I was witness to a restaurant brawl last night.

[LaraMN]

I went out for coffee and a bite to eat with my MIL, and two small groups of people sitting a few tables away from us started cussing and yelling back and forth.
At one of the tables in question, there was a little boy, probably 5 or 6, listening to his mother scream at the other table that they were mother***ers and f*gs, and the other people weren't behaving much better. One was screaming that she had punched him.

This poor young waitress tried to ask them politely to stop, and the obscenity-spewing mother started screaming at the waitress to mind her own f-ing business.
There was an entire table of off-duty police officers in the dining room over, and they did NOTHING.

It was just awful. I felt so bad for the waitress. I left her a 50% tip on our bill so her night wasn't completely horrible.

Why are people so F-ing stupid and rude?

[ogneopasno]

1. That poor kid, and that poor waitress.

Knowing where you are, I'm curious about the restaurant.

[LaraMN]

2. Perkins.

On 33.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Wow! Imagine how those dolts behave when there is alcohol involved.

Goodness.

[LaraMN]

9. I don't understand how people like that can hold jobs, have relationships,

and basically even function in society.

[WildEyedLiberal]

25. OMG the only restaurant altercation I've ever witnessed was also in a Perkins

I was there at 3AM - the cook started screaming at and berating the (sole) waitress, and she started screaming back at him. There were, weirdly enough, also some off-duty cops in the restaurant at the time, but they came back and told them to settle down after it became apparent they weren't going to stop.

Creepy coincidence :scared:

[SacredCow]

3. High-class ones, those....

:eyes:

[LaraMN]

5. Clearly. So glad they spawned and are raising youth.

:banghead:

[supernova]

4. The off duty cops

surprising they didn't do anything.

That poor kid.

[LaraMN]

6. They couldn't possibly have not heard it,

and it went on for a while.

wtf?

[Sequoia]

23. I'm not. Useless jerks.

That kid might have a bad attitude toward cops after this.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. I am not sure if I would have been able to finish my meal.

How awful for everyone.

[LaraMN]

10. I *really* wanted to get up and go say something,

but getting in the middle of a spat involving about 6 or 8 people, in which someone has already been punched in the face, seemed like a bad idea.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. yeah, bad idea. Wonder what the Manager thought/did?

Nothing? :shrug:

[LaraMN]

12. I didn't even see a manager come out.

It was about 10 pm. I was wondering if there wasn't one there, because they definitely should have dealt with it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. I would have called for some type of Security and banned these

people from ever returning to my establishment...meh. That's the way I roll.

[rcrush]

16. OMG I wish more people did that.

I tried to ban these 15 year olds from my theatre when they were fighting in the lobby. But the people that work in the corp office thought it was a bad idea cause their mommy's complained. UGH

[Tangerine LaBamba]

20. Someone should have called the police......

especially if someone had been "punched."

The off-duty cops were real winners, too. Were they in uniform? Sure they were real cops, or were they rent-a-cops?

[no name no slogan]

14. Ah, another night at the Olive Garden

That's why I stopped going there.

This is the DU member formerly known as Unlimited Salad and Breadsticks.

[PVnRT]

15. Drama queens

Some people just want to be the center of attention, or can't let things go, etc. Funny, these are the same people who write personals saying that people should leave the drama at home.

[kwassa]

17. Was the fight over public breast-feeding?

[sasquatch]

18. They were probably associates of the officers

[LeftyMom]

19. Whatever happened to "Minnesota nice"?

:shrug:

[no name no slogan]

21. It's all a sham

People are very nice and civil on the surface, but underneath they can be real assholes.

This is the DU member formerly known as Garrison Keillor's Table Manners.

[LeftyMom]

24. Next you'll tell me Lutherans and hotdish are myths.

Seriously though, I took a trip to Minneapolis as a teenager, and all the complete strangers who kept saying hello creeped me the hell out. In California if strangers talk to you the typical assumption is that they're either crazy or want something.

[Arger68]

22. That's actually kind of a mythical thing. Lots of

not so nice people here anymore.