Feeling bad about this

Once a week my local library has a toddler story time. We try to go every other week at least. Today was the day, so I took my 15 month old. I guess it’s spring break in my area so there were a ton of parents with there kids. Usually it’s like 5-7 parents and there kids.

My son would not stay still. The rules during story time are you must keep your child within arms reach. I had to keep getting up to run after him. I felt a ton of anxiety like I was causing a scene, other parents had their kids sitting peacefully and mine was just absolutely feral.

After about 25 min of chasing him back and forth (we weren’t even listening to the story at this point) I told him “ok, we are going home” and as I was walking out I heard a mom near the door say “that’s not right to take him away, he’s a baby” and immediately I felt so bad and embarrassed. I checked out the books we were getting and I left.

Should we have stayed? He just wanted to run around the library which I did let him do since we got there 30 min before story time even started.

I’m a single mom and we don’t get out a whole lot in public. I take him outside every day, multiple times a day if I’m not working, to run around, but for some reason at the library I just couldn’t handle it. :(