What Would You Do?

Have you ever seen that hidden camera show on Dateline? They put people in crazy situations to essentially see what they would do. I am the person watching thinking I'm opinionated and a little sassy, therefore I would absolutely intervene. Well on Monday waiting in the doctor's office, I was encountered with a crazy situation, that could only be the cause of bad parenting or a sting operation. I was sitting close to this teenage boy with a fussy baby on his lap. The baby, no older then my little Mikey, started to cry. He yells in the baby's face, "Shut the F*** up!" I look up horrified, while everyone else continues to read their magazines. I say, "You can't talk to a baby that way. I am going to call Child Protective Services on you." So this very eloquent teen yells at me, "F*** you B*****, call the F*** whoever you want." My face turns bright red and I am shaking and on the verge of tears. Remind you, that everyone else is acting like nothing is going on. At that exact moment, the nurse calls me back. I am still very upset and tell her and the doctor what had just happened. The doctor marches out to the waiting room to confront this model citizen and he is met with F bombs galore. Can you imagine? He got an attitude with me, just a random woman, but the swear out a doctor in a lab coat? Now that's a class act. The kid ended up getting kicked out of the office and I think the police were even called. Crazy day! Anyway...it broke my heart. If someone is going to yell such horrendous things at a baby in public, what are they doing in private? Anyway...I hope that you will all be a little sassy and stand up for what is right. We have to our children are growing up too quickly in this scary world.