I was at Pinks on a Saturday afternoon. A foreign couple had a baby, between the ages of one and two. He was being rowdy, and began crying. His dad picked him up and yelled at him. The baby hit his head on the table and the dad continued to yell in a foreign tongue. Everyone stared. I glanced, then looked away. I couldn't help but notice all the other people staring at the couple, though.
In sociology, I learned that it is out of the norm to take a young child to a nice sit-down restaurant to eat because the child would most likely not be well-behaved and therefore a distraction and annoyance to the other guests. However, Pinks is hardly what I call a fancy restaurant and its sitting area is outside. So why was it so hard for people to understand that a baby actually cries? It was so hard for people to grasp they they had to stare. It must belittle the parents' skills and they probably left questioning whether or not they were adequate parents. Way to fuck up another person's (couple's) ego, society. We're a fucked up world. We can destroy by looks.
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