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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/calliope628 on 2023-09-09 19:53:46.
For context we live in the Southeastern US. Today my son (8) asked to go to Waffle House for lunch to celebrate an achievement. We (my husband, son, and I) sat in a booth adjacent to three late 20s/ early 30s women who had just sat down before us, with my back to their booth and my son and husband across from me.
We ordered and are enjoying our food, and they are having an energetic conversation behind us. Not crazy loud, but loud enough for the three of us to hear them, and for me to cringe every time the woman facing our table dropped the F bomb. After a while, I became uncomfortable with my kiddo hearing this conversation. I turned around in my seat and quietly asked them to please stop saying F*** in front of my son. The woman facing our table leaned forward and asked me to repeat myself. I did. She then responds that we are in a public place and that she has kids, too. Then as this was happening, the waitress serving both our tables came by to check on them, and she complained to the waitress that I was being rude. I turned back to my table, requested to go boxes from the waitress, and didn’t say anything further to the party behind me. I could certainly hear them talking about how offended they were, and commenting that next time we should go to IHOP. (I guess because it’s more family friendly?)
I was flabbergasted. I was expecting them to laugh it off, not get prickly that I had the audacity to make such a request. AITA?