Too Creepy...

This past Friday night Cary and the kids and I all went out to eat at a small, local pizza place. We'd never been there, and decided to give it a shot. It's a smallish diner-type setting, cozy, with the grill right out in the middle of the restaurant, and tables rather close to one another. The place was packed with families, mostly tourists, and a familiar face or two. Sitting at the table right next to us, was a family consisting of a mom, dad, Grandmother, and two boys. One of the boys had a rather large head and tons of wild, curly hair, he was probably about 14-15. The other was very skinny - bony would better describe him- but otherwise appeared to be normal, and probably 14 or 15, as well. Now here is the creepy part...the skinny kid spent the ENTIRE time we were in the restuarant STARING at Halle. And when I say staring, I mean STARING. If the waitress would come stand at the end of their table to check on them, he would stand up and peer over her so he wouldn't lose sight of my baby. It was awful. He had the creepiest look on his face, too. His parents didn't say ONE WORD to him about it, and it had to have gone on 30 minutes+ (the poor waitress was running her tail off; a cook and dishwasher had walked out earlier in the shift, so the food was slow in coming). He could barely eat his meal he was so mesmerized with her. After finishing up, his mom told him to wait outside, so out he went, and stood outside looking in the window staring at her. The whole thing still gives me the chills. I can only hope that the boy has some type of a mental condition, that prevented him from knowing how creepy he looked, because if he was of sound mind, and looked the way he did at a 14 month-old baby - he's destined for jailtime.

Several times I wanted to say something to his parents, but thought that if he did have a mental condition I would sound like a huge bitch, so I bit my tounge. When the family left (not a moment too soon!) Cary turned to me and said, "That kid was a FREAK - I about went over there and punched his lights out" - so I knew I wasn't just imagining things. Bastard ruined my entire meal... We decided right then and there we are teaching our children self defense.