Well, I've just been out for lunch with a couple of old friends, we meet up 3 times a year for a catch up and drinks and food, all very nice,
Think posh cafe type place. It was quite busy, noticed a large table with mums and their toddlers/babies and another table of workmen popped in for lunch,
Anyway, as time went on, a couple of toddlers getting tired,loud, fractious and one in particular, aged 3 started running around, hit his head on someone's chair,threw his toy car, hit another boy, hit his mum, you get my drift. Anyway, said boy started screaming, and continued to scream for half an hour, high pitched, awful noise. The mum at any time didn't tell him to sit down, don't hit friend etc.
Well everyone started looking at said mum and boy, as he was sooo loud. The table of men all turned to see where noise was coming from.
All of a sudden, the mum dragged the pushchair to the table, plonked boy in and headed for the door. She then went to the mens table(it was by the exit) and screamed at one of the men like a banshee, 'my son is 3, I've not slept and I'm sick of your attitude' and stormed off crying
The poor man couldn't believe what had happened, we had all looked to see where the noise was coming from, he did no more than anyone else in the place,
All the woman's friends stayed put, nobody followed her out,
I am in 2 minds, was she BU? Were we all U for looking??
Part of me thinks she should discipline her child, then part of me thinks we've all been there, no sleep, screaming kid etc,
Would you have done any different?