To think this is rather petty.

[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

I took my D.D and nephew out the other day and we had a game of crazy golf. My nephew is 21 months old. Anyway we were behind this family. Now keep in mind my D.N is 21 months old a baby doesn't know any different or about patience ect which no-one would expect him to.
Anyway to get straight to the point D.N hit the golf ball and this grown man turned around and went (to a baby keep in mind). It's my turn first. I looked at him like he had 10 heads and said. "He's a baby". He just gave me a look and carried on playing.

He was not running around the golf course. He was stood in front of me. He hit the ball ffs. A grown man snapped at him. Which I did not like and I'm sure none of you would either (excluding those who have not jumped down my throat). If I shouldn't have been there then the women who works there should have said he is too young.
Oh and we were at the park.
Glad yours are all angels

Ilive Settle down and have a think about what folk have said, five pages in and the majority have said that you could perhaps have handled things a little better. Think about it.

Nobody said their kids are angels. Just that we don't let them run free 'because they are a baby'
Not everybody is tolerant of this, and they don't have to be.

Did he really "snap"? Really?

And how did he hit the ball? With his club? Foot?
There is usually a space well marked around the hole area. Were you inside that area?

I think you missed most people's points that our children are NOT angels, and that's why we supervise them and apologise for them.

And I don't have to be tolerant to a man who said like a 5 year old tbh. "It's my turn first"

Or rather snapped not said.

I don't quite understand what actually took place. OP please describe it a bit more. It was the family in front of you's turn and your wee nephew hit his ball first? Their ball?
If my toddler queue jumped I would call him back and say 'no no...you have to wait your turn' and keep him with me until then. If he was with your group and went first, that means you all have to go ahead of the other family, as you wouldn't allow him to go off on his own.
So yabu.

But it was his turn...

And I don't have to be tolerant to a man who said like a 5 year old tbh. "It's my turn first"

LOL

AIBU?
yes
no I am not

what is the point of asking?

Apparently now it's not allowed to talk to other children's people's children, particularly if we are not all smiles.

Op why did you come on here and ask aibu when you clearly have no interest in anyone else's view and in actual fact aren't reading replies properly, just stamping your feet like a petulant child?

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There was a family infront of us.
My nephew hit his golf ball before the man did, so yes he snapped.
The man had told him off. I wasn't about to. He hit a golf ball before it was a grown mans turn. He hardly committed a crime. It does not make him the worse child in the world.

OP this is what I imagine the guy was thinking "what a bloody nuisance, just our luck to have the McEntitles behind us ... why doesn't she keep that kid out of the way ....should I say something ... maybe not ... if she 's dim enough to not keep him under control she's probably dim enough to cause a scene ... maybe if I tried to explain to the toddler, rather than her.. after all, I haven't actually heard her explain to him about taking turns ... there's a chance, anyway ...here goes ..."
He's probably been through all the sheer hard work of bringing up a family himself ... at a time when people were expected to keep their kids under control.

Try to put yourself in Gilligan's place.

How old are You op? You do not sound old enough to be responsible for looking after 2 children on a day out.

Surely you can see by the response you have got here that it was YOU in the wrong, not the man and not the child.

You're never too young to learn how to take turns IMO.

You didn't say he snapped in your OP.

And I'm afraid you're in a rather circular argument with yourself ie he's too young to know how to behave at crazy golf...but he's old enough to play crazy golf...but he's too young to know how to behave at crazy golf...but he's old enough to play crazy golf...

And nobody is saying he's the worst child in the world. Or that their kids are pefect so stop saying that - you're just sounding petulant!

It does not make him the worse child in the world.

Not at all.

But your reaction makes you an unreasonable carer.

Maybe the man in question was worried about your nephew getting hit by a ball or even a club? It can happen surprisingly easily when little ones are let run around.

No, he didn't commit a crime, but nor was he punished.
Sometimes when you go out in public then people will speak. That's part of life, you just have to get used to it. As the poor kid lives with a pair of lunatics who would go nuclear if a stranger pointed out that it was their turn when it was, indeed, their turn then he is likely to encounter worse in his young life.

So if some snapped at your child or D.N. You would not be peeved.

Well...I don't think the man treated him like he had committed a crime, I think he said "It's my turn first" because it was his turn first.
That's how we tend to conduct things...via a first come first served queuing system.
I doubt he intended any offence to be honest...he just wasn't all smiles.
He was letting you know that he wasn't for letting your group jump the queue.

Forget it - it's no biggy.