About a year ago, something occurred with my mother that still bothers me to this day. I decided to take my mom out shopping one day. It was about 8 months after my dad had passed away. She had been his full time caregiver for 7 years leading up to his passing as he was paralyzed from a stroke. It had been a very difficult road for her. Anyway, after shopping one day we stopped at a McDonald's to grab a quick bite to eat. It just so happened that the McD's was busy and after ordering we discovered that there were no seats left to sit down. This had never happened to me before and we were not sure what to do. Stand there with our food till someone left? We noticed a table that had no one sitting at it but there was some papers and a laptop on the table. My mom asked the employees if they could clear that table so we could sit down and told them there was no where else to sit. The employee was dismissive and just said "someone is sitting there." My mom became furious and started yelling at the employee saying there were no other seats and to clean that table off NOW! She continued yelling saying that McD's was ridiculous and their seating was so stupid and "whats wrong with you people!!" Needless to say, several people sitting at tables had stopped eating and were just staring at us. I was extremely embarrassed. One man hearing the yelling, looked like he was quickly finishing his food then stood up and said "here you can have my table". He was very kind and I thanked him for that. But I actually felt kind of angry at my mom for the outburst. I also was annoyed at the McD's employees , but I guess it's not their fault if there are no seats left. But it puts a paying customer in a bind not to have a place to sit. It was just a bad situation. I think my mom was having a type of emotional melt down of sorts and I think it was from the stress of my dad's paralysis and passing.