My sister is 7 months, nearly 8 months pregnant with her 5th child. She is very visibly pregnant at this point.
She decided to take her two younger children, ages 5 and 3 to a certain fast food place whose kid's meal is supposed to make you happy for dinner Sunday evening as a treat.
When they were done eating & playing on the indoor playground it was dark and had cooled off a lot (low 40s F). They got into her minivan and it wouldn't start. That's when my sister realized her cell phone was also dead. So she gets the kids out of the car and goes back inside the restaurant and asks to use their phone to call for help.
I don't know if she spoke with a manager or just a regular employee, but whomever it was said it wasn't a life and death emergency so no, she couldn't use the phone.
Where this is located there are no pay phones and the restaurant is in a parking lot of a retail store that was closed for the night, so the parking lot is empty and dark except for just around the restaurant. Still, when restaurant closed a bit later, they made my sister and the children leave. She had no choice but to huddle with them in the car, trying to keep them warm.
When it had gotten late and she hadn't come home, her boyfriend called my parents in case she was at their house for some reason and then he and my dad each got in their cars and started checking all of the locations of this chain that she would have been likely to go to (there are 4). Fortunately, her boyfriend found them, but still at that point they'd been huddled in the car for over an hour and the temp had dropped below freezing by then.
I don't know if there were any other customers when she tried to use the phone, but I've told her if that ever happens to her again to start asking all the other people to borrow their phone. Someone will let her.
My parents plan on writing very strongly worded letters to the store and district managers and needless to say, no one in the family will be eating at that particular place again.
Who the hell leaves a heavily pregnant woman and two small children in that situation?
She decided to take her two younger children, ages 5 and 3 to a certain fast food place whose kid's meal is supposed to make you happy for dinner Sunday evening as a treat.
When they were done eating & playing on the indoor playground it was dark and had cooled off a lot (low 40s F). They got into her minivan and it wouldn't start. That's when my sister realized her cell phone was also dead. So she gets the kids out of the car and goes back inside the restaurant and asks to use their phone to call for help.
I don't know if she spoke with a manager or just a regular employee, but whomever it was said it wasn't a life and death emergency so no, she couldn't use the phone.
Where this is located there are no pay phones and the restaurant is in a parking lot of a retail store that was closed for the night, so the parking lot is empty and dark except for just around the restaurant. Still, when restaurant closed a bit later, they made my sister and the children leave. She had no choice but to huddle with them in the car, trying to keep them warm.
When it had gotten late and she hadn't come home, her boyfriend called my parents in case she was at their house for some reason and then he and my dad each got in their cars and started checking all of the locations of this chain that she would have been likely to go to (there are 4). Fortunately, her boyfriend found them, but still at that point they'd been huddled in the car for over an hour and the temp had dropped below freezing by then.
I don't know if there were any other customers when she tried to use the phone, but I've told her if that ever happens to her again to start asking all the other people to borrow their phone. Someone will let her.
My parents plan on writing very strongly worded letters to the store and district managers and needless to say, no one in the family will be eating at that particular place again.
Who the hell leaves a heavily pregnant woman and two small children in that situation?
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