To think that if you let your five year old shit on the pavement

[MrsSchadenfreude]

that you might clear it up? Lunchtime today, woman walking down the road with her daughter, around 4 or 5, I'd say - certainly not just potty trained, very articulate. Child stops on the pavement, pulls down her knickers and unleashes a huge coil (accompanied by a bit of grunting). Mother wiped child's bottom, chucked the shitty paper on the pavement and they continued their merry way.

I know the pavements are covered with dog shit here (Paris), but this was beyond belief. They were about 15 metres away from a restaurant - I'm sure they could have popped in and used the loo in an emergency.

Ewwwwww

and

vile

Ewww.

Or is this a cunning ploy to keep all the Brits away from Paris MrsS?

I should have run downstairs and shouted after her "Oy! You've dropped something!"

YANBU - ugh, ugh, ugh.

Oh my god!!!

That is beyond vile.

that is truly fucking disgusting!

You were in Paris?

This does not surprise me in the least - it stinks of piss and poo. I lived in Paris for work on and off and everyone just pisses in the street and it's awful. And I mean in "nice" areas of Paris....

This is a nice area of Paris. Tis full of Mumsnetters.

For real??

Yes, absolutely for real. Unfortunately.

Heh heh. And there's me thinking Paris is only peopled by rich, thin, middle class intellectuals (per Bonsoir).

well I dunno, we had to literally zig-zag down the streets in Berlin a) to avoid getting an old woman axe you in the chest with an elbow, b) not to fall into a pile of dog poo after getting axed or in the process of ducking an attack.

I am so used to it now

The child wouldn't have bothered me much, am tolerant of kids and those urges but they usually go behind a bush for a bit of cover. Dumping a dirty wipe on the pavement too is really going overboard.

I rmemember being in Berlin on a side-street coming up to the corner of a fairly busy road. An old woman stopped and did a poo at the corner and a woman in her 40s screamed at her for it, really OTT I thought. The old lady was really old. Considering all the dog poo littered up and down every street, what difference is one old lady making?

My 2 year old needed a wee which turned out to be a poo, I was mortified but my goodness I cleaned it up, that is just unbelievable (also it wasn't middle of pavement was behind car in a carpark)0

No, Namey, there's me too. I live ver' close to Bonsoir, so bring the neighbourhood down a bit!

(but not to this level, I hasten to add.)

It wasn't Bonsoir's DD was it?

It's true - there's something about the dumping of the wet wipe on the street that really is the final slap in the face of the whole thing.

Gross,really gross.

Bloody French

Ewww. I'd clean it up.

I don't see how child-poo is any worse than dog-poo though.

My three year old did a poo in the countryside when he was with grandparents - I would have picked it up but grandad buried it. They were in the middle of nowhere, so I suppose it's OK.

Bonsoir's daughter??/

Certainly not!!