A bit of a rant, pre-sorry but so sad and annoyed right now.
Went to my favorite barber shop today. It's built on being nice, upscale, and men's haircuts. They do the works, good cuts, beard trimming/shaping, hot towel, the whole thing, and it's built to be man's place, they have a pool table, they have a couple of kegerators, they'll pour you a whiskey while you wait. Very nice.
(Note I say man's but really if you're a woman/any other gender and you like that sort of thing, then awesome. I mean man in the masculine sense)
Until recently this was my favorite place, but apparently it's gotten on the mom groups online and now the last few times I've gone it's just filled with children and moms. Where I could go and get a whiskey while I wait and find someone to shoot pool with, now kids are literally running around and as for the pool table they're just throwing the balls around. Meanwhile the moms are either talking with each other or hovering over Bradley getting his hair cut and how cute it is.
On top of it all, because there was a group of them instead of my normal 20 min wait it was almost a 2 hours wait. I just walked out.
I'm just so tired of it, this place obviously was built for adults but god forbid we have any adult places that aren't "actually meant for children". I mean obviously it was built for children, there's 2 kegs and a shelf of nice scotch but yes, bring all of your children here.
How come every place that used to be for adults is now a child zone? My favorite breweries used to be great places to let off steam after work and now I have kids playing tag in the middle of them. I flat out don't go to movies anymore because even the super late showings are just dumping grounds for inattentive parents to leave their kids. And god forbid you ever mention outside a community like this that you want to drink a beer without a kid running around or you're literally the devil who should be shunned.
Anyway, this isn't going anywhere specifically, I'm just really sad, and I didn't get my haircut today.
if you wanna play pool and drink whiskey just go to a pool bar. i've never seen a kid at the billards hall i frequent
kids don't drink beer and play pool
kids get haircuts
That was not the point at all, but I think you probably knew that
As mentioned in other comments, I go to this one barber because it's the one of 30ish that caters specifically to adults. The other 29 are all very family friendly. However, knowing that, faced with 29 family friendly barbers and 1 not, people like yourself still are upset that the one is supposed to be adults only and try to flip it around on me that I'm the bad person for having the gall of wanting a quiet hair cut.
No, I'm tired of this argument. Parents already have the vast majority of places they get to take kids for. I'm tired of being the villain because I like having one option that isn't kid friendly. Not all of them. Not half. Not even a few. I apparently don't even get one place where I can sit quietly and get a haircut without a child running around.
You are getting upset about something that you zero recourse against.
Literally they have a right to go there as much as anyone unless owners kick them out...
I never said they weren't allowed to be there. They have a "right" to be there.
But choosing to go to a place that is focused on adults when the other 95% are catered to families is entitled behavior.
I don't go to Chuck e cheese and get upset that it's family oriented, there are plenty of other options that are not family oriented I can choose to go to. I have the complete right to go there, but it'd be entitled of me to choose that place and want them to change their atmosphere for me.
Ironically you can not go to chuck e cheese if you are under 18 and not accompanied by an adult