Staying at a theme park hotel tonight. Me, dh, ds1 and ds2. Ds is at uni, ds2 is a late teen with severe autism.
There are not enough tables at the entertainment for the people there. We manage to get a nice table next to the singers and have two spare chairs. A woman asks if she can sit with her ds in the spare chairs- we say all ok. I get talking to her and she's there on her own with her child - just the two of them. Her ds is only little four or five.
The woman gets up to run after her ds leaving her things. A couple of men walk by with their kids and one of their children takes the womans kids toy. We intervene and ask for it back. The kid starts crying and the dad who was drunk calls dh a dick. I take the toy and say it isn't his. His wife/ gf arrives and tells the man to just buy the kid the same toy from the shop (it's a light up flashy spinny thing). The man gets more aggressive. The woman comes back and says thank you to us. The man carries on and she gives his child her son's toy to calm things down. She later sats she was intimidated.
The men then go to the bar and start an argument with the bar staff. Security are called and they're removed.
Management came over and asked if we were ok.
We celebrate new year and return to our hotel room. Ds1 says he thought we should have thought more and not said anything, he thought we could have been hurt if the men got really aggressive (they were big, young and rough).
I take his point aibu for taking the toy back? The bully man's child ended up with it anyway and ultimately the womanwas a stranger. I just felt responsible and ifwe let people take everything they want, where would that leave us.