An interesting thing happened the other day. I was on at a Denny's for a morning meeting. I noticed that Denny's around the country have installed flat panel monitors that play music videos, interviews, events, and advertising. What really bothered me was the movie trailer for the new "Ghost Rider" film. It had a realistic flaming skull that was vomiting fire and batting people around. I looked at the amount of families sitting around at different tables and how many kids under the age of five were at those tables. They were at least 12 that I could count scattered throughout the place, all in view of the monitors. I have a five year old and I would not let her see that kind of imagery. Call me prude, call me old-fashioned, but I don't believe that sort of thing belongs in a restaurant where families dine.

Don't get me wrong, if you see it in the theater, you CHOSE to go to the theater. You roll your dice, you takes your chances. But if you sit down to eat with your family and a flame-vomiting skull wreaking vengeance on the world appears in front of you, it's a little shocking.

Here's where you say "But you CHOSE to eat there." Yes. But what if you didn't know about the trailer? You then would argue: "You didn't know what trailers would be at the movie theater". Really? You really want to argue that when at every movie you've ever been to is going to show some kind of trailer with shock value? It's what theaters do. Not restaurants.

Maybe I'm just getting old and over-protective, but I don't think smaller kids’ minds can process that information and know what it is. You can explain all day long that it's make believe and try to assuage their fears, but in the end Hollywood has done its job and made it look very real. They're going to be affected. Give me your opinions. I'd really like to know what you think.

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