Exasperated, embarrassed and frustrated... updated...

Nope. My kids behave wonderfully when I take them out.

Not all that often.  I can threaten them with standing in the corner in a stinky bathroom and solve most problems with the threat or actually taking them to stand in said stinky corner.

So far i have not had that issue...mine is 11.5 months.

I have two toddlers and it's bound to happen at least once. My girls are very well behaved kids but they aren't perfect so we have had a few incidences were they through fits.

Sometimes, yes.

Most of the time my girls are fine in public, but they also have bad days where nothing I do makes them happy and they're freakin animals. It happens :)

When my kids are acting crazy getting out of the house normally solves the problem.

Quoting robibuni:

Sometimes, yes.

Most of the time my girls are fine in public, but they also have bad days where nothing I do makes them happy and they're freakin animals. It happens :)

Leaving when he is acting like that is the best thing you could do!! Showing your child that poor behavior has a consequence (no fun lunch) teaches them to behave in the long run.

And don't worry about your friends. If anyone has a child, they have definitely been in your shoes!! Somedays your kid will be the troublemaker/naughty one. Somedays your kid will be the model of good behavior and listening:)

I don't take my kids out when they are going through that stuff. We practice at home. 

my dd is almost 3.5 years old and I remember it happening twice at a restaurant. she embarrassed me to the point of myself crying on an airplane once but that was her first trip. we had already traveled 9 hours by plane and it was our last descend and I had to wake her to sit her up while landing. she threw a fit, screamed, threw herself on the floor, etc. I couldn't control her and the flight attendant was scolding her and myself in a different language.

 My kid's are normally well behaved but one time my son was acting up at playgroup and I cried in the car.