AIBU to be upset that someone stole my son's poppy?!

[Bluebell99]

Having a bad day today, but my ds who is 11 and in yr 7 came home from school and told me that he had taken 50p into school today from his own money and bought a poppy. He said that an older boy that he didn't know asked him if he could see his poppy, and so he showed him, and the older boy ran off with it. I hadn't known he had taken his money in to buy a poppy, but I am really shocked that a secondary aged pupil would steal a poppy! Obviously I have bought him another.

do you believe him?

Of course I do, why would he lie about that!OMG I am flabbergasted by your response. Obviously you don't know my son, i didn't even know he had bought a poppy, so why would he lie about it?

what a rotten thing to do

Chill Bluebell, it was just a question! And a reasonable one, children do tell porkies sometimes!

But assuming everything is true, YANBU, it's quite sad and totally missing the point of the poppy.

oh ease up with the interrogation and what ifs

of course I don't know your son, how would I?? But, you know, kids have good intentions then the money gets spent on something else but he wants a poppy...or he wants you to think good of him... boys. The older kid was prob just having a 'laugh'. Not funny to adults but that's what kids/boys are like. Pretty sure he wasn't thinking about the bigger meaning of a poppy, Fields of Flanders etc when he took off with it.

Am I the only one who thought the OP's puppy had been stolen? In my defence, it's been a long day.

FFS

Oh yes, I clicked on this thinking I had read 'puppy'. Mighty glad it wasn't if I'm honest.

I am not shocked - they steal worse - shitty behaviour though. Good on your boy for buying his own poppy, sounds like a sweetheart.

Welcome to your first Y7 negative experience. There will be many more along the way, hopefully mostly bloodless.

Not my first negative experience tbh, that was being knocked to the ground on day 4 and called names by a Yr 9!
Thank you Scottishmummy and Pinkieminx.