Katie Leach was given a handwritten note by two women in their early 60s as she ate with her 10-month-old son Drew at a restaurant in the US state of Idaho on Friday.
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About halfway through her dinner at the Texas Roadhouse in Nampa, Idaho, two women slammed a note down on her table, Leach told the station.
Leach says the reason she wrote the lengthy Facebook post was in hopes that “others will read this and think twice about judging a mother and her 11-month-old son”.
Still, Gottsman says the woman who delivered the note, and her friend, were out of line. “He was not yelling to be mean or because he was mad, it was purely from excitement and being happy”, she said. “It’s not the baby’s fault that he is crying, that’s what babies do”, she tells Yahoo Parenting.
Leach says she spoke with a manager at the restaurant who told the women at the other table that they “could finish their dinner but than [sic] had to leave quietly”. “Perhaps they will have another table you could move to, or perhaps they will invite the family to come back when it’s a better time for the baby and offer a free meal that time”. Leach says she could understand their complaints if her son was older and knew better. Most likely in shock that anyone would actually do something like this, Leach approached the women and tried to explain that her son is young and is still learning. The manager paid for Leach’s meal, and told her that her family is welcome back to the restaurant any time.
Leach said that before slapping the nasty note down on her table, not once did the angry diners ask her to quiet down Drew, nor did they ever mention to Katie that Drew’s screaming was bothering them.
“I don’t get that anger”, she said. We are proud to be loud.
A representative for the Texas Roadhouse said: “We were voted one of the loudest restaurants by Consumer Reports“.
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“If you want to hear clinking wine glasses and clinking forks, then this probably isn’t the place for you”. “Leaving the note at the table, that’s just rude and impolite”, Gottsman says. “You want a quiet dinner, go to a quiet restaurant”, wrote one commenter. At the Texas Roadhouse in Nampa around 6 pm. “If you’re in a restaurant, church, wedding or a movie theater – if the kid starts screaming, get them out”.
