The guy i sat next to last night.

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I'll keep it short and sweet, its about some guy at the restaurant (sort of) bit at the Cardiff panthers club last night.
I was there with my parents (I'm 26, they are 50 and 60) for an early fathers day eat and drink outing, a Chinese woman and her 10ish year old son were in line before us, she paid for 2 adults and the kid and got seated next to us.
Everything was fine for about 20 minutes, then her Australian BF/defacto/whatever showed up and started harassing the kid before he had even sat down. I know 'harassing' is probably the wrong word, i probably mean 'berating' or 'haranguing' something like that. He was stopping short of belting the kid, and was keeping his voice down so only the people in the tables close could hear but he was being an absolute jerk.
He was in to the kid about normal stuff, homework etc but every time he tried to answer him the guy would cut him off, telling him to answer faster and my favorite, 'don't eat anything while i'm talking to you, you know i hate that'.
I'm all for parents instilling more respect on their kids and obviously i don't know the whole story but this guy was honestly the biggest jerk i have ever seen. Who drags their kid (or their GF's kid) to a packed restaurant just to drill the crap out of him about stuff that could just as easily be discussed at home or anywhere. It was like he was trying to make the kid cry in public just so he'd be embarrassed but without drawing attention to himself (which he failed at miserably).
After about 10 minutes of him quietly tearing into this kid, he gets up walks out (for a smoke or something, i don't know). I'm coming back to the table with some drinks and my mum asks the Chinese woman, who has sat there eating without comment the whole time, if everything is ok. She shoots her back her best dumb cow look, says nothing and keeps eating. I don't know, she might not speak English or something.
The guy comes back and picks up where he left off for about 30 seconds until another family sits down on the other side of their table. One of the kids or the parents i'm not sure, says hello etc.. to them (they obviously know each other) and the guy whispers to the little Chinese kid that they'll finish their talk later while giving him the evil eye.

I know it doesn't sound like much, some guy disciplining his kid in public, but that just cause i'm crap at describing it. Its been a while, probably 20 years, since i ever got a smack for whatever when i was a kid but i'd have taken that 10 times over if the other alternative was what this kid got last night. I know some hard people on here will say that i should have stood up and kicked the guy across the room and some people would say that we should have minded our own business and ignored it completely but its a little late for either.

We left soon after the other family sat down cause mum was a bit upset about it and dad was full of prawns. I sort of put it out of my mind last night but i woke up this morning feeling a bit guilty for not doing anything.

EDIT: If some of that sounds a little strange i originally posted it on another forum's ranting section so i had to substitute a few words for other 'more FF friendly' words etc...