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Original poster

To be really angry when I see flowers being picked in public places?

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Sativa · 13/04/2013 16:00

Today I saw a small boy of about 4 or 5 picking a daffodil from a park to present to his mum/nan (hard to tell). All very lovely but if everyone stopped to pick one there would soon be nothing left but a few leaves!

I like seeing the Spring flowers and I taught my children to leave them where they were for everyone's enjoyment.

.....so I screamed like a banshee out of the car window "Stop picking the flowers !"

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McNewPants2013 · 14/04/2013 21:41

How does the op know that the adult with the child didn't already say something to the child.

Yonirubbishnamesleft · 14/04/2013 21:42

DS picked me some daises this afternoon. Is that allowed? I mean otherwise, how the fuck will kids ever get to do daisy chains?

Or buttercups?

MissAnnersley · 14/04/2013 21:43

Too busy screaming to care probably.

MissAnnersley · 14/04/2013 21:44

I know yoni, all these young hooligans making daisy chains. Broken Britain.

moonabove · 14/04/2013 21:55

Indeed MissAnnersley MN is a strange place sometimes. Someone thinks it's acceptable to scream at a tiny child for picking a flower or to allow tiny child to cry itself to sleep for eating too many easter eggs or force tiny child to sit at the table for 2 hours trying to 'encourage' it to eat it's veg.

Beyond strange. Buncha weirdos.

MissAnnersley · 14/04/2013 22:01

God, I read those other threads too moonabove.

Not pleasant. To say the least.

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Sativa · 14/04/2013 22:02

But surely that's why our society's in the state it's in? Because people don't see that picking flowers, dropping litter, terrorising animals is a big deal.

Just to clarify (as I'd hate for the more sensitive children out there never to set foot in a park again (!)), I only shouted "Stop picking the flowers!" I didn't swear or threaten to run him over. The boy looked up from his destruction of the local flora as he couldn't see who was admonishing him. He hadn't been told off by his mum/nan as he'd already come back to pick a second flower. He didn't appear to be traumatised although I could be wrong....

And your 10 year old wouldn't go back to the park if this had happened ? What are you going to do when they have to travel to and from secondary school? There are crazy people all over public transport where we live, one of which made a death threat to my daughter and her friends. Should I have kept her away from school from then on ??

Or maybe I should've moved to where the children can skip to school across a flower-strewn meadow. Sorry, my mistake, all the flowers have been picked, best make that a meadow then.

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MissAnnersley · 14/04/2013 22:05

I think your over reacting massively. The boy picked a flower.

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Sativa · 14/04/2013 22:07

Let's hope it's his last Wink

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MrsDeVere · 14/04/2013 22:08

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/04/2013 22:11

Arf. I love mums net. Two threads, exact same subject. Totally different responses :D

MissAnnersley · 14/04/2013 22:12

Is there another one? Must go for a look.

moonabove · 14/04/2013 22:15

Also Arf at someone who so concerned about the state our society is in while acting like a complete yob.

ample · 14/04/2013 22:15

My dd was guilty of this the other day.
She did it to surprise me (it was my first day out of bed as I had been poorly for a few days)
Tbh I would rather see them in all their glory just as they are, in the park etc and I explained again that flowers live longer and are happier with their root/stems and 'friends' than they would in a vase.
She won't do it again so I guess that's one less to make you Angry

sunshine401 · 14/04/2013 22:17

Hmm really??

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Sativa · 14/04/2013 22:19

Where did you tell me your son was autistic ?

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sunshine401 · 14/04/2013 22:22

A child picking a wild flower to give to his mum.
A "grown" women shouting at a random 4 year old out of her car window for picking a flower...

If you read your op yourself you can see who is the unreasonable one there surely??

MrsDeVere · 14/04/2013 22:25

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Sativa · 14/04/2013 22:36

You didn't make it clear which of your children had SN to be honest. It could easily have been the 5 year old. But I'm sorry if I've offended you, that wasn't my intention.

I saw what I saw that's all I know. Or are we going to doubt every poster on MN, saying they're just making stuff up so they can appear as smug and super as me ?

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SchroSawMargeryDaw · 14/04/2013 23:03

A very small child picking a flower in a park isn't anti-social.

A random fully grown woman screaming at a child from her car is anti-social and pretty odd sounding.

I think if the police had been passing by and witnessed both incidents it would be pretty easy to see which one they would be interested in and which one they would laugh at.

Letitsnow9 · 14/04/2013 23:23

You shouldn't of screamed but it is bad, I saw a dad (I'm assuming he was dad) with 2 girls picking the daffodils in a public place, they had the maximum amount you could hold at any one time and looked like they were planning on picking more. Very selfish

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LayMizzRarb · 14/04/2013 23:33

The OP described one flower being picked, and then added they went back to pick more, later on in the thread. Were you driving through the park OP? You must have fantastic multitasking skills if you can drive, and watch a child pick a flower, then return to the flower bed, and have time to count the daffodils that are left, and scream at the same time. Your observational skills are first class.

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