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AIBU?

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To think this mum is thick and/or entitled?

51 replies

gimcrack · 14/05/2014 17:05

Watching DS1 when an older kid from his school starts escorting him across the park. DS2 and I go after him, to find the kid's mother has asked for DS1 as she wants to kick his football into a tree to knock down her son's ball.

She didn't like it when I stopped them and pointed out that it was quite likely that our football would also get stuck in the tree.

AIBU to think that taking advantage of a five-year-old is not ok? Particularly as he was likely to lose his own ball?

OP posts:

DrankSangriaInThePark · 15/05/2014 08:25

Is this the most exciting thing that has happened all year OP?

Have you thought of taking up a hobby?

DrankSangriaInThePark · 15/05/2014 08:27

Titus, I don't personally like the biscuit, but I believe it means: this thread really takes the biscuit, as in what in the name of all that is holy is the OP going on about.

That sort of thing.

Might also be a kind of calm-down-dear (said in slimy Michael Winner tones)

Though I think the offering of a sweetened round snack might well push this OP over the edge tbh. I think we need to exercise caution.

DrankSangriaInThePark · 15/05/2014 08:28

Oh! I didn't realise she'd biscuited herself.

Too funny.

EatShitDerek · 15/05/2014 08:32

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DowntonTrout · 15/05/2014 08:34

Biscuit means no comment or refusing to comment. It's from a MN q&A with an MP, can't remember who, who wouldn't answer what his favorite biscuits were, despite being asked numerous times. The question was beneath him, obviously.

Fideline987654321 · 15/05/2014 08:36

Were you not more that she was instructing her child to lead your 5 year old away across the park?

BernardlookImaprostituterobotf · 15/05/2014 08:39

Gordon Brown.

Which, I like to think, is why the biscuit is a jammy dodger.

Fideline987654321 · 15/05/2014 08:42

Ooo yes - a self-biscuit. I do believe that is unprecedented.

TantrumsAndBalloons · 15/05/2014 08:46

Entitled?

Do people not know what that word means anymore FFS?

And no, she wasnt thick either. One of the best ways to get a football out of a tall tree is to kick another ball at the tree to dislodge it.

I thought everyone knew that?

CountessVronsky · 15/05/2014 08:51

I wouldn't be remotely upset by any of these events.

kali110 · 15/05/2014 08:52

It's made me laugh. Thankyou

Ragwort · 15/05/2014 08:57

The attitude of some posters on mumsnet is almost beyond belief - another mum makes friendly conversation with your child in the park and you think she is entitled and 'thick' - what is wrong with people that we all seem to want to lead such individual self absorbed lives?

Charlieandlotta · 15/05/2014 09:01

"I don't think I've ever seen someone biscuit their own thread before..."

That made me lol.

OP, I agree that em listing your ds1's help was wrong of the woman. Apart from that you are overthinking this .

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 15/05/2014 09:09

I started reading this thinking the dodgy element would be the older lad leading your DS away but you were alert and his mum was there and the 'dislodge an object with another' is pretty tried and tested. Maybe as the saying goes 'you had to be there' to see the tree in question and the rest. No harm done eh.

gotnotimeforthat · 15/05/2014 09:14

Entitled means a person has the right to claim or do something. So quite the opposite from how it is used on here. It's kind of like me using the word dry to replace the word wet.

DrankSangriaInThePark · 15/05/2014 09:51

But but but, (to go back to the biscuit) I said that on another thread when someone asked about it, that it was Gordon (I was on that webchat) and everyone said that wasn't the reason.

It's clearly a jammy dodger. Which, as they are like eating bricks, could perhaps be used to dislodge said football?

DrankSangriaInThePark · 15/05/2014 09:51

Oh Jesus H Christ, donkey, don't give her ideas.

That was what I thought it was going to be as well. "peados (sic) in the park" Again.

EverythingCounts · 15/05/2014 09:57

I think it's the posters who have jumped on the OP here and/or demanded a detailed semantic analysis of 'entitled' who are overthinking it.

I'd agree this wasn't on from the other mum - you shouldn't call a child away to help you out with something without speaking to their parent first, and it's a bi cavalier to decide you're going to use another child's ball to try to get your own back. It might work but it also might get stuck too, and the 5 yo is unlikely to feel they can say no. However, I see the competitive laissez-faire (as someone called it) is being deployed on here again today...

BernardlookImaprostituterobotf · 15/05/2014 10:00

No you're right Drank. It was Gordon's webchat.

What did they say it was then? Because they're wrong.

DrankSangriaInThePark · 15/05/2014 10:05

They just said it was the original thing- you take the biscuit.

I suppose both are suitable in certain cases.....

InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream · 15/05/2014 11:05

You sound petty and overreacting. They were only trying to get a bloody ball down, not trying to involve your kid in nuclear testing!

DowntonTrout · 15/05/2014 11:07

The "you take the biscuit" has evolved from the Gordon web chat meaning, because it was such a long time ago. Lots of people weren't around then ( I wasn't) and so see the biscuit and think that's what it means. Which makes sense really.

The fact that it was originally "no comment" doesn't make sense unless the origin is explained to you. I think most people think it means the former ^^. I have never used the biscuit. I am saving it for something big!

CatsCantTwerk · 15/05/2014 11:12

A self biscuit! and again