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AIBU?

To think that these parents were tools?

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BupcakesandCunting · 27/08/2012 15:35

On holiday last week at a place that had a swimming pool with two water slides, obviously being used by loads of children. One little boy (about 8) ran up the steps, then called out for his mum. She went up and caried him back down. He had cut his foot on something and as she carried him, the blood trailed everywhere. The dad came over to look at his son's foot. They wrapped it up in a t-shirt I think then the dad called out to the young boy (about 16) running the pool bar that there was blood that needed cleaning.

The pool bar guy went up with a mop and cleaned, but a few minutes later when I took DS on the slide there was still a lot of blood on the platform at the top and down the steps. I took DS down the slide then went and told the guy behind the bar that there was still a lot of blood. I said if he gave me the mop, I would go and clean it up for him but he said he would come. So he came out with a dry mop which wouldn't really be any use. We could see him trying to clean it and failing, so DH filled up two of our empty 2L water bottles with pool water and took it up to help clean it.

The whole time, the dad of the boy was just sat on the edge of the pool watching DH and the pool bar guy cleaning his son's blood up. Literally watching them do it! The mum was playing pool. The boy was fine on his sunbed.

If it had been me, I would have offered to clean it up myself as soon as it happened. I would definitely have got off my arse to help if two strangers started cleaning it up. You just would, wouldn't you? It made me fume for at leastan hour afterwards!

AIBU?

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GetOrfMoiUsain · 27/08/2012 15:36

No I agree with you.

The lazy GOODFORNOTHING articles.

BupcakesandCunting · 27/08/2012 15:37

Oooh hiya sexeh!

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GetOrfMoiUsain · 27/08/2012 15:38

ShortTether · 27/08/2012 15:38

YANBU

Lazy buggers! And it was blood not a fizzy drink etc...

GetOrfMoiUsain · 27/08/2012 15:39

Did you give them a very frosty look, and kind of harrumph your shoulders in a Les Dawson kind of way?

BupcakesandCunting · 27/08/2012 15:40

I think it was the way that the dad just dismissively informed the bar guy that "there's some blood that wants cleaning" No sorry, nothing. FWIW, DS was sick on a table outside (nice) at the hotel and I cleaned and disinfected and apologised profusely to the bootfaced member of staff on duty. No way would I expect someone to clear up my child's bodily fluids.

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mathanxiety · 27/08/2012 15:42

It wasn't the parents' job or your DH's to clean up the blood. While it would have been nice of the dad to have done it, the blood cleanup should have involved shutting down the slide and a proper cleanup using bleach, with no-one allowed on until it was deemed clean. There should have been an attendant at the slide either to do this or to summon a proper janitor with the necessary cleaning supplies and knowledge to get the job done. There is no way the job should have fallen to the youth manning the bar, with a dry mop.

If I were you I would contact the administrator of the pool and complain in no uncertain terms about their protocol for dealing with body fluids. It fell far short of desirable.

So YABU and your ire is misdirected. I would have packed my traps and left and bathed in bleach when I went home. The pool sounds positively dangerous.

cocolepew · 27/08/2012 15:42

You should have walked past the dad and tipped him into the pool.

Rosebud05 · 27/08/2012 15:43

I would have been very concerned that a child had cut his foot on a piece of play equipment, and wanted to ensure that another child didn't do the same.

Did the child cut their foot on the slide?

BulldogDrummond · 27/08/2012 15:43

Did the parents of the injured boy actually know that you did not work there? Perhaps they thought you did.

Was the offending article that caused the cut cleared up? The parents might be the types who will go down the H&S litigation route.

Trusting that sort of cleaning up to a 16 year old is a bit much - from his point of view as well as other guests.

Rosebud05 · 27/08/2012 15:44

YY to mathsanxiety points too.

BupcakesandCunting · 27/08/2012 15:46

mathanxiety, we were holidaying in Greece. This is no slight on the Greeks but they don't tend to follow H&S protocol to the same standards as in the UK

No-one actually knew what caused the cut. Another mum checked for glass/sharp stones etc but nothing could be found. No-one else got cut AFAIK either...

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mathanxiety · 27/08/2012 15:48

tsk tsk

Yet another reason to avoid Greece...

MrsKeithRichards · 27/08/2012 15:49

I think yabu and as someone said it wasn't your dh's job to get involved. The hotel staff should have been on it and checking what cut his foot.

hatesponge · 27/08/2012 15:49

Last year when I was on holiday in Spain a child cut themselves on the plastic steps going out of the hotel pool. A member of the cleaning staff came out straight away to clear up the blood (was on side rather than in pool) with mop, disinfectant etc, and the steps were taped off to prevent them being used (there were other sets of steps on the other side of the pool) - next day the broken step was replaced.

That's the kind of thing I'd expect in this case - that a cleaner or someone would actually clean it properly AND that the area would be inspected to find out what caused it. None of this should be for anyone other than staff to do!

Frontpaw · 27/08/2012 15:51

Lazy whotsits! I offered to clean up DSs puke in an indoor carpark at Sainsbos and they looked at me like I cas completely mad.

Technoviking · 27/08/2012 15:51

They were tools, yes.

BupcakesandCunting · 27/08/2012 15:52

No, it wasn't DH's job to get involved but the poor boy from the bar wasn't much cop and no-one else was going to help...

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WelshMaenad · 27/08/2012 15:54

If my child had cut themselves to the extent that there was a lit of blood to clean up, I'd be damned if I'd be doing the cleaning. Mind you, i'd not be sat on a lounged, either, I'd be finding what he cut it on then tearing strips off the management.

MarysBeard · 27/08/2012 15:54

I think it was kind of you to help, but the staff should have helped and also closed the slide until the problem was discovered. I'd also be pretty cross, as the parent of the hurt child, that there was something sharp there which someone could cut their foot on and by the indolence of the staff in dealing with it. I'd probably be too shocked by all the blood to clean up - though I wouldn't be playing pool or sitting by watching either.

ThisIsNotHoneyDragon · 27/08/2012 15:55

They WBU, FFS, never take bar staff away from the bar, someone may have needed a Sex On The Beach!

MrsKeithRichards · 27/08/2012 15:55

Or a bloody Mary!!

cheesesarnie · 27/08/2012 15:58

same as welsh!

it was lovely of you to help though.

good holiday? apart from blardy pool?

wolvesdidit · 27/08/2012 16:01

Maybe the boy had his foot up to stop the bleeding?

CakeBump · 27/08/2012 16:05

YABU

Pool Guy should have done it himself and not been so useless.

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