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to have thought these mums were knobs?

44 replies

herwegoagain · 15/04/2012 09:59

my friend and i took my 3 to a garden centre yesterday, decided to stop for lunch.
we went up and ordered, and a gaggle of mums came and sat in the same bit as us, 4 mums, each with a buggy, and with ( i think) 10 kids between them.
kids all young, eldest must have only been about 7.
so their kids go to play in the play gym thing, which has a glass wall, and door, but a sign saying please supervise your children.
all the mums sit and get settled for lunch, so they pull 3 tables together, so then they call their kids back when lunch comes out, and around their 3 tables and 5 high chairs, 4 buggys 4 women and 3 children sitting and 2 babies in arms.
their children bought some of those ball pit balls out with them and started playing on the floor with the balls.
in the bloody resturant bit, with other people, waiters carrying hot food, people carrying hot drinks.
kids start throwing balls, one of the staff comes over and says, sorry but you need to put the balls back in the play area, one of the mums says she is eating so the waitress will have to wait, the waitress starts to collect up the balls, que one of the kids kicking off, and the mum shouting at the bloody waitress.
out comes the manager, all the women launch that this is supposed to be a child friendly place and the waitree is being unreasonable.
he backs the waitress up and says that they will need to pick the balls up and get the kids to sit down or that he is more than happy to wrap up their food so they can take it away.
they huff and puff but sit the kids down, and the staff take away the balls.
5 mins later the kids are on the floor again, and right after that there is an almighty crash, a customer is on the floor, as is her pot of tea and cake, and there is a kid screaming.
guess what the knobby mums do?
try to make a complaint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, am i being U to think that it was their own fucking fault?

OP posts:
Red2011 · 15/04/2012 10:01

Absolutely their own fault. I hope nobody was hurt.
If I was the manager, I would have had to ask them to leave.

doihavetonamechange · 15/04/2012 10:03

sounds like the ridiculous soft play they have set up in a cafe near us, right next to where everyone eats their food, in a garden centre, but with no gate or anything, I have had to stop going there as any attempt to drink a cup of tea leads to me having to charge through shop after DC (they also have a lovely toy section)

I always think that place is an accident waiting to happen

herwegoagain · 15/04/2012 10:06

doihavetoname change
the play area is seperate, it has its own door, not in the resturant and a glass wall running along it so if you are in the resturant you can see into the play area.

OP posts:
belgo · 15/04/2012 10:06

YANBU. This sort of entitled behaviour by parents has meant that so many restaurants in the UK no longer welcome children at all, and that's such as shame.

fuzzpig · 15/04/2012 10:07

Of course they were being knobbish!

I hope the customer was ok?

herwegoagain · 15/04/2012 10:10

as far as i could tell she was just worried she had squashed a child, she got up ok.

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catgirl1976 · 15/04/2012 10:11

YANBU - They sound dreadful

bigTillyMint · 15/04/2012 10:13

YANBU.

Why can't some parents with toddlers/young children be more considerate of other people?

StewieGriffinsMom · 15/04/2012 10:15

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lunamoon · 15/04/2012 10:15

YANBU the other mothers were.
I would have been tempted to throw hot tea over the lot of them tbh.
Remind me where this is so that I can avoid it at all costs.
I personally think garden centres should be just that, not some kind of half hearted kids entertainment centres.

lunamoon · 15/04/2012 10:17

Just to add our local garden centre does a lovely santa's grotto and cafe at Christmas which dcs loved when they were small. BUT I would never allow them to run around, crawl on the floor, or anything other than sit at the table in the cafe.

Hoebag · 15/04/2012 10:20

That sounds shocking, really

I'm surprised the mums werent removed.

doihavetonamechange · 15/04/2012 10:23

OP that makes it even worse, that it is in a separate are, so there was no need at all for the DCs to be there, not that there ever is, but its impossible to keep them contained in the one by us.

herwegoagain · 15/04/2012 10:23

i think the manager was pretty good for giving them a second chance to be honest, id have just made them go.
its a really nice garden centre to be honest, indoor and out door play areas, toilets, changing places, decent kids food.

OP posts:
FullBeam · 15/04/2012 10:34

YANBU.

My dd was accidentally scalded by a spilt cup of tea in a cafe last year. She was lucky to have had the best treatment and will not have permanent scars. The whole experience was absolutely horrific and continues to affect us.

jetsetlil · 15/04/2012 10:39

My local restaurant posted a message on their facebook page saying that unsupervised children will be given a large espresso, a pint of coke and a puppy! I thought it was quite funny.

WorraLiberty · 15/04/2012 10:45

jetsetlil Our local family pub has a sign saying "Any children left unattended, will be clamped and towed away" Grin

cjbk1 · 15/04/2012 10:54

of course YANBU but can you tell us the name so we can avoid it and/or others in its chain/franchise? lol Wink

Aribura · 15/04/2012 11:22

I know it's a joke but I'd rather have the name of the branch to SUPPORT IT since it didn't give in to the fuckers.

trikken · 15/04/2012 11:57

If u go to these places you have to make sure the kids aren't being a nuisance. If my kids played up and wouldnt behave we would leave so as not to disrupt everyone else. I think the adults behaviour was awful.

cjbk1 · 15/04/2012 12:01

that's also a thought aribura but might the ahem unpleasant mums come back?

bobbledunk · 15/04/2012 12:51

They are knobs and they should be barred. Businesses don't lose a penny throwing out lazy, anti social people like that, they gain money by not having all their customers driven out by these idiots.

Marymaryalittlecontrary · 15/04/2012 13:03

Doihavetonamechange - but surely it's the responsibility of the parents to make sure the children sit down to eat and don't go running into the play area every 2 mins. If children I was with couldn't do that I wouldn't take them there - I wouldn't think it was the fault of the place itself.

Thumbwitch · 15/04/2012 13:08

They are knobs. Definitely.

Sparklingbrook · 15/04/2012 13:12

A lot of parents think 'child friendly' means 'let your little darlings do whatever they like'. Angry