to have called them a shower of arseholes?

[MrsKeithRichards]

I'm on holiday (baby sleepin dh out with older son so sitting on balcony having a sly cig and wine) in a big resort type place.

3 pools, one kids with big and small slide. It's not the best lay out. Small slide for tots goes into shallow (70cm) bit of pool which is separated from deeper end where the big slide empties but whole thing is no deeper than 120cm. Ds is 6 and been going up and down it for days, obeying the obvious rule of don't go down until the person before is clear.

So today ds and another boy who is 9 were going up and down over and over again. A rather portly (this is relevant, being rather portly myself I'm well aware of the splash I make) family (mum, dad and two daughters mid twenties) came around the pool and started going down the slide. No problems. Then more friends turned up, there was about 13 in total. They all started using the slide and weren't leaving any space in between. Ds and his mate were in amongst them all so dh joined in to slow it down. He'd let the 2 boys go down then let them get clear before going. The pool is quite small though.

Anyway this group were getting wilder and wilder and dh asked them to give the kids a chance to get clear but was ignored. They were coming down right after each other and it was mayhem, water everywhere, soaked my pram which was as far as possible from the pool (about 3m) and sending wave after wave over dh ds and his pal.

So I lost it.

I stood up and started shouting at them to calm the fuck down and let the kids get out the road. Then I called them a shower of arseholes. I got a round of applause from other people but I'm not proud at losing the head like that.

The usually vigilant lifeguard turned up 5 minutes later (there's 4 pools he covers) and chucked them out.

I feel a bit sheepish. I'm usually a seething type. Dh wasquite proud!

I am no Mary Whitehall myself, I am just a bit put off by the whole scenario.

To the OP

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I presume you mean Mary Whitehouse?

You're nicking the freebies? :o Classier and classier!

Well done. I'm too wimpy to do anything like that - I'd just sit and grumble to myself.

Liking your expression "shower of arseholes", I've only every heard of a shower of shite.

Thank you, yes, Mary Whitehouse .

You seriously said the A word in front of children??

What sort of person are you! Just because they were acting like a words doesn't mean you should call them the A word!

I am disgusted in you!

You could have at least called them wankbadgers!!

Fuck it, you only said arseholes! Don't see the fuss! They needing telling by the sounds of it

YANBU and I'd have bought you a very nice poolside cocktail with suitable sparkly stuff in for that.

Bravo!

well done Op, love it, thanks.

I was in Eygpt, on a non package holiday and a gang of wankers started pushing each other off the jetty, i came out with much worse, it was a waste of time, they didn't speak English.

I ordered the security guard to sort it out, not just because of the children around, but the coral as well.

That was a classy place till we turned up.

YANBU.

Very restrained actually OP, well done. Last time I was abroad, the people in the apartment above kept shaking the sand off their towels/shoes/beachbags over the balcony, onto our balcony. I asked them politely not to do that while I was sat on said balcony enjoying a nice glass of fucking sandy wine.

The next time they did it dd was asleep on the balcony in her pram and got a face full of manky shoe sand.

I was a lot less restrained I promise you!

If it is a shower of arseholes, does that mean it is then a clutch of cunts?
So you lost your mind a teeny tiny bit, no biggie, especially when vacationing.
I applaude your spirit..

They were being a shower of arseholes - and definitely needed telling! Good for you. And quite frankly they should have known better around the Scots (who are not generally noted for being shy and retiring). DH is from Fife and believe me 'arsehole' would have been extremely mild for him. Also, when I objected to him swearing in front of small DCs by him saying, 'I'll kick your arse if ye dae that one more time, son'. He told me 'arse isn't swearing'. When I argued it was he said, 'No' in Scotland it's no'. So there you go. You didn't swear .

YABU for swearing loudly and in public/around families. I would have rolled my eyes and thought "well this is a fucking great place isn't it? First of all that gang of fucking dickheads annoying everyone and endangering the kids..then some fucking fishwife screaming obcenities at them! NIACE!"...but I would have said that quietly to dh, or in my head...'cos it's not nice to swear in front of people you don't know,imo. Being shouty and sweary just makes you look rough.

YANBU for being really pissed off at said dickheads soaking buggy and ruining the dc's fun. Ways and means op,ways and means

And sowornout? My family are all Glasweigans, and yes, arse is commonly used, but it is still "swearing". Rule of thumb, would you like your kid to say it? No? Then it's a good idea not to say it infront of them!! Being Scottish is nay excuse!

YANBU. I would have applauded and I am very classy....
Liking a cltch of cunts too.
What's a Langer? I need to know!!

Good on you op I wish I was brave enough to do something like that. And I love shower of arseholes

Yanbu to feel frustrated & say something.
Amused at the wine in a jug/bagging all the sewing kits & soaps.

Hey I said the resort was classy, not me!!

You Scottish do have the best swears though.

It's a shame to waste those tools.

AngryBeaver Thank you! We have a constant argument about this, cos you're right - I don't particularly want my DCs saying 'arse'. Thumbs up for the Scottish support . Can I also add that I took exception to my DH saying to my DD2 when she was about 8 'For Christ's sake, hen! You're up and doon like a hoor's drawers!' Another lovely Scottish expression I could have done without! (As is 'sweating like a rapist' which he came out with the other day......although not in front of the kids, fortunately).

Sowornout you need to take a bar of Carbolic to your DHs mouth!

I could swear for Scotland, but not in front of the weans, and those expressions are HORRIBLE!

And not exclusive to Scotland either, I might add. I've heard them said when I lived in England, just with a different accent and pronunciation.

HairExtensions - I know! He's a bad man! Although to be fair to him he is generally pretty good about not swearing in front of the DCs. He's a lovely, great big softy of a man and the kids adore him- but he's spent almost 40 years on building sites, around what I would term the, ahem, rough end of Fife. That is, Kirkcaldy, Cowdenbeath, Glenrothes, etc (rather than the posh St Andrew's bit). I suspect that the language he hears and uses 14 hours a day is somewhat less refined than that I expect from him at home and occasionally things slip out.