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AIBU?

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AIBU to think it's low class to do this let alone agaisnt the law

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99pokerface · 07/04/2015 17:14

Took little poker face to the park today and their was a family guess possibly a group of friends one bloke and about 3 women with a fair few children

My daughter was playing with her ball and one of their boys fell over scrapped his knee very badly I called over no response so I asked the joy his mums name so called that no response called over again she strolled over as she approached it turns out they were smoking weed just like that openly in the part some of the others eventaly came over and the guy and a joint

Tbh if people want to do that in their own home with their kids in beds then what ever to to sit and smoke openly in a children park is just whilest you with your own children any who I ask another mum to run into the coumminty centre across the road for their first aid kid they just stood their IT was really nasty they then say back on the grass and re lit wtf I just left because I was well pissed off

They didn't even try to help nor take him home just went back to smoke very low class in my view

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MNpostingbot · 07/04/2015 17:20

It's not very upstanding social behaviour, granted.

Not sure where "low class" comes into it. Hate to be the grammar police, but not sure that someone who uses the phrase "wtf I was well pisses off" is in a position to be judging anyone's class, if indeed anyone is.

duckbilled · 07/04/2015 17:20

I would have taken the Lad over to his mum, left the park and called 101. Disgusting behaviour for a childrens park!

Newrule · 07/04/2015 17:22

Wow. Very incoherent. Not sure where low class comes in.

AnxiousWreck · 07/04/2015 17:23

It's poor parenting, and poor behaviour, especially in a children's park.

It's not "lower class", though. The lower class don't all smoke weed in children's parks, if they did, it would be uneventful and you wouldn't have been shocked. Infact, you'd have accepted and expected it.

And I'd second MNPostingbot that if you are going to drag class into it, you probably want to ensure that your post is perfectly written and doesn't contain gems such as "WTF I was well pissed off".

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99pokerface · 07/04/2015 17:25

It's not very upstanding social behaviour, granted.

Sorry but I think not being able to apply grammar is a diffrent kettle of fish to smoking drugs in a childrens park with your own children

DUCK as I drove home just got madder and madder tbh I don't think I would of noticed if they hadn't come close because of the lad they were sitting up by the swings

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SaucyJack · 07/04/2015 17:25

Most of the weed smokers I know are from naice MC hippy backgrounds.

Us commoners drink cider in beer gardens with our kids instead.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 07/04/2015 17:26

Did you inhale the spliff?

WorraLiberty · 07/04/2015 17:28

Nothing to do with class at all

Everything to do with bad parenting

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99pokerface · 07/04/2015 17:32

I can't belive people would be so brazen to smoke out in the open like that I have come across one or two single guys at a bus stop at my time smoking or caught a wiff of it when a group of lads walked pass but at a childrens play ground that was brimming with children plus your with your own children not on

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StillStayingClassySanDiego · 07/04/2015 17:33

Of course it's not on, poor lad!

BolshierAyraStark · 07/04/2015 17:35

How it has anything to do with class is beyond me...

It is, however, bad parenting.

ilovesooty · 07/04/2015 17:35

Class isn't relevant. It's antisocial behaviour and raises questions about their parenting and their ability to safeguard their children.

So are you going to do anything about it other than froth on here?

YouMakeMyHeartSmile · 07/04/2015 17:38

It's awful behaviour and extremely poor parenting. Nothing to do with class though.

AdeleDazeem · 07/04/2015 17:41

Don't know about low-class OP, I don't think weed is automatically considered a 'low class' or 'poor' activity (it would surely rack up a bit of a bill, wouldn't it?) but the incident you describe it definitely 'no
class'.

VexiLexi303 · 07/04/2015 18:47

Hmm, your post gives of a certain air about it. Do you consider smoking weed a 'low class' habit or do you genuinly not think anyone bar low life's and criminals can smoke it?

YANBU to think this kind of antisocial behaviour is completely unacceptable at a children's park and such.

But YABU to bring something like class into this. Bad parents,bad behaviour and bad people in general come from all walks of life.

MNpostingbot · 08/04/2015 13:04

Like I said, it's bad parenting, but smoking weed in public with your children has nothing to do with class.

I'd see that behaviour and think, not good parenting, but make no judgement on class.

I read your post, I think good parent, but probably "low class" based on how you articulate yourself, or not as appears to be the case.

funnyossity · 08/04/2015 13:08

MNpostingbow, why be the grammar police if you hate to be so?

OP YANBU.

MNpostingbot · 08/04/2015 13:13

Because I do dislike the grammar police correcting their there they're etc, that's often a typo / muscle memory from typing.

I'm afraid I have to put the grammar police light on my car when someone who writes like Vicky pollard is wearing the 'class' judging pants

BeggingYourPardon · 08/04/2015 13:23

Shit parenting. They could have been on the park swigging from a bottle of Bollinger from gold plated glasses, pinky fingers raised, adorned in hats worthy of York Races. If they ignore a distressed and hurt child my judgey big girl pants are pulled so high I can taste them.

gymboywalton · 08/04/2015 13:30

i don't think the op means class in terms of middle class/working class.

i think she means it as in;ihgh quality, integrity, status, or style:

like you would say that something was classy if it was very stylish or elegant. I had dinner at a classy restaurant.

someone can be aristocratic and still behave in a manner lacking class.

NanaNina · 08/04/2015 13:31

Totally agree MNpostingbot - my hackles were up as soon as I read "low class" - haven't heard such an expression for a long time. It's very judgemental - also hate to hear people being called "chavs" - but bad parenting as described in the OP - yes.

fluffymouse · 08/04/2015 13:35

People are being a bit harsh on the op re her grammar.

I understand what you are trying to say op, and I agree it is very poor behaviour.

Smoking anything in a children's play area is poor form, let alone a parent smoking weed.

I agree to call police on 101, as this sounds like a child protection issue.

funnyossity · 08/04/2015 13:40

low class is used in the US quite a lot more and doesn't necessarily have connotations of working class to me.

What you are doing is not grammar policing then MN, it's vickypollarding! Not classy on your part!

geekymommy · 08/04/2015 13:46

Using a dialect that is associated with lower class people isn't nearly as bad as smoking (anything) in a children's park. I'd say that's true whether the substance in question is legal or not. It's just rude to expose other people's kids to your smoking without asking first, and you can't ask everyone in a park whether they're OK with their kids being exposed to smoke.

I have never used marijuana (I'm allergic to it, in fact), so I really don't know- would smoking one joint be likely to significantly impair one's ability to parent? Is it more like drinking one glass of wine, or more like drinking a whole bottle, in terms of impairment?

kissmethere · 08/04/2015 15:54

I'd love to know where this is, I live in a well known to be posh part of London and I see weed smokers around a lot and on the edge of the kids playgrounds.
Yes obviously they're under the influence too much to have helped the child. I think the drinkers with their beers are worse. Wouldn't put them in a class so to speak though.

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