All we wanted to do was quietly eat some pizza. childfree

My friend and I decided to head out to a favorite local pizza place to grab a slice and just chill for a few. Nothing special, just enjoy some pizza on a Friday night. My friend has a stressful job and pizza is comfort food.

We enter the pizza place and within 3 minutes, a mom, dad and three kids all barrel thru the front door. Mom looks like shes been thru a spin cycle of emotions, so my blood pressure rises in anticipation of impending stress as if it were a bunch of drunken gang members ready to start something. But I calm down and ignore them.

As they all run their mouthes with simultaneous conversations, they buy their slices, sit down (at the table next to us, of course) and the trouble begins almost immediately. The two boys (approx. age 4) can't sit still and start to run amuck thru the establishment with their pizza slices. The girl gets up from her seat and proceeds to take soda out of the glass vending refrigerator without permission. Mom looks over and yells, telling her she can't have the soda, and the girl proceeds into full emotional meltdown (probably cry-fest #26 for the day.) For the next 10 minutes the entire establishment of people is interrupted by the yelling between mom and the defiant kid who now will not eat her pizza and will not put the soda back in the case. The young manager has no idea what to do about the situation but to just watch like every one else. The two boys are now repeatedly going outside and running back inside. Dad is sitting there, ignoring what's happening as if he had lost his jaded soul years ago. Eventually the family finished eating, pays and leaves, and things calm down.

Why do families like this feel like they have the God given right to disturb the peacefulness of public places? Why must we all share in the misery of their bad parenting and family distresses? There just seems to be zero embarrassment or common sense anymore with many parents in public places. I'm so sick of it.

Submitted August 31, 2015 at 08:27AM by mnk68 http://ift.tt/1fQhyKH childfree