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?

There is a chain of pubs called Ember Inns (loads of them round here) - no admittance to anyone under 14. And they enjoy enforcing it.

Some of my NCT friends have been most to be told that yes, even 2 week old bf babies "count" as under 14. As do tiny babies (whatever form of nourishment they take) even if the whole family has come after a funeral.

The food is great ime. Lots of big plates of scampi and chips and pub food.

Have lunch at your desk and quit complaining.

This notion that everyone wants to be in proximity of weans and to not do so is curmudgeonly,well frankly other folks weans and gurning is pita

YANBU. I dislike all kids apart from mine

Has anyone said something about the Italians yet?

I agree with the OP - I don't want to be anywhere near young kids when I am out for a peaceful lunch tbh. Sometimes (not all) you just want a bit of adult only time.

God, it's the 'you're miserable' and 'quit complaining' types who come across as miserable to me, not the OP. [hgrin] Can't have fun without kids marauding around, then?! [hwink]

It's not as if MrsCustard is asking for ALL children to be banned EVERYWHERE - just one place.

I fully admit to being a curmudgeon.

That is a GOOD word.

OP, is there and M&S cafe or a Waterstone's cafe available to you? I've always found them child-free.

I freely admit to being a curmudgoenly misery guts :)

Why should I stay at my desk? Do you wish me to get DVT? I'm entitled to a break you know! I'm also, last time I checked, entitled to be a grump.

Christ no all the Waterstones round here are full of mums and babies.

I am not vile much - children can and should be welcome in 90% of places, but there should be a sacrosant 10% of child free places for when you just want an adult only zone.

YABU and a delusional nutjob. HTH.

Oh fantastic! I can cope with being a delusional nutjob :o

I mean seriously, where the fuck do all you people live that everywhere's full of kids? I can find at least 5 places (albeit posh ones that I can't afford to go in to) with no kids at all within walking distance of any given place in a city at any time. I can only conclude that you're hallucinating children.

Delusional nutjob does have a certain appeal [hgrin]

I agree with GerOrfMo1Land about the 10% of child free places. I very rarely eat out atm but it would be nice to know I could choose to go somewhere child free if I wanted to.

Now that really wouldn't be too bad.

Hallucinating floppy parents however....

Maybe thats why they're floppy parents

There's loads of pubs that ban kids. The O'Neills chain for example. All the places near us are child free regardless though.

I miss kids during my lunch break.

I'm surprised you have such difficulty actually. I work in a reasonble size town and very rarely end up surrounded by howling babies. Wine bars are generally child free, as are places upstairs which haven't quite got round to becoming DDA compliant.

I think YABU becauseI find it very hard to believe that there really is nowhere child free in your town at lunch time and suspect that actually, you just get pissed off that there are children in your local Starbucks.

YANBU on the occasional Saturday I abandon the dds to dh I want somewhere for lunch where no kids will bug me. Joy of joys found a little place last Saturday on cobbled street, narrow door, cramped higgledy piggidly tables, I dived in had a blissful lunch, glass of wine and read my book.

I agree with the OP/Herod.
Far too many children around being looked after by stupid parents:
The liberal floppy,
The Lidl shouter,
The discusser,
The teenage screamer,
and the lardy lazys.
I can ignore them by setting up a 'Someone Else's Problem Field' around them.

Really laughing at herod.

I love inaccessible,pram unfriendly,won't reheat your home made slops gaffs.keeps all the sense of entitlement parents out,types who think their family din is inevitable part of parenting.well it isn't

Finds it highly amusing (and just as I expected) that The Entitled (and let's be honest; usually also Floppy) Parents are even coming onto this thread, where the OP ask for just one place to be child-free and objecting to to that.

Some people in need of a large grip.

'it's not like this on the continent'