It’s no fun to go out to eat with someone who’s judgmental, but when it’s your waitress who’s giving you the side eye, that’s really bad. TikTok recently had a field day with one waitress named Abby who admitted that she tweaks her customers' orders when she doesn’t like what they ask for their kids — but not everyone thought this was the hero move she was going for.
The video shows the waitress filling an order for sodas.
Nothing out of the ordinary, right? Well, not exactly.
“The feminine urge to water down every single kids’ lemonade or soda because it’s absolutely repulsive how much sugar these parents let their kids drink,” Abby, who goes by @abbylacyy online, wrote in the video’s text overlay.
“‘And she’ll have a coke’ ma’am it’s EIGHT p.m. and she’s SEVEN,” Abby wrote in the caption.
Over 800,000 people have watched Abby’s video and the comments section was downright split.
Some people thought the waitress was being overly critical.
"Orrrrr hear me out!!" one commenter wrote. "You could just do your job and not mess with how other people are choosing to parent."
"Going out is usually a treat.. it’s not hard to not judge a strangers parenting style in which you have no clue about," someone else added. "That’s embarrassing,"
While one parent put it this way: "Except that’s the only time my kids got sugary drinks. So once a month, then it was treat and treats are okay. Stop judging parents."
Others thought she was right on the money.
"I don't know why everyone’s saying we can’t judge people’s parenting lmfao," one person commented. "Why not?? It’s bad, sorry."
"As a mom, please do!" another commenter agreed. "I usually get one kid a water and one a lemonade then mix them back and forth."
"A single cup of Swiss miss hot chocolate has more sugar than a child is supposed to have in an entire day," wrote someone else. "Good for you. These parents don’t get it."
Of course it’s nearly impossible to tell what’s a treat or how “bad” a soda really is if you’re only looking at a snapshot of someone’s life. Sooo it's probably better off to trust a parent to know what's right for their kids.
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