When I am out in public and see a child acting out, I grimace and try to avoid looking at them. The parent of the child should be in command of their behavior and make it a top priority to get the youngster to behave while in public. If the kid is simply uncontrollable and cannot be calmed down, though, I will take charge and inform the youngster to quiet down.
A man opened up on Reddit about a time when he had to step in and parent another child. He was waiting in line at Burger King when a mother and her son got in line behind him. The kid started acting up, and it was clear that the mother wasn’t going to be able to control him. So the Redditor stepped up and did what the parent should have done.
“This kid was out of control, screaming, punching his mother throwing around a Gameboy whenever something didn’t go right in the game,” Redditor THR111 said. “The mother didn’t seem to pay any attention to him, and his continued yelling of ‘I want a f***ing PIE.’ After about 5 minutes of the line with these people behind me, I had gone from a headache to a full-on migraine….”
So, when it was time for the guy to act, he did what he had to do. He requested that she remove her unruly kid from the line. She didn’t take his advice too kindly.
“I calmly turn and ask her nicely if she can please calm or quiet her child down. Immediately she gets up in my face telling me I can’t tell her nothing about raising her child and to mind my own business. I nod and turn around; she’s still yelling at the back of my head when the child cries out again how he wants a pie. The mother consoles him, calling him sweety and ensuring they’ll get pies for lunch because she loves him so much.”
The man had had enough of the brat’s antics by the time he reached the front of the line, so he decided to teach him and his mother a lesson.
“All I can think of is how the people behind me ruined my splurge and gave me this headache. I then decide to ruin their day. I order every pie they have left in addition to my burgers. It turned out to be 23 pies in total. I take my order and walk towards the exit,” he said.
He was successful.
“Moments later, I hear the woman yelling, what do you mean you don’t have any pies left, who bought them all? I turn around and see the cashier pointing me out with the woman shooting me a death glare. I stand there and pull out a pie and slowly start eating eat as I stare back at her. She starts running towards me but can’t get to me because of other lineups in the food court. I turn and slowly walk away.”
