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If your child vomits on the table at a cafe..

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user1471432735 · 04/08/2018 04:46

Out at a cafe this morning, Saturday morning, popular place so fairly crowded.

Table next to us has a Dad and two boys who were maybe 3 and 4. Dad little bit oblivious. Ordered fuck tonne of food scrambled eggs, fancy pancakes, French toast. Milkshakes for both kids. Didn’t seem to realise that kids would need help, so didn’t cut or sort out any food portions etc, until one kid had dropped knife about seven times. Waitress intervened and swapped milkshakes so they were in smaller take away containers with lids. Kids look miserable, dad mostly playing on phone.

This cafe is very good with kids. Staff very inflappable and friendly. Provide high chairs, colouring sheets, child friendly menu that isn’t shit etc.

After kids had finished eating, dad still on phone, and ordered another coffee. The older child has been whining that he wants to go home but dad is ignoring. Then child vomits all over table.

We step up and grab some napkins and wave to a waitress who comes over, asseses situation and gets two staff to come over with gloves, garbage bags, mops, cloths, spray etc.

Attempt to start clearing away table but dad wants to finish his coffee. Suggest Dad take kids into bathroom to get them sorted out (there is a parents room all of three feet away with changing table, spare chair, sink etc) but dad refuses and changes son on table whilst staff try to clean. Telling them that they’re in his way. He helpfully puts vomit covered clothes on bench seat instead of in garbage bags provided by waitress. We ask if he needs help, nope just wants to finish his coffee.... mentions that he had a tough night as kid had been vomiting, but he seemed better this morning.

Eventually he leaves. Staff immediately take table and chairs off the floor so they can be cleaned. Get out fresh mop bucket etc and apologise to us.

Dad can be heard arguing at register that he shouldn’t have to pay whole bill because he didn’t finish. Eventually he leaves.

We leave (and stafff move our table off the floor too so that area can have a buffer while more thorough cleaning takes place.)

We thank staff, tell manager how impressed we were and leave a tip for the people who handled the madness.

AIBU to think that if your kid has been vomiting all night then a big cafe breakfast is not a good idea and then if they do get sick in the cafe, you do want you can to get them cleaned up and out of the way as quickly as possible... for everyone’s sake. Little boy looked so miserable and busy cafe now two tables down.

I get that things might happen but I just feel like this bloke was the ultimate in fuckwit technology.

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rotavixsucks · 04/08/2018 04:51

Wow, what a knob.

Well done to the staff for handling it so well, I would've had to have said something to him if I were them.

laurzj82 · 04/08/2018 04:52

YANBU!

huha · 04/08/2018 04:53

Selfish twat. I wonder how many other people got infected with that bug!

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user1471432735 · 04/08/2018 04:54

They were amazing. They diplomatically suggested a few times that it might be time for son to go home, but he was such a rude bastard I think they knew pushing it would just mean he stayed longer. I really hope he gets whatever his son had and spends a miserable day in the loo

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Justinonmybroomstick · 04/08/2018 04:59

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LatteAndLettuce · 04/08/2018 05:02

What a penis. I hope he reads this.

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user1471432735 · 04/08/2018 05:10

Really broomstick, you don’t think people are this awful? Would you like the name and phone number of the cafe so you can call and verify? Its in Melbourne, but the coffee is great so worth the trip if you’re keen

I doubt the dad is into parenting enough to check out a message board so he’s unlikely to come across this, latteandlettuce

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HoppingPavlova · 04/08/2018 05:21

He’s a bloke. Nuff said.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 04/08/2018 05:22

If they wanted to entertain children. They'd have gone into childcare not shop/cafe work.
The selfish disgusting twerp.

Staff sound amazing, btw. It's great that you acknowledged that.

ChaChaChaCh4nges · 04/08/2018 05:26

He’s a bloke. Nuff said

Don’t be so ridiculous.

Justinonmybroomstick · 04/08/2018 05:31

Really broomstick, you don’t think people are this awful? Would you like the name and phone number of the cafe so you can call and verify? Its in Melbourne, but the coffee is great so worth the trip if you’re keen

There’s no need thank you. I know Melbourne very well and I’m happy to find my own way around.

LanguidLobster · 04/08/2018 05:33

No, when we were kids my dad used to take us out for hot doughnuts on his own to give mum a break and carefully cut them up into little triangles for us.

