To not think iwbu to refuse to leave a PUBLIC park for this family??

[FireOnTheWater]

Christmas Day teens opened their xbox/phones and disappeared to their rooms leaving DP and I bored alone downstairs. We decided to go for a quick drive to the mier, take Christmassy pics of swans etc before dinner.

We got there about 10am. Planned to stay for a couple of hours. It was quiet, romantic and more Christmassy to me than sat at home watching tv.

10 minutes after we got there a family pulled up next to our car. The driver (dad?) got out and walked over to us. Rest of family stayed in car. He was lovely at first, said hello, asked if we were having a nice christmas and then told us there was another nice spot to photograph the birds further up the road . I said we were not intending to stay out long so we'd stay there but thanks all the same. Then he started saying about how his family had visited the mier on Christmas Day last year and they were the only ones there and his wife and kids were looking forward yo having the place to themselves again. I reminded him that it was a public park and we were not staying long anyway. Anyway to cut long story short, he then tried reasoning with DP, telling him I was being unreasonable and ruining his family's day out and that since they don't celebrate christmas it was "surely" not unreasonable to expect one day in the year that they could have the park to themselves!!! The most annoying bit about it was that DP started agreeing with him and made me out to be an awkward cow just for the sake of it.

As I say this was a few days ago now but I'm still so angry. Name change as mIL knows me screen name and this would be right up her street, me "straying" on Christmas Day ffs.

Totally gpbsmacked

I'd've told them to get to fuck and I would have said words to my dp.

Ywnbu. What a twat.
And yy they were definitely after dinner. No idea how they managed to pick up birds without a fight!

No ! No ! No !

This is AIBU , we shouldn't be agreeing , where's the name calling , the hair pulling , the stamping of feet and the clenched fists ?

hahahaha I'm from hornsea. what a lovely thing to doxmas day! other family wbu

I'm up for a Christmas outing to Hornsea next year. I'll bring the hounds too. What odd people.

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Or a muncipal provence in SA

I was hoping it was mier too. But no, mere for body of water

Fuck me, do people honestly behave like that? How fucking rude of them! Totally weird situation!

YANBU

I think I would have quite enjoyed this scenario TBH.

'You usually have it to yourselves? Well how lovely for you. We too had it to ourselves before you came along, but I'd never say anything because we both have as much right to be here as the other don't we'.

'You don't celebrate xmas? How do you know we do?' etc etc.

OR

'Sorry, I thought this park was open to the public-was I mistaken?

I wasn't? Ah good. I believe I am a member so I'll be staying right here, thanks!'

We stayed about an hour as DP was pissed off at me for 'causing a scene'. The only family just stood around in a grump, picking up the birds and stuff which was even more bizarre.

Live birds? How?! I'm with windchime. This isn't generally possible with wild birds and not always easy with tame ones!

YWNBU - I saw an RSPCA programme not long ago where the officer went to a house - people had reported seeing these people picking up ducks/ other birds in a park. The feathers were in the bin and the bird/s in a big pot - head and feet and all.

Yuk, I bet that's why they didn't want you there.

YANBU - ridiculous behaviour. Make a point of going next year and perhaps call the police if they are there again and showing signs of bird rustling. If they were picking up birds without a fight they may have fed them drugged food.

There's a park near me that has a few large ponds and lots of ducks / swans. You can buy duck food from the visitors centre and the ducks and swans know that visitors loitering near the water usually have food, so stand still for too long and you get mobbed.

So you can get very close indeed to those birds. Close enough to touch if you drop the bird food at your feet. I've never seen anyone try to pick them up though.

Perhaps they had previously dropped drugged food and were coming back to collect the sleepy birds to ship them to a wealthy eccentric who wanted to stick his own park with stolen birds

I would have stayed longer just to piss them off

jesus effing christ

Hang on, they were picking up the birds?! What, the swans? They can break your arms them buggers. Or were they random other breeds of birds? Was Mary poppins one of them?

Very rude of them, you have as much right to be in that park as them!

dh is the big let down imo, and mil needs to mind her own bloody business. i take it that as adults you are able to do what you want,

Arf at the previously drugged food
Was it Danny, Champion of the World and his dad op?
Is the vicar's wife pushing a suspiciously large perambulator through the village now?

Wonder were they dumping a body!?

I'll come with noisy toddler. That'll really piss them off.

ducks are easy to pick up for a cuddle but ywnbu the wee nut jobs!

wouldn't swan or wild-ish duck be a tad stringy & fishy? It's only about £7 for a duck from Aldi, can't see they'd be worth rustling...

£ 7 pound for DUCK at ALDI????

Try £7 pound for 3 ducks plus a bottle of prosecco at my Aldi.

If you suspect bird rustling then phone up your local council after the new year & tell them about your experience. They may decide to keep an extra eye out during quite times.

Oh pmsl at "suspiciously large perambulator"