Except that you are specifically claiming these things didn’t happen before the pandemic. YOU didn’t notice, but they were happening.
They weren’t happening at the places I went to pre-pandemic. Post-pandemic the places had changed in policy, demographics (toward more Trumpy truck dad idiots), or both.
If you went to McDonalds, or one of the places selling themselves specifically as places to take kids, you saw kids being terrors.
Exactly. During the pandemic to drum up business, many more places started marketing themselves as “family friendly”, and the truck dads and wine moms started to file in.
But ultimately, the management and owners that make the decisions that create these terrible environments, and the asshole parents who allow their children to behave like this in public are the parties to blame for the situation, and should be roundly blamed accordingly.
Edit: I have seen signage at one brewery that said something like unsupervised children running around is not permitted or tolerated, so there are signs of hope.
They weren’t happening at the places I went to pre-pandemic. Post-pandemic the places had changed in policy, demographics (toward more Trumpy truck dad idiots), or both.
Exactly. During the pandemic to drum up business, many more places started marketing themselves as “family friendly”, and the truck dads and wine moms started to file in.
But ultimately, the management and owners that make the decisions that create these terrible environments, and the asshole parents who allow their children to behave like this in public are the parties to blame for the situation, and should be roundly blamed accordingly.
Edit: I have seen signage at one brewery that said something like unsupervised children running around is not permitted or tolerated, so there are signs of hope.