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40 minutes? She yelled at the wrong person.
1) “I won’t control my child.”
2) “I won’t let you control my child.”
3) “My child and I will be in your diner ruining the atmosphere for your paying customers for quite some time.”
4) “If you have a problem with any of this, you are a bad person.”
When you are in a restaurant you are in someone else’s house, having an out of control child in someone else’s house is showing great disrespect to them.
They reserve the right to either tell you off or kick you out.
Time was that the owner would not have had to yell at anyone.
Time was that the parents would have had the brains and parenting skills to take the child outside until it calmed down. (or given her a darn pancake)
Time was that this notion of “whatever my child does is them discovering and defining themselves and they should be allowed to do that” would have raised eyebrows (at the very least.)
Time was that this would not have been nationally newsworthy.
Personally, I would have lit into the parents. No point in gently suggesting that they take the child outside. After 40 minutes of allowing their child to scream, it is painfully obvious that the so-called parents would not have taken a gentle suggestion without much huffing and puffing and claiming their progressive right to allow their screaming child to destroy every other patron’s meal.
Yup, I would have started right off with the “lighting into” the parents. Then I would have boxed their meal, told them it was on the house and showed them and their little darling the door.
‘It made her shut up which made me happy’
I can relate.....LOL
She should have pushed the plate closer to the child and see if that would have quieted her down.
I will make a point to visit this diner. I know I can enjoy my meal in peace.
Many years ago, when I lived in San Francisco, in the Sunday paper there was always an ad for a restaurant in the East bay, which prominently displayed the statement poster : No Brat Zone, a crying mammoth mouth overlaid by the circle/slash.
See em run wild through Walmart, the food store, the gas station, the mall, the movie theater, throwing things pushing, shoving, screaming, crying, while mommie and or daddy giggle and think it’s cute. Disgusting behavior.
However, if me or my other siblings had started to whine and bawl in a restaurant when we were younger, the reaction from my father would have been swift. First a very terse warning to shut up or quit acting up, and then if that failed, physical punishment i.e. getting spanked....hard.
The real solution would be to slap the parents upside the head and then calmly tell the child that if it didn’t shut up, it would end up just like its parents....