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Question Gets Boy, 4, Banned From Doughnut Shop
Newser ^ | July 24,2014 | Rob Quinn

Posted on 07/24/2014 5:57:23 AM PDT by Enterprise

A curious 4-year-old in Monroe, Conn., is going to have to get his doughnuts elsewhere after asking a Doughnut Inn customer the wrong question. Justin Otero's mother says the boy asked the customer if she had a baby in her belly and was told no. "My response was, 'Oh my goodness, I'm so embarrassed, I'm so sorry,'" the mom tells WFSB. But she says that while the customer was forgiving, managers refused to allow her in the store with her son, saying, "'He's not allowed in here, he's rude.'" The mom says she plans to get doughnuts somewhere else with her son, who "sort of" understands what happened but is still asking questions.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: conversation; curious; donutnazi; donuts; donutwatch; doughnutinn; importantquestions; littleboy
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To: ScottinVA

One of my sons worked as a server. He came to dislike dealing with a certain ethnic group. While not all persons of this group were jerks, a number of them “behaved stupidly.” And management cowered before them.


41 posted on 07/24/2014 6:39:13 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

He’s not “rude’ he’s “4 years old”

Kinda like Jeffery....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiXM7NynrpY


42 posted on 07/24/2014 6:40:33 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Gumdrop
In the Name of Tolerance, we will be intolerant!

Forward! ;-) In order to be tolerant and supportive of ... um ... "large people" we shall be intolerant of 4 year olds who ask frank and sometimes inappropriate questions. Hint to anyone who has never had a 4 year old - that just kind of goes with the territory. You can't sit down and go over every conceivable situation and question that might arise with a child before taking them out in public. This is how they learn. It is messy, funny, and sometimes embarrassing.

Maybe if the boy claimed he was transgendered or self-identified as female they would (re)welcome him with open arms? But if he pretended to shoot through the hole in a donut they'd probably ban him again.

In all seriousness though, I 100% support the right for businesses to refuse to serve anyone. (hint, that includes people who may offend or go against the religious sensibilities/beliefs of the business owner) In this case it seems like an enormous overreaction to ban the 4 year old. So while it is their right to refuse service, it is a stupid call on the manager's part.

43 posted on 07/24/2014 6:45:55 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Enterprise

Did he say it in Vietnamese?


44 posted on 07/24/2014 7:04:33 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Vigilanteman

WOMAN: Sir! My eyes are up here.

HOMER SIMPSON: I’ve made my choice.

___________________________________


45 posted on 07/24/2014 7:10:07 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: dead

When I was about 6, I told my mom that my little brother was a son of a b!&ch

That did not end well.


46 posted on 07/24/2014 7:14:26 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Fiji Hill
"If I ever find myself in Monroe, Conn., I’ll stay away from the Doughnut Inn."

I saw this on the news last night; you'd probably be wise to do so. The place looks like a pit. The boy and his mom would be better off at the local Dunkin' Donuts.

47 posted on 07/24/2014 7:16:48 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: dead

My daughter at 5, saw a man with an eyepatch in a restaurant and screamed out, “Look, a pirate”.


48 posted on 07/24/2014 7:19:16 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: NautiNurse

From Romy and Michelle’s HIgh School Reunion

Michele:What are you picking on us for anyway? We’re not the ones who got fat.
Christie: We’re pregnant, you half-wit.
Michele: Yeah, well...I hope your babies look like monkeys.


49 posted on 07/24/2014 7:19:33 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dead

LOL


50 posted on 07/24/2014 7:22:19 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: dead
"When I was about 8, I cringed when my five year old brother asked an elderly friend of my parents, “If you’re a lady, why do you have a beard?”

LMAO!

When my husband was a toddler, his mother was in a supermarket line with him in the little cart seat. There was a black guy ahead of them in line, and my toddler husband asked, "Why is that man chocolate?" My mother-in-law was SO embarrassed, and apologized to the guy, but he just thought it was funny.

51 posted on 07/24/2014 7:26:36 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Enterprise

Honestly, I think our world has gone mad!!!
We have lost all sense of decency. He was FOUR YEARS OLD and probably just becoming aware of “ the birds and the bees”.

AMERICA... WAKE UP!! YOUR DYING!


52 posted on 07/24/2014 7:30:35 AM PDT by pollywog ( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Enterprise
Obviously, this manager has never had children.

As a father of four daughters, all adults now, I can tell you that from 2-6 years of age, there will be COUNTLESS situations such as this! Some of the worst ones were when my older daughters attempted to explain things to their younger siblings. This leads to some really dozy questions which you have to deceiver, then unscramble the mess of their siblings explanation, while attempting to give them the correct information.

ALL WHILE NOT LAUGHING, CRYING, AND/OR SCREAMING!
53 posted on 07/24/2014 7:34:27 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: sportutegrl
My daughter at 5, saw a man with an eyepatch in a restaurant and screamed out, “Look, a pirate”.

My sister, at about that same age, saw a woman(?) punker (this was the 80s) with wild, colored hair, etc. and screamed, "a clown, a clown!" I laughed, the woman(?) did not.

54 posted on 07/24/2014 7:37:10 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Enterprise; All

A little 4 year old boy was always sucking his thumb . His mother tried all kinds of ointments, including Tabasco, to stop the habit. One day she told the boy that if he continue this action he would swell-up a burst.
A few days later she attended a baby shower of a friend, with the boy.
During the party the boy sided-up next to the,the very PG, woman.
He then blurted out with a grin “I know what you have been doing!”.


55 posted on 07/24/2014 7:37:54 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: Enterprise; GeronL; Morganna

It’s not a baby, it’s a “disease” according to CDC-NOW-DNC-ETC


56 posted on 07/24/2014 7:40:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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To: Enterprise

I’m getting suspicious of these stories where someone, especially a child, was asked to leave a store or restaurant because of something trivial, or because the other customers felt uncomfortable. Maybe the mother is hoping for donations or a lifetime supply of free doughnuts. There have been too many stories that have turned out to be hoaxes. Call me a skeptic.


57 posted on 07/24/2014 7:43:12 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: dead
When I was about 8, I cringed when my five year old brother asked an elderly friend of my parents, “If you’re a lady, why do you have a beard?”

Did she drop her monocle?

#WEARENOTAMUSED

58 posted on 07/24/2014 7:43:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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To: Enterprise

If the woman had ANY sense of humor she would have said: “No baby in here...just LOTS of doughnuts!!”


59 posted on 07/24/2014 7:45:26 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: sportutegrl
My daughter at 5, saw a man with an eyepatch in a restaurant and screamed out, “Look, a pirate”.

Does she work for NSA OR RIAA?


60 posted on 07/24/2014 7:48:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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