Actress Zara Noor Abbas recently shared a personal incident on her Instagram story, revealing how a dinner outing with her friends and toddler turned into an uncomfortable confrontation.

According to Zara, she was at a family restaurant when her daughter’s excited screams seemed to bother three people seated at the next table. She recalled that one woman gave her a “dead stare” while a man tried to hush her child.

“I sent my daughter to the side and stood up to ask if there was anything wrong,” she wrote. The group allegedly told her that her child was disturbing them and suggested she shouldn’t have brought her to the restaurant, adding that it was past the toddler’s bedtime and she should be taught “basic manners.”

When Zara asked if they had children, they replied no. She explained to them that handling a toddler in public is not easy and her daughter was not misbehaving on purpose. Their response, according to Zara, was that she should get up and leave the restaurant whenever her child makes noise.

The argument reportedly lasted around 15 minutes before the manager apologized to Zara and the group left. However, she expressed disappointment that no one from the crowd stepped in to support her despite it being a family restaurant.

“Maybe this is exactly why we are dead as a community. We watch. We turn our heads. But we sit and eat until it’s our problem,” Zara wrote. She ended her note by reminding people without children to be mindful when visiting family restaurants and not to argue with mothers over “manners.”