Tuesday evening we took the boys to the new Chick-fil-a for supper. We reminded the boys to stay in their seats, eat their food, and generally to have good behavior. Things that we'd all expect from our kids...at least most of us.
As we were heading to the counter to order I noticed a boy around five years old playing around on the high chairs, barefoot (don't even get me started on that one), and about to fall. I quickly grabbed on to his arm to stabilize him and then he was able to get down. We sat down at a booth with the boys, and I'm happy to say they were very well-behaved. It was getting a bit late, and since the boys had school the next morning we had to forgo the {still relatively clean] play area. So we headed out the door. In the little entrance/foyer between the door to the restaurant and the door outside, the same little boy I caught who almost had a close encounter with a hard tile floor was laying, barefoot still, with his feet up in the air. He looked my boys and my husband and me in the eyes and started yelling some really obnoxious, naughty things to us. Alex and Ayson stopped in their tracks and looked at him - my goodness, we all did - it was appalling. I tried to ignore the situation and rush them along. Then as we are opening the car doors, the boy opened the door and continued to yell names at us all!! Parents no where in sight. When asked about the situation, my boys knew right off the bat that he was wrong but couldn't understand why he was saying naughty things when we hadn't done anything. I feebly made an explanation about him being a bully, and what a bully was, etc. Believe me, it was a topic all the way home with them.
I'm disappointed with myself in how I handled the situation. In retrospect, I wish that I had gone back inside, telling the boy as I passed him in the foyer, that I was going to pay his parents a little visit. And then I should have found them and told them what their son was doing. Maybe it wouldn't have made any difference, who knows? One thing I do know, it made an impression on my boys, one they won't forget for a long time! Can you believe that?
1 comment:
You should have just gave him a little kick on the way out the door. Just Kidding of course, but the thought might have crossed my mind.
I guess his parents were not worried about him wondering out into the parking lot or someone taking him? The sad thing is his parents probably would not care that he was acting like that.
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