Just heard the most shocking thing said by a parent in a restuarant...

[Jzee]

Picture the scene; Very family orientated middle class borough of London....
we were sitting having dinner with our DS when a very middle class looking couple walked into the restaurant with a baby of about 1 year. Not long after the baby bumped his arm and started screaming, so the dad picks him up and with that a glass went flying off their table onto the floor and breaks. The mother stood up in a busy restaurant and in a very loud voice said 'F,,,,,g Hell I can't do this anymore!' She storms out of the restuarant with the dad left holding a screaming baby. All of the other customers couldn't belive what they had just heard - 2 minutes later the mother comes back into the restaurant sits down at the table and continues with her meal as if nothing has happend??!!!! I've been to alot of restaurants and have never heard anything like it. How could she have the front to just resume her dinner like nother had happened? She should have run off to the hills and hung her head in shame!blush

Oh I love it when Lulumama swears!

and I second what she said

Agree we all have bad days, but when there are other kids around including your own young baby you should be able to refrain from losing it it to such a degree.

poor woman...I's have been following her outside with a large G&T and a pakcet of tissues personally.
Jzee, I have a lot worse in restaurants from non-parents actually - often aimed at the staff!

Are you a parent, Jzee? I suspect not, since you can't empathise with this poor woman.

Run to the hills and hang her head in shame? No, of course she shouldn't. Many of us have been there, and if you haven't then you should count yourself very lucky.

Poor her. I've been close to doing the same - having this surge of adrenaline and just feeling desperate to RUN. Like the whole fight or flight response - would obviously never fight my children, but the urge to flee has been strong at various moments since I became a mother.

Clearly if you're going to have a bad day, you could at least have the decency to dress badly to warn other people what might happen. Badly dressed people are expected to snap.

I would probably have stood up and screamed "Fucking Hell, you're right, I can't fucking take it any more either".

But then I'm not immaculately dressed.

And don't think I look like a bitch?

It might be the way you're telling it, Jzeee, but it's not making a huge lot of sense atm.

Gwan...tell us what suburb and what area? Please...

i only bring the big guns out when absolutely necessary, fletch!

when i was depressed, i made more of an effort to be immaculately dressed, made up, hair done, accesorised. ( i look like crapola now! ) to throw people off the scent, so they would not guess.

but snapping at something as trivial as a glass being knocked over , that was exactly how i was

how lovely and comforting to know i was being judged as a bitch

i wish people would think outside their own narrow periperies sometimes and give people the benefit of the doubt

Jzee - Do you know what had happened before? do you know whats going on in her life? do you know her mental state? do you know anything? no you don't so stop trying to be so perfect & give the women a break!

Twonk? All I meant is that I wasn't expecting this woman to lose it like that especially since she looked so immaculate and in control.

I am a mess. I wonder if people expect me to swear and storm about.

Poor woman. Sounds like she had reached the end of her tether after a very difficult day (week/month/year).

I think it took great strength of character on her part to come back and resume the meal. Perhaps she felt a little better after letting off steam and having a couple of minutes to get herself together.

I'm a bit that the husband didn't go after her.

Perhaps her appearance is the only thing she feels she has any control over right now...

Mutt: I think your jumping to the wrong conclusions about me - and sorry that you have taken such offence.

LOL at 'I've been to a lot of restaurants...'

But obviously still managed to live a very quiet life, eh Jzee?

exactly FMV

muffin, dh nevers goes after me when i get like that (i suffer bouts of de[ression, mainly pND depression), as he knows i need those few minutes to cool off and calm down alone.