No one likes the sound of a crying baby in a restaurant, least of all the parents. Anyone who’s been there tends to cut new parents a good length of slack when it comes to calming a fussy infant in public. Younger adults however, are a bit quicker and harsher in their judgement.
Lucy Hatami was more than a little anxious about taking her 8-month-old out to a restaurant, so when he started to scream she started to sweat. A rude young man decided to make things worse, but fortunately his father was there to set him straight.
Lucy wrote on Facebook,
That moment when your in a restaurant trying to have breakfast whilst your 8-month-old son is crying and a boy (early 20s) tuts muttering “I wish she’d shut that thing up!”…..
Before I could even respond his dad comes up behind him clips him round the ear and says “what and you think you were perfect? You were a right little sod. No stop being a brat, go up there and apologise to her and offer to get her breakfast as she clearly has her hands full!”
So I got my buffet breakfast with waiter service along with a lovely coffee… thank you to that dad who even after 20 odd years still remembers the difficulty of being parents to babies!
We should all try to be compassionate, especially around this time of year.
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