This is just a vent thread for me....this entire weekend we've been getting ready to move into our new house. I was alone this afternoon at home and decided to sneak up to my favorite restaurant in the neighborhood and read the Sunday paper. I was sitting in a booth and reading the paper. There was some sort of party going on in another section of the restaurant. I wasn't paying attention. I was eating my lunch when some young kids (ages 12 and 13 most likely) sat over in an empty booth directly behind me. They were part of the noisy party across the restaurant. These kids were loud but I tried to ignore it...then they started throwing their dessert (chocolate cake) at each other and then I felt it hit the back of me. I calmly turned to the kids and said they could have fun w/o hitting me with their food...I turned around and started reading my paper when the chaperone came over and made them leave the table and go back to the party. He apologized and I said OK, and I thought that was the end of it. Ten minutes later one of the mother's kids came and started yelling me and told me I had no right to tell the kids anything...she said her kids weren't throwing anything. I told her that someone's kids were throwing food, because look at the booth, it was filled will remains of chocolate cake that had been thrown about...she told me I needed to go to the parents and tell them. I told her that no one was around and she should watch over her kids better. She then started yelling at me. By this time the manager came over. I simply said I don't want to bother anyone, I just want to read the paper and be left alone. Then the lady started yelling back at me. I told her I could understand why her kids were the way they were because of her...then the manager kicked the entire party out of the restaurant. Then all the wait staff came over and apologized for what had happened. I walked away with a free meal. Some way to get a free lunch!
Restaurant Woes this Sunday afternoon...
by TresHappy 24 Replies latest jw friends
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minimus
I HATE it when parents justify everything their little demons do. You were a lot nicer than I would've been.
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kls
Oh my good perfect child would never do anything wrong. Those parent's are why kid's have no respect for anyone. You handled that better than i would have.
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Stefanie
You did good.
I always make sure my kids arnt bothering anyone when we go eat. And that means cleaning up when they drop stuff on the floor.
I would have taken the food her kids threw and shoved it up her nose! Then called her a lazy slob for not watching them better!
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rocketman
Tres, you are to be commended for remaining so calm! The free lunch was well-deserved.
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ESTEE
when parents justify everything their little demons do
Pure and simple ... parents like that enable their children's unacceptable behaviour ... The whole family is dysfunctional, IMHO ...
ESTEE
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Lehaa
Good on you Tres,
I hate it when other peoples brats do stuff like that, some kids just have no respect. If the mother had come over and said that to me I would have told her exactly what I thought of her brats.
I always make sure my kids are well behaved whan we go out. Why can't other people do the same.
Congrats on the free meal.
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Elsewhere
Hmmm... you gave me an idea... what if I were to have some noisy kids enter a restaurant shortly after I am seated... then have them make a commotion and bother me...
Maybe I can get a bunch of free meal like that!
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TresHappy
The wait staff told me the entire party was rowdy way before I got there. I sat at the other side of the restaurant in the non-smoking section. They were in the middle section with a bunch of tables put together. I think they were some sort of organized sport youth group and the older kids of the bunch decided to get out of the crowd and go eat their dessert at a vacant booth (the entire restaurant was nearly empty and they chose the booth directly behind me.) I heard their ages so I knew they were preteens/teenagers. I then heard one of the kids flip part of the chocolate cake at another, and so on, then some dessert aimed at a kid came and landed on my hair. I felt it and that's when I said what I said. Perhaps her kids weren't actually throwing food at me, but someone was throwing food and I said not to throw it on me. That was it...no dire words or cursing was used. What I don't understand is why one chaperone actually apologized and the other went off on me. I usually don't say anything to the kids, however the parents weren't around and I felt I could handle it this way. When I told her she needed to supervise her kids better, she became bug-eyed and was angry with me. She was carrying a sleeping child and that's when all the wait staff started staring at us and the manager came out. She didn't know that her kids didn't throw food because she wasn't even nearby, she was across the restaurant dealing with the other kids. Then she made some comment about me hating kids and that's when I said it was easy to understand why her kids were the way they were...it was a very unpleasant experience. I would have rather paid for my lunch than experience that again...
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Stefanie
Maybe I can get a bunch of free meal like that!
lol!
*hands else a strawberry*