'Your two hellspawns just fell? I guess they had it coming': Mothers and service industry employees band together to rant about parents who allow their kids to misbehave in restaurants

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
May 31, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

There are many different kinds of nightmares that can happen while working in the service industry. One that is a guarantee you will encounter while working in a restaurant is a family who allows their kids to run wild while they dine. This is a nightmare on so many different levels. For one, if you work in the the restaurant, an unchaperoned child running around like they own the place can be very dangerous. There are servers, busers, and all kinds of employees running around a restaurant and a kid could run right into one of them when they're carrying a hot pot of coffee or something! And secondly, it's a nightmare for all the other customers just trying to enjoy their meal. Do you think they went out to dinner to enjoy a child screaming into their ear? Most people understand parenting is not an easy job and a kid acting up and getting fussy just comes with the job. But as a parent, it is your duty to teach them how that is inappropriate. 

Mothers and service industry employees have banded together via Reddit to rant about parents who allow their kids to wreak havoc in restaurants. It all blossomed under a short post about a person who went out to dinner and encountered some "screaming banshees." These kids were not seeing any consequences to their bad behavior, and they poster even asked the mother if she could wrangle up her kids because they were making their tantrum every customer's business. The mother simply stuck her nose up to them and said "deal with it." Eventually, both of the kids tripped and fell directly on their faces and started crying. The mother looked over at the poster like it was their fault and they just looked back and said "deal with it." 

See the story and reasonable rant below! 

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    Tableware - Posted by u/LysankaIgunPro2 2 days ago Your two hellspawns just fell? I guess they had it coming.
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    Font - Context: two weeks ago, i was enjoying a restaurant meal with three friends. Everything went well until a mom and her two hellspawns sat on the exterior of the restaurant leaving her two banshees running and shrieking. I first got up and asked kindly if she could call them because we are kinda trying to enjoy a meal without having her two hellspawns running and shrieking.
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    Font - To which i have been met with a "deal with that" Less than 5 minutes later, both fell face flat on the ground of the street, crying. She finally got up and gave me dirty look thinking i tripped them on purpose. To which i said "deal with it. They had it coming by not looking where they go"
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    Font - SadLaw6 2 days ago When my oldest 2 were younger they started acting up every time we went into a restaurant and I had enough. So I went one night knowing I wasn't going to be eating there but acted like everything was normal and we sat down and ordered drinks.
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    Font - Sure enough they started up with the antics so I calmly got up, left cash on the table for tip and drinks, walked their horrified and tearful assess out the door and went home and had pb and j for dinner with an early bedtime. Problem solved.
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    Font - CheckIntelligent7828 +2. 2 days ago I remember my mom leaving a full cart of groceries once because I wouldn't mellow and was being a full scale brat. It used to be pretty common that you didn't appease your kids, you removed them from the situation. Unfortunately it seems to be almost the polar opposite now.
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    Font - PR MediocreElk3 - 2 days ago I know it was different times and you can't do this now, but when we acted up in stores, we were sent to go out and sit in the car. No cell phones back then, couldn't turn on the radio, just sitting in the hot/cold car doing nothing until mom was done. Didn't up act more than a couple of times, before we learned to act appropriately in public.
    via u/MediocreElk3
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    Font - krystal422 2 days ago ● Again, long time ago, but I was acting up in a restaurant. Mom marched me out to the car and said "Don't touch a single thing or I'll break every single one of your fingers. And trust me, I'll know". Then went back in the restaurant and ordered ice cream for my brother and sister for dessert. I knew mom wasn't a finger-breaker, but also, could she be?
    via u/krystal422
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    Font - Antique-Eye8029 2 days ago ● I like the term "creative threatener." Once, while at Disneyland with my parents and 2 sisters, we all started acting up in the restaurant. My mom said if we didn't calm down, she'd get up on the table and do the Watusi. We didn't believe her and started acting worse.
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    Font - She threw down her napkin and stood on her chair, then lifted one foot like she was gonna put it on the table. OMG, "We're sorry, Mommy, we'll be good," all the while crying, begging, and pleading with her to please sit down. My dad was laughing his ass off the whole time. We were so well behaved the rest of the trip. Mom had the best creative threats.
    via u/Antique-Eye8029
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    Font - +2 . 1 day ago I don't know about OP, but I may or may not have put my foot or knee in the path of a rampaging hellspawn a few times over the years. Nothing blatant, of course, and keeping a neutral expression is critical. The_Sanch1128
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    Font - Jorizzy ironicmirror 2 days ago Yep, you as a parent need to be willing to sacrifice your meal to teach your kids a lesson. Fortunately you only have to do this once or twice before they catch on. But it says a lot when the kids are screaming, bad parenting.
    via u/ironicmirror
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    Font - Knitsanity +3 • 2 days ago When mine were younger we ate out at a diner a lot. ONCE for each kid.....they threw a tantrum and their dad scooped them up in a football hold, asked me to box up his food, and marched them out to the car. Only had to do it once. Lol.
    via u/Knitsanity
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    Font - When it happened to my younger one the older one nodded sagely and said..."yeah I remember doing that. It doesn't work".lolol
    via u/Knitsanity

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