Today's Mom Complaint

Last night, while out for dinner with my sister and my 21 month old daughter it happened again. The waiter arrives to deliver our dinner and proceeds to place a hot plate with even hotter food on it in front of my 1-almost-2 year old. ARGH!!! Did he ask where he should put that plate? No. Did he apologize when he saw what I was doing? No. Even worse, he had this look...like I was uncooth...like I was a P.I.T.A. for redirecting where it should rest until it cooled down. You don't put a hot plate/hot food/hot whatever in front of a soon-to-be 2 year old. Now, if this were the only time, or even the 2nd time that it has happened I wouldn't even be mentioning it. It really feels like it happens every single time we go out to eat. I'm sure there are some amazingly non-toddler-like 2 year olds that wouldn't dream of touching their plate without the approving nod of their parent, but that's got to be the exception (or so I hope!).