Soft play centre. Large one with different areas for different age groups.
I'm sat in the corner of the pre-schooler area - DS2 (4) and DS3 (2) are around and about playing. I stand up and look the opposite way to check on DS1 (7) and DD1 (10) who are elsewhere in the older kids section. When I turn around DS2 has a fruit shoot in his hand. I tell him to put it down, its not his. He does so and I think no more of it.
A couple of minutes later a woman comes up and tells me DS2 has drunk out of her child's drink. I apologise, say that i didn't see him drink it but I'd asked him to put it down when I saw he had it. She went away.
I speak to DS2 and he says DS3 handed it to him so he thought it was DS3's so had a mouthful. DS3 had picked it up from the middle of the floor in the middle of the soft play.
A couple of minutes later the woman's friend comes and asks if i'm replacing the drink. I laugh thinking she's joking and explain that I was sorry but it had been left in the middle of the floor and my toddler picked it up and gave it to his brother. She says again - 'well XXX can't drink it now its had his lips on it, are you going to by another?' I apologised again and suggested that surely a wipe with a baby wipe would be fine? She looks incredulous and says something about germs. I point out that its softplay - germs are everywhere and no, i was not replacing a drink that had been left in the middle of the room that my child had inadvertently taken a sip of.
Had this been a reverse I would have just wiped the bottle and let my kid get on with their drink. If i was the sort to be concerned by germs i would have not been at softplay or at the very least i would have kept my kids bottles by me (as I had done with my own kids bottles).
They proceed to bitch about it loudly until I left.
SO WIBU to not replace the drink in these circumstances?
AIBU?
Was IBU to not replace this drink?
SoftPlayStandOff · 10/04/2019 15:25
All that for that ? Buy another drink.
Actually these threads make me laugh - you'll have a precious mum along in a mo, one of those who gets hysterical about people kissing babies in case they break out in cold sores ... what if ..... 
... then you have Mrs Germy McGermfest giving it a rub on the sleeve of her cardi.
I'd love to see the other mums aibu on this .
In this situation id have offered to pay half but they shouldn't be taking drinks into the soft play anyway
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YANBU at all! Leaving a drink in the middle of the floor at soft play, surrounded by toddlers, is fucking stupid. 
And as for the germs argument - bahahahaaa! It's SOFT PLAY - a plague-ridden pit of pestilence, and that's the cleaner ones.
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