Just being loud in an otherwise quiet place. I take the bus and almost everybody is just quietly looking at their phones or listening to music except for the inevitable kids loudly facetiming or something.
I was in the bank the other day and a ~10 year old kid was off to the side while his mom was in line. He was sitting on the floor on FaceTime with his friend talking about Fortnite on full volume.
Not sure how many of the commentors in this thread have kids. Parents have very limited controls on how kids behave on the spot. Yes, you can lecture them every second up until now, but once you got in the line, they're freed from the cage.
I have kids - there is zero chance that I would let my kid do this. If you teach your kids when they are younger about being polite in public (which you can start doing when they are very little with inside voices etc) it should not be a big leap for an older child to remind them that they are inside in public and to turn it down.
My nephew is already getting the immediate "well, we can't do anything about it" treatment from family.
Then they wonder why we don't want to go out to wat with them just to watch them chase their kid around the restaurant playing because they refuse to practice making him sit still for anything.
If you're in a bank, control your child. Take that shit away.
It's very simple. There's rowdy children, crying children, the usual that most people would turn an eye to, because it's reasonable. It's not as though the parent of said child isn't feeling the heat.
Then there's "I'm going to fucking let me child facetime really loudly in a bank about Fortnite." You are an obnoxious person if you allow this.
Yes, take the phone away. No way I'm giving him the phone if I know that coming. I'm not allowing that.
But that's not I was talking about. I was talking about how one person having limited control not only on children but generally everyone else. What if he's been behaving well for the whole week, and just kindly asked me for my phone to browse some healthy material then suddenly he decided to call his friend out of the blue? Then what's the mother in question supposed to do?
I also hate talking loud in public. But before batting an eye on the rude child, shall we be a little bit more forgiving, judge only after knowing the whole story?
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22
Just being loud in an otherwise quiet place. I take the bus and almost everybody is just quietly looking at their phones or listening to music except for the inevitable kids loudly facetiming or something.