Reply #97: I didn't let the kids in the club...

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...because I don't want them to be trampled by drunks dancing, or have beer spilled on their heads, or hear someone yelling a string of profanity over the music - not to mention that the music is so loud that I have to wear industrial-strength earplugs. I was the one actually looking out for the kids. No one pissed themselves. But if the kid was hurt or slipped on spilled beer, guess who would have gotten their asses sued off?

But hey, I'm just a jackass concerned with myself, right?

Notice I said their were plenty of Port-A-Johns outside with reasonable lines. It was a matter of the parents thinking they didn't have to listen to me or even consider the environment to which they were subjecting their kids.

A parent letting a kid scream in a public place to "teach a lesson" is only teaching a lesson to the people around them - that the parent is an inconsiderate ass.

Being a self-rightous parent doesn't excuse you from blowing your top without really reading the contents of a post.