to want one, just one, coffee shop, cafe, eating place to be child free?

[NearlyMrsCustardsHardHat]

AIBU? Really?

All I ask for is that between the hours of 11 and 2 during the week my precious half hour lunch break is not interrupted by my ankles being rammed by a pushchair, or a grubby little urchin throwing food or wailing or just being within a 5 meter radius of me. It's not much. Actually, rewind, can I just ban the ineffectual mums that come with said urchins?

I love kids. I just don't love them between the hours of 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday.

AIBU to just want a small bit of child free/floppy parenting sanctuary?

Go to the pub?

go somewhere expensive.

Full of kids.

Thats the pubs are full of kids

yanbu

YANBU but I'm surprised you can't find one. There's always one.

Try a wine bar.

Go to a cafe that is upstairs or has very cramped tables - if you lived near Bath I could give you my recommendations

And I understand you - on my precious few child-free hours - I don't want to see any other children at all.

You sound a bit miserable tbh. (well, you did ask!) Badly behaved children are very annoying, but I think we are very bad at integrating children in social situations in the UK. Parents have a responsibility to teach them to behave, but the rest of society also has a responsibility to welcome them, and accept them in social situations, including restaurants and cafes.

Yabu.
Children have as much right to be there as you.
How are they supposed to learn if parents cannot take them.

Become, what my grandmother referred to as a;

"Street eater".

Yanbu. Nothing wrong with wanting a peaceful adult break in your precious lunchhour.

Good advice about trying somewhere upstairs.

Oh I freely admit to being miserable, it comes from working full time and having to put up with floppy parents in my lunch break :o

Seriously though I can't be the only person out there that feels most eating places are now no go areas at lunch time?

Sadly we don't have anywhere with an upstairs that isn't 'disabled friendly' and thus open to pushchairs.

I think I'd go with buggy-free, that should solve most of the problems.

I think YABU. YANBU to want adult time, but it is up to you to find a way around this usual societal issue. Kids exist. Just cos you've got a job doesn't mean they should all be scuttled out of your way.

Yanbu.

"Sadly we don't have anywhere with an upstairs that isn't 'disabled friendly' and thus open to pushchairs."

So is it just children you don't like, or people in wheelchairs as well?

Try the bookies. Or a knocking shop/private shop. Or an old people's home.

Oh i knew someone would pick up on that! I didn't mean it as in 'sadly disabled people can get up there too' i literally meant that there is NOWHERE child unfriendly to go and have some peace and quiet.

Jesus, some people will read anything into anything!

Sadly we don't have anywhere with an upstairs that isn't 'disabled friendly'
Charming, now you don't want to be around me in my wheelchair?

perhaps you could try going to a country that has no kids and then you could have every luch time with absolutely no children.