The old hag from Jason's Deli story...

So I was at Jason's Deli last week with two friends and six kids.  (Jack and Ellee and some friends.)  This is what happened...   We ate our lunch and had ice cream cones.   Everyone is behaving just fine.  Jack didnt' like the way I cut up his hot dog but other than that, everyone is happy.  We are eating our ice cream cones and wrapping things up.... I'm relaxing a little and talking to Kelley Jo and Clare.  Jack and his two friends were in the booth and Ellee was sitting by me.   She gets down and takes her ice cream cone over to sit by her brother.  They are laughing and making a few loud noises but basically just being happy kids.  She runs over to me, I wipe her face off, she runs back over to her brother.

This is when the horrible mean hag sitting behind us says "Who's child is that?"  I look over at her.  "You need to CONTROL your child!"
"Are you serious?" I ask
"YES! We're trying to eat lunch!!!  They're being rude! You need to control her."
"The baby?  Are you talking about this baby here?" I say pointing to my 21 month old child.
"Yes!  You need to stick a pacifier in her mouth or something. We're trying to eat lunch."    by the way, all of this is said in the utmost sneer of a voice.
I turn around and am fuming, trying to figure out what to do when she continues on...
"I PITY the kindergarten teacher who has that child in school... and I used to be a teacher!"
"So did I!" I say
"And this is the kind of child you're raising?"
"YES!"  In hindsight I would've said... "Yes a JOYFUL one."
"I raised four boys and they NEVER acted like this."
(Oh really?? I say in my head.)
"In Blue Springs kids don't act like this."
"Whatever." I say
Then Kelley Jo chimes in and says "Why don't you just go on back to Blue Springs b/c here in Lees Summit we're all nice and we LIKE kids."

I turn around and say "I have NEVER had anyone say anything to me about my childrens behavior before today..."
"Why don't you go to McDonalds!" she says
"THIS BASICALLY IS MCDONALDS" I say back.

Then I go pick up Ellee and take her to the bathroom, change her diaper. I am fuming...  no... I am FUMING mad!!!!! I dont know what to do... so I finally go over to the manager and basically start crying and told him how this woman is basically verbally assaulting me.  He reassured me that he hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary from us and that this was a kid friendly restaraunt and he was very sorry.    Then 5 minutes later we were leaving and he comes over to give me 5 free lunch passes for the kids and says he hopes we will return and re-instates again that they are a pro-kid restaraunt.  Mean lady comes over while he's talking to me to say "I just want to tell you that she wasn't controlling her child.  I am very disappointed in this restaraunt. It came highly recommended.  I had no idea this was this kind of establishment. "  He basically told her that it was that kind of establishment.  One that is ok with normal kids. so HA!  I left and spent the next 4 hours trying to get over it.  What a sad sad life this woman has b/c although she only ruined a few hours of my life, she's probably ruined most of her own.





I was scarred for the rest of the day but I think I'm over it now.