We went to a classic car show today. The cars there, if you like that sort of thing, were a delight, and most are the utter pride and joy of their owners. The site was fully tarmaced, there was catering and a picnic area etc. Usually scooters aren't allowed. Or skateboards, or roller skates. But on the next table to us, was a dad, uncle and two wee boys, both on micro scooters. The dad let the boys weave in and out between the cars, and the owners looked like they might throw up.
A security guard was summoned, and he politely explained that scooters weren't allowed. But the dad argued and argued that he had checked with security on the gate, and his two boys WERE allowed. As he was arguing, they both crashed into the back of a mint Triumph Herald. All he had to do was to keep the kids away from the cars. There was MILES of space to play (it's held at an airfield so literally miles) but no, he carried on letting them whiz up and down in the narrow gaps between the parked cars. The owner of a convertible E type Jag drive it away in frustration, with the dad harrumphing that his boys had the "right" to play there. What a dick.
AIBU?
SUPERBLY entitled parenting
Bearlyknitted · 17/04/2016 18:22
Bloody he'll that's awful
Those cars cost a fortune to maintain
Why go to something like that if you are not interested
And why in gods name didn't you abandon your children and hover 
I have been to loads of classic car shows. You can look but you mustn't touch, or look like you might touch.
If he's that charming in public, imagine what he's like in private 
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Complete and utter knob by the sounds of it!
We go to classic car shows a lot. We take our cheap old banger classics. We are not precious and if people ask we let them sit in the cars etc. They're by no means mint, and have various scratches and dings. We use and enjoy them. However, I would be most unimpressed with brats on scooters playing round them like that. I don't have a thermos though, so sorry for not being a boring, grimacing stereotype!
I did do my bollocks one day when some bloody woman tried to force our slightly open window down and shove he son in through the opening tho. When I asked her what the fuck she thought she was doing she told me 'he wanted to look'. As I said to her, if she'd bloody well asked, rather than potentially damaging a 45 year old window mechanism, we'd have gladly let her. When asked if she'd have done such a thing to a car parked on a road she slinked off sheepishly ... I was (and as you can tell still am!) bloody fuming at her sheer cheek! 
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We now put grilles in the windows .
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