learn to control their kids and they should also learn how to handle their outbursts in public. The sound of a crying baby is the worse sound there is.

Comments

FeistyKitten 3

Ask to be moved, genius. You paid to be there, you paid for the entertainment. You have the right to ask for a new seat! Don't get mad about something you have the power to change, it just makes you look like you have no balls.

A lot of women have more balls than men do #29.

ViolentBears 0

That would make them men though. So you can't say women have larger balls than a lot of men. How about using the term guts instead of balls so you don't attract feminists? :)

women do have balls! Usually bigger too. We wear them on out chest! ;)

Women do have balls. They're called ovaries. Usually, they give us the power to be more forceful than men. We ladies tend to blame it on "hormones" but it's really our "balls" sending the bitch juice through our system so we can do what we need to do (i.e. ask to be moved to another table)

A hibatchi resteraunt is where you sit around a stove type thing and they cook the meal in front of you. It's really quite entertaining.:)

Keep trying guys, there are only so many combinations of letters until you get it right. I believe in you!

you've been deprived as a child, haven't you?

Yes, it was horrible. Why do you have to bring up years of repressed memories? WHY!?

imabeast17 0

Could have been worse. You could have been in japan right now getting bitch slapped by a tsunami! You think of that before thinking how Fkked your life really is lol

*Sigh* Who would bring a young child to a restaurant where it serves delicate and strange foods, have large fire tricks and the chef throws food at you? I have been to one of these as well and I wouldn't take anyone under eight and then only if they were mature. Screaming baby or not, it wasn't polite to stop all the fire tricks for one individual. The parents should have taken turns in sitting with the baby in one of the normal seats away from the open hotplate rather then make paying adults miss out on their experience. It's not as simple as just being moved, they generally only have a few cooking bays and if one is full or has already started you can't join. It would be like going to a nightclub and they turn off all music because one customer has a headache- still same socialisation and drinks but you miss out on what you paid for.

How is #36's comment "well said"? A child younger than 8 can be brought to those restaurants without any problems. My 3 year old and 20 month old love the shows at Stix. They are amazed by the fire and love the food. It all depends on the individual child. The parents should have shown respect for the other paying customers and be asked to be moved to a booth or if they could just have their order boxed to go. As parents, is is our responsibility to not only "control" our children, but to also be courteous of a couple on a date when it is our child/children causing problems and try to solve said problems. And before anyone jumps on me: married couples, people with children, even people who have been married for 50 years, can so go on dates. My husband and I go on a date once a month because, to keep the romance alive, sometimes you need to get away from the kids and just be grown ups.

monnanon 13

well said 77 I feel very lucky that my 8 month old son is not a cryer, he i very happy to sit and look at things around him. I have never been to the resturant mentioned so I cant comment on how appropriate it would be to have kids in that type of resturant. If the resturant itself accepts children then kids should be ok there

ReynshineCutting 10

Ditto with 77. Every hibachi I've been to except one in Hawaii is a family friendly restaurant. The one we regularly go to has birthday parties for kids all the time. And some kids just do better than others, and some parents do better than others. If you have a kid that screams at everything first look at how you're handling it and know not to take them somewhere that could cause problems. If your kid is well behaved, there's no reason they shouldn't enjoy it too.

36's comment was well said because they were right, and it was their opinion on not taking someone under the age of eight. Opinions cannot be wrong you know? :)

@ 77 That was my point exactly in my post and I totally agree with you. Yes there are kids out there who would love the experience at these sort of restaurants, but if your child is obviously distressed or upset at what is going on, you should move the child away from the show, it's fair to other paying customers AND your child. I only said I wouldn't recommend it for anyone under eight is because there are a lot of tricks that can be scary and lots of loud noises that can upset a small child. Not to mention the food can be quite unique in taste. If the child has liked it and won't cause the whole show to stop then go ahead and bring them, I think it would be so cute. But if your child is screaming, crying and very obviously upset by what is going on then they really shouldn't be there. The last time I went to one of these restaurants we paid 40$ each + drinks. It was very expensive for our family to go, but the experience of the place and the tricks made it worth it. I would not be happy for anyone to go to one of these places, decide they don't like it and force the whole table to miss out on what they paid for rather then leave/move away- regardless of their age.

A pregnant woman should not be eating fish that has the potential of being contaminated with mercury, nor should she risk a parasitic infection (albeit a low chance) from eating raw fish.

ViolentBears 0

What does that have to do with anything? OP could have been eating steak.

Hibachi restaurants don't usually serve fish, in my (somewhat limited) experience. You're probably thinking of sushi restaurants.

ReynshineCutting 10

A lot of them do serve sushi or you can get salmon, shrimp, squid, or scallops cooked in front of you. Great. Now I want hibachi. Thanks guys lol.

My apologies, I mixed up sashimi with hibachi.

dynky 3

you can get vegetarian sushi (with avocado, veggies, egg, tofu instead of fish). it's really good. i'm a vegetarian and sushi is my favourite kind of food to eat out.

sourgirl101 28

36 I agree to a certain extent. Many people bring their children because it is quite entertaining to watch their expressions on their little faces. Providing that that are well behaved kiddies. 38 It's a hibachi not sushi restaurant.(though many serve sushi there.) The food is cooked.

I'm with the toddler here. What a dumb way to entertain yourselves.

If you're into caveman's ways of having fun, there is no point of us arguing.

I guess you also don't like fireworks ? You know, it's when rockets burst in the air and it does bang boom and colors and stuff .... Quite primary from your point of view, but entertaining though.

Yes, after witnessing a fire on an ammo depot and then on a gas pipeline, there is only so much that can get my attention. So, unless it involves people caught on fire, i'm not interested.

You sir are a racist, paying Asians to do tricks. Shame on you.

ulicksam 0

Why are you complaining? You're going to have a screaming rugrat that will annoy the **** out of everyone within earshot in no time.

bigantennaemay 3

EXACTLY!!!! But these idiot parents are so self-absorbed, they don't realize the impact having children can have on other people!

ReynshineCutting 10

Or maybe they'll be good parents and recognize appropriate situations for the children to be in and properly parent them.