My recent experiences in Halifax restaurants have involved people at adjoining tables either loudly trying to top each other’s rotting food stories, talking about a new, pus-oozing tattoo or a family letting their child run all around the small restaurant making ear-shattering noises like a humpback whale. The diners engaging in this ignorant behaviour looked respectable, they were just oblivious to the fact that they were ruining our dinner. I’ve had the staff deal with these situations in two instances and I told off the young woman with the oozing tattoo when she continued to bellow out the details. To those who behave this way, don’t be your normal, obnoxious self, you are in a public place and you need to have some manners.—Sickened@dinner
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2015.
Eat at better restaurants; Burger King et al attract pus-oozing tattooed people…
Welcome to Hicktown, Nova Scotia. We may be able to dress nice but this is still a town where the Donair was named Official Food.
Sadly, respectable behavior is on the decline nowadays. We live in a degenerate age that promotes foolishness and encourages it readily.
I have rarely encountered obnoxious behaviour in restaurants but when I do it’s usually a whiny or angry kid that is the problem. Parents shouldn’t take their kids to restaurants unless they know they can control their behaviour. That’s why my parents didn’t take me to a restaurant until I was 35.
That happened to me a few weekends ago at a certain chain restaurant in the Valley. There must have been 20 people across from my partner & I, each one louder than the next. I thought I would go clear out of my mind. Who wants to pay $$$ to eat out & listen to people outscream each other? I had to hold my partner’s hand to quell the desire to lob salt and pepper shakers or throw silverware at them. I’ll have to say several Hail Mary’s for that brief moment of imagined madness.
Nukka doesn’t share tables or bus seats with strangers. Problem solved!