Diner confronts mum with crying baby in posh restaurant

A diner who challenged a mother with a crying baby in a posh restaurant received a volley of abuse.

The woman had gone out with her husband for their first outing since their own second child was born and had hoped for a relaxing meal at the fancy eatery. However, a baby at the table next to theirs started crying loudly and so the couple asked to move tables – a request which was accommodated.

But the mum of the crying infant swore at the diner, Wales Online reports.

Since the meal, the diner  has told of the confrontation on Reddit, a social news and discussion website.

Most of the users support the diner, who had arranged for a babysitter to look after her two children, and suggested customers should not have to listen to crying babies.

One woman, who said she was a former waitress, said: “No matter what sort of establishment it is, asking to move away from loud kids is reasonable. It’s reasonable that loud kids are there at a lower level place, as opposed to nicer places where it really isn’t.

“Don’t get me started on parents who let their kids run around.. I once kneed a toddler in the head and he went down hard, because he suddenly ran in front of me while I was carrying ‘sizzling’ skillets that would have slid off their wooden blocks had I stopped abruptly.

“Parents got mad and I told them a bump is better than a hot piece of metal to his face, and to take better care of their child.”

Another Reddit user posted: “It’s pretty selfish to ruin that (the date) for them. It’s a rare night out.”

A third shared: “I wouldn’t want to sit next to a crying baby in a fancy restaurant and I would also ask to be moved.”

One man wrote: “Life Pro Tip for teaching kids to be members of society: go to dead restaurants during the middle of the week to teach the little buggers how to behave in polite society without the fear of disrupting other patrons.”

The diner’s post that originally started the debate said: “My husband and I went out for dinner a couple of nights ago. It was the first time by ourselves after our baby was born. It’s my second child, the first for my husband so it was kind of a big deal for us. We got a babysitter and we went to a very nice fancy restaurant.

“A few minutes after we ordered, another couple sat on the table next to us… with a small baby in a stroller. At first it was fine but after a few minutes the baby started crying.

“They tried to comfort it, but every time it seemed they had managed to make it sleep, it woke up crying again. By then we just wanted to leave but we had already ordered so we decided to ask the waiter if we could change tables to the other side of the restaurant.

“The waiter asked if there was a problem and I said it was our first time out after having a baby and we didn’t feel like spending our evening next to someone else’s crying baby. He was super nice and quickly asked another waiter to help him set up the new table for us. Another couple that was in the same area also asked to be seated elsewhere.

“The couple with the baby overheard what we said to the waiter and specially the mom got upset and called me an *******. She went on and on saying that I probably don’t have kids (mm.. I have two), and that babies are also people and we should just accept that babies can be loud and cry and there’s nothing she could do about it.

“I didn’t want to start a fight or anything but I got really annoyed by her attitude, so I told her that she could actually do something about the crying… she could take her baby home so it can properly sleep and then let everyone else there enjoy their meals.

“She kept saying stuff but I just ignored her, went to our new table and tried to have a nice dinner (although we could still hear the crying baby but at least it was not right next to us).

“This morning I told my sister what happened and she said she agrees that I might have been an *******… She said I shouldn’t have said to the waiter that we wanted to move because of the baby and I shouldn’t have said what I said to the mom. So now I am not sure??”