My husband and I took our two young daughters out to breakfast to celebrate our wedding anniversary. It was a frigid morning, and Olympia Diner is only a couple minutes from our house, so we thought we’d give it a shot. Breakfast was marginal (we all had French toast), and the restaurant was pretty empty for a holiday morning, but regardless, we were having a good time. That is, until I overheard our waitress Jessica make some comments to another employee about how “some men are just unable to produce sons.” That was not all I heard her say on the topic but was the clincher of it.

This is not the place for a complete moral evaluation of these comments, though I have plenty to say on that (we’re so grateful to have been blessed with two sweet daughters, and it’s absolutely evil that someone might think or act like they are worth less than a boy or like we might have—or should have—been disappointed with them). But at the bare minimum, this was unbelievably rude to be talking openly about this in the middle of the restaurant, where we are completely respectful paying customers. And yet, somewhat laughable, considering we’re a few months away from welcoming our first son.

If not for these comments, we just wouldn’t have gone back (refer to my brief mention of the food). But I want it to be known that this was completely unacceptable and offensive.

I looked for an email address to send this to on their website, but as I couldn’t find one, I’m posting it here.