To think parents can spend an hour in an trampoline park without alcohol

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Our local trampoline park has started to sell alcohol. I'm not impressed and won't be going back. This should be a safe space where children don't see adults drinking

This should be a safe space where children don't see adults drinking

I don't think children are going to be irreparably damaged by seeing their parents with a glass of wine.

Does the Wacky Warehouse pub chain still exist? I always thought the idea of a pub with a soft play attached was a pretty grim concept. Although they weren't so much a pub with a soft play centre attached, as a soft play centre with a pub attached, which is worse...

I've been to a soft play centre that sold booze (with some limits/rules about supervising children properly, iirc). That I found a bit weird, but a trampoline park can also be used by adults and it probably opens up their market a lot more if they can attract team-building or stag/hen outings in the evenings.

They're not going to be irreparably damaged by see their parents have fun without alcohol for an hour.

There’s a few posters suggesting that the alcohol is about making the trampolining park more attractive for adult events, but seriously, encouraging (or even allowing) adults to drink alcohol and then do trampolining sounds like an absolutely terrible idea from a health and safety perspective.

I’m worried about how the adults are going to go on the trampolines without spilling their drinks!

They're not going to be irreparably damaged by see their parents have fun without alcohol for an hour

But so? Why should the trampoline park forgo the chance to expand their business to people who do enjoy a beer while watching their children on the trampoline? That’s not going to damage the children either, and it makes more sense for their business.

They sell booze at our local theatre, no shit, you can take the kids to see a panto and buy a glass of wine. Even our local cinema sells wine. Take the kids to see Paddington and get yourself a glass of vino.

Most amusement parks also sell booze. Get yourself a beer and take the kids on the rides.

I've even seen restaurants sell booze that clearly cater for kids too. And ice rinks. Airports too. You can see people drinking when you're waiting with the kids to go see Santa in lap land. You can even drink on the plane.

It's a shocker. Will someone please think of the kids.

Why doesn't the NHS serve beers in the AandE waiting rooms then? Or how about maternity wards? Schools could sell beers at parent-teacher evenings. Expand their business, make money.

Why doesn't the NHS serve beers in the AandE waiting rooms then? Or how about maternity wards? Schools could sell beers at parent-teacher evenings. Expand their business, make money.

Because alcohol is a health disaster, and it does make people behave like gobshites. So publicly funded bodies - hospitals and schools - that aren’t in private enterprise, aren’t going to sell it. Duh. But the trampoline park is a private enterprise.

Our local trampoline park has lots of evening sessions for adults, maybe they are trying to make the place more appealing as a place for a night out or adult party venue.

Most trampoline places are for a mixed crowd, with adult jumping areas, deals for work events, parties etc. I’d think a bat would be a pretty good investment for them.

I don’t imagine many parents will be getting hammered during a standard one hour kids jump.

God, I would’ve loved a drink last time I took DD . Unfortunately our closest place is on an industrial estate only accessed by car, so no drinking and driving for me.

bar not bat!

Schools could sell beers at parent-teacher evenings

Well our annual school quiz night is BYOB

Our local Santa's grotto sold alcohol. I had a glass of wine ...shoot me.

People on mn have a very odd view of alcohol. Me and Dh have just opened a bottle of wine while we cook tea. DS is also in the kitchen...I guess he's now irreparably damaged 🙄

So if it demonstrably makes people act like gobshites, why can't OP say she'd prefer it not be served at a children's venue without getting her hair blown back?

And yeah I do judge the crap out of people who can't have fun without alcohol. Being at an English panto with the smell of booze and people getting progressively louder is grim as fuck.

(Do you realise how grim you sound?)

To be honest I switch off as someone throws ‘grim’ into the mix.

When I was at school there was always a bar at the summer and Christmas fete. One year the PTA screwed up and ran out of licence days, so couldn’t have a bar at the summer fete. They got around it with a tombola where you could win beer or wine and every ticket was a winner. The PTA made money, which was the whole point of the event.

I may have had some shitty hangovers in my life, but I doubt I’d have been saved from them if only I hadn't seen my dad swigging a beer at the fair in 1991.

Our church has an all day alcohol licence. Just saying

Could you let me know which church please. I think it’s time I found God. 😁

If I take the kids to the trampoline park I'm jumping too

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I haven’t blown her hair back! She can say she’d prefer it. The answer is to take her child elsewhere, because they are perfectly entitled to sell it.

Ha. This is hilarious. Trampoline parks are the worst. But you sound a bit “won’t someone PLEASE think of the children!”

Maybe it’s mainly for the adult nights and adult parties they have there?

Schools could sell beers at parent-teacher evenings.

Best idea I've heard today.

You're not unreasonable at all, anyone can go for an hour, a day or two days or years without alcohol, there's no need for it.

Our local mini golf place serves booze .
Doesn’t bother me