to be PISSED off with this mum at a party?

[MaddonaldsMum]

Ok so my son is going to the cinema party. The mum who took them ( small group) got the time wrong and missed their film by an hour.
So she decides to give them lunch while they kill time to wait for the next one.
Fair enough.
But then i get a text " hi hun, sorry missed time for film r w8ting 4 nxt 1. Lunch @maccyDs. ok?"

For GODS sake, if I wanted my kid to eat there ( as if) I'd take him. He knows we dont eat there or at similar places.
I am livid but what could I say?

Advice please on how to deal with this

Well I did say rather more than I had planned to, to be honest.
I dont think we will be chatting in the yard again.
I said I was disappointed with the food choice. He had hardly eaten anything and must have felt very uncomfortable doing something that I forbid..

Very good OP!

I really want McDonalds after this thread....

I think you just need to keep a close watch over him for the next 48 hours. If you think he's starting to look like Wayne & Waynetta's Spudulika then rush him down to A&E.

Well op you sound quite shallow and superficial. I think that you did her a favour. Now you are free to chat to other likeminded mothers who prefer misosoup and macrobiotic diets.

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but it really is indecent to go to McD's when there are far superior Burger Kings around. Or even better, Wimpy!

I shouldn't have read this thread, I'm really craving a Mcdonalds now and there is one 5 minutes away from my house.

you are going to make your dc a right little 'tweaker' if you carry on. thing is it will only hurt him in the long term. i have three ds. pfb was weaned on non sugar organic bollocks. when dts's arrived seven years later i was much more aware of the importance of balance. banning stuff outright just leads to trouble.

What SHOULD the party mum have done......

Phoned you, you say no and you come and take him home.... he would have loved that and would have been the laughing stock of the playground.

"banning stuff outright just leads to trouble"
does make me think back to my uni days where it was obvious who had come from restrictive environments. They were the ones who lived on kebabs and alcohol.

Obviously she should have taken them to Starbucks for ham and cheese panini and a strawberry smoothie, washed down with passion cake and "babyccino".

I would....

pmsl.

You let your son go with a woman who calls you HUN. You need to take some responsibility in all this. What did you expect? You should apologise to your son and thank god for his safe return. I really fancy a quarter pounder with cheese now!

Well, if she had been on time she wouldn't have had this problem, mind you that would have been a first.

PMSL at the 'kill her' suggestions.

Hahahahaha

HA

OP, I think you were bloody rude and if you had said that to me I would have to told you to get stuffed and made sure your DS never got invited to anything again.

Forbid for christ sake!

i think it is nice that she is taking them for lunch and paying. it won't hurt for once. I think you are over reacting.

It's becomimg clear now, OP actually works for McDs and this is an advertising ploy to try to boost sales. Looks like it is working really well by the number of people now saying they feel like eating something from there.

I'd say get a grip, and then I would say thank you to the mum for feeding your son.

One burger meal won't kill him.

See OP, if you didn't forbid mcdonalds then your DS probably still wouldnt have liked it but at least he wouldn't feel guilty or uncomfortable.

Ah, wimpy -'my DSDs think that's the height of class. Sigh.

Did he enjoy the McSlurry?

Love the thread , thank you.

Anyway OP what did you say to the other mum?

'He had hardly eaten anything and must have felt very uncomfortable doing something that I forbid..'

Why do it?! Emotional blackmail- and a sure way for him to do it in secret.

One of my friends when we were growing up wasn't allowed to indulge in fast food every so often like the other kids - she is now a great gallomping heffer who eats lots of McDonalds, KFCs and other crappy fast food cahin fares!

A little crap goes a long way to making sure your kid doesn;t turn to this as soon as he has his own money and can choose to eat what he likes.

I can;t say anything about the time keeping - my own can be pretty crap at times but that is more from having lots of things going on all at once rather than being ditsy or rude.

Ah, I missed the funny of the day

But, as hocuspontas correctly surmised, I would never misuse a semi-colon in such an egregious fashion.

arf at this thread

however, I am a bit at folks conflating heroin and McDonalds

That's really not comparing apples with apples, now, is it?