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to think I am awesome and she is a nobber?

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ilythia · 26/02/2011 13:56

Went to the playground at the beach this morning. It is cold and windy so we had coats and jeans on but barefeet (dd's are like me, you can't walk on sand in shoes!)
Jeans all got sandy, hair very windswept. Walking back to the car we started playing tag on the grass.
I am awesome at tag. The girls cannot catch me, but the grass was slippy and I went down. DD2 yelled 'bundle' and they jumped me, so there we were, the 3 of us, windswept, sandy/muddy jeans, muddy coats, snotty noses, and in hysterics. DD2 had got me in the stomach so I was tickling her on the ground calling her a ratbag.

Woman walks past with her la redoute/boden clad perfect princess and her smart coat and nice shoes and actually tutted at me!!

If I hadn't been so winded I woudl have said something but I just sat like this Shock until she had disappeared.

She was being a cock, right?

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QOD · 26/02/2011 13:57

right :D

worraliberty · 26/02/2011 13:57

Are you sure she tutted? How could you hear it with all that going on and the wind too? Perhaps she was just looking to see what was going on?

BitOfFun · 26/02/2011 13:58

Really? Were you breastfeeding at the time?

ragged · 26/02/2011 13:58

You shouldn't waste time worrying about what idiot passerbys think.

pigletmania · 26/02/2011 14:00

If she did tut she is being a boring fuddy duddy, your chldren will have a lifetime of these happy memories, whilst Clementine will remember being told not to get her dress creased or dirty and to sit straight and speak when spoken to.

outnumbered2to1 · 26/02/2011 14:02

yes she was!

worraliberty · 26/02/2011 14:03

Blimey so many assumptions lol. The mother and child could have been going to a wedding or something for all we know.

Condensedmilkaddict · 26/02/2011 14:04

BOF Grin

naturalbaby · 26/02/2011 14:05

you are awesome and i am jealous. would love to live by the coast just to have stories like this.

thumbwitch · 26/02/2011 14:06

Yes, she was being a full-on tit and probably just Envy deep down inside her Boden-clad heart that she couldn't let herself go enough to enjoy herself like that. Bet her DD was all Envy too. :)

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ilythia · 26/02/2011 14:10

She probably was going to a wedding, we were outside the registry office, but she still tutted. The little old ladies on teh bench didn't tut, they laughed when we eventually got up and walked past them to get to the car.
She tutted.

I am not upset, just gutted she tutted at me, when if she had done that to about, ooh, 75% of the rest of the population here she'd have got a full on tonguelashingGrin

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ilythia · 26/02/2011 14:11

I wasn't bfing, or smoking either. Or eating greggs.
It could have been so much worse.
If I'd thought it through I could have given her palpitations!

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ilythia · 26/02/2011 14:12
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pjmama · 26/02/2011 14:13

Ignore, ignore, ignore.

And yes... cock.

Goldenbear · 26/02/2011 14:13

If she tutted YANBU but I would've looked over and maybe thought, 'what a lot of display parenting'. On the other hand, I would've probably also thought, 'how great that she isn't inhibited and doesn't worry that she may look like a nob.' By that I am not being sarcastic as the scene you describe with your daughters is a very wholesome form of parenting that some may be envious of?

BitOfFun · 26/02/2011 14:14

Don't ignore me! I might have an accident n the abandoned henhouse Grin

Do you remember that thread? The only one I can think of that Beas yours for inverted smuggery Grin

worraliberty · 26/02/2011 14:15

You both sound fairly judgemental of each other to be honest so I'm going to give you a jammie dodger Grin

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BitOfFun · 26/02/2011 14:15

Beas? Beats.

I am going to try hard to out-smug you though. I'll be back.

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ilythia · 26/02/2011 14:16

om nom nom

I know that thread, it's not often I get the chance to be a smug parent, stop ruining it!

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BitOfFun · 26/02/2011 14:17
Grin
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ilythia · 26/02/2011 14:18

NO! You must not outsmug me. You're are ruining the love.

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UnquietDad · 26/02/2011 14:22

I'm with you. But I'm amused you still found time to clock the brand of her child's clothing and shoes. :)

cybilliberty · 26/02/2011 14:23

I would have found your over exhuberant, look at me, loud parenting style VERY tiresome

And get tissues for your noses, for the LOVE of God

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ilythia · 26/02/2011 14:25

Hah, I am guessing, they could have been asda for all I know, bu they were clean and matching and ironed and worn properly. I am lucky if mine have half of those things right.

Her shoes were nice. And clean. As I said, it was the car park next to the registry office (although, as an aside, it was the wrong carpark, and if she had parked there she wouldn' be able to get out, mwahahahaa) so she probably was on her way to a wedding.

This has nothign to do with the fact that I never look that smart either yeah right

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ilythia · 26/02/2011 14:26

My nose wasn't snotty!

And DD2 had used up my last tissue in a dead crab squishing incident.

But yes. I apologise. You are right

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