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...and don't deserve children.

Yesterday, we went to London to see the Lion King at the Lyceum.

It's a brilliant show, by the way.

After it was over, we wandered along the Strand to Charring Cross, and went into the Pizza Express opposite the station.

It's on two floors, with one dining room on street level, and another in the basement.

We were eating in the ground floor dining room, and our table was by the door to the foyer area, which itself has the door onto the street.

Yesterday in London was thick fog, and at the time (6pm) the sun had gone down, so it was like a fifties movie - all red busses and zero visibility.

Half way through our meal, a little girl (about 2-3 years old) toddled up the stairs on her own into the foyer area, and looked about for someone. She was evidently in distress, and seeing an open door to the street, she toddled out into the gloom. I waited a second for her adult to come haring up the stairs after her, but nothing. Another kid (boy, aged about 4-5) followed her up the stairs and watched her leave the front door.

I jumped up and went into the street after her, and by the time I was out the door she'd got to the corner and was almost out of sight. Mrs Daniel_ followed me up and stopped the boy from walking out.

I took her back to the restaurant (which caused her to start screaming her lungs out, because a strange man had picked her up and was taking her away), and when I got back to the restaurant there were STILL no parents in sight. I sat the kid down on a sofa in the foyer and waited another moment before a very well dressed middle class family came up the stairs struggling under the weight of a hugely expensive pram. Mrs Daniel_ explained to the mother what had happened.

I spoke to the father and said "She'd gone down the road."

He grunted.

We went back to our meal, and the mother set about strapping the girl into the buggy. The father went back downstairs to get the second pushchair. The third child (a girl aged about 5) wandered out the front door into the street, while mother's back was turned buttoning up the boy's coat.

At that moment the father came back, and grabbed the wandering off girl to put her into the second pushchair.

After all of this, the guy popped his head round the door and said - "Thanks - they get away from you sometimes, don't they?".

OF COURSE THEY Spoiler: FUCKING DO YOU STUPID Spoiler: CUNT!

YOU'VE GOT THREE CHILDREN, AND TWO BUGGIES TO BRING UP THE STAIRS - WHY THE Spoiler: BOLLOCKING HELL DID YOU SEND THE TWO CHILDREN UP FIRST?

Spoiler: Wanker.

Clearly he had three children to make sure one of them survives his stupidity.

Also - to all the people at the bus stop that watched a small unaccompanied child toddle down the street on a cold night not wearing a coat - I hope you suffer the torments of the damned.

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