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 no I'm having one of those days on MNet where I unwittingly hurt people's feelings. I meant she didn't eff at the baby. I shouted will you shut up to DS once... he shouted 'no you shut up' straight back which kind of made me laugh and broke the tension

sounds like the mum was having a no good,very bad day.which we all have!

oh no don't worry pinky. I didn't take it that way at all. I just really empathised with the woman in the restaurant

Wish I hadn't shouted at DD but I'm sure it won't be the last time. at your DS. Sometimes it takes a cheeky monkey to break the tension.

I agree she probably has PND and has not sought help. This is awful that she feels this way and I cannot believe you have judged her whilst not knowing any of her circumstances!!

poor woman, I've done that many a time!

that's a relief, margoandjerry. DS is 3, so anyhting I say is reflected staright back at me at the moment!

I don't think the lady neccesarily had PND, it just sounded like the kind of bad day anyone could have, TBH.

I don't think this comment was bad at all. The worst parenting I've ever seen was on a bus, woman with 3 or 4 kids who looked dirty and miserable, just effing and blinding and swiping at them. I felt sorry for her because she was drunk and looked like her life was a mess, but felt even sorrier for the kids.

This woman in the restaurant though, that could easily be me! or probably any mother.

It is interesting though cos before I had DS I probably would have been shocked at behaviour like that, if you don't have kids you don't understand how hard and hopeless it can be sometimes..

Whooops! lol- apologies!

Time to swear a little! It has been a long day!

This thread is a lot more heartening than anyone's realised - it's only the OP who thinks this is shocking/outrageous/not normal.

The rest of us reckon it's pretty mild and totally understandable and most of us have done similar ourselves.

[makes mental note not to go for dinner with VVV again]