28 Wild Stories About Unruly Children in Restaurants

There are plenty of instances in which unruly children never face punishment for their crimes — especially at restaurants. We know this because they grow into unruly adults, who, upon facing consequences for the first time, say something like, “I didn’t know I couldn’t do that.” 

This is why I strongly believe that we should take matters into our own hands. One restaurant manager did just that. The children in question were running around, stealing fries off of people’s plates, and their mother did nothing to stop them. After other customers complained, the manager asked the family to leave, which prompted the mother to call the police and claim she was being “harassed.” When the police arrived, the manager took it further and requested that they involve child services. The kids’ father later showed up and apologized for his wife’s behavior. You have to wonder how those kids turned out. 

Other Redditors have remembered the rambunctious children they were forced to bear witness to at restaurants, including a few siblings who definitely grew up to be either murderers or artists.