That they should have just got a fucking babysitter

[Happyeverafter73]

I am sitting in a nice restaurant trying to have a good evening with my friends. And the couple next to me have their baby, no more than 1 month old. Screaming his or her head off for half an hour.

AIBU that they should not bring a tiny baby into a restaurant?

Who knows how much they need the night out

You have no idea as to how much anyone in the restaurant needed a night out.

Not taking a screaming baby out is selfish.

Who wants to be a resilient in a restaurant on a Friday evening. Most people just want some food, wine and chat.

Why should you need resilience to "endure" a night out at a restaurant with your friends??! Bloody hell

Also not everyone can just "get a fucking babysitter"

But then surely most parents accept the fact that you have to forgo certain areas for a while, until they're a bit older at least.

It's what I did.
When our children were small, if we ever ventured out for a meal, we made sure it was either lunchtime, or very early evening and we always chose child friendly places with lots of other couples with young babies, so that we wouldn't be annoying anybody.
You only have to suck it up for a few years.

It's not fair on the other diners.
Who wants to listen to a screaming baby.

If you can't 'get a fucking babysitter.' That'd YOUR problem, not an entire restaurant of paying customers.

They can't be that good a set of friend if you're reaching for your phone and jumping on mumsnet!

I dont see how a newborn is noisier than a table full of people tbh.

A newborn's cry can cut through the brain like a drill!
It's designed to get attention and is impossible to ignore.

What a rude post seriously think anyone agreeing should be embarrassed of themselves ...

Baby can't help but cry and it. At be the first time they've got out ..

Nobody's blaming the baby, sparkly...

What a rude post seriously think anyone agreeing should be embarrassed of themselves ...

I think we've found the baby's mum.

Err I'm very resilient thanks, I would be massively tolerant of baby cries on a train, bus, waiting room etc but not on a Friday night in a restaurant. That's just massively entitled selfish behaviour and they should be asked to leave.

What a rude post seriously think anyone agreeing should be embarrassed of themselves

No not embarrassed.

The parents however should be.

The shit stirrers are out early tonight

They aren't unreasonable for wanting to have a meal out and a young baby would probably sleep through.

They are unreasonable for not taking their baby out when it started screaming.

I can't believe anyone would say people should put up with a screaming baby just because someone can't get a babysitter. No babysitter = take baby and take them outside
No baby sitter = no night out

They should have taken the baby to the car to feed or calm him/her. I try to be as thoughtful as I can when I'm out with baby.
But neither am I going to lock myself in the house for the next five plus years.
I deal with many adults that ruin my nights out but such is life.

No way I would have left my 1 month old with anyone at that age! Also a lot of first time parents have a hard time adjusting to new lifestyle (no restuarants etc.) for a while. I bet after this experience they'll be less likely to do it again.

Baby - babysitter =take away at home imo. .

Restaurants cost money; people pay good money to go out for a nice meal, it really isn't right to inflict a crying baby on them. Why didn't one of them go outside with the baby??

I never used to want to go to a restaurant with my DDs when they were small.

What a pair of entitled arse holes.
We lived miles from friends and family and had no sitters, you just don't do it.
Even taking them out if they scream/cry they have still interrupted other people.
It's just one of the sacrifices you make when you have children and haven't built up a network of sitters.