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To think you should pick up after your kids

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Rustycheeks · 06/05/2024 17:56

Went for brunch today. Very busy cafe, quite new and heard waitress apologising to someone as it was their first BH weekend and busier than normal.
family of 4 sitting next to our table. Food comes out and a few minutes later I notice a whole fried egg on the floor under the bench the boy aged roughly 9/10 was sitting at. Didn’t think of it again as busy entertaining toddler while we waited for food.
family finishes and gets up to leave. I then hear the dad ask the son if he dropped his egg on the floor and is told yes. Then they just continue on to the till to pay and leave.
Surely you should be picking up a whole damn egg that you know your child has dropped, or better still make them pick it up.
But they didn’t even bother to mention it, and because of where it was there was a good chance the rushed waitress would not have seen it before someone else stuck their foot in it. I told her it was there when she was wiping down their table.

I do see this a surprising amount. People just leaving a huge mess of food on the floor and table for someone else to sort out. Some crumbs sure, but entire pieces of food is just pure laziness isn’t it?

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InTheRainOnATrain · 06/05/2024 18:07

Oh that’s grim! And 9/10 is really old for a whole egg on the floor! I know you can’t do much about crumbs armed only with a napkin but surely you pick up the big stuff??

SwallowsAmazons · 06/05/2024 18:06

YANBU I always clean up as best as I can. What message does it teach the children if you walk away and leave it for staff?

HolyFalseEquivalencyBatman · 06/05/2024 18:03

Yep. Disgusting, lazy parenting. I recently saw a large family get up and leave their pub table & floor around them in a disgusting mess, they had no shame. Years ago at a play place two women got up and said ‘sorry about the mess’ and then just walked off leaving crap all over the floor where they had fed their children. It was as if a chimps tea party had been going on.
No manners some people. They thing the staff are there to clear up their mess because ‘that’s what they get paid for’.

Tospyornottospy · 06/05/2024 18:01

YANBU