“I’m telling you, man–‘Islam is the light’! I heard it, **he **heard it, **she **heard it, we all heard it! So which side are you on?! ARE YOU GONNA BE A HERO OR GET US ALL KILLED?!”
Right, I’m an asshole because I yelled at one kid. Do you know how many kids I haven’t yelled at in similar situations? Dozens over the course of my lifetime. I finally worked up the courage to yell at one kid, it worked, and now people are saying I should be a pussy and let other people solve it or don’t solve it at all. You can fuck yourself with a spork buddy because what I did was right, and sometimes it takes someone with a bit more courage and less worrying about what society thinks to do what is necessary.
You’re right about one thing, if I keep doing it, I may get beat up and regret it. I don’t think I’m going to do it again, it was a combination of things that made me brave enough to take a stand for all the little people, it may never come again. But I’ll never apologize for what I’ve done.
Seriously, who have I hurt? Yelling at a kid for a few seconds is not going to harm him. Hell, he probably won’t remember it. His parents left, which is what most of us wants in this situation. Admit it, you’re just mad because I did it and have no remorse for it. You’re mad it worked. You’re mad I didn’t get beat up because I’m being a fucking prick in this topic gloating about it. But I deserve to gloat about it because what I did was fucking great
Happy to oblige! I’d be happier if you took that lesson, rolled it up into a ball, and shoved it up your ass so far so that you’d never forget it and never bother me again about it. I could go through life happily never hearing about your demented opinions about our new kid rulers.
You know, we’re at the Name Calling stage of a pit thread. Keep your bullshit internet tough guy act to yourself, nobody’s impressed. Oooh! Look! You’re NOT intimidated! Oh wow, and I thought I was doing real swell too! But no, you’re actually NOT intimidated! Woe is me! I’ve run up against the one guy on the internet who isn’t afraid of me! Whatever shall I do???
Next post you’ll tell me how big your testicles are without regard for the fact that they’re probably tumorous, or how many women you’ve bedded neglecting to mention that your record of venereal diseases is equally impressive.
#1 was done, #2 is probably better than what I did, but I didn’t think of it at the time, and #3 is not an option because I probably would have been forced to pay for the meal still. I’ll give you that with hindsight, I probably should have spoken to the manager. However, because what I did worked, I really have no regrets. If one day this happened again, and I am spurred to action, I may remember #2. If not, let’s hope #4 (screaming) works again! 
But could you and Scumpup and JXJohns do me a favor? Tell me what the harm is in what I did. I’m not talking about what possible harm could have befallen me from the dad. I’m not talking about what harm a different person would have done on the kid. I’m talking specifically about what harm came to the child and the family as a result of me yelling at them for no more than 30 seconds. Seriously. You guys see me as such an evil person, but that’s mostly because you think people who act this way are potentially harmful. I didn’t hit the kid, didn’t get closer than many inches from him. I just yelled at him a bit. What’s the harm? What’s the big deal? To hear you guys, it’s like I stabbed him and ate his corpse or something.
Anybody remember that old joke with the punchline, “… but you fuck one goat!”
I don’t see you as evil, just a douche with a wicked case of know-it-all complex and no pedigree to back it up. People who act the way you said you did at the restaurant, are potentially harmful. I try to see the good in all people. Should a fuckwad at a greasy spoon get in my kid’s face however, my initial reaction is that you are up to no good. Because you see, normal people don’t fucking do that, regardless of how disturbed they got eating their Moons Over My Hammy*. When I suggested that you might get your ass stomped should you make this behavior routine, you came back like a whiny bitch talking shit about a lawsuit, one that you would surely lose.
I will agree that no harm came to the kid. His parents probably yell at him more than you did. Regardless, it’s not your place to do so. That is the issue.
*Just for you Meanoldlady 
I see you as a jerk-off rather than evil.
The world has enough dangerous evil and/or crazy people in it that a jerk-off like you runs a real risk of getting beaten or killed when you make the mistake of acting crazy or evil. See, if I am in a public place and this complete stranger rushes up and starts screaming at an infant, I’m not going to wait to see if his next act is to knock over the high chair or produce a weapon or the like. He’s going to the floor hard and staying there. I’m perfectly willing to explain my side of it to the police when they arrive and cuff both of us. A small woman like my wife would probably be justified in using a weapon against such an apparently dangerous lunatic due to disparity in size and strength. Further, the lethal force laws in my state permit its use to protect another from death or severe harm. I doubt many DA’s in these parts would prosecute, nor many juries convict, a small woman for shooting some crazy asshole who appeared to be attacking a baby.
If you actually did it and came away intact, I’d say count yourself lucky that God was looking out for jerk-offs that day.
I’ve lost track of everything going on in this thread. I’m just gonna let the staff deal with it.
No amount of explaining will clue you in to what a huge douche you are Yog.
Normal people with normal emotions would at least realize that it was the wrong thing to do and express some remorse for doing it. I can accept is a moment of lost control when someone might do what you did. What I can’t accept is someone who actually thinks it was a good thing to do and are willing to gloat over it.
And yes, I really do wish that Dad had cleaned your clock. You would have deserved it.
Thank you for a marvelous suggestion.
I fully plan on using that as a meme now.
Okay, a Note From the Other Side: Wife an I were shopping at the grocer’s. Does this fit into acceptable parental conduct? Our daughter objected so loudly that I tossed her into her own cart and parked her outside the store. Still a local cop pulled up and questioned me regarding whether I had abused my child to provoke that response, as he had had a complaint. She was still screaming the whole time so the only indication that the cop believed my claims of innocence was because he didn’t arrest me.
Kids will pull themselves into self-reinforcing tirades from which a parent is unlikely to pull them without a pacifier soaked in Jim Beam. Which still takes a while. Parenthood is the natural state for humans between 15 and 40. The rest of you reside outside our genetic norm and, to be honest, YOU are the weirdos. Deal with it.
I thought about this thread yesterday; Jim and I were having a nice, quiet dinner, having some good food and good conversation, in an empty restaurant. In comes a family of eight, with three kids under five, and they get seated within feet of us. Come on, people! Give us a fighting chance here!
ETA: We were done within about 15 minutes, so we didn’t stick around for the floorshow, but I can tell you the volume of our nice, quiet dinner went up a geometric progression as soon as they came near.
I can tell you, if that were eight adult members of my immediately family, the volume would go up rather startlingly, too.
I’m guessing this was at an establishment closer to Sambo’s than to The Stork Club.
Parenthood may be a natural state (which is highly debatable but whatever) but self centered entitlement minded parents who tell the rest of the world to just deal with it need to be eliminated from the norm.
I can’t believe I missed this whole thread!
Or at very least, relocated to Madagascar.
Why punish Madagascar?
Cause those bastards are way too trigger-happy on the border closings. Jerks.
That’s why the plan would never work. At the first glint of a tear in a baby’s eye, the government would SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING.
Know who *else *said that?