Nic: The Emasculating Father

Nic/Faithful Geek tells of a close encounter with an angry father at Burger King:

There are a few other families here too. An older lady with her grown daughter and grandkids. A mom entertaining two boys while they are out of school for winter vacation. And at the table next to me, a dad with two young children — a boy slightly younger than JJ and a girl still in diapers. There are a lot of kids playing. A natural byproduct of that quantity of young voices in a confined area is an increase of volume. One of those kids screams. I don’t hear it but the dad next to me does. And he is not happy. He snaps and yells for his son to come down. Immediately. The kid complies. “Put your shoes on,” the dad says, “We’re leaving.” “Why?” asks the boy. “Because you screamed like a girl.” Note that reason. Not, “because you screamed,” but “because you screamed like a girl.” Really? More here.

Thoughts?