DS15 Used a Green Apple to Roll His Foot After Hike – Am I Overreacting?

[OneShyCritic]

So, we just got back from a weekend in the Lake District with our two lads (15 and 11) and another family. We all did Scafell Pike together, and it was brilliant... but when we got back to the hotel, my DS15 said his feet were aching after the hike. To try and ease the pain, he decided to put a green apple on the floor and roll his bare foot back and forth over it. It’s something he does at home with a tennis ball after football training, and it really helps with muscle soreness.

Now, here’s the thing: we didn’t have a tennis ball, so he used an apple instead. I get that he was trying to relieve the pain, but when I saw him doing it, I was a bit miffed. The apple obviously had to go straight in the bin after – it ended up all soft and stinky! I just feel like if he thought he was going to need something like that, he should’ve remembered to bring a tennis ball.

Am I being unreasonable to be a bit frustrated about it, or am I overreacting? I know he was trying to help himself, but I just can’t help thinking it was a bit... well, a waste to use an apple!

Don't ever attend a Christingle service if chucking 1 apple away makes you feel frustrated, you'll never recover.

But it wasn’t wasted, if it relieved his foot pain, was it? If he had asked if you would pay 50p for something to help his foot pain, would you have said no?

Oh come on, is this real? This is definitely going to be the next penis beaker!

Foot pain is really unbearable and as someone who has had dodgy feet my whole life, when they feel this way it definitely does help to 'roll' something under the foot. Imho relieving his pain in the moment is a LOT more important than saving one apple. They sound like good boys. Not every 11-year-old would climb Scafell and enjoy it!!

If he massaged his trotters with a fillet steak I could understand but a bloody apple?

Sorry, this is absolutely batshit.

"now it's just gone". That comment took me out!🍏

I am a bit worried now that you may have a lock on your fridge door.

I don't think you could say it too many times on this thread.

What happens there? 😳

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30186196

Food waste is never ideal but it's not as if this apple was allowed to just rot in the fruit bowl. It was used for a worthy cause. Assuming this post is real, I suggest a little perspective is needed.

ChatGPT bollocks.

Would you rather DS remained in pain then, OP?

If so, bit weird for a mother.....
And what a shame if you're making your son feel guilty for using a really good idea.

I'd have been high fiving my son for being inventive...

Then I'd have asked him for the 50p. Joke.....🤣

Oh thanks, I always assumed Christingle was an evening of hymn singing!

A green apple: 40pence. Profligate!
Gosh think of the starving multitudes!
At least it wasn't a Pink Lady they are over 50p.

Just as well he didn't have a black eye, then. 🤷‍♀️

It's just an apple.

Was it a waste though? The apple benefitted his body and went in the bin. If he ate it it would had benefitted his body and gone down the loo. So what. Take a chill pill!

I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

You could see this as food waste BUT it's just one apple. Better to use that to help than to be in pain, in the circumstances.
A one-off event won't be 'setting an example'.

Jesus frigging Christ, it’s like the organic cotton PJ’s thread. I’ll repeat what I said on that one - I desperately wish I had so little to worry about that something
like this would even crack my top 50.

Again, who has suggested shaming them??

Of course we talk about food shortages, or course we talk about valuing possessions. - This is all I have suggested. Where did you get the shaming part from?

You've really convinced me I'm wrong now. Great argument!

OP clearly doesn’t know people who have apple trees. So many in our neighbourhood do and there is always such an abundance that inevitably LOADS get wasted. And that’s with half the neighbourhood making cakes, jams, cider, pies etc.
One apple that helped his foot? A speck in the universe of wasted apples

It's not just gone and he didn't waste it. He used it to relieve the pain he was in. I mean i hate to ask but would you prefer him being in pain?

Also, green apples don't taste good. If it had been a pink lady I'd have understood your point a bit better.

This can't be legit surely.

The food wasn’t wasted, it was used - just not as food.

Whether it’s eaten or a massage device, it’s still using a single use item.

If he’d have eaten it would you have said that he should’ve brought his own snack from home (like you’re saying he should’ve brought a tennis ball)?

There are so many bigger and much more thoughtless examples of food waste I can think of. I have put cucumber on my eyes and given someone fozen peas for their sprain. And if I was to be reductive about the whole thing, I’d gladly pay the price of an apple to alleviate my son’s pain.