Why This Waiter Who Refused to Serve a Table Is Being Called a Hero

When you’re in public and you see or hear people mistreating other people, what do you do? I think we’d all like to believe we’d act like waiter Michael Garcia who stood up for what he believed in. Five year old Milo, a child with Down syndrome, and his family were regulars in Michael’s restaurant. When another family came in complaining about the noise that Milo was making, he reluctantly moved them. But when that other family began verbally attacking the child’s right to be in the restaurant at all, Michael’s “personal feelings took over.” Here’s what happened: