A mother’s apology went viral when she reached out to a woman who had reprimanded her daughters at a movie theater in Alabama.
After hearing that her daughters had acted disrespectfully and had been taken aside by the offended woman, Kyehsa Smith Wood tried to contact the woman and thank her for calling her girls on their behavior.
She posted the following message on the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Facebook page, where it received over 250,000 likes and 50,000 shares.
This is a long shot, but I’m looking for a woman that was at Tannehill Premier tonight seeing Cinderella at 7pm. I dropped my teenage daughter, step daughter, and son off at the movie. My son later told me, much to my humiliation and embarrassment, that my girls were rude and obnoxious during the movie. The woman I’m looking for addressed them and asked them to be quiet and they were disrespectful. After the movie she approached my girls and told them that her husband had been laid off and this was the last movie she would be able to take her daughter to for a while and my girls ruined that for her. If you are this woman, please message me. I can assure you that these girls are being strongly dealt with and appropriately punished. This rude, disrespectful, and awful behavior is unacceptable and they owe you an apology. My husband and I are having them write your apology letter tonight and we would like to pay for your next movie and snacks out of their allowance. Please message me if this is you. I apologize profusely for their disrespect.
Rebecca Boyd, the woman at the cinema, was there at the movies with her daughter—her husband had been recently been laid off and she mentioned that it would be the last movie she would see with her daughter for a while.
The girls are now “mortified” by their behavior, and know not to act that way again. It shows that the old fashioned “it takes a village” is not completely out of use in this age.
