to not have given their toddler my phone?

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I was waiting in the doctors this morning, and was putting my mobile phone on flight mode when a little boy, 2 at the oldest, came and stood infront of me, pointed vaguely at my phone and started whining and stamping his feet.

There was only me and two other ladies in the waiting room, one of them says (without looking up from magazine) "He wants to play with your phone".

My phone is a touch screen and tends to unlock easily and dial people without warning (I dont let my 19 month old play with it for this reason!), so I told the little lad - gently - that it wasnt a toy and I'm sorry but he cant play with it. I put it away in my pocket. Cue more screaming.

The mum says "arn't you going to just let him play with it?" I reply no and explain above. She gets up, takes little boy by hand and drags him back to his seat saying loudly "No, the mean woman wont let you play." over and over, then muttered "bitch" under her breath.

AIBU to have not given my slightly dodgy mobile to someone elses child? I was definitly made to feel very unreasonable! I'm not unsympathetic, I know what its like to have a restless toddler in a waiting room, but I would never expect another mum to hand over their property to keep my DD happy.

YANBU
I'd have said "NO it's MINE " I wouldn't have justified or explained in anyway at all

Bet before the lad is in its teens he'll feel justified in stealingtaking anything thing he wants from anybody as his mum thinks its OK

sorry it was me I was having a bad day

I would have used the line I use on my own son 'Not a baby toy, a mummy toy.'

Her own fault for not bringing the child something to play with!

No way in heck does anyone but me play with my iPhone. Have you seen how much they cost? Never mind a strange child!!

YANBU.
that woman was a loooooooon.

ignore GetOrf, she's a troll.

and if the toddler broke the phone?

the mother would have said oh my I'm sorry, let me replace that for you...

ha. more likely - well, you shouldn't have let a toddler play with your phone.

Phones aren't toys. If you want to risk your OWN phone being thrown around, then go ahead, but don't expect some random person to risk their property to keep your child happy.

That's just nuts.

And selfish.

Unbelievable! YANBU in the slightest!

What did you say? I would have shredded her!

shoot her

Damn Getorf - you beat me to it.

Ah, I know this, this is a scam. Women are training toddlers to go up to people with posh-looking phones and demand to play with them. Once phone is safely in toddler's sticky hands, women grab toddlers and phones and scarper to the nearest Cash 4 U type shop, and trade it in for a crate of Aftershock. Sometimes they trade the toddler in too, for a £20 Iceland voucher.

Good for you for not falling foul!

YANBU

my ds2 whos 4 got hold of my fone this morning and dailed 999 ,i was in the kitchen washing up and i heard him babbling so i found the fone in hia hand and they was an emergancy 999 person on oops they was ok but now put lock on

I would have handed the phone over... but not before saying "i'm waiting to be seen about a rare strain of cat-AIDs I seem to have picked up in China" and sneezing wetly all over the aforementioned phone and child.

Job done

Aw, poor you, OP! What a hideous woman, and terrible role model. Please don't doubt yourself, you sound lovely to me.

YANBU

YADNBU!

YANBU.

Even if I WAS going to give him the phone in the first place, (which I wouldn't dream of doing anyway), the whining and stamping would have made sure he got absolutely nothing he wanted!

at BEAUTIFUL's scenario.

Even if you lock your phone if you dial 999 then it will dial out.. Also as a warning if you give your old mobile to a child and take out the sim card all the time the phone has charge it will still dial out a 999 call.... I know from bitter experiance!!

I feel sorry for every child that comes into contact with that womans' son: he'll be a spoilt, tyrannical little pig and he'll have the most extreme sense of self entitlement because his mother is teaching him that the whole world belongs to him and he is right to be angry when he doesn't get to have an utter strangers property for his own amusement.

You handled it better thant me. I would have remarked on it and asked her what she just called me and told her what a horrendous brat her child was. But that's just me