I am not an ogre

[customersruinmylife]

I am putting this under Brain Burps because both myself and the customer could have handled it better.

A mother came into the bar with her two kids. She met up with a friend and the four of them had some lunch. After a while, one of the kids got a little bored and decided it would be fun to play around with the patio doors, constantly running in and out of the garden. The mother continued to sit in deep conversation with her friend, occasionally saying...

Mother: Don't do that sweetie...

Kid carried on.

Mother: Come inside sweetie...

Kid still carried on.

Mother: Come inside sweetie, or that big, bad man will hit you.

She pointed at me. Completely shocked, I turned to her.

Me: Lady, you leave me out of it!

I walked off. The mother was a bit shocked, but amazingly the kid came in and sat down!

I know I shouldn't have said what I did, but things like this happen all the time! Parent can't be bothered attempting to control their child, so they make me look like the bad guy.

[BarbieGirl]

I think you handled it fine. People that can't be bothered to correctly teach or control their kids and use tactics like that involving innocent bystanders deserve to be called on it.

[XCashier]

There's a Something Positive strip that deals with this very issue.

[academicgoddess]

There's a Something Positive strip that deals with this very issue.

I was going to point to the same strip. Way to make a random stranger the bad guy! I think you handled it just fine.