What public interaction made you want to rage-quit the human race?

I was seated in the back of a restaurant, which was pretty quiet. About halfway through

my meal, an elderly couple sat in front of me. Ten minutes or so after they were seated,

two men in their early twenties, maybe, sat down with them, obviously another couple. One of them

was clearly the child of the elderly

couple because, well, he called them mom and dad. Anyway, upon sitting down, the old people's kid

introduced his boyfriend to them. Initially, the parents didn't know their kid was gay, from what I

gather, because the dad became very angry and the mother actually started to cry. They said things like, where did we go wrong and being gay is a sin.

Things like I'd expect homophobic parents to say to their gay kid,

but somehow I didn't really think they ever would.

The guy's parents left in a storm and he started crying.

Not bawling, but some tears.

His boyfriend consoled him and whatnot,

and they paid and left without finishing their meal. I, of course, stared because the dad was

nearly shouting, which I don't feel bad about because it allowed me to give the dad an absolute

look of disgust as he left. The whole thing ruined my day. I'm eating Sonic next time and staying in my

homophobe free car. I was a waitress when I was 18. I worked one father's day and this old man

was seated in my section. He didn't order anything because he said he was waiting for his

children. He was dressed real nice and had this big smile on his face. After about 15 minutes, I asked him if he wanted an appetizer or anything while he waited.

He was looking less happy at this point and he said, no, he'd just wait for his kids.

I ended up talking to him quite a bit between taking care of other tables.

He hadn't seen his children in over 25 years and they'd promised there'd be there that day.

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