I’m not sure if I’m being too cautious?
I ventured down to our park with my 2 DC’s with a football to play with.
There was a family:l with toddler age children: they hadn’t brought anything for their kids to do (no judgement!)
We were kicking our ball, the adults watched as their toddlers came over to us, picked up the ball (like right in their faces like toddlers do with balls) and took it back to their parents. Adults did not try to stop this happening.
The adult tried to come over and physically hand me back the ball.
I was polite and asked her to leave it on the ground and we would take it home with us, but didn’t want to touch the ball now they had touched it.
She left it on the ground, but then proceeded to let her children play with it,while also loudly stating how “ridiculous we were, taking it too far” etc.
My husband at home is vulnerable and I don’t want to risk it. I had no hand gel with me either.
I just think that everyone has their own boundaries/personal risk assessment they’ve made regarding social norms now and I clearly stated my expected social norms for this interaction, but felt she tried to shame me for this.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
AIBU?
Toys in parks
14 replies
DartmoorWilderness · 05/06/2020 15:37
OP posts:
Am I being unreasonable?
47 votes. Final results.
POLL
You are being unreasonable
15%
You are NOT being unreasonable
85%
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.