to think that this is f*cking rude!

[Cuppachaplz]

Or am I just bring hormonal and over-emotional.

DS (13m) is currently in hospital and gas been gif a couple of weeks now. There is a small parent kitchen in the ward, which parents are expected to clean up after themselves. Every single time I have been in there since admission, I gave washed up a sink of stuff. Ok, my choice, and it fills done time/needs going etc.
I was washing bits earlier whilst waiting for s bottle to warm. A Roman came in, listen one of my arms out if the dunk, dropped her 2 filthy (and not scraped) plates in, and walked off.

Tell me honestly, am I exhausted, emotional, and hormonal (also 32w pg) and massively over-reacting? Or is this just unbelievably fucking rude! If I was a more confident person, I would have chinned her

You were very restrained OP. Sorry you have this on top of having your little one in hospital. Mistaking you for the washer upper is one thing but to kift your arm out of the sink beggars believe!

Hope your ds gets better soon.

It happens in our place (children's cancer ward), staff have to remind parents to clean up after themselves and not to wander off with stuff etc etc as it was donated by a kind family. I think we've lost a couple of games consoles.

We currently have a 4 foot Darth Vader near the front desk wearing rubber gloves, he was on the ward but I think he was making the night staff nervous. To be fair with the lights dimmed it would look like a child sized shadowy figure pointing an arm of doom at you.

Hopefully this mental image will amuse you.

Not as rude as the idiots on this thread pretending not to understand your autocorrects but, yes, rude.

Just so incredibly, response-defyingly rude. It's jaw droppingly bad manners. I hardly know what to make of it. How did she make sense of how rude she was? I'm baffled.

But chinning is certainly the right answer should the situation arise again.

We get all sorts of things stolen. DVDs, the TVs, even the thermometers.

I shouldn't laugh but what with the Roman references and autocorrect, it's beginning to sound like a Monty Python sketch where he has to rewrite his sentence 100x because of bad grammar.

I hope you're all well and out of hospital soon. Perhaps the woman thought you worked there or maybe she was just a cheeky bitch!

I'm at Roman, but yes, incredibly rude.

When I had a stay in hospital with DD - there was a patient with a 'problem' family.

Me and my mum were sitting chatting in the parents room, and 2 women from this family came in, sat between us, and then joined in and monopolised the conversation we were having. Which was quite funny. Told me my DD's problem was reflux (it wasn't).

Then the next day there was a fight on the ward, because other members of this feuding family turned up, and the police had to be called. I had to phone my dh, because they weren't admitting anyone onto the ward - there was a policeman on the door - I had to go and escort him up.

It was quite frightening. The nurse also told me they'd had 3 (donated) playstations nicked in the last year from the patients playroom. Bloody disgusting what some people will do.

You should have grabbed the end of her toga so it fell off!

Seriously though, you should have said something. If she didn't even ask or speak to you that's shocking. Speak to the nurses about reiterating the policy to other parents maybe.

This is why I hate hospitals. Other people suck. I hope DD is feeling better soon. Things like this can just be the final straw in your position. It's awful people are so thoughtless.

Better yet, press ganged her toga for the drying up! I hear they're very absorbent.

I think you are massively under -reacting. I'd be and would have said something then chinned her

Hope your DS gets better soon.

I genuinely didn't understand the autocorrects outputgap so I can see that other posters didn't either

Cuppa - very rude. You sound knackered, upset and at the end of your tether. I hope that ds health improves and that you are home soon

Sorry output, I meant WhoaCadburys.

Sorry to hear DS is unwell. I remember being in hospital with DS3 when I was pregnant about 28 w and slept on a bean bag while he went for his op. They didn't want me to stay overnight but I insisted and eventually they found me abed. You weren't allowed to stay on the ward and they looked surprised when I appeared at 5am. He had been crying for me in the night and was very distressed for the next few weeks.
Unfortunately you meet rude parents and sometimes staff in children's wards.Perhaps if you see her again you could ask if she would like to return the favour!
I hope he is better soon and you can get home and sleep in your own bed.

That's horrendous,it's funny how immobilised we feel when people are so rude. But sometimes I think in those situations it's best to keep calm and pretend to assume that the rude person has completely misunderstood. I'd like to think that I'd have told her that "actually I'm also a tired and concerned relative, not the cleaner, I'll leave your stuff for you to clear up" big smile. I'm sorry about your child hope all goes well. As an aside maybe ask the staff to put a notice up re responsibility for own washing up.

noel