Fecking hell my judgey pants just combusted.

[ChristmasTrulyReigns]

(The explosion didn't leave any permanent scars though! Phew)

I witnessed a woman today stretch her chewing gum out of her mouth today so far that I was transfixed, wondering what on earth she was going to do.

All was revealed.

She yanked the dummy out of the toddler'ss mouth that was accompanying her, broke a small piece of gum off, shoved it in the little girl's mouth and then the dummy back in.

I mean, how was the child going to chew and suck a dummy at the same time?

[grim]

Bedad and bejaysus is all I can say.

OMG

Just picked my jaw off the floor

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Don't normal go in for judging but... WTF?

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Sounds like a choking hazard. Babies' windpipes are tiny and a little ball of gum could easily block it. What a totally stupid thing to do.

@ ruby - the thought has crossed my mind too...

Why the hell would she do that???

I'd be terrified of the toddler chocking!

Urgh that's vile. And irresponsible.

Judgey pants combusting all over the nation in agreement.

Gum makes you fart. Aparently.

Toddlers all over the country manage to eat haribo without choking, and various delicious chewy sweets. Now more of a hazard to give chewing gum. utterly pointless and rather bizarre, but not particularly dangerous IMHO>

Maybe her kid's breath smells. Mine has a cold at the moment at it reeks.

blardy hell that is outrageous!

That is so dangerous (though my mother's policy of not letting us have any bubble gum through the whole of primary school because of the danger was probably a bit over the top).

She should have at least given the toddler her own, fresh bit. Seems a bit stingy to me,

Colditz....chewing gum and a dummy at the same time. Not quite the same as some Harribo.

the poor thing must have been really struggling to chew.

at Pixie

I take it this is a wind up.

I am really struggling to think of any reason why someone would do this

Nope not a wind up ManiD.

Sad but true.

OMG!!!

Ew. Maybe she was told the baby needed something to chew while he was teething, and took it to mean chewing gum?!