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In college I worked in a privately owned bookstore that had a "no food or drink in store" policy. One day a girl comes in with an ice cream cone and I tell the girl's father that she has to finish the ice cream outside as per the owner's policy. The father says, "Come on, she's enjoying her ice cream cone", and continues browsing the store and ignoring my request. So I tell him again about the policy and he starts screaming at me saying, "Look, now you're making my daughter cry, you a**hole." Funny thing is, the girl only started getting upset when her dad started yelling. Had he just taken her outside the girl would have been perfectly happy to finish her ice cream and come into the bookstore afterwards.

So my point is that the parents getting all agitated over the Happy Birthday Incident probably upset the kid far more than not having some random waiters sing to him.


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EXACTLY. The kid is going to take his cues way more from how the adults around him are acting than anything else. How many times do 6-year olds get told they can't do something, even on their birthday? They don't know. If the adults just roll with it and distract the kid with other stuff he forgets all about it. I think in this case it may have been the adults who were more disappointed in losing what they thought was going to happen.