Sushi restaurant drama

[Cwazycupcake]

After reading another similar post I had to get opinions on if I was unreasonable.

I was at a sushi train a few weeks ago with DH and kids. It was close to closing time so there wasn’t a huge selection left. At the booth next to us were four kids, their parents ( four adults) were at the booth opposite the kids. My kids were loudly calling out what they wanted, and as the food went past the table of kids before us they took everything my kids wanted. Despite telling my kids to stop calling out what they wanted, it continued. The kids at the next table had quite a bit of half eaten sushi piled up, the parents hadn’t noticed. I know I should have told the parents their kids were being silly, but due to being a little hangry I said I wanted octopus balls, it was the most expensive plate colour and there were a few, and this is when the parents realised what was happening. They were not pleased, one of the men picked up the plates and put them on our table and said we were paying for it. I grabbed the couple of plates we had actually eaten from and went to the checkout and explained what happened. I only paid what I should have.
A couple of friends said I should have paid for at least some of it.
Was I in the wrong?

Your friend is either batshit or a complete doormat

i applaud your actions (and hit the wrong button when voting)

YANBU and the other adults should have supervised their children.

That. How on earth was it your problem?

If this is somewhere like Yo Sushi, you can request dishes off the menu, and they will bring it straight over. Doesn’t matter what the plate color is/price. No need to wait forever, for the sushi train

But the whole point of Yo Sushi for a kid is picking off the conveyor belt! That’s the fun bit.

I don’t know if they paid, I got out of there quickly.

I absolutely did goad the kids into taking the last expensive plates. The rest of it was just my kids being excited over what they wanted.

Don’t they have eight? 🐙

edited as I see you didn’t pay and you don’t know if they did!

YANBU. They were bad parents by not supervising their kids. The cheek of that man to say you’re paying! No chance.
Also octopus balls are just octopus in the shape of balls, not testicles. Clearly people here don’t eat much sushi lol.

I can only assume they are wealthier than Croesus in any case as surely anyone else taking a child anywhere near a sushi conveyor belt is exercising iron control over their choices to avoid having to sell a kidney to pay the bill?

OP, I’m confused (not on the goading, but on the outcome).

Why did the parent put the uneaten plate that their kids pulled from the belt onto your table? Did they say, “I know for a fact that you didn’t want the octopus. I know that my kids only took them to be asshats, so you’re paying.”? I need more context here.

Did the other parent end up paying for the octopus in the end?

Yes.

And I think that is the case here.

I guess that would be fun as a kid.
I am having to imagine, as I think the most exotic we got, when I was little, is phony Mexican food😂

People are joking about the octopus balls. 🙄

Male octopuses have a special sex arm that they use to insemination the female by inserting it into her mantle cavity. I'm so pleased we don't reproduce like that. The creepy guy on the tube 🤢

I think some species will rip their sexy arm off and hurl it at the female but I sometimes eat cheese before bed so I may have dreamed that one.

Well done OP. I'm struggling to think of a better way to have dealt with it that wouldn't have required a long explanatory conversation with the parents. Who would have denied their sprogs were doing it deliberately.

You're 100% in the right. I don't think you were even really goading the kids - if anything they were goading YOU by, as far as they were concerned, intentionally stopping you have what you 'wanted'.

Not your fault the parents raised little obnoxious twits. More reasonable/ less greedy children might think 'oh the lady at the next table wants that, so let's leave one'.

They looked over at the kids table as I possibly a little too loudly said I wanted octopus balls and saw the kids taking it. Then saw all the plates on the table. He said I’m not paying that and dumped it all on our table.

What an awful man. I’d have told him no chance.

They also trigger the beginning of the end of their life by mating so octopus sex is pretty grim all round. It’s called senescence.

I think they do have a single ⚽️. A single gonad for a single shag.

This thread 😅🤣🤣🤣

Has anyone had the ones at Wagamama where the have flakes on them that move and look like they’re waving at you?

Christ on a bike - thanks for that vivid explanation 😂

Yes, but you didn’t say, “Hey kids…try the octopus! I hear it’s really good!” You said that you wanted to try the octopus. It’s on him that his kids were trying to bully your table by taking everything that you wanted.

Is it the done thing to shout out what you want to the chef ?
It sounds chaotic

They can either have a digestive system or a reproductive system active, iirc. Mating means they die.

I have occasionally wished we were the same - I look at the kids arguing and wish I’d just stuck with dinner.

Hahahahaaaa this is amazing!!!!