A mother has vented online after a stranger's comment to her young daughter during dinner "really rubbed her the wrong way".

Posting to Reddit on Wednesday, the woman explained that she and her family were dining out when her five-year-old daughter struck up a friendly exchange with a teenage boy.

"This weekend, we were out to eat at a local grill with a few arcade games," she wrote.

"A boy, maybe 13, came in from the main room to play on the claw machine, and my five-year-old daughter went over to watch him."

The teen, she said, ended up giving her daughter one of his "plays" on the machine, along with the stuffed toy he won.

"Basically (he was) just being a kind, generous teen. It was sweet," she added.

But what happened next left her stunned.

As her family sat down to eat, the bo

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