Baby in weatherspoons

[Snooky84]

I took my other child to see a kids show that lasted just over an hour. My husband dropped me off and went to weatherspoons for some breakfast it was 10am SO MORNING TIME.
He took our 1 year old baby with him. He used table service. He had full English and coffee, baby had water, toast and some of daddy's breakfast.
On the next table there was a couple drinking.
The man was smiling at the baby and making her laugh. When the woman had a go at my husband saying babies should not be in pubs. Husband pointed out weatherspoons have a kids menu and staff hadn't asked them to leave. Then husband just sat and enjoyed breakfast. Extra coffee. Then picked me up.
I was fine with baby going as during the day it's more restaurant.
If it was 10pm then no baby of course.

We go to spoons a lot mil 94 loves it. We did have a problem with a baby that cried for 20minutes when the mother sat there drinking cocktails at 4in the afternoon and someone said something which resulted in a foul mouth of abuse. But as soon as she actually paid the kid some attention it stopped
your husband was right to take the baby in

I used to work in Spoons. A dad having breakfast at breakfast time? Less common than the local alkies having their first pint but still fine.

(I only once asked two women and their brood of feral kids to leave as they ordered one chicken nugget meal and then proceeded to try and get pissed while their kids ran around).

We have taken our baby to Weatherspoons many times! I wouldn’t in the evening no, I think they have a policy on that anyway but day time fine. Always other babies and children in there too.

Wouldn't be my choice to take a baby into.
You get a lot of undesirables getting pissed at 10am

I vote YANBU its fine for kids but I have also been on both sides of this.

Once I was sat in spoons, I was 18 sat with a friend on our lunch break and wasn't even drinking alcohol, must have been 12 to 1 ish so noon. A mother came in with 4 kids who where running riot then she proceeded to zone in and scream slurs at us about how inappropriate it was that we where 'corrupting' her children.

No one even knew what she was objecting too (seemed she was just out for a fight - the 'you looking at me' type). I think I did say that maybe a PUB wasn't the place for her little angels if she felt so protective of their civic virtues and that maybe screaming insults at strangers was possibly more damaging than what ever offense she had took to us.

We went there for lunch everyday and knew the staff well, they where equally as baffled by it.

I however think weather spoons is fine for kids and I take mine there sometimes, I just think that particular woman was a twat.

Only place I can really afford to eat out, and the dc love it!

Perfectly fine and the woman was just being goady. There are other pubs that don't allow children if that's the drinking environment you prefer.

Otherwise: ISTM if you're in a Wetherspoons you don't get to be judgy about people drinking in a Wetherspoons, whether it's 7AM or 10PM. On the relatively rare occasions I have a Spoons breakfast I feel perfectly entitled to enjoy a glass of wine with it. Seems little point in having a breakfast in a pub otherwise.

I would judge people drinking at 10am rather than someone having breakfast with a baby.

Who the fuck is drinking in a pub at 10am??

You do realise that not everyone works 9 - 5? If you've worked a nightshift 10am is 'a drink after work'.

Amused at the amount of people surprised that there is drinking happening during opening hours .... in a pub! 😅

You don't work nightshift do you?

On the next table there was a couple drinking.
The man was smiling at the baby and making her laugh. When the woman had a go at my husband saying babies should not be in pubs.

It sounds like the woman was annoyed at the man for giving attention to the baby instead of to her (or is sensitive about babies for any number of reasons) and she (wrongly) took it out on your DH.

Whatever her situation, it sounds like her companion being delighted by a baby was the last thing she expected/wanted and her reaction was nothing to do with whether it's appropriate to take children to a family-friendly pub for breakfast.

To those wringing their hands over people having a pint a 10 am - a LOT of people work nights / odd shift patterns and may just be winding down with a cold drink after a long shift before they go to bed.
Judge not lest ye be judged!

Thank goodness, no, not me. My DH did before he retired.

If a place provides high chairs then of course it’s fine for a baby.

I wouldn't be listening to people who are choosing to drink at 10am! 😂

It in my experience @Chaniya it doesn’t seem to matter how posh / rough the area. There’s ALWAYS a few hard core boozers in every Wetherspoons. It’s the nature of the beast. I do agree there’s also some totally sober breakfasters as well. But it is totally never a surprise to be eating alongside some pretty hardcore drinkers.

Should have replied to her “I don’t think you should be in here with that outfit on…so it looks like we are both offended. Perhaps you should leave first?”