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Original poster

aibu to wish parents wouldn't cough up and spit out phlegm in the school playground??

45 replies

Flumplet · 15/12/2015 09:01

I saw a mother do this at my son's school just now. I picked her up on it and she just sort of laughed and shook her head. Am I being unreasonable to expect a grown adult to spit in to a tissue if they need to spit in this circumstance?

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catfordbetty · 15/12/2015 09:02

YANBU but perhaps you are a fighter of lost causes.

SoftBlocks · 15/12/2015 09:04

YANBU so disgusting.

originalmavis · 15/12/2015 09:04

Bleugh. That is nasty. Snorting out snot is also boakworthy.

DickDewy · 15/12/2015 09:07

OMG! That is so disgusting!

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Flumplet · 15/12/2015 09:07

It seems like it. I think I need to wind my neck in - this isn't the sort of area where one can feel free to demonstrate any sort of moral compass without fear of repercussion. I see at least one thing at the school gates every day that enrages me, perhaps actually I am being unreasonable expecting other people to have the same standards as me. But as the mother of a 4 year old who I KNOW rolls around on that playground, seeing that this morning pissed me off exponentially.

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MyrtleFox · 15/12/2015 09:08

Never seen parents do this. I don't have that skill, I'm unable to blast out phlegm at top speed so what happens to me is that I get sick a little bit, if I'm caught out without a tissue.

I suspect that in east europe it's not considered as disgusting as it is here.

Arkhamasylum · 15/12/2015 09:09

You're the least amount of unreasonable that anyone's ever been, I think. That's revolting.

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Flumplet · 15/12/2015 09:11

myrtlefox it was actually a Romanian lady, and I agree that in Eastern Europe it's not considered as disgusting but when in Rome and all that!! (oh god, am I going to get flamed for that??)

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Caboodle · 15/12/2015 09:13

Y are so NBU.

originalmavis · 15/12/2015 09:13

People are disgusting! At my sons dojo so many parents march across the mats with their shoes on. Not just disrespectful but yuk - thetr arr bare footed kids running about and rolling face down on these mats!

I have been known to say 'I suppose you never stand in dog poo and float above the pavements?'

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Flumplet · 15/12/2015 09:18

That's pretty grim mavis!!

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Chillyegg · 15/12/2015 09:23

Yanbu that's disgusting! Eurgh! Can you speak to someone at reception about it. That's really disgusting! I hate snot and spit though makes me sick.

KinkyAfro · 15/12/2015 09:24

I work in construction and am site based, it's disgusting when you have to side step massive oysters just to get into work. There's signs up everywhere but people still do it, and THAT noise they make when they do....that exactly makes me retch.

Dirty bastards

KinkyAfro · 15/12/2015 09:25

Random exactly in there for some reason Confused

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Flumplet · 15/12/2015 09:31

I might speak to reception but I feel like if I do that for every single thing i see that pisses me off at the school gates they will get pretty sick of me and I'll get a reputation for being a busy body!!

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NoahVale · 15/12/2015 09:32

i heard a cyclist do this yesterday, gross, I remarked on his grossness

NoahVale · 15/12/2015 09:33

i would like to see the letter that the head teacher has to send about the gobbing in the playground

MyrtleFox · 15/12/2015 09:40

Flumplet, I hope you're not flamed. In Asia it is disgusting to blow your nose whereas we would offer somebody a tissue.

I am in Ireland and the timing shocks me sometimes, not that Irish men are always paragons of decency in public but I can't fathom that they would choose the precise moment somebody is watching them to cough up phlegm. So if you're flamed, I'll hold your coat.

MyrtleFox · 15/12/2015 09:41

my point about Asia being different things disgust different cultures. somebody who's just turbo jetted phlegm on to the ground might look at me blowing my nose and feel put off their breakfast.

Scarletforya · 15/12/2015 09:44

She laughed Xmas Shock

Dirty, filthy animal. There's just no excuse.

WorraLiberty · 15/12/2015 09:47

I've said this before but a few years ago, the HT at my DC's old infant school saw a man cough up and spit out in the playground.

She marched into her office, then reappeared with a paper towel and told him to wipe it up! Xmas Grin

He looked totally embarrassed but he did it.

Aeroflotgirl · 15/12/2015 09:48

It is absolutely disgusting, and can carry diseases, YANBU at all, that is my bugbare. Yes I have had phlem when I am out and about, but I swallow it, if I don't have a tissue. Yuck Envy

WorraLiberty · 15/12/2015 09:48

MyrtleFox, you blowing your nose wouldn't put anyone else at risk of catching your germs, as long as you binned your tissue.

Gobbing out in public is utterly disgusting and especially where children play.

There is no excuse from it no matter where you come from.

Aeroflotgirl · 15/12/2015 09:50

Fantastic worraliberty, the same for people who wee or vomit on the floor during a night out, disgusting pigs.

ToothlessAndPointless · 15/12/2015 09:51