The new sports bar and tavern caught all kinds of heat this week after and before my colleague Mark Fisher wrote about its policy that patrons "Must be 21 & over after 3 p.m."
The policy naturally did not sit well with everyone and Marci Johannes, the sports bar and tavern’s co-founder, told Mark she was called “a child-hater.”
Others praised the policy, some joking that they don’t want to be around their own kids after 3 p.m. let alone someone else’s.
Burn!
Mr. Boro’s is far from the first bar to come up with this policy, and I personally don’t think it is all that bad.
It is not like kids are going to treat the bar to a round of shots.
In fact, at the risk of being labeled a child-hater, I’ve come up with a short list of other places I wish parents would not bring kids for the good of society.
Amusement parks
Imagine how quickly grown-ups could breeze through the lines at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter if those butter beer-crazed kids were not there. A trip to Legoland would be so much more efficient.
The zoo
With all the adorable baby animal births in the news, it is a real wonder that so many “parents” take their kids to the zoo.
No one wants to have the “birds and bees” talk by the giraffe enclosure.
A state, city or national park
More air for me, please.
Kids’ movies
Kids are among the loudest gigglers in the world and are always overly surprised when princesses get the prince.
Museums
Do we really want kids learning about the world around them and appreciating things like science and art. They are just going to grow up and take our jobs.
The pool
Don’t act like you don’t know what kids do in the water.
Ice cream shop
If anyone deserves sugary goodness, it is adults. I doubt most kids appreciate how tough it had to be to invent cookie dough ice cream or harvest a vanilla bean.
Birthday parties
Kids aren’t even old enough to have found any cures or quit any jobs. What are we celebrating?
A Kidz Bop concert
I want to bop.
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