This reminds me a one cruise I was on quite a few years ago. My wife, daughter (then 11 years old) and I went to dinner the first night and had tablemates of a 40 year old woman (approx. on age), her 9 year old daughter, and her uncle (65ish).
This woman announced to us that she could not eat a single thing on the menu and that her daughter did not like anything either. When the waiter took our orders; she told him in a demanding voice that she would be having poached chicken breast and white rice every night and the daughter would alternate between mac and cheese and spaghetti every night. The woman then began (while the waiter was there) to tell our daughter that the choices on the menu are for grown-ups and she should have the spaghetti, too.
I politely excused myself at that point, went to the head waiter in charge of the dining room and said my family and I want another table IMMEDIATELY. We got one within 5 minutes.
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