He would have cleared up and been extremely apologetic if we'd vomited and certainly wouldn't be getting moody about nursing a sodding coffee

abbsisspartacus · 04/08/2018 05:46

Funny enough similar thing happened in the UK child vomited parents cleaned her up carried on eating child vomited again parents called staff over to help clean up child vomited a third fucking time parents start to say perhaps they should leave then decide they didn't want to waste there admissions fee (cafe was in science museum) so they took the pukey child around child was too young to enjoy much being about 2ish?

Some people don't get out of there own arses much

RiceandBeans · 04/08/2018 06:06

He’s a bloke. Nuff said

Australian bloke. Nuff said.

Reminds why I left. There’s a type - aggressive misogynist bastard

HoppingPavlova · 04/08/2018 12:10

Well, my DH is not an aggressive misogynist bastard however I imagine if he took one of our kids out when they were young and they vomited all over the table he would have just sat/stood there like a stunned mullet. Just fucking useless in such situations. Some men can have have professional jobs, manage departments and people successfully but if something like this happens they are just genuinely clueless.

We have a friend who is a well respected, experienced surgeon in a very difficult field. He sometimes brings his child over to visit on weekends when his wife is working. When his child was a baby, he needed assistance to dress them if they needed to be changed. He wasn’t trying to dodge off, he was hands on but he genuinely couldn’t figure out how one person could do it. Just could not understand how it could be done. Seriously. If he was out with his child and they threw up I imagine he would just sit there completely clueless not comprehending how to move forward.

Awfulness · 04/08/2018 12:16

Yanbu.
Mine vomited in a restaurant when a toddler. We helped clean up and immediately left afterwards leaving our meal.

The staff were amazing there too.

Wishfulmakeupping · 04/08/2018 12:21

He sound an absolute idiot. I would be so cross he could have infected other people now due to his stupidity and the poor child being dragged out while ill. 😡😡

twattymctwatterson · 04/08/2018 17:30

@HoppingPavlova honestly it's attitudes like the one you've expressed that allow men to get away with this. No. There isn't an able bodied professional man who is incapable of dressing his children or cleaning up vomit. They pretend to be helpless so women like you go "bless" and take over. Stop peddling this shite that some men are just incapable of caring for their own kids

Smellbellina · 04/08/2018 17:37

No. There isn't an able bodied professional man who is incapable of dressing his children or cleaning up vomit.
There probably is! Not just men, I know a woman like it too. ‘‘Twas fine when the baby grew up, except with the vom, she never managed to get a grip on that. Bit different to say, my ex, who was just a fuckwit and tried to get out of being an adult by doing a shit job at it.

WorldCupnovice · 04/08/2018 17:46

My then toddler DD vomited while I was queuing in a takeaway once. When the poor assistant brought out the mop and bucket I took it from her and cleaned it up myself as she looked like she may vomit herself. I am not complaining about her, just saying that I would not have expected somebody else to clean up after my DC in this circumstance.

KlutzyDraconequus · 04/08/2018 17:51

He’s a bloke. Nuff said

Don't be a sexist prick.

SadieHH · 04/08/2018 18:11

DD1 vomited in Jimmy Spices once. We were mortified and asked for the cleaning materials, then cleaned up. Staff didn't really get involved. As soon as we cleared up we paid and left. I can't imagine doing anything else.

Starlighter · 04/08/2018 18:27

He sounds awful and completely irresponsible and selfish! Poor kid probably felt 10 times worse after that.

Any normal parent wouldn’t have contemplated a breakfast like that for an unwell child let alone behaving like that afterwards. Sod your coffee, sort out your poor sick child! (And help the poor staff!)

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user1471432735 · 05/08/2018 07:05

Called into cafe this morning to pick up a coffee.....

The stupid bastard was there!!! Sitting with another guy (no kids) having breakfast.

Waitress from yesterday caught my eye and we struggled not to laugh

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NinetySixer · 05/08/2018 08:00

That’s awful. I think some people are so immune to their child’s vomit that they can’t see how unpleasant it is for other people.

We once had a child vomit on the table next us.

The family didn’t move and all the staff did was offer some tissue which was put in a bowl that was full of vomit and taken into the kitchen.

The area we were I stunk to high heaven and the sucky child looked so unwell. Yet the family didn’t leave.

I’ve worked in catering for years and there is no way a bowl full have vomit should have gone through the kitchen. We had just started eating but stopped and refused to pay. I also reported to environmental health who weren’t happy.

I also had a lady vomit over a table in a hotel I worked in.

She then refused to move.

She stunk, her husband stunk as he was covered.

We asked them to leave - the refused.

In the end our GM told them to leave as it was so unpleasant for everyone else and we need to bin all the stuff on their table and clean it up.