Redditor Yells At A Kid Crawling Under His Table At A Restaurant And Asks If They Went Too Far

People get crazy when you correct their child – but at the same time, if that kid is misbehaving in public… Why wouldn’t you? You exist too!

That’s exactly what was going on in this post from u/buizel123 who wanted to know if they were wrong for yelling at a child who crawled under their table at a restaurant.

Let’s review the specifics, shall we? OP explains that they recently went to a local pizza place. Nothing fancy.

My friend Jack and I after a long stressful week like to go to the local pizza place. It’s not fine dining by any stretch of the imagination but there are booths and tables of people sitting down.

Nearby, a big table with lots of kids was causing some havoc. Kids were running around and nobody seemed to care.

I see a large table near us of like 10 people a few couples and bunch of small kids between like 4 and 8, and the kids are running around the restaurant being loud while the adults are drinking wine and eating their pizza.

OP ignored it for a while but when they felt a hand on their leg and a kid under the table, they snapped.

I ignore the commotion for like 20 minutes when suddenly, I feel like a hand on my leg and one of the little kids is crawling under Jack and my table, I wasn’t thinking and snapped at the kid, and said “Get away from our table!” and the kid ran away and burst into tears.

Kid tears ensued and one of the parents started to rip into OP for yelling at the kid.

One of the parents at the other table came over and started tearing into me about “how cranky and mean i was and how dare I yell at her kid, who was just playing” meanwhile her and the other middle aged forty something parents are letting their kids run amok and be loud and obnoxious while my friend and I are trying to enjoy a night out.

OP was furious and yelled back. Eventually, the mother huffed off.

I ripped her a new one and said “How entitled do you need to be to think it’s ok to let your kids just crawl under other people’s tables?” She called me an asshole and walked away in a huff.

Reddit has a tendency not to love misbehaving kids — and I agree with it here!

One user wrote, “NTA. People who don’t scold their kids shouldn’t be surprised when their kids get scolded by strangers, especially if they are just letting their kids go around and invade people’s personal space. you didn’t do anything wrong and the mom and all the rest of those parents are all major AHs.”

Another noted, “NTA. Someone’s gotta teach the kid they can’t do whatever the fuck they want, and it apparently won’t be their parents. Invading a stranger’s personal space and touching them is a big enough deal to warrant being told off immediately and harshly.”

And finally, “NTA – her child is not entitled to invade your personal space and physically touch your person any more than you would be entitled to do the same. She needs to get a grip. She didn’t want her kid yelled at she should’ve been parenting her own child.”