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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Real_Rough5952 on 2023-08-03 13:00:19.
I (27F) accoplished something awesome at work and I wanted to celebrate. So I went to my favourite restaurant restaurant to treat myself to my favourite meal.
It was all great at first. I had my laptop and got some work done as I waited for my food. I had just started eating when a family of four with kids around the age of 4 and 2 sat at the table beside mine. I was surprised because It’s not an environment known to be hospitable to kids overall.
Initially, the kids were quiet. It got progressively worse as they sat there. The little one was crying, the older one was shouting. And they went on and on. My sound cancelling earbuds didn’t help me much. So I asked to move to a different table.
The restaurant isn’t very big so I could still hear them crying and shouting. I barely enjoyed my food and was really angry because I very rarely get to have time for myself and I really wanted to enjoy this.
As I was paying, I told the father that I hoped they enjoyed their meal, because I barely could. He got mad and said I had no right to say anything about them, and went on to say he had barely had the time to eat out as a family and that I was being rude for no reason.
I said sacrificing social events is part of parenting and that their kids were particularly loud. The argument went on for a bit more but the couple seemed terribly pissed at me.
Was I the AH?