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To think this was the most embarrassing conversation ever and I can never show my face at school again.

161 replies

Pheobe1 · 02/09/2015 17:34

I was in Asda when my phone rang, the conversation went as follows.

Head teacher "Hello, is that Mrs Pheobe"

Me "yes"

HT "I have something to discuss. In all my years in teaching I have never had to have this conversation with a parent. I really don't know where to start"

Me Okaaay, what is the problem?

HT "I really don't know what to say"

Me "perhaps you should just say it"

HT "Well, I had a child come to my office today with an object that had been put in his bag by your ds".

Me "what was it"

HT "a very large sex toy"

Blush Blush Blush

I asked if ds had said where he got it from all the while praying mine was still in my bedside drawer
HT said that DS had said he got it from his younger DBro but in his opinion ds must have ordered it from the internet. I disagreed, ds is far too tight to spend his own money on such a thing plus I would have seen the parcel.

Came home checked bedside table DSs internet history, nothing suspicious. Checked his FB messages and found a conversation with a school friend saying he had a dildo that his little brother had found.

DS came home, we had the conversation Grin he was mortified and agreed he had been a prat.

He insisted he had taken it off his 10 year db after finding him playing with it in the garden Shock. I questioned younger ds about wether he had found anything unusual that elder ds had taken off him. Younger ds claimed to know nothing. Dragged elder ds back in and said your brother doesn't know what your talking about.

Elder ds says "you know, remember the blue snake". Oh yes the blue snake says younger ds," I didn't find it, Dsis did at the park and she gave it to me".

Drag 8 year old DD in and explain that she shouldn't pick up things when she doesn't know what they are. "But I did know mummy it was a super soft squidgy snake thing".

FFS, I need to bleach all of my dc and send the younger two to a differant school don't I.

I can never show my face in that school again.

OP posts:
ToTheGups · 02/09/2015 22:32

Love the quiz 12/15 here and no dog....

NobodyLivesHere · 02/09/2015 22:38

well, this makes me feel better about the time an estate agent and visiting couple went into my bedroom, closed the door to look behind it and found a whip hanging there. that wasn't even mine. but of course they were never going to believe that..

MissEeerie · 03/09/2015 10:52

On the plus side, you will definitely become a local legend now.

Rainbowlou1 · 03/09/2015 10:55

I work in a school too and that story would crop up in the staff room ALL the time!Grin

Gileswithachainsaw · 03/09/2015 11:01
Grin

I think you need to change your name and leave the country

CurlyCustard · 03/09/2015 12:41

This is brilliant, trying to restrain myself from laughing as I have visitors and a nosey toddler who'll want to know what's so funny Grin

fabuLou · 03/09/2015 12:51

Ewwww and yes to bleaching and ha ha ha Grin

londonrach · 03/09/2015 12:53

What happened today op. Did you see the blue snake?

Pidapie · 03/09/2015 12:57

Haaaah! Oh poor you! :P haaah

BurningBridges · 03/09/2015 13:10

OP can't reply as she is busy getting house ready for estate agents. Well, she can't possibly stay there eh?!

Floggingmolly · 03/09/2015 13:15

All three of your children played with a large blue sex toy foraged from the local park (!) and you never saw a thing? How?
You need to start paying more attention, op.

MyrtleMoaning · 03/09/2015 15:15

4/10

Useless.

CaspoFungin · 03/09/2015 15:39

You have to ask to see it otherwise they are going to think you know what it looks like because it's yours!

Pheobe1 · 03/09/2015 16:00

The subject has been dealt with and closed. I would like to say it will never be mentioned again but having told a group of mums at the younger Dcs school this morning,I fear that won't be happening.
I've been called a troll on another thread, that's a first. Grin

OP posts:
MiscellaneousAssortment · 03/09/2015 16:47

13/15 - [proud] :)

I hope it was a dog toy, that's better than a random sex toy left behind in a park... Mind boggles!

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 03/09/2015 16:53

Another here that got 13/15 and has no dog.....

LovelyFriend · 03/09/2015 16:55

9/15

very funny thread.

Good call mentioning to other Mums - that 's the best way to deal with funny/odd stuff I reckon - get it out there, have a joint laugh. Invoke "there by the grace of god" principles of parenting and milk it.

You're just going to have to ride this one out OP

MrsReiver · 03/09/2015 16:58

I think the non-believers are just disappointed their kids haven't foraged them a free dildo.

I really want to know what the head teacher has done with it GrinGrin

Snowfilledsky · 03/09/2015 17:04

I think the non believers are realists, and i would have wanted to see whatever it was personally.

Pheobe1 · 03/09/2015 17:13

Would you really Snow?. It's bad enough my dc handled it. DC1 insists it was a dildo and the HT agrees. That's enough for me thanks. I have no need to see it.

LovelyFriend yes, after much thought I decided fronting it out was the only way forward. One of the mums has a DD in my DS year group. I didn't want her hearing about it and sniggering behind my backwondering if I knew or not.

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Snowfilledsky · 03/09/2015 17:17

Yes definitely Phoebe. If my child was in trouble at school for bringing something in I would want to see it for myself if I hadn't before. Not taking anyone's word for it that's for sure.
I would have gone into the school straight from Asda.

NoPaidWorkbutPlenty2Do · 03/09/2015 17:36

Given that this WILL be talk of the staff room for ever a long time, I think you should bake a cake each week for the staff so that they can have coffee/cake whilst on break. Then someone will ask, "Who baked the Cake?" Reply: "Mrs. Blue squishy snake dildo." Smiles and sniggers in staff room. Just think of the joy you will bring to the staff! Grin

Pheobe1 · 03/09/2015 17:41

Thing is DS held his hands up straight away and admitted he had brought it in as a joke. HT hasn't sanctioned him in any way. He told DS that the conversation he was going to have to have with me was, in his view, punishment enough.
I've discussed it with DS and he realises he was an idiot.
I can see the funny side of the whole saga so I don't think there was any reason to go into school.
And really I am definitely not brave enough to storm into school and demand to discuss the incident involving my child and a giant blue dildo. No way, Blush

OP posts:
mugglingalong · 03/09/2015 17:46

The only solution is clearly to forward the metro quiz to HT and see if he can identify it in a line up GrinGrinGrin .

Snowfilledsky · 03/09/2015 17:47

Well if you are happy with the outcome then that ok, I would have dealt with things differently.
Schools get things wrong, and so do children.