In the booth next to theirs sat another family. But they promptly got up and changed tables when Milo and his family sat next to them.
But moments later, waiter Michael Garcia overheard their shocking complaint: they’d gotten annoyed with Milo. Apparently, he was too noisy and was making strange noises.
“Special needs children need to be special somewhere else,” the man at the table declared loudly, right in front of his own children.
But when Michael heard this, he simply couldn’t stay quiet. To ask to be moved to another table is one thing, but he couldn’t tolerate the man expressing himself like that about Milo.
Despite risking his job, he refused to serve the man – the man threatened to leave, at which point Michael invited him to do just that.
“I was really impressed that Michael would stand up for Milo,’ said Castillo. ‘He really doesn’t know us … he stood up for Milo just because it was the right thing to do,” Milo’s mother Kim said.
Here’s what the everyday hero looks like:
Many thanks for your gesture, Michael. We need more people like you in this world!
