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

[belay]

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

Can you buy wine at the cinema in England? And on a train? And drink alcohol in a park?

yes but you can't buy beer in McDonalds.

Our local one has sold alcohol since it opened.

I wish softplay did, that place is hell on earth.

Yep but they give you a plastic training cup.
my local cinema serves you in real glass. Mind you, they also bring you food in plates with real cutlery too, so we must be reasonably civilised!

But now I see people clutching their plastic cups of crappy cheap wine at the cinema and can’t help wondering... why?

Well I had a glass of wine at the panto, don't think I "clutched" it though, just held it and enjoyed it. Why? Why not. I'm not an alcoholic and I fancied a glass of wine.

Doesn't it also come down to the profit you can make on alcohol? Our trampoline park was rammed when it first opened so probably made a tidy profit. It is now less of a novelty so fewer people go but I expect their insurance premiums are the same, they still have to have several staff on duty at all times, still have to light & heat the whole place. If a few people want a glass of wine or a beer when they go, I don't really care.

We once went to a great new soft play area, never went back due to the sale of alcohol. It's not the atmosphere I want at a children's activity.

I was one of those 80's kids who spent a lot of time in a pub beer garden (or sat in the car with a bag of crisps) while parents had a weekend drink.

All lovely fun, but if I'd been in a fucking trampoline park while they had a pint that would have been loads better. kids today don't know they're born

Pretty sure these places also do adult-only evening sessions. For those there with kids, I can't see any difference to having a glass of wine when out for lunch with the kids. I would puke if I had a glass then jumped and it sounds a bit dangerous, but that's why you sign a waiver. As long as the drinking adult isn't driving everyone home, I can't really see the issue.

This is a thread?

Yes, trampoline parks have bars. They also have signs up saying don’t drink and jump. They’re pandering to corporates who visit for team building (no I’m not kidding). They then stay on for a pint. I don’t think this is any worse/ better than bowling alleys. Or the massive inflatable aqua park off the M4. It largely caters to children and teens but beer is served all around the park. Again with signs saying don’t drink before doing the obstacle course/ inflatables. Trust me that is a not a good combo.

I went heaps of times in summer, I didn’t drink as was with my children. But there were plenty of people having a few pints in the sun after doing the aqua park. And if I was with friends and someone else was driving. I may have done too.

Surely it’s about choice? I actually had a glass of vino last night at the cinema. Why? Because I fancied one. I don’t get why people are so sanctimonious about this. I hate the fact that rubbish food is available at all these places. Can’t escape without a bar of chocolate being inhaled by my children. Can they not survive without chocolate for an hour?

All of these places want to make money. And that’s why. That can’t surprise anyone.

@enjoyingscience
Hahaha brilliant! I was one of those kids too. I mean they get a fucking trampoline. All I got was half a lemonade and lime and a packet of cheese and onion crisps.
Fucking snowflakes

Sadly alcohol is so embedded in British culture that its consumption has become normalised in almost every daily activity.

This, and its truly, truly sad. What's worse, is that they're in a car near you and your kids now.

What on earth is wrong with kids seeing adults drink? My 3 kids have seems me drink almost everyday over Christmas, because my OH is off work and I’ve been able to have a drink where’re o fancy it. Doesn’t mean my children are unsafe

jaxhog don't be ridiculous.

Pull yourself together @Jaxhog

V good @enjoyingscience - I was kicking stones round the pub car park once I'd finished my Britvic pineapple juice!

STONES. You lucky bastard. I only had inner city concrete to play with

Bet you’re fun at party’s op

Jaxhog you need to see someone about that paranoia.

In the village we live in kids are brought up to be 'pub kids' ...most Sunday afternoons the local village pub is full of families. Only the kids don't know they're born.....they get actual food and usually a magazine from the shop unlike the pop and crisps we got as a child!

80s rural idyll! @aroundtheworldyet

This is the problem with the binge drinking culture in the UK, people see alcohol in such a distorted light. There's nothing wrong with having a beer at a kids party or while you watch your kids at an activity. Getting on one and drinking loads in this kind of place is a problem. I don't see the difference between a coffee, a soft drink or a beer/glass of wine for people who can just have the one. It's not the place to have a session and in most other cultures no one would even think twice about this kind of place serving alcohol.

@expatinspain
I mean I genuinely don’t know how you got from “they have a bar” to your statement.
It’s like you just made it all up!

“Bet you’re fun at party’s op”

Some people don’t need to drink to have fun and to be fun. Alcohol provides only an artificial feeling of having fun. It also lifts the mood a bit before having it crash. Alcohol harms your health, kills your brain cells and may cause dependency.

So, drinking is worth it because “it’ s impossible to have fun without alcohol?!” I guess yeah, if you are naturally a dull person.

Contrary to the pp’s sarcastic statement, I believe that you ARE fun OP! But not artificially so 🌷🙂

People on this thread really need to get a fucking grip!!!!

I do feel a bit weird about alcohol being sold at soft play and kids places. It just gives out the wrong message - that drinking whilst caring for kids is fine, normal, and someone will always push it and go too far and the children will suffer. Most will be driving kids after too.

My 7 year old see's me with a glass of red wine on an evening regularly - maybe too much - but I'd never drink it whilst out doing an activity.