Entry FeedMonday after soccer camp, a few of us moms decided to take a group of our kids out to lunch, and then to a mini-golf and driving range place.
We arrived at the lunch place, and with 13 of us, the place was packed. It is the kind of restaurant the you go to pick up a quick but good burger and fries. Unfortunately, our numbers overwhelmed them. It took me about 20 minutes to order, and another 45 minutes for our food to come. Not bad timing when Husband and I head out for fine dinning, but too long for a group of kids at a hamburger place.
As soon as my food was ready, last, daughter announced that she had to go pee. Always the way! I took her down the narrow steps to the bathroom, where she peed, and somehow plugged up the toilet. No plunger, so I left it and went back upstairs.
When I sat down, another mother came over a whispered in my ear. Apparently in my absence, the "big" boys were fooling around with the squeeze ketchup bottle, and a gentleman wearing a while dress shirt got some all over his back. He was still eating his lunch, oblivious.
Yes, ketchup squirted on some man's white shirt, while he sat their eating his lunch, politely ignoring the rowdy boys at the table behind him...
The other moms decided that one would take the kids out, just in case there was a scene, and the other two would stay and apologize and offer to pay for the dry cleaning. We, all of the moms, felt TERRIBLE!!!!
Unfortunately, as my kids and I were the last to get our lunch, we weren't actually ready to leave. Instead, we witnessed the apology and the attempt to clean the shirt.
The gentleman was extremely gracious and forgiving - he joked that he would just have to take the rest of the day off, and wouldn't take any money for dry cleaning. Of course, we were mortified.
Still trying to explain to Son One why he is just as culpable as the ones doing the squirting because all of the boys were fooling around instead of staying in their seats, as asked...