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I forgot about this little incident from the restaurant the other day.
I was standing by the computer, putting in an order when rounding the corner comes a little guy - I'd say MAYBE 12 - 18 months old...hauling butt through the restaurant...no one around him in sight!
Now, this restaurant has wooden, albeit fake - but still - wooden floors with a nice shine to them. Little guy had nothing but socks on. This is just great!
He was running laps around the dining room. Just giggling and running away. Servers with food and drinks in our hands didn't phase this little guy. I paused a moment to see - well, honestly, to see when he was going to bite it to see if THAT would cause these parents...if they were even in the restaurant - you never know - to come and collect their little poop bucket. He kept running...I had to get to work.
I come back out...he's still running...this time, he has what appears to be an older sibling running after him trying to catch him. So, mom and dad STILL not coming to get their child, but they send another running child after him. Oh this is just golden.
They are both doing laps around the dining room. I leave the area again. Come back out...just the toddler. This time, I see the offending table. Four adults, three kids. I notice the adults LOOKING right at their little socked cross-dining room runner and DO NOTHING ABOUT IT! A table next to them has now taken notice, so now you have other guests and us servers watching this child...some of us have stopped doing what we are doing just to be sure SOMEONE is there when/if this kid falls.
Thank god he never did! BUT - c'mon? Really? REALLY? Do parents really think this is a good way to handle their kids? Just let em run free...in bare socks, on a wooden floor, where hot plates and glasses with cold drinks are being carried by people who are looking ahead of them and NOT looking down at their feet where little toddlers can be seen cruising pamper style through the area?!?!?!?
Sheesh.
I was standing by the computer, putting in an order when rounding the corner comes a little guy - I'd say MAYBE 12 - 18 months old...hauling butt through the restaurant...no one around him in sight!
Now, this restaurant has wooden, albeit fake - but still - wooden floors with a nice shine to them. Little guy had nothing but socks on. This is just great!
He was running laps around the dining room. Just giggling and running away. Servers with food and drinks in our hands didn't phase this little guy. I paused a moment to see - well, honestly, to see when he was going to bite it to see if THAT would cause these parents...if they were even in the restaurant - you never know - to come and collect their little poop bucket. He kept running...I had to get to work.
I come back out...he's still running...this time, he has what appears to be an older sibling running after him trying to catch him. So, mom and dad STILL not coming to get their child, but they send another running child after him. Oh this is just golden.
They are both doing laps around the dining room. I leave the area again. Come back out...just the toddler. This time, I see the offending table. Four adults, three kids. I notice the adults LOOKING right at their little socked cross-dining room runner and DO NOTHING ABOUT IT! A table next to them has now taken notice, so now you have other guests and us servers watching this child...some of us have stopped doing what we are doing just to be sure SOMEONE is there when/if this kid falls.
Thank god he never did! BUT - c'mon? Really? REALLY? Do parents really think this is a good way to handle their kids? Just let em run free...in bare socks, on a wooden floor, where hot plates and glasses with cold drinks are being carried by people who are looking ahead of them and NOT looking down at their feet where little toddlers can be seen cruising pamper style through the area?!?!?!?
Sheesh.
And heaven forbid you try to stop the child, since that could be construed as trying to hurt the little guy (I wanna spew even thinking I have to write something like that, I just know how SC parents will react sometimes)
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