Observations

Tonight, DJ my two youngest sons, J2, AT and I went to dinner at the local Steak & Shake. We wanted to go the the buffet down the street where we could gorge ourselves, but it had a line out the door. So Steak & Shake it was.

As we were being seated it seemed that the overflow from the buffet down the street had the same idea that we did, as the restaurant became engulfed with customers. Most of which had screaming, crying, raving mad toddlers. The were everywhere! All of them needing the "Super Nanny" to come to their rescue. We gave our order to the cute server, named Yazeed. ( just thought his name to be unique, I had to mention him.) and I began to pan across the restaurant. Wondering why did parents allow their children to become such animals in public. That's when I spotted them.

A gay couple. Sitting in a booth with their son. I know this for a fact, as one of the couple is a well known local reporter and have had conversations with him at the local gay bars in times past. They adopted a son a few years ago, and it was nice to see them. What was even nicer was to see how they related to their son. They conversed to him like he was an equal, even though he could not have been more than 4 years old. He was well mannered, well behaved and even gave his own meal request to the ever patient server, Yazeed. As I continued to look around at all the other maniac children, this little boy stood out. Not because his parents were a male gay couple, but because he was behaving. Acting as one should when going out to dinner. It brought a smile across my face thinking how much better at parenting this gay couple seemed than the other "typical" parents. They showed little concern over the actions of their monsters, and did even less to disciplining them. One child screamed the entire time we were trying to eat our dinner. The parents seemed oblivious, while everyone else in the restaurant gave them sneering looks.

As we left I intentionally walked by the gay couple's table and was pleased to hear one of the father's remarking to their son... "Thank you son for being such a good little boy." His response was... "I'm always good daddy."

And I'm sure he is. Well at least most of the time.

On a sad note, we say goodbye to a Blog Hottie.