Children running round Wetherspoons

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AIBU to think the Spoons isn’t a family pub in the vein of hungry horse etc. And that if your child sprints in to someone carrying a pint or two, causing them to fall and spill said pints, you should at the least apologise to the person and replace the drinks, rather than scoop up a beer soaked kid and walk off. Or when they pull a menu board down strand it back up and tell the child off, not reassure them it’s okay and the staff will sort it? There’s no play areas and the pub is very, very full right now.

-A very beer soaked RailAleFail who is mourning a pint of porter and her boyfriend’s cider

I’d march over to their table, take their drinks and down in one.

I went to a Weatherspoons recently for the first time. It was horrible. I wouldn't take kids there full stop.
But I was a lounge girl in a pub for a few years and kids were not allowed to run around full stop. It was very strict. People carry hot drinks too, its dangerous.

Sounds like a standard Spoons to me...!

It’s as much of a family pub as hungry horse. Childrens menus, crayons, colouring, changing facilities, good prices. All fair enough.
No child in any pub or restaurant no matter whether it’s The Ritz or a Hungry Horse should be doing that, running around anywhere, or bumping in to anyone.

Complain to the staff, our local pub ordered a family to leave in the middle of their meal due to the behaviour of chilsren

"I'm still waiting for you to replace my drinks that your child spilled." Loudly & repeatedly.

That sounds rubbish and the staff should be having a word. They shouldn’t need to but the kids could get hurt. I despise seeing kids running around where people are carrying things. Actually, I despise seeing kids run around anywhere which isn’t a playground

I think anyone who takes their kids into any pub/restaurant/eating place and fails to control them as appropriate for that occasion and location is the worst kind of swine tbh.

Bar staff comped my beer :D doesn’t get the smell out my (wool!) coat though. Sadly there’s about five staff members on so nobody free to turf them out.

It’s not a city centre spoons, it’s in a suburb, busy but not heaving. There’s usually no problems here.

Wouldn’t down their stuff in one. Eew lager and all that!

Update-final fucking straw, going to the bar, the 5-ish year old kid just stuck her hand IN my handbag and when I went OI the mother told me to not be dramatic.

Anxiety be damned. But they have ruined lunch

Oh they sound utter horrors. You deserve another pint for that.

I've found it best to tilt drinks slightly forward. If anyone clatters into you then at least you don't get soaked! Obviously you are still sans drink but not wearing it. has the added bonus of pissing the clatterer off

They are dicks. I do not let my children run around food service areas no matter how child friendly the venue. There is nothing child friendly about being scalded.

The more I hear about Spoons the more I feel it's not my kind of place.

I just think of greasy breakfasts and sad men sitting nursing a warm pint all night. Now there's unruly children too.

The breakfast is quite nice Sparkling

With regard to the OP YANBU. Those parents sound dreadful.

Amanduh

I agree.

They sound just awful and that behaviour isn't acceptable anywhere, however spoons is definitely a family pub where children are welcome and a little bit of noise (with apologetic parents) is always to be expected!!

YABVU to be in Wetherspoons in the first place, shitty places

YABVU to be in Wetherspoons in the first place, shitty places

Here come the snobs!

They have children's colouring pages and crayons as well as a children's menu so YABU thinking it isn't a family pub but YANBU to be annoyed at what happened, they sound like little shits

I have been known to go to O'Neill's for breakfast that's nice. Plus no children whenever I have been.

Maybe I should give it a go sooty, wonder if some Spoons are better than others.

Here come the snobs!

Don't be silly. I wouldn't go to Wetherspoons if you paid me. Not because I'm a snob, but because Tim Martin is another one of those Brexit-supporting millionaires and I woudn't want to give him a penny.
YABU being in Wetherspoons, OP.

I cannot understand why someone who was going out without children would go to one of these places.

YANBU to expect the parents to buy you new one.

YABVU to go to Wetherspoons after that shite they were spouting out in their unwanted "news magazine"

That’s awful. That’s why I hate going places...

Ooooh. Just looked up my nearest one. It's also a hotel.

Complain to management and ask them to cover the cost of cleaning your garments. I did this once when I got squirted with tomato ketchup by the next table having a food fight!