Everyone keeps saying they hate to see kids at PI. Just to clarify, kids were NEVER let into any of the clubs.
I can speak from personal experience and say you're wrong. Maybe it is not an on-the-books policy, but the last three times I was in 8Trax, there were kids in there. I'm not just talking about that hazy netherworld, not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman age bracket. I'm talking children. I'm talking adults bringing tweens and toddlers into 8Trax, treating it like they were at a wedding reception and nobody wanted to miss the big party by being the de facto babysitter so hey, junior and juniorette, wake upwe're going to Pleausure Island! And Aunt Kelli-with-an-"i" treats 'em like SUCH grownups by dancing with them, because she's flying solo tonight! Isn't that precious? Isn't that just aDORable? Why bother getting a sitter or forcing one member of your party to stay behind when you can just bring your children into a bar? Why didn't anyone ever think of this before?
And right at the next table is a group of late-twentysomethings on their eleventy-seventh drink, scoping out chicks, including, might I add, Aunt Kelli-with-an-"I" (this was the next to last time I was in 8Trax, and those guys asked Kelli her name and where she was staying. Kelli, despite being there with family and kids, saw nothing wrong with being uberflirty with strangers who felt her butt made a great hand-resting/grip-testing area. That's how I knew she was Kelli. With an "I" And perhaps a poor judge of character).
Y'see, I'm not just griping about an 18-to-get-in-21-to-drink policy,. I'm talking genuinely about grownups who want to experience PI so badly, they don't have a problem bringing small children with them. Even if they weren't let into the clubs, just milling about outside, it's still kinda creepy, there are plenty of outside portable bars, some people are falling-down drunk, and some peoples' judgments get impaired when they're drunkm maybe a little lonely, maybe a little sexed-up and if that girl with the braces says she turned 18 last week, why ruin a magical night with doubt? But when you add to the fact that some people ARE bringing kids into the clubs-whether it's official club policy or not, whether they're sneaking the kids in or whether the bouncers don't want to make a scene on a slow night or whatever the reason is-it's a bunch of lawsuits waiting to happen, it creeps me out. To a degree, I feel the same way if it were a hotel lounge, an area especially established for grownups to drink. I'm not as hardcore about it with CW and PI because they seem to me to be entertainment venues first that also happen to sell drinks. Not a lot of flirting or lowered inhibitions there. I don't pitch a fit when I'm told I'm too big for a pony ride or a Moon Bounce, kids (and especially their parents) should understand there are places little ones are too little to go.
