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I know how you feel KK!
On Saturday we always have consulting hour and this time a father with two hyper-active kids arrived. With consulting hour people can come in with light fixtures that don't work and my father will try to diagnose the problem. Sometimes it's busy, sometimes it's not. People have to wait their turn.
The father had to wait and the kids were not very busy. I had to ask them several time not to keep the door open (heating is on), not to crawl into the shop window, not touch the suspended plateaus in the shop window and to look with their eyes not with their hands. The father didn't say anything, but he clearly didn't like it when I asked his kids to behave. But I'm not a baby sitter, I have shipments to process and regular customers to help.
And, of course, we suddenly heard a crash. The kids had dropped a €25 porcelain lamp socket. Not as bad as a phone, but still. And dad threw a temper tantrum when he was asked to pay for it.
Breaks can happen, but since those kids had been asked not to touch stuff and behave over half a dozen times already I didn't classify this as an accident.
I don't blame the kids, but the father (and mother). First of all for not teaching their kids to behave in public and also for taking them to the consulting hour, where it's normal for people to have to wait.
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