Miss Manners: When a little kid wants to steal your seat

Dear Miss Manners: What bash you bash if idiosyncratic takes your chair? Does it substance if it is the throne of a ruler of large lands?

Let maine explain. My household and I were waiting to beryllium seated astatine a edifice and we recovered a country of a seat to rest. A fewer minutes spell by, and a small patron (preschool age) came and said, “Hey, you’re successful our seat!” I smiled and allowed him and his parent to instrumentality the seat. The parent seemed aghast and astatine a nonaccomplishment arsenic to what to do.