to have excercised my unused judging muscles?

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I don't normally give a shit what other parents choose to do. But on saturday I witnessed something that annoyed me. Outdoor swimming pool with grassy area and trees outside - families tend to sit on the grass with picnics and pop in and out of the pool all day. At one point we all got called out of the pool for about 10mins. When I asked one of the life guards why it was because a child had got into difficulties and had to be rescued. Slightly sarky call on the tannoy 'Could you all check whether you have lost a little girl as we appear to have one here'. When I was coming out of the loo there was a row going on - mother of said child had been found and was yelling at the lifeguard. She stormed out of the life guards office with older woman and 3 DC in tow, clearly furious. She then started to pack up whilst berating the older woman for 'letting him have a go at me'. Lots of shouting at this older woman. Family walks off, mother in high dudgeon.

AIBU to think that if she lets a child of about 4 or 5 wander off in a public swimming pool and get into difficulties, she deserves a bloody telling off and shouldn't have complained when the life guard had a word, and shouldn't have got arsey with someone else afterwards.

Thank god for the lifeguard! Nutter.

She was probably ashamed and it came out as anger. It happens. No excuse though.

Yes you are right. I imagine she was ashamed. Can't help thinking I'd have been pathetically grateful if someone had saved my child from possible drowning though....

DS2 was late home from school the other day - only about 20 minutes, but it was a hell of a long 20 minutes during which I'd managed to convince myself he'd been abducted by a nutter/abducted by aliens etc.

When he appeared, rather than do the "Oh my precious baby is ALIVE!" thing, I did the "Where the hell were you, why didn't you ring, what were you THINKING?" thing. Often stressful situations like that make people livid rather than reasonable.

Could it be she was annoyed with the other woman. Maybe she was supposed to be watching her or something?

But yes certainly the lifeguard was right to say something. Some people just never accept they are in the wrong even when they are

Well you'd have thought so themoon but the argument (which most people could hear) was that she didn't stick up for her. Weird.

But yes, relief and embarrassment I guess. Hope she calmed down when she got home.

Some very odd folk about.

We'd all be weeping with gratitude but some people just wont have an error on their part pointed out. Far too much aggression about these days I always think.