Can't be too precious. Over 8 billion of us!
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Hey Scott, you cheap MFer, here is an idea: pay for an internet service at your home instead of sponging off of a coffee shop and then enjoy your quiet bachelor life, internet experience with your blow up Hayden dolls in the privacy of your parents basement.
What a douche. I can just see him being one of those pretentious ******** sitting by themselves with a laptop at Starbucks. Lol....
I'm nice, but kids can be extremely annoying. I don't hate them, but I could do without their presence in plenty of situations.
This was difficult advice for me to hear. I'll probably need to wait another few years before taking my family out to dinner.
Maybe the people who think children don't belong in public should be the ones who stay home.
Of course. But don't go in public, to work, and then ***** about it.
Sure. But a coffee shop shouldn’t be one of those expected situations. I can see getting annoyed by someone bringing a baby to a movie, maybe the library reading areas, or even at a nice restaurant. But, a coffee shop? Get a set of headphones if you want quiet in public.
There’s plenty of places I don’t want to bring my own kids but that tweet by him is completely douche behavior.
There are definitely places that kids shouldn’t be but coffee shops are not one of those places.
There are definitely places that kids shouldn’t be but coffee shops are not one of those places.
I agree, the post I responded to was way over the top. Coffee shops are known as relatively quiet spaces that many people use to work. I probably wouldn't tweet about it, but maybe get the coffee to go if your kids are running around and yelling?
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KidSilverhair
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What are the odds he took his laptop to the coffee shop to get away from his own distracting, noisy kids/family, only to be punked by these other people who had the audacity to bring their kids with them? To a public coffee shop? Where people might be expected to have family members with them? Oh, the irony …
(If I went to a generally quiet public space to work, and then a family with some noisier kids came in, I’d be a bit peeved, but mainly at my own bad luck instead of using social media to attack this family going about their day. It’s not on them to pipe down and treat your coffee shop like a library, if you need quiet to work it’s on you to have headphones/find a quieter spot.)
(If I went to a generally quiet public space to work, and then a family with some noisier kids came in, I’d be a bit peeved, but mainly at my own bad luck instead of using social media to attack this family going about their day. It’s not on them to pipe down and treat your coffee shop like a library, if you need quiet to work it’s on you to have headphones/find a quieter spot.)
Agreed. Anytime I see people trying to do work, they have noise cancelling headphones. It’s the only way to concentrate in public. Maybe he’s just too cheap to invest in a good pair of headphones?
It’s possible that his coffee time is his escape from what troubles him at home (or home MBB games).
Does anyone know if he has kids? I kind of sympathize because I used to be that douchebag that would get extremely annoyed by kids in restaurants and planes and whatnot (not enough to say anything on Twitter or in person, I’m not an idiot.) but that all completely changed when I had a kid. Doesn’t even remotely phase me at all now. The only thing I think of now is empathy for the parents or I think about what an ******* I used to be.
Getting annoyed by kids doesn't make someone a douchebag
