It used to be that when my wife and I were in the mood for a QUIET meal we would go into a restaurant and ask to sit in the smoking area even though neither of us smoke (well, ok I like the occasional cigar but I don't feel that one or two a year makes me a smoker).
I employed this strategy because it seems that in this day and age people no longer know how to be PARENTS to their children. Instead they seem to want to be their children's friend and let them carry on in whatever way they wish. They also seem to obsess that their child's pink little lungs remain that way forever so people with children never seemed to be interested in sitting with the smokers.
Fine, I was always willing to use my lungs to filter a little smoke out of the air in return for a quiet meal, but now that big brother is stepping in and making all restaurants totally smoke free I find that everytime that I go into a restaurant I have a noisy squawky little troll of a child sitting right next to me.
I have an idea. Let's put up another wall and dedicate an area of every restaurant a "child free" area where people who have children won't be allowed to dine. It sounds like a great idea if they won't let me sit with the smokers any more.
