DD is 9 and is pretty obsessed with loom bands!
DP is 50 and pretty obsessed with rugby!
So far, so driving me crazy good!
One day DD asked if she could take her loom bands to the rugby club, so she had something to do. The kids have all been going to the club since they were tiny, so are pretty much free range!
It took quite some time for me to realise she had been selling her loom bands to the big hairy arsed rugby players. All fine, all fairly drunk good natured!
The next time we were at the club she did it. Again, fine! She told me after she waited till the men had had a drunk and were 'being silly', before selling them! My thoughts were that Alan Sugar would be proud!
We have come again and told her she can bring her loom bands and do them but not harrass people! Not really sure she was actually harassing people but just in case!
She had brought them, showed off over the £2 she made selling a couple! Then been rude to the steward/barman, saying 'See,I told you I could sell them' in a mocking tone of voice! She has been put in time out, loom bands surgically removed and locked in the car! She has also been made to apologise!
She thinks I am being unreasonable! What do you think?
AIBU?
To not let DD demand money with menaces?
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Athyrium, I think I love you!
Not just for your whole lovely reply but for describing me as a yummy mummy, for the first and most inappropriate time ever! It was muddy, it was wet and windy, I was cold and shivery and had no make up on. I am not even sure I brushed my hair this morning before scraping it up into a pony tail!
Clearly I am not out to impress when I go there. 
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I like the sound of your daughter op. She is pretty awesome. I just need to get her to adulthood without killing her!
She will be an amazing adult, who has a lot to give to the world! not just chuffing loom bands
She is so kind and caring, she has so much energy. She wants to be a paramedic. I think she could do it!
Is there another hobby she can get into. My brother was pretty much like your dd. He was quite possibly the most full on kid I have ever met. No one would watch him and he was at times a nightmare. So his school suggested getting him into calmer hobbies so he got into chess, science and magic. Really helped him, just make sure you DD can't sell it. She does remind me of my brother though. He is now 15 and while a lot better, he shows magic tricks in London for tips. He makes loads because in his words he goes for the obvious tourists
Is there a way she could work with the barman? I suppose glass collecting isn't ideal for a 9 year old
So not answering in a logical way! No, she could not. People are only given actual proper glasses if they are known to the barman and promise on their life they will return said glass to the bar themselves.
Other people are given plastic glasses, they have to put them in the bin!
I am a good girl, I always get a glass!
That's an excellent idea MrsT.
Also if she's crafty (as is good at making stuff - I'm sure she's the other meaning of the word at times too 
) could she make and sell greetings cards or the like? Perhaps to rugby club members?
I had a similar situation.
I was playing tennis at a club session and dd2 and ds (10yo and 6yo at the time) took their loom bands down. Many of the people playing were slightly older and hadn't come across loom bands before and were fascinated.
When I came off court, dd2 told me that they were planning on selling them in aid of "her" charity. I told her that she could give them away but if she wanted to sell them then she had to ask permission of the owner-just as a shop does or a street hawker. I said if they made enough then we could hire a stall at a Christmas fair (there's one place round her you can hire them for 5)
They had just as much fun going round and offering them and asking what colours they wanted.
The thing is that most of the people there are lovely and they would have seen two sweet little children and paid out, probably more than sensible just because they were asking. Dd2 could also sell a fire extinguisher to the devil, so a bit of an unfair sales pitch there.
I know I've been in the situation where a child has asked me to buy something they've made which I don't want, and I've felt under a lot of pressure to buy because you don't want to disappoint them. It's worse if you know the parents in some ways because you tend to assume that the parent knows and is happy with it and, in some cases will get afronted if you don't buy.
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She's on the barmans turf.
He's selling his loom bands there and she's taking over.
Derek
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