Why do people DO this? It's disgusting!

I have heard people say "they get paid, let them clean it up". I get so made when I hear people say that. It only takes a few seconds to clean up the mess they made. We went out to dinner with my daugher and her 2 toddlers a few months ago. The youngest just turned 2 so he was not yet 2 when this happened. He made a terrible mess in the floor. The mess was food. He did not do this on purpose, he is just a messy baby.I mean really bad. We could not clean that up so we left and extra $5.00 to the tip to confinsate for the mess she was going to have to clean up.

I agree with you. I hate it when people do that. My friends say I'm an O.C. that's why I act like that but I just can't imagine my friends and I eating in a restaurant and leaving it a mess. Maybe some people are doing it cause they don't know what good manners are and they were never taught by their elders about that!!! Shessssshhhhh!!!!!

I have no idea why people act like that or let their kids. Maybe those kids act that way when they are home as well. When I go out, I always make sure my trash is either thrown away or if we are at a restaurant where they clean up, everything is always piled so they just have to pick it up.

i hope they tipped u generously... if they didn't then it is rude

I used to work at a restaurant and had the same problem... I vowed that when I have children, I will be the cool mom who asks the waitress for a broom, and I will show by example that you clean up after yourself! And once the child is old enough to help, he will help darn it! My mother had a good rule of thumb. "Always leave a place cleaner than you found it"... I think it's a great rule. People today are so used to having other people clean up after them, and I think it's shameful. Imagine.. people feel this way in lots of professions: waitstaff, barristas, retail workers, daycare workers, people who work for the city who have to clean the parks and streets... not to mention housekeepers! The worst for me was a kid who dumped an entire bowl of spagetti onto her chair and then left it, including the upturned bowl on the seat. The moms of these kids don't tip that well, either.. for the record. I was so upset, but I remember thinking 'you know, if that's how her child behaves at mealtime, and that's the kind of mess they're allowed to make, then I'm just thankful I don't live in HER home, because I'll bet it's disgusting.' I think piglike parents create piglike children, and the only thing we can do is teach our own children how to be civilized.

when it comes to kids they act the way they are allowed to act...if they are just told how to behave in different places they act that way...people carry a mentality of "why should i bother?, i don't own it."... the same thing goes on from an elder to a younger one...if the elders behave properly the kids won't dare do something opposite to these acts

It's really too much when people behave like this. In their home they keep everything neat and clean but when they come out they make all such kind of mess

hi,that is what i feel also when i saw a family or someone who dine in and leave his/her trash in the table. this is what my husband told me...never get affected by what they have done.it is their mirror of what they have in their lives.to be one of the trash. in that way,you can see how your mother took care of you in good terms.some traits of you is the same of your mother when it terms of cleanliness,cooking,or other household chores. be proud of your mother.she never taught you to act in the public that way...

We don't let DS do that on purpose, and it bugs me along with all the other BS that people let their kids do in public. We do realize that DS will make a mess when he eats sometimes, and do our best to clean up the table. The floor however, we let the staff handle. They have brooms and are better equiped. We do leave an extra tip for the trouble they have to go through.

I completely agree I have worked for Mcdonalds for 2 years which is also a self service restaurant and have come across such customers many a times..instead of inculcating good habits parents infact have this mentality to teach their kids that they pay for food and mess to be created and not behave like civilised individuals..its a long time still for people to understand civilised behaviour

Here again it goes back to the parents. They do not encourage their children to pick after themselves. Letting them know that they are not leaving until they pick up their stuff and throw it away. I myself have seen this when I take my grandkids to McDonalds. My grandkids can not believe that anyone would leave and not throw their garbage away. They pick up their garbage and take it to the garbage can and throw it away. We would never leave a mess for someone else to pick up. My mom taught us kids that and my son has instilled that into his kids. They are 9,11, and 12 and very well behaved and mannered. They always pick up after themselves no matter where they are. I don't have a clue to why people do this. I wonder what their own houses look like. You have a right to be upset.

I'd prefer parents having control over their children. Specially in public places, where a child's manner is reflecting the parent's ability to raise their children right.

Some people really have no manners. Being themselves like that, the kids will definitely end up like that when they grow up. We, parents, should never forget to teach our little ones how to eat and act like a human being rather than like a pig. I witness this several times.

I feel empathy with You..I work in a 4* hotel restaurant,and like having the place so People can enjoy a relaxed meal in nice surroundings..and then families bring in their young kids,order them the messiest stuff they can eat(usually as finger food,and then handpainting ketchup and chocolate icecream on the tablecloths),and allow them to run crazy and unsupervised around the place,leaving toys strewn around to trip You,and baby buggies blocking access round the table..Ok,the kids haven't learned table Manners yet..but in some cases,neither have the adults!

Because they themselves are too lazy to educate their children. Which sucks because their the future.

I don't know why either I use to hate to have to clean a mess like that when I worked fast food it really aggervted me and made me wonder the same thing.

That was very bad on their part. Its all because, people have no sense of their responsibilities as a citizen towards their co-citizens. Many use the public property as their own. This is many be due to the wrong upbringing of the children. We think, as we have paid for the services at the shoppe, we have all the right to do anything.Which is very wrong. Hope our mentality changes. But its a long way to go..............

i hate that my hubby and i went to dinner with his friend and his wife and there 2 yr old made a mess it was disgusting. he had papers and food all over he was throwing strewberrys on the floor cuz he didn't want them and when we left i was so embarissing to see they way they left it i have 3 small kids ones only 4 months but my other 2 had no mess what so ever my 2 yr old dropped some chicken and we picked it up. my kids no better i will not take them out and allow them to do this and i pick up what ever they may have dropped i also pick up the table and put it all in a pile. i could never leave it looking that way. how some can i have no clue. i have worked with public and its not just kids its the adults as well if not more so then the kids.

Based on a couple of homes I have been in where the family does have several children the kids may actually really make a mess like that at home, and maybe even worse. I went to help one lady clean up so she could move once and lets just say what you described would of passed for neat and orderly in comparison to what she had for a mess, I really think there are people that NEED to take general house keeping and home economics just to learn to be neat any place, at home, in stores, going out to eat. ETC. Anyway, I have a big mess in here to get cleaned tomorrow, I have five kids and they know better than to make a mess when we go out to eat, because if they do they clean it up, before we leave, because I used to wait tables, and even before I did that I thought it was just plain mean for people to make a mess. At the very least they could stack up their dishes, and put all the trash on one plate. So that the next customer can be served faster.

Because when people are out they don't have manners they think who cares people are here and they will clean up after me..