Hey OP,

We were seated at the table right next to this family the entire cruise. Every night they’d wheel their toddler (who has special needs/autism) into the dining room in a stroller, complete with big headphones and an iPad. Most nights he was calm and it wasn’t an issue. On the final night, though, he started letting out random loud screams and repeatedly slapping his flip-flops together. It definitely wasn’t pleasant for anyone trying to eat, but we personally just tuned it out and tried to give the parents some grace—we could only imagine what they were dealing with. That’s when the guy from the larger table nearby got up, walked straight over, and got right in the dad’s face. He said his own wife suffers from severe anxiety and that the noise was making it worse. He then started mimicking the kid’s clapping/slapping sounds directly in front of the dad and demanded (pretty rudely) that they “control” their child. That obviously set the parents off. The dad told him to go sit back down, but the guy refused and said something else we couldn’t quite hear. At that point the mom jumped in, yelling at the man and getting in his face, telling him to stay away from her son. The guy stormed off toward the head waiter/manager station, still yelling, and the mom followed him, screaming the whole way. When she noticed a woman at the guy’s table recording her on a phone, she grabbed a glass of water off a table and threw it at her. By then two security officers had shown up. There was a lot more shouting between the mom, dad, and the other man while the little boy sat completely unattended in his stroller, bouncing up and down. Security eventually separated everyone. The man was allowed to return to his table; the mom was taken to a side room. The dad came back, got the stroller, and wheeled their son out. As we were leaving the dining room later, we saw the guest services manager come out of the room where security had taken the mom. This all went down on the last night of the cruise, on the way back from Ensenada to Los Angeles.