This was the weekend of eating out. On Saturday night, we went with a couple of friends to one of our all-time favorite restaurants - Pars Cove. I highly recommend this place to anyone looking for a place to eat out. Notice the lady on the corner in this surreptitiously taken picture? Yea well - we had a little incident with her.
It had been a little bit of a rough day for Priya, and she was acting a little bit fidgety. As you can notice, the restaurant at this time was pretty much empty. So I let her get down and walk around a bit. She wandered over to this lady and pointed to something she had. Boy, I wish I could have caught the scowl that showed up on her face. Ok fast forward 30 minutes. We're pretty much done with our meal, and Priya is getting tired and crabby. I had her on my lap, and one of the things that kept her occupied was taking a spoon, dipping it in water, and licking the spoon. I guess as time went on, her dipping the spoon against the glass started making noise. I look up to the sound of "Excuse me," and see this lady standing by our table. "Do you think the young lady can play with something else because this noise has gone on far too long." . Things happened pretty fast then. I took the spoon away from Priya, who immediately started howling. Tish had her hackles raised. And we were all pretty much shocked at what just happened. Luckily for all of us, the dessert ice-cream came, and Priya was content with licking the chocolate syrup off her newly acquired spoon.
I won't editorialize here, but stuff like this happens all the time. Kids will be kids, and one way of thinking goes that if parents can't control their children, then they shouldn't be seen in public with them. Until your kids learn how to behave and be mini-robots, no taking them to restaurants, airplanes, parks, or any public places. God forbid we disturb the peace and quiet for others. There's lots to be said about children misbehaving, but sometimes it's taking things too far when some insist that their rights trump other peoples.
8 comments:
crazy lady!!
-rachel
wow...I can't believe it..!! PLease never take Priya anyway, don't you know that - ha ha JUST KIDDING!!!
I was once kicked out of a Diary Queen because my girlfriends daughter had a temper tantrum!! Ice cream, kids meals and a play land tend to do that once in a while, I was shocked when the manager asked us to leave. It took every bit of grace God could give at that moment not to give him a piece of my mind. Unfortunatly, I only have a piece left and I didn't consider him worth my last piece!!!
I wouldn't know how that is. My daughter never cries. Especially when I put her in the nursery. She just smiles, waves bye bye and prays for and encourages the nursery workers until I come back for her.
Must be hard to have a "normal" child. :)
No way!?! I am still waiting for the day when something like that happens to us.
Well, if the sound of water and a spoon is the worst noise she heard then I think she must have been the crabby one! Daniel started howling on the bus while we were in London and I had a mental flash back to how I used to feel about crying chilren in confined spaces! Thankfully there was spacefor me to stand up with him and with a bit of cuddling I was able to lull him to sleep. Phew!
I know there are people like this in the world, but it's always shocking to meet them.
Luckily, there is divine justice ...
My cellphone rang in the theatre once. I guess I had accidentally turned the volume on because usually I keep it on vibrate all the time. Anyway, the caller kept calling back and I couldn't make the phone shut up without pressing buttons and making more noise, so I left the theatre.
Some jerk lady a couple rows back clapped. Anyway, my wife was really angry at her and looked back to see who it was. While I was out, after about a minute, that lady's cellphone started to ring. My wife watched her squirm as she tried to ignore it. People made "Shhh"ing noises, and some laughed because the irony was so obvious.
i think it is so unfortunate that people really believe that children should act like adults. Good job on keeping your cool. I think Priya was doing a pretty good job at keeping herself entertained with the spoon.. which is actually more than some adults can do..
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