What would you have done.

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I have been debating talking about this publicly or not, but it happened almost a week ago and I still can't stop thinking about it so I have to put it out there. About a week ago we were out to lunch at a semi-fast food place. It was me, my sister, a little 5 year old I work with and his mom. He was being a great kid, munching on his fries, looking around the restraunt and being pretty quite. We were in a booth, because he likes booths and he was sitting up on his knees, sort of sideways. Suddenly he started to choke on his fries (not the no-breathing kind of choking, but the food was definitely lodged, his face was turning red, eyes were tearing up and he was scared.) when he started to choke he began to squirm in the seat and ended up facing backwards a bit. His mom tried to spin him around and look at him to make sure he was still breathing and help him choke up the food. Just then the guy sitting in the booth behind us shouted "would you cover his mouth!" and he and his wife got up as he announced to the entire establishment "he is caughing all over my wife, cover his mouth and control your child." As they walked by our table, I said to him, "I am sorry, we are trying to cover his mouth, but he's choking on the fries." and I pointed out to look at him. The man said "he is spreading germs all over the place you should cover his mouth." and then started to walk away So I just said, "my GOD, he's CHOKING, we're worried about him breathing and we are trying to cover his mouth" The man continued on to another table and sat down while the little guy kept caughing/choking Then the man came stomping back to our table said , "how old is he anyway, why not TEACH him to cover his mouth" In a calm voice I said "well he has autism and it's not exactly easy to teach that to him, and besides that he's CHOKING ON FOOD, I doubt any kid would just cover their mouth" The man said to me then, "you are just full of excuses aren't you." then muttered to his wife "some people have no decency" It took everything in my power not to get up and follow him to his table and rip into him right there in the store. The VERY kind employee of the restaurant came over to our table after all of this and asked if he was ok, brought the boy new fries and a glass of juice on the house. I've tried to forget about this incident, but it has been weighing on my mind. What human being talks about a FIVE YEAR OLD like that??? What would you have done had you been in my situation?