My friend who I'll call A has had a terrible couple of years culminating in her husband leaving her with 3 children aged 1, 5 and 7. Wihout going into too much detail there was domestic violence, alchoholism and gambling and he's left her in a terrible position. Shes had to take so much leave to deal with the problems she's been left with nothing left until mid May when her leave year starts. On top of that her mum died last year :(
With the Easter holidays coming up some of us were obviously worried about how she'd deal with the situation so we stood at the school gate with her and made a list agreeing which day(s) we could take her children through the Easter holidays if she would like us to. When she arrived we gave her the list and told her that she only had to phone the person on the list for that day any day she had a problem and we'd sort things out for her.
Another mum who to be fair we don't know that well and may not know hte circumstances over heard all of this and said loudly to her friend "clearly some people can't be bothered to look after their kids must be nice to off load it onto other people wonder if they'll look after ours too".
AIBU to think however little she knew about the circumstances she was utterly and completely tactless and she should ahve kept her mouth shut.