Is it wrong that we were disgusted by this?

[WayneRooneysHair]

I fully expect to be shot down in flames...

Myself and my wife were walking to the bus stop this morning, ahead of us down the street a mother and her young girl in a pushchair exited a house and walked in the same direction before disappearing round the corner. As we turned the corner we saw the girl standing at the bus stop with her mum, the girl was standing with her trousers and nappy down and was weeing all over the pavement. The mum clocked us and as the girl finished very hurriedly dressed the girl before putting her back in the pushchair and walking off.

I know that when a kid needs to go it's pretty urgent but this was a busy path was alongside a busy main road and they'd only left the house three minutes ago. My wife works in childcare and even she couldn't believe it, is this acceptable or should we have said something?

cashewnutty there are no holes, I'm not making this up.

Jesus I should have said squatting, happy? I'm guessing her mum didn't want her to wee in her nappy. Because that's where we were walking to and where the girl had done a wee, the bus stop.

sounds like toilet training, potty training, whatever you call it.

have you done that op?

Yes, YABU to be disgusted by a small child having a wee.

Well it's not ideal. When my kids have needed a wee desperately with no toilet nearby I have always tried to find a handy bush or tree to squat behind. But if none were available then I guess needs must. it's only a bit of wee.

What would you have said? When my boy was potty training I let him wee up a few trees, is this acceptable to you!

I'm sure you and your wife had a good bitch about it

I'm with cashewnutty

If she was wearing a nappy- why pull it down to wee? and why just stand there?

Maybe the mum didn't want her daughter sitting in a wet nappy on the bus journey but the story is weird..

We didn't bitch about it all but thanks for assuming.

How do you know it was the girl/mother's house they had left. Maybe they had left the of a friend/relative/acquantance? Maybe someon who currently has a blocked loo? Maybe someone they barely know and th elittle girl did not want to use a strangers loo.

Pull you neck in.

And get disgusted by things like child poverty, racism, sexism, genocide...you know...things that matter?

'scuse typos

Why couldn't the child just use the nappy, that's what it's there for? I appreciate she may have been potty training, but I don't think I would have encouraged da to yes pavement.

On the other hand I wouldn't have said anything or given any snotty looks. Or I might have smiled and said 'they pick their moments don't they' or similar in an effort to make the mum feel less embarrassed.

Used to happen to us. I usually managed to find a drain to hold dd over. Didn't stop people from passing comment as they walked by. At a push I'd have gone for the kerb in a side street. Once, just once someone had a real go at me about how disgusting it was. "she was going to pee anyway and whether I held her over the kerb or not, it would have gone anywhere, now it's better that it's missed her pants and dress actually otherwise she'd be sitting on the bus with pee wet clothes". Well I'd have liked to have said that but thought it. I think I actually said "what a shame you don't have children" he carried on ranting and I told him to go away and be quiet and he told me I was bad mother and shouldn't have a child.

But what would you have said to her?

Pull my neck in? How about you and others wind your necks in?

I'm being called a liar about something that happened this morning.

i fully expect to be shot down in flames

there you are then, put your flameproof suit on

Well it's not ideal but it's hardly the worst thing in the world.

Hues sing the mum was potty training - put a nappy on "just in case you" but the child had indicated she needed a wee in which casing telling them to go in their nappy is really unhelpful.

So out of interest, had the little girl not been allowed to use the pavement so had weed her pants & the wee was dripping out of her clothes & out of the pushchair, would you & your wife judged them even more?

NoahVale I'm got tough skin

Hmm. First of all, I don't understand how a small child can wee squatting without getting their clothes and feet wet.

Secondly, why do you assume you'll get flamed? Weeing in public isn't exactly a normal past time here. I'd think a majority if people will agree with you it's not very hygienic.

So that brings me to my final point. Were the mother and daughter from another country? Do you think you'll be flamed because people will think you're racist?

midnightvelvet01 no but I'd think 'why didn't she go three minutes ago in the house'.

Walking through a park at lunchtime one day, I came across a smartly dressed woman squatting in a flower bed having a wee. I had to step over her piss to continue on the path. Not that was a bit odd. But I guess she really had to go!

And yes you are being unreasonable to be disgusted by an infant child having a little wee wee in the street.

Far worse things happen in our streets. Dogs, cats, foxes, adult men on the way home from the pub, all of them do wee wee s in public places. I've even seen a condom on a street corner and a hyperdermic syringe in a park.

So, yes, tiny girl in the midst of potty training, having a little tiny girl wee wee in the street - YABVVU.

Op it's a bit rich to tell people to wind their necks in when you've asked for opinions!

Ha I'm sure every parent has had the following conversation at some point:

P - DC do you need a wee
DC - no
P - are you sure?
DC - Don't need one

5 minutes after leaving the house
DC - mummy I need a wee! I'm bursting! Mummy mummy its going to come out!

I wouldn't let mine wee on the pavement but a grass verge for dd. Or against a tree for the boys when potty training, I have had them wee down drain coverings at bus stops before. Meh needs be.

It is a bit gross, yes.

YWBU to if you had said anything though.