another playground one.

[candygirl78]

I was abit stressed anyway so i was probably edgy. Killing time waiting to pick up dh from hospital.
I had taken my dc to a park to kill time. It was busy and dd wanted to go on a swing.
Two children were on the swing . They were obviously together. Either friends or siblings etc. We only had about 20 minutes so the wait seemed longer.
They were swinging but stopped to eat some sweets. I didn't say anything but was abit cross.
Eventually one got off so dd got on. Other child than wouldn't put, sweet wrappers in the bin. Mum told her to do it but not to worry as she would save the swing for her.
Aibu to think this was incredibly selfish.

I admire the mum who is teaching her DC not to drop litter and making sure she goes to the trouble to put the sweet wrapper in the bin herself.

In this case if there was a queue for the swings and DC had only been on it a minute or so, I would have taken the wrapper and put it in the bin for her. On the otherhand, sucking a sweet while swinging can hold the risk of a child choking on it.

Agree impressed with the litter bit but saving th swing seemed mean when there were onlt two of them. Plus both children weren't actually swinging whilst eating the sweets. They were just sat on the swings and had been on them for a good five minutes.

Sitting and not swinging is not on. The swings are for swinging not hogging them to just sit on like a chair. I think there should be a sign saying so . Once they stop swinging they get off and give others a go.
If the mother saved her swing just so she could sit on it and not swing while others were waiting, then she WBU.