Saturday, January 20, 2007

A 15% CHILD TAX

I know I rant a lot about inconsiderate parents and their everyday travels. Well, today is no different. I was having dinner with a friend and at a table nearby sat three couples and about five children aging anywhere from 3 - 14.

Well, the 3 year-old couldn't sit still, so the 7 year-old decided to chase her around the restaurant in the typical I'm going to disturb everyone's evening manner. When the waiter returned with out drinks I basically asked him if we could be moved because of the inconsiderate parents that sat nearby.

The waiter of course appeased us and moved us right away - far from the table of inconsiderate fucking parents.

This is when I thought of the 15% child tax. There will be two types of restaurants - kid friendly and non- kid friendly. The kid friendly ones are like Chuck E Cheese. They let the kids be kids. The non - kid friendly ones are every other restaurant. Then when you bring your kids into these restaurant, there is a minimum of a 15% child tax. If you drink alcohol you pay and alcohol tax, now you should pay a kid tax. The thing is it a minimum of 15%. but any children you have the number more than three, there is another 5% tax for each child. - Five children - 25% tax. The servers certainly deserve it, and it will deter parents who have obviously earned a free pass from any social grace because they have a child to determine if they want to spend the money and eat there. - Everybody wins.

Everyone.

Friday, January 19, 2007

A LIFE OF IRONY

I'm the kind of guy that notices the irony in life, like vegetarian smokers, or Gay Republicans. Well today I noticed quite the ironic slice of life. I was sitting at my local Second Cup doing some writing, as I'm known to do early in the morning, and in walks a regular. She was middle to upper aged (60), quite overweight (300 lbs maybe on her 5'2" frame) and certainly was a slow walker who seemed to get into everyone's way.

The ironic part of it all was, she was wearing a leopard skin coat. Now, I don't know if it was real leopard skin (well she certainly didn't catch it herself if it was) But here we have, one of the most svelte, majestic, quick, beautiful creatures on the planet that lives in a warm climate and it was killed to cover up one of the most disgusting creatures on the planet because she was cold.

Irony, yes. In the saddest form.

M