Does "21 and over" include those who can't even wipe their own buutts?
Seems like the answer will vary according to where you live, what life phase you're in and perhaps your personal tolerance for screaming children. I've written about this before and it seems most people (me included) don’t have a problem with kids in a bar especially if its nonsmoking, relatively quiet and early in the evening.
So I found this whole little brouhaha over a bar in Brooklyn called Union Hall banning strollers pretty funny. The place had apparently become a gathering spot for the neighborhood's legion of parents with young kids, and the owners got tired of having half the place overrun by strollers.
What I didn't see and don’t understand was this – why not leave them outside (the strollers, I mean, not the kids)? I mean God forbid you keep your status symbol Bugaboo out where someone could take it, but it seems like a bike lock would work fine, and then other people aren’t tripping over your stroller.
The move horrified the hipster parents, but people in the neighborhood who have started to feel squeezed out by the gentrifying families in have supported it. Other bars have regulations that ask families with kids to buy a meal and leave after two rounds. Which is fine with me too although it smacks a little of "nanny state" — if you and your co-parent are each going to have more than two, somebody else should be maybe be watching your kids for the night. I am not especially a lightweight and I am at least sleepy and sometimes a little buzzed after two drinks – and yes my husband and I have been known to play rock-paper-scissors over who gets to have that second (or third) drink.
If the guy banned kids that would be one thing, but he only banned their conveyance. I'd be awfully irritated if I had to squeeze past someone's monstrous double stroller in ann aisle whenever I needed to pee. It comes down to being considerate of others, and filling up half the real estate in a bar with empty strollers isn't.
Photo: New York Times
