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AIBU to think a plastic sled is not a substitute for a pushchair

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WittyTitle · 05/02/2012 22:37

First of all, i apologise if this family are on MN but still....

Given last nights snowfall in London and how Londoners are oh so very dramatic about it all, and given that both my and my partner had a very rare and simultaneous day off we took a trip to the horrendously overpriced, yet obviously favourite hangout of my DD, London Aquarium. As we exit Westminster station, there is a family of four, two young sons preparing the cross the bridge at the same time with their toddlers holding mums hand and dad carrying sleds,

"how quaint thinks I, but where is there to go sledging around here?"

NO,they too are going to the aquarium and after we are both robbed blind by the criminal sales assistant behind the desk, we happened to enter at approx the same time. AT WHICH POINT Angry

Dad of the year decides to lay down the sleds, two boys climb aboard and are consequently pulled around the attraction on sleds, nowwwwwwwwwww...im all for being a bit different, but when Ive paid near enough £80 to get into the place I dont want to be followed around by the near constant noise of du-dunk du-dunk du-dunk, interspersed with the noise of what sounded like a dead body being dragged accross the floor ( I Imagine! Hmm ) We tried walking ahead, we tried lagging behind but alas!

It really wound me up, and I know you shouldnt sweat the small things but I did today and I almost let it ruin my day, I really cant belive a family would think that was acceptable and that everyone else wanted to hear that noise, im all for sledging but outdoors, in snow PLEASE!

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RalphGnu · 06/02/2012 13:58

Wittytitle, I like you Smile

DeWe · 06/02/2012 14:25

I think you were BU to pay to go to something inside when there was snow to play in for free. But so were they. Grin

valiumredhead · 06/02/2012 14:28

YABU to pay for the Aquarium - do it on Tesco vouchers!

CakeMixture · 06/02/2012 14:34

But plenty of other places are indoors and nice and warm (natural history museum?) and many are free (so you'd have money spare to purchase sledges!!)

London zoo does have an aquarium of sorts plus loads more much of it indoors - I'd still far rather go there, even in the winter tbh

zukiecat · 06/02/2012 14:35

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upahill · 06/02/2012 16:21

That's not so bad then.
The thought of London prices scare me from going down but that seems reasonable for that many.
I'll go back to reconsider a trip - you had put me off . I thought it was nearly £80 for 3!!!

RuleBritannia · 06/02/2012 16:54

£80???!! How many of you were there?

WittyTitle · 06/02/2012 22:25

The other places you mentioned are lovely, I dont deny it, but yesterday we fancied the aquarium...as clearly did sledgeknob and his brood of unruly brats.

MN never fails to amuse me I was ranting about assholes on a sledge and then amazingly it turns into what you guys consider a good day out and how much you personally in your life with your children and your bank accounts and your parenting skills consider a good day out.

My kids LOVE the aquarium, FACT, I love seeing my kids faces standing inside the glass tunnel watching the world above them FACT, to see how happy it makes them I would pay a million dollars every day.

My eldest two were born in Quebec, sledging in the UK doesnt mean squat to them, you lot get an inch of snow and crack out those crappy plastic binliners and go wild, we chose to stay warm and look at fish!

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WittyTitle · 06/02/2012 22:27

Oh and ralphgnu I like you too? Grin

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JasperJohns · 06/02/2012 22:32

That would have annoyed me intensely, but then any crowded family attraction puts me in a less than tolerant frame of mind.

MrsBeakman · 06/02/2012 22:50

Plastic binliners? Not seen that.

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