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To be irrated with people who dont feed their kids on days out?

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StarryStarryNight · 08/07/2007 20:04

There we were, me and DH, our kids, and the other couple and their kids setting out a 15 mile cycle ride in the country side together, and not only had they packed nothing to eat, had no drink bottles, and had not even had breakfast first! FGS 15 miles on NO food and drink in baking sun? (DH had told them we were packing just enough for us).

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Twinklemegan · 09/07/2007 22:31

Sorry Adorabelle, I completely missed the LOL in your post! Duh!

elasticbandstand · 09/07/2007 22:01

yanbu

bookwormmum · 09/07/2007 21:56

I take my own picnic in preference to buying food with my dd - she's impatient when she's hungry (Muuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm I'm huuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy) and I'm stingy . There's plenty of times I'm not with her when I can treat myself to shop-bought food.

IsabelWatchingItRainInMacondo · 09/07/2007 00:33

You are sooooooo not being unreasonable!

As a part of a group of people who were left with insuficient water in the middle of the summer and with the nearest point of civilization 3-4 hrs walk away because some selfish persons decided not to take their own I can say that you are not being unreasonable, particularly if children are involved in the equation.

One of the guys in my group ended up in such bad state that it took him 5 hrs to cover the same distance.

adorabelle · 09/07/2007 00:25

Twinklemegan- yeah I got the irony but maybe
someone should have a word with these parents- we don't live in a day an age now where a kindly farmer/village dweller might ask our parched/totally dehydrated children if they would like a nice cold drink of traditional lemonade!

I guess some people just don't think......

Twinklemegan · 08/07/2007 23:55

Adorabelle - lol I was being ironic. It's bloody stupid not to take those things.

KerryMum · 08/07/2007 22:54

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Spider · 08/07/2007 22:53

I remember MIL had the great idea to climb a high mountain in Wales when I was six months pregnant with my first. It was a baking hot day and I had water and food, as did dh, but MIL and BIL didn't bother to carry any. We had to share ours as they may well have died without it, but they enjoyed a walk up the mountain unencumbered by food or bottles - unlike us.

This was 8 years ago. Can you tell I'm not over it yet?

So emphatically YANBU.

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StarryStarryNight · 08/07/2007 22:49

Thats the thing, I never leave the house with mine without at least a bottle of water or some fruit juice (love innocent juices), a sandwich, a banana, possibly also a cereal bar and a small box of raisins), and that is just for a small trip into town, playground or park! It is beyond me how you can start a cycle ride hungry and not bring anything!

Well, they did have a bottle of sunlotion. The kids were stars, the youngest cycled like a real trooper, we gave him a banana and her a bag of grapes, I offered him a bag of grapes but he declined as his parents had bought him a bag of winegums.

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adorabelle · 08/07/2007 22:43

Sorry meant food

adorabelle · 08/07/2007 22:42

Twinklemegan, LOL.

Surely it's just basic common sense to at
least take a bottle of water per person out on a bike ride?

Like you said maybe it's just a bit too old-fashioned to carry basic supplies, but i'd want to have a serious rethink about my days out with the kids if they were throwing up through sheer lack of foo/water

Twinklemegan · 08/07/2007 22:27

I reckon some people think it's BOOORING to have to meet basic human needs like eating, drinking and sleeping. So old-fashioned you know.

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StarryStarryNight · 08/07/2007 22:25

Well, I guess they lack the sense of foresight....

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LittleBoot · 08/07/2007 22:18

LOl

You know some stupid people, don't you?

adorabelle · 08/07/2007 22:17

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adorabelle · 08/07/2007 21:45

How on earth can you go for a 15mile bike ride with kids and not take a bottle of water for each of them

I'll go out to the park for an hour or two
and take water for dd and myself. You need
to be drinking 8 glasses of water a day minimum for an adult. For a child I guess it's at least 4-6 (depending on their age)

Very irisponsible parents if you ask me

CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 08/07/2007 21:28

"one were feeling so hungry and faint she was vomiting several times. They had not eaten breakfast before setting off, they had eaten nothing the whole day, and we set off at midday"

I would have flipped!!!

Sounds v neglectful

Bloody morans

Cammelia · 08/07/2007 21:23

Is it just me who includes what we are doing re food in our arrangements? Whenever I go out with friends and their dcs we always agree what we're doing, we'll all take food or all eat out etc - its part of the whole thing surely>

WestCountryLass · 08/07/2007 21:19

I've gone out with a few different friends for days out and they haven't brought any snacks or drinks etc for their kids. I thought it was jsut my strange friends! It is weird though. After a few hours the kids are obviously miserable and i'm not sure why they don't come prepared?

YANBU!

hotcrumpets · 08/07/2007 20:34

YANBU, why would they do this?

who goes on a 15mile bike ride without any water fgs?

even if they weren't whinging etc you would still know they didn't have anything and be thinking/concerned about it

i wouldn't say don't go again, but perhaps mention that they might want to bring something with them this time!

I saw a similar situation today at the beach, huge queue at the beach kiosk for food/ice cream etc, little boy in front asking for some tap water, the lady behind the till got all stroppy with him and started asking why he needed tap water etc? because his mummy didn't bring anything and sent him to ask for some i felt really bad for him

bookwormmum · 08/07/2007 20:28

Not even taking water or making the kids eat breakfastbefore they go is asking for trouble.

I think I'd have just told them to go on whilst I ate my lunch as well - no way would I eat and cycle (Ok, I'm not a confident cyclist but leaving that aside for now). Can't think it would do much for your digestion either .

bran · 08/07/2007 20:26

YANBU, the more I hear the more annoying the family sound. I doesn't sound as though it was the happy day it should have been for either family. At least if you go again without them you can do what you like.

BBBee · 08/07/2007 20:25

what odd behaviour!

elesbells · 08/07/2007 20:23

i wouldnt go again tbh. yanbu at all. especially if they wouldnt wait whilst you ate and you waited for them to buy food. how can anyone even think of going on a cycle trip with kids and (at the very least) no water. bloody stupid if you ask me.

hercules1 · 08/07/2007 20:20

I wouldnt go cycling with them again either.