A bit of a long story, this happened Saturday night around 7-8 pm. My family and I (wife, 2 sons one is 3 and a half and the other is a little over 1) were going to do some Christmas shopping so I brought my very young niece (5) with us as she had been asking to come. We went to the mall with no issues, on our way back home we decided to stop and have some pizza at a local restaurant. We get there, are seated and my oldest son and niece go play in the arcade (we sat at a table that can always see the entire arcade). My wife goes and uses the restroom and that left me with my youngest son.While sitting there and waiting on the waitress a man comes up to our table and tells me how cute my youngest son is and other small talk. Then the guy goes to walk back to the bar area but stops behind me a tells me very quietly that his mother had just passed away. I tell him I am sorry to hear that and then he asks me if I have any cash on me. I am really confused because I thought he worked there. I tell him I do not have any cash, but I told him I'd ask the waitress if there was a way to get cash from her and I'd give him something. He is okay with that and walks away.When my wife comes back, I tell her what happened, and we are both confused. The man comes back and tries to sit at the chair next to my youngest son and I tell him he cannot do that; I tell him in the most PC way to leave my son alone. He says okay and then asks if I was able to ask the waitress for money and I tell him no. He says, “that’s okay then can you please get me a pizza?” My wife and I just look at each other and at this point, I am getting annoyed at this guy. We don’t even respond because the waitress walks up and asks for our orders. While she is asking us our orders he says in a loud demanding voice, "So what are yall going to get me?" he walks away, and we ask the waitress what in the world is going on? We ask if he worked there or if he was a customer and was drunk or something. She says she doesn’t know who he is and that she would talk to the manager. He comes back again and asks me if we ordered his food, I tell him to go talk to a waitress. He looked like he didn’t like that much and walks away and goes and bothers other tables. I forgot to add he was walking around talking to a lot of tables and wearing clothes that looked like staff uniforms and it's why we thought he might be a waiter or something.I look at the situation and I got 3 young children with me and my wife. This guy is being loud and getting into people’s personal space. My wife and I debate if we should just buy him a $10 pizza and hopefully, he goes and eats and leaves everyone alone. When the waitress came back, I tell her look, just order him the pizza, I don’t want any problems over $10. While we talk about this he comes back and points at a woman he said is his wife and says, “my wife said you all would be blessed if you get us food”. The waitress I guess had enough and went to the manager. The manager comes up to the guy and says something along the lines of "come with me right now or do you want me to use force". The guy of course goes with him and we all get to witness a big screaming match. The manager runs him and his wife out.I can see straight through the glass front door as the guy is outside waiting. I guess he might be waiting for us. I let my kids eat and just keep my eye on this person, he eventually leaves. Before we left, I went outside on my own 3 times all 5-10 min apart to make sure he wasn’t out there.This situation could have been worse, and some might say it was nothing but I hated it. The biggest reason is that my kids were there. Had it been just my wife and me, we could have told him to leave us alone, but I did not want to do anything to anger this person because my kids were there. What could I have done differently to handle this situation?Just FYI I was carrying an FN 509 compact with TLR7 and Trijicon RMR Type 2, with the 12-round mag in the pistol and a 15 round mag in my front right pocket.Had I known he was not an employee I would have tried to end all communication immediately but like I said we thought he worked there cause he had on a black collar shirt like all the employees and was talking to all the tables.One last thing. After the manager ran the people out he asked every table if they were okay, except ours. Even a man at the table in front of us said that the guy was bothering us the most and that he was watching out to make sure the guy didn’t do anything. I wonder why he went out of his way to not ask if we are okay. I found that odd.TLDR: Go to dinner with wife and kids and man tries to get money or food from me and is kicked out. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/38sZ6VT
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