Diner Owner Yells At Child To Shut Up, Mother Gets Indignant
07-22-2015, 08:12 AM
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Diner Owner Yells At Child To Shut Up, Mother Gets Indignant
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/wo...lling-at-a-kid
I have to side with the owner on this one
PORTLAND, Maine — The owner of a Maine diner says she’s not sorry for yelling at a 21-month-old child for crying in her restaurant because it got the girl to be quiet.
Darla Neugebauer, owner of Marcy’s Diner in Portland, is defending her actions after a backlash on social media among people who say they’ll never eat at the restaurant again.
Neugebauer wrote on Facebook that the girl had been crying for more than 40 minutes by the time she slammed her hands on the counter and told the girl to be quiet.
“And her parents looked at me and said, ‘are you screaming at a child?’ she told WCSH-TV. “Yes I am. And she shut up.”
Neugebauer told WCSH-TV that the parents ordered three full-sized pancakes for the child but ignored her, and she claimed they didn’t feed her after the food arrived.
She said on the restaurant’s Facebook page that she tried to drop hints that they should leave before confronting them directly.
“I brought over boxes for the all important three full-sized pancakes and omelettes no one has eaten because they are too busy talking and ignoring their screaming child,” she wrote on the café’s Facebook page, “and said ‘either all of you need to go or just her,’ pointing to the beast that for that moment someone was actually paying attention to her was silent!”
“Life’s full of choices,” Neugebauer said in her TV interview after the confrontation, “and you’ve got to live with all of them. I chose to yell at a kid, it made her shut-up, which made me happy, it made my staff happy, it made the 75 other people dining here happy, and they left, they may never come back, other people may not come in. Their loss really.”
The girl’s mother, Tara Carson, wrote on Facebook that anyone with young children should understand that crying is normal after waiting such a long time for food.
“I turned to my daughter and I was like `Listen, this is how I’m raising you not to be as an adult. Like, you will never be like this when you get older,'” Carson said. “I felt helpless as a mom that, you know, I couldn’t do anything to help her, because I can’t explain why there’s crazy people in this world that behave like that.”
Darla Neugebauer, owner of Marcy’s Diner in Portland, is defending her actions after a backlash on social media among people who say they’ll never eat at the restaurant again.
Neugebauer wrote on Facebook that the girl had been crying for more than 40 minutes by the time she slammed her hands on the counter and told the girl to be quiet.
“And her parents looked at me and said, ‘are you screaming at a child?’ she told WCSH-TV. “Yes I am. And she shut up.”
Neugebauer told WCSH-TV that the parents ordered three full-sized pancakes for the child but ignored her, and she claimed they didn’t feed her after the food arrived.
She said on the restaurant’s Facebook page that she tried to drop hints that they should leave before confronting them directly.
“I brought over boxes for the all important three full-sized pancakes and omelettes no one has eaten because they are too busy talking and ignoring their screaming child,” she wrote on the café’s Facebook page, “and said ‘either all of you need to go or just her,’ pointing to the beast that for that moment someone was actually paying attention to her was silent!”
“Life’s full of choices,” Neugebauer said in her TV interview after the confrontation, “and you’ve got to live with all of them. I chose to yell at a kid, it made her shut-up, which made me happy, it made my staff happy, it made the 75 other people dining here happy, and they left, they may never come back, other people may not come in. Their loss really.”
The girl’s mother, Tara Carson, wrote on Facebook that anyone with young children should understand that crying is normal after waiting such a long time for food.
“I turned to my daughter and I was like `Listen, this is how I’m raising you not to be as an adult. Like, you will never be like this when you get older,'” Carson said. “I felt helpless as a mom that, you know, I couldn’t do anything to help her, because I can’t explain why there’s crazy people in this world that behave like that.”
I have to side with the owner on this one
07-22-2015, 12:24 PM
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This is stupid. It's f*cking unnecessary. What happened to the days when a child was expected to behave? Sometime I hate my snowflake-ass generation. There are way too many children of hippies raising bratty shits and f*cking up society.
The business owner had way more tact and patience than I would. Five minutes in I would be over there with a simple "shut that thing up and let me hear not a peep for the rest of your visit, or get the f*ck out and never come back."
The business owner had way more tact and patience than I would. Five minutes in I would be over there with a simple "shut that thing up and let me hear not a peep for the rest of your visit, or get the f*ck out and never come back."