Chuck E. Cheese's Where a Kid can be a Kid (sometimes more annoying than others)

Last week we took Ella to Chuck E. Cheese's to celebrate us finding out that we are having a boy (also because I love going there for the pizza). Now that she is 2 1/2 she understands more what games are and ran around the whole place playing all the games she could. At one point I was playing this game with Ella where we each shoot water at a target. It was after we had finished dinner and we bought Ella a fun plastic cup that they always offer. I had set the cup down behind me on the bench and started showing Ella how to play the game. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a little girl maybe around age 4 run up and grab Ella's drink and just start chugging it down. I immediately grab it from her and think Swine Flu (her not us) and tell her "No, that is not yours". I then look around for her parents and they were nowhere near her at all. In fact, they were across the restaurant chowing down on pizza not even paying attention to where their daughter or older brother was. The girl then runs around and grabs the game controller that I actually had ahold of and tries to start playing it. Thats when I grabbed Ella and got out of there. Ella was not all too pleased with this little girl as well and gave the girl her famous eyebrow scowl.

I wasn't sure what to do in this sort of situation. It was something where you read about it in a parenting magazine, but never expect to actually see it first hand. I ended up throwing Ella's cool cup out (Paul thought we could just take it home and toss it in the dishwasher since it has a sanitizing feature), but I just preferred to toss it. Later while we were still there the older brother had also butted in on a game Paul was playing and then the little girl again tried to interrupt Ella as she was playing another game, all the while the parents were still sitting in their corner munching on pizza.

I probably should have said something to the parents, but they seemed like the type of people who could care less about the situation and just think that I am some crazy over protective mom. So we left the place  knowing that another kid is growing up not learning proper manners and there is nothing we can do about it except to teach Ella and her future brother that there are just some people like that in life and we will have to just go on living our lives and accept those people for who they are.