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That reminds me of a "good" restaurant story. My wife and I are at a favorite family restaurant wher the owners are friends of her family. A man with a small boy (maybe 7 or 8?) that we have to assume is a grandfather are waiting for breakfast accross a narrow room from us. The kid is deliberately trying to antagonize the man by doing anything he can to get a rise out of him. He finally finds the most fun by waving a coffee cup around and pretending to throw it at 'grandpa'.
They have plate glass windows next to them and behind grandpa. All the guy says is "don't do that" in a tired voice over and over while the kid laughs at him and I do mean AT him. Then he switches to a knife, then a plate, back to the cup etc. We're talking about warning the owner that he's about to lose a window when a coffee plate comes sailing our way and lands on the floor.
Ok, that's it but just before I get up the waitress shows up with the food and the old man, noticing the glares from us tells her to package it for take out instead. We decide to let it go since they're leaving but then we had to listen to the kid crying and moaning about how he wants his food NOW.
It was hard to be mad at a guy who was clearly at his wits end, but that's the closest I think I've come to chewing out someone for their kid's behaviour.
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