To absolutely hate soft play parties...so much that when I know I have to attend one..

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it ruins my entire day. I can't BEAR the places...we never visit them as a family because the noise and constant selling of crap annoys the hell out of me.

DD2 is 5 and has 2 this week. The parties are both for good friends of hers.

She's not comortable with me leaving her with a friend's mum yet so I have to stay. DH can't take her...they're both at 4.00pm.

I HATE THEM! Sitting for 2 hours in a loud, grubby place and being obliged to spend 8 quid on 2 coffees just to have something to do.

Am I alone? My hatred of them seems quite imbalanced almost.

Oh, but I did meet one Mum who said, 'Go f**k yourself' when I said 'Thanks' in the carpark when she reversed to let us out. That was weird.

MrsMacFarlane

seriously

Well if any other race were called trash in a derogatory way there would be an uproar. It is sad how acceptable it is when it is about white people

I'm new to this. I've no idea what biscuit means. Have I to eat one? I have a lemon muffin in my desk, will that do?

Depends on the play centre
Went to a well posh one at the weekend. And there was a tab for parent's drinks (key to success)
Was vvv relaxing

I think you need to unclench, OP and leave your DD,
or take a book

What I like about those kind of parties is they are usually whole class -which I think is fab for them to get to all play together out of school and usually, ime, no-one is left out.

So ner, OP, YABU

Whatever ChocolateCake, you're just coming across as sanctimonious. And I'm white incidentally.

Not rising to it.

I quite like my local soft play after visiting there earlier this week but it used to be a hell hole. In the 90 mins or so that we were there I saw the ride on car things being cleaned twice and signs up asking parents to remember to wash DC's hands before eating and signs saying that if your child had had D&V in the past 48 hours to please think of other children.

I wouldn't go during the busy time though, too much sweat stink.

What do you mean "not rising to it"? I genuinely have no idea what you mean by "Biscuit...seriously....biscuit". I've only been posting on this site for a couple of weeks and the acronyms and emoticons baffle me.

So what exactly did you mean by "low life white trash" when describing the people at the soft play?

If i said "low life black trash" how would that sit? It would be racism.

Could you get any more self righteous?

So pointing something derogatory that would be dubbed racist if were about anyother skin colour makes me self righteous. Okay then.

You didn't answer the question - What exactly did you mean by "low life white trash" when describing the people at the soft play?

I like soft play.

The one here is MASSIVE, and not that noisy really.

Coffee is about £1.50 ish. Cakes are similar price.

DD disappears and I get some peace to read or chat for a couple of hours with no interruptions :)

Once on MN a whole 1000 post long thread went on because someone called their chinese food "having a chinky." They didn't mean it offensively and soon learnt the error of their ways. Unfortunatly "white trash" does go unnoticed because it's "white."

MrsMacFarlane, (I cannot believe you don't realise how offensive your language was) please think about what you are writing and its impact on other posters.

It is not being 'self righteous' or 'sanctimonious' to protest about your use of 'white trash'. This phrase, along with others of the same ilk are loaded terms that are used to deride sections of our society in an ignorant simplistic manner.

If you feel you can generalise like this about part of your community then it is presumptuous to say the least.

Against my better judgement I'm going to respond to your hectoring, pious post.

The soft play I was hosting my son's 8th birthday party at was jam packed full. A child aged about 11 was punching, kicking and verbally abusing members of my son's party. I approached her Mother, Father and Sister who were sitting at a table ignoring their feral daughter's behaviour. I advised them that I found her behaviour unacceptable and was told to "fuck off". Here's the thing. They were WHITE, they behaved like low lifes and in conclusion they were TRASH. Got it now?

Oh, and the management agreed with me. They were swiftly escorted off the premises. I spoke to the manager who said they'd seen her on the CCTV and that as they took the names and addresses of all patrons, they would ensure that they would not be welcomed back.

MrsMacFarlane - oh dear

ChocolateCake...oh dear, oh dear. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!!??!?? Go and have a lie down and take your Helen Lovejoy impersonation elsewhere.

So you had a horrible incident with a horrible family, I am sorry that happened but it is an enormous leap from judging that family to judging an entire section of society no? We all know what you are talking about when you say 'white trash', it is a common phrase, used in a hideously derogatory way, for poor white people.

So if they were black in skin colour would you have come on and refered to them as "low life black trash?"

Thing is, I bet you think we're all too politically correct too

Low life black trash isn't common phraseology which you know only too well. You're being completely disingenuous now. Give it up, you're rubbish at it.

It's kind of like me having a row with the Asian man next door then going on to insult a whole section of the Asian society from this one mans behaviour. It's not on.