36 Tweets About The Joys Of Dining Out With Children

When our first child was two months old, my wife and I took him on a trip to another city. Because we were staying in a hotel, we decided to go out for dinner. (Yes, with the baby. What can I say, we were rookies!)

We chose a friendly Chinese restaurant with a fish tank, assuming it would make him happy to look at the fish. We were wrong on that count, and ended up taking turns bouncing him in a sling to get him to stop crying and shoveling forkfuls of food into our mouths as quickly as possible. There was no time to taste the food, much less speak a word to one another.

“Well, that was terrible,” we said afterwards. “Surely it’ll get easier with time.”

How little we understood.

Here, the funny parents of X (formerly Twitter) describe in hilarious detail what eating in a restaurant with children is like.