Sushi restaurant drama

I mean to be fair...we all do it; we all think we know about things that we don't and even occasionally spout off as if we know what we're talking about.

When it becomes an issue is when we double down with contempt rather than conceding that we may have misunderstood a concept we have no actual experience of.
And then continue to do so.

I have loads of experience of being in public places with kids shouting across tables. Never been to Pizza Express or a birthday party? Never attended an event with food? We already know you've never been for sushi but I am sure you know all about public places and children. Take your nose out of the air and be real.

But the parents didnt do anything until right at the end. They werent behaving childish

Nah this is on the parents

lol as if anyone is gonna pay for other people’s children’s half eaten food! Never. Gonna. Happen.

I do love a good Google. I can find ‘over 1000’ cases a year in Japan, which I accept is vague, but in a country of 123m people it doesn’t sound too scary. Particularly given the very high level of fish consumption and the greater likelihood that people are eating raw fish they’ve prepared themselves.

In other countries, where most raw fish is eaten in restaurants and fish will be ‘sushi-grade’ so pre-frozen to treat parasites, case numbers are tiny.

I occasionally took DD to "that" sushi chain-with-the-train when she was younger. It always got hideously expensive, but she loved it. I think the OP pulled a master stroke here, so i take my hat off to her.

I don't know why people are apparently incapable of understanding your perfectly clear post.

OP, you were not being even remotely unreasonable. The other kids were deliberately taking food they didn't want just so that your kids couldn't have it, and you were absolutely right to get revenge on their parents by tricking them into taking the most expensive stuff. The parents of the other kids should have been keeping an eye on their kids.

Thanks OP for the laugh, ywdnbu! They should have been paying attention and also shame on them for the waste and their children's selfish behaviour

No you’re right. I don’t have experience of sitting in public with kids shouting across tables. If that makes me snooty 🤷‍♀️

Well done you!

The dad sounds like an arrogant dickhead and his kids weren't being very nice either, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

@Cattery I agree with @goldenlegend - you were being snooty about something you obviously have no experience of. Stop trying to deflect back on to the OP.

What’s that supposed to mean?

Exactly my thoughts.
Anyone is BU for eating Octopus in any case, but them being farmed to eat and then not even being eaten is even more infuriating.

Why the aggression? My point was, why would you persist in sitting in that atmosphere with two tables of kids shouting then try to trump the other kids by “tricking” them into choosing the most expensive food item. What I was getting at when I said “horrific” was the childishness of the parents. Is that really how adults spend their time?

I wish I hadn't stumbled into this thread 🤮

That's so not the way it works!

No...she says their kids' table had quite a lot of half eaten sushi piling up. They were just taking what her kids' wanted to eat and wasting it for fun. Their parents didn't notice their obnoxious game.
Shame.

And the fact that he's obnoxious enough to attempt to dump it on OP at the end means she was right not to address it directly earlier on because he'd have just been argumentative and dug in.

You can't reason with some people.

Did the kids eat the octopus balls and other food they took? Daft parents for not supervising and nasty of them to dump the plates on you. Not your issue at all. How did the parents clock on about your slight involvement?

Nope not your children not your responsibility should have been stopping his kids before you did it in return. You didn't puppet string their arms into taking it off the belt onto their table!

Nope, not unreasonable. Those parents were. On a side note, it’s been soooo long since I had sushi and I’m so jealous

If their kids took it off the conveyor belt then they pay for it. End of. Can't see anything to dispute

They played a game you played them back. Haha well done! Not your plates to pay!

OMG, what a silly man (don't want to get deleted!)

I hope the restaurant made them pay for everything.

You could possibly have tried to put a stop to the bad behaviour earlier if only for your children's sake. I would have complained to the staff, if not the parents.

Loving this thread. My kids are very late teens, but we have discussions about what is being taken off the conveyor belt, what the prices are, and need to see them going around first to work out if it's worth it for the price before items are chosen. I am agog that parents would allow their children free rein in taking items. Is this where you realise someone has won the lottery but didn't go public? You were not unreasonable op and I wish I had your 'not octopus' balls.