To tell this woman on the bus....

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To place the recorder she has just given her approx 18month old while on the bus delicately up her bottom!!?

One of the major bus routes into Manchester at rush hour so bus is rather busy!! So I can't be the only one thinking that really can I??

Please don't flame me

She is letting her toddler play the recorder on a busy bus?

Ywnbu to club her to death with it, imho

YANBU!

Recorder sounds are awful even when you've gone to your own child's recorder performance, let alone someone else's toddler on a bus!

Sounds very reasonable to me.
Why would you give an 18 month old a recorder in any situation is beyond me.

Ask if you can have a go, before you shove it up her bottom obviously

She was showing her how to toot it!!!

I'll show her how to bloody toot it!!!

She's done what?? Is she trying to get lynched?

clubbing her to death is the only way to go, Yellow has it

What a nutter of a woman!

Surely you are all delighted by this wonderfully cute toddler destroying your eardrums playing her recorder.

I have never understood why people think that everyone else around them thinks their child is as adorable as they do.

I completely misread that OP and thought the woman was giving the recorder to her toddler having first removed it from her nether yaya...

I'll get me coat...

I was in a restaurant recently when someone gave their child a recorder to play. I was not happy.

I am not a major fan of parenting "out loud" in public places, this takes the !

I wonder if the mother has easy life syndrome .... Ie give the kids what they want to have easy life and prevent tantrum! I suspect child will be brat when older!!

I don't even like recorders when played well... Mum had a bunch of them (large old wooden ones etc) and just never liked the sound of them but love her wooden Irish whistles/flutes.

Smile indulgently at the toddler, ask her if you can have a look at her lovely little whistle and as soon as she hands it over throw it out of the window.

"Nether yaya" BBT by any chance?

I'd hate to listen to a recorder on a bus. Even played properly they sound awful and squeaky!

I noticed yesterday that the latest issue of Disney Princesses magazine, or whatever it's called has a recorder on the front as a free gift. How sadistic is that?!!
I usually buy the mag for DSD but I'm afraid she won't be getting this one unless I can subtly remove the freebie before she sees it.

yanbu a recorder is bad enough when it's your own dear child playing it

YANBU.

Use a hammer to make sure it stays put.

I would have been giving very hard stares. What an arsey thing to do on a bus.

YANBU. The sound of young children playing the recorfer is awful. And I say that as a music teacher! I am sure that the other passengers would be grateful for your intervention!

YANBU, I'd ram it up....

Fucking sideways!!!

yanbu

i once had to sit a few seats away from a lady on a train from reading to glasgow who gave her child a plastic gazoo.

I love kids, i love my own, children are wonderful sweet things......but any child with a recorder or a gazoo turns into a pain in the arse demon child that needs to have that toy chucked out the window regardless of tears imo

i would tell her to stick it where the sun don't shine - so as not to use rude words in front of her toddler!

you just know that child will be the one playing their music at full volume on their phone, for all to hear and enjoy, in years to come. In fact, the parents probably do this anyway!

I've just noticed in the newsagent that one of the children's comics, cbeebies type thing, had a recorder on the front, and I wondered who would be stupid enough to buy it.

Now we know.