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?

Didn't a famous runner once have a poop mid race because she just had to .

Ooh and another one, is it really really disgusting to let a desperate child vomit in the gutter due to car sickness or would you rather they did it on the bus or in the car, etc..

I have no idea where that "to" came from in my last paragraph .

AuntOlive I'm a bit taken aback that people think I'm lying and that they are trying to poke holes that's all.

Jeez it's a bit of piss for fuck's sake! If the child had projectile pissed onto your shoes or if the piss was coloured green and igniting all the Geiger counters from there to North Korea then maybe but otherwise? Just move on. It's not a thing.

Personally I couldn't of cared less.

When DD1 was potty training I carried a potty everywhere as when she said she need to go, she needed to go, even in a busy street although usually I could whisk her into an alleyway or something, pee down drain potty cleaned out with an antibacterial wipe.

As it turned out DD1 has had issues with in continence and has a very weak bladder, I didn't know this being my PFB took her about 2 years to potty train bless her.

But what would you have said to her?

You've asked 'should we have said something '

What like?

Have a bit of sympathy for the poor mum. She's obviously potty training and the little girl suddenly said she needed a wee. It's not going to harm anyone. Be nicer.

Maybe the child had told her mother she needed a wee so they had knocked at the house of a relative/friend who wasn't in? The child was, then, absolutely bloody bursting so the mother allowed them to wee on the pavement. It's not great, but it's not the end of the world.

I can't see how a child young enough to be in a nappy is able to squat to wee without it getting all over their clothes and shoes, but there you go.

Id guess she was potty training. Its a massive pta and when they need to go- they really need to go. Then and there. You have to be on it right away.
Im in the middle of it now. Im one of the types that carries a potty around with me. Ive no idea of the etiquette or even if there is one
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The other day we were at a beach bar (on holiday) and Ds was due a wee. So I kept taking him out of the bar area onto the beach ( still quite close by) and encouraging him to sit on the potty. A guy sat at a nearby table kept loudly remarking about how disgusting it was- Ds didnt even do anything!

She didn't go in the house because she didn't tell her mother she needed to pee!

Is that not obvious to you??

She peed at the bus stop because her mother didn't want to miss her bus!?

'Disgusted'

I too, am disgusted at your disgusted-ness!

Seriously...........

My wife has just read this thread and she's asked me to add that they live at the house they were leaving as she has seen the mum taking the older children to school etc.

Pavements and streets are dirty. That is why some people recognize that taking their shoes off when they enter a house is a good and hygienic thing to do.

HTH.

Read my posts.

And people need to RTFT, they didn't get the bus.

Well tell your wife, who works in childcare, that she should have some more compassion and understanding for other parents and their children. You and she have no idea of the woman's circumstances this morning or the reason why the little girl needed to wee on the pavement. She could have been in her way to see a doctor with a UTI, FFS.

I have on occasion had to hold a potty training child over a gutter to do an emergency wee. Not ideal but sometimes it happens. I'd try and avoid letting them do it all over the pavement if possible though.

Well clearly OP you have never been drunk in your yoof & upon leaving the pub/club had to piss into an alley or on the pavement!

That's far more disgusting imo

Wind your neck in. If you knew the full story then want to judge fair enough but you don't know her reasons for doing it.

If it's not your thing fair enough but coming on here to express your disgust is just tasteless.

And you need to RTFT, YABU!

It's not ideal but if you've ever tried to potty train, you will know that when a child says they have to go straight away then it's an emergency and you do what you have to do.

3 minutes back to the house would be too long.

The whole family are probably insane and like to go weeing on pavements instead of on proper loos. Either that, or the kid refused to go at home and then of course needed to go the minute they left the house. I can't make my mind up which happened here.

"Well clearly OP you have never been drunk in your yoof & upon leaving the pub/club had to piss into an alley or on the pavement!"

Lol at this! I know I have. I was once violently sick into the gutter when the onset of morning sickness coincided exactly with the nightclub closing.

I like to think of it as my "transition vomit" poised between the disgustingness of yoof and the diagustingness of parenthood.

I'm clearly in the wrong haha! Ah well every day is a school day.

Well i guess you were right about getting shot down in flames!

Yanbu its a bit weird! However maybe child just did it and mother was mortified but obviously couldnt stop her or whatever