(09-25-2018 06:52 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Got another one.....

People who bring their fricking pets into stores and businesses.

To be perfectly clear, I'm not talking about service animals.

I was at the local cable office for a small issue and this lady brought her little lapdog into the office! Of course in today's hyper-sensitive world, the guy at the counter wouldn't DARE tell her to leave toe dog outside.

It's like for God's sake, leave Fido in the car (it was only in the low 70's) or better yet, leave him AT HOME.

What is it with people thinking they need to drag their pets with them no matter WHERE then go. Was in the grocery store and some guy had his yip-dog with him, shopping away. I've also seen people try to bring them into restaurants.

WFT is wrong with people? When did we cross the line to a point where ANYTHING goes and NO ONE is allowed to say a word?

It must have started with Pirates who had Parrots on their shoulders. The Parrot went every where the Pirate did and nobody said anything to the Pirate because they were afraid of him, "Aaarrrghhh!" And they stayed away because of all of Polly's digested crackers that dripped down the backside of the Pirate's coat.

Now we get to my pet peeve. Now that restaurants are basically smoke free by law, why can't the restaurants have 2 sections like they did back in the "smoking section days" only this time when you are seated you are asked, "Children, or no Children?"

Nothing pisses me off more than to wait to a late hour to eat (think 8:30 to 9 PM) and to go to an establishment where my wife and I expect to lay down between $50 - $100 for the outing, and to have the quiet pleasure of each other's company destroyed by the screaming child in the booth next to ours who's azz should be at home in bed! But to make it even worse the parent (frequently a mom) who is out with another parent (another mom) has their kids up way too late and the children aren't bad, they are just tired. But the women are there to chat and have a drink and have dragged their children, like the pets you speak of, into an environment and at an hour, which is not conducive to children, just to drive insane all of the other patrons who wanted a pleasant quiet evening out. And God forbid I take my wife to a late movie after the meal because the same two damn women with kids in tow will show up at the flick so that their kids screaming ruins the movie for everyone else.

When we were in our 20's and 30's with children and we wanted to eat out as a family we went right after work and if a kid started acting up one of us took them outside while the other finished the meal, and then we rotated custody. What we never dreamt of doing was remaining in the restaurant and ruining the meal for everyone else!

And we were deviating from when we were kids and our parents took us out. Had we raised a ruckus at a restaurant my father would have given me a glare and I would have shut up immediately because that glare meant there was rump pain waiting at home!

So, I postulate that people bring their dogs to the business offices because they don't have a screaming child handy with which to annoy the hell out of everybody else! Why? Because the people who do these things whether with pets or children are social pariahs who hold the rest of us in contempt anyway!

I would applaud and patronize any establishment that ushered them out of the door.

We have relieved half of our stress because of them. We no longer go to the movies. We just buy the damned movie when it comes out. We prefer the theater experience, but the advent of the cell phone ended the movies, lest I be arrested for assault!