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SUPERBLY entitled parenting

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Bearlyknitted · 17/04/2016 18:22

We went to a classic car show today. The cars there, if you like that sort of thing, were a delight, and most are the utter pride and joy of their owners. The site was fully tarmaced, there was catering and a picnic area etc. Usually scooters aren't allowed. Or skateboards, or roller skates. But on the next table to us, was a dad, uncle and two wee boys, both on micro scooters. The dad let the boys weave in and out between the cars, and the owners looked like they might throw up.

A security guard was summoned, and he politely explained that scooters weren't allowed. But the dad argued and argued that he had checked with security on the gate, and his two boys WERE allowed. As he was arguing, they both crashed into the back of a mint Triumph Herald. All he had to do was to keep the kids away from the cars. There was MILES of space to play (it's held at an airfield so literally miles) but no, he carried on letting them whiz up and down in the narrow gaps between the parked cars. The owner of a convertible E type Jag drive it away in frustration, with the dad harrumphing that his boys had the "right" to play there. What a dick.

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SabineUndine · 17/04/2016 21:47

Actually I think the adult version of kids on scooters is blokes with Bromptons. I commute through a mainline station every day and they are THE worst menace, guys carrying them unfolded down the fucking escalators.

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percythepenguin · 17/04/2016 21:51

I watched a family queue to pay into Belfast Zoo recently with three children being allowed to ride their scooters around while they waited, I may have enjoyed it a little too much when they got to the front of the queue and the staff made them hand them over for safekeeping behind the desk!

SabineUndine · 17/04/2016 21:54

Maryz I want to know where you live, if they don't have Bromptons! They are a hipster thing for a particular kind of hipster twat.

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OneMagnumisneverenough · 17/04/2016 21:56

Dixie mine use them to go back and forth to Scouts etc in preference to bikes as there isn't really anywhere to lock bikes up and they can fold the scooters up and take them inside. Also handy when going to meet school friends as its a couple of miles to the train station and then about the same the other end and they can take them on the train with no hassle or pre booking.

They have these:
www.decathlon.co.uk/town-9-ef-adult-scooter-white-2015-id_8329371.html

TheFairyCaravan · 17/04/2016 21:56

We were in Cape Verde a couple of years ago and a couple of Norweigan kids spent almost all day, everyday, on Microscooters going round the pool, weaving in and out of the sun beds. Me and DH were agog and pissed off, you can't buy them in Cape Verde so the parents had brought them on an 8ish hour flight. Why would anyone do that?

SabineUndine · 17/04/2016 21:57

TheFairyCaravan because some parents seem to be incapable of saying 'no' to their precious snowflakes.

StillYummy · 17/04/2016 21:59

I would have gone bat shit if it was my car. Even if it was my company car I would have been peeved.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 17/04/2016 22:04

I'm completely Shock at parents being so entitled that they let their kids ride scooters in churches and libraries! Bloody hell.

I also had to google Brompton. Never heard of it. Or seen one.

ouryve · 17/04/2016 22:06

I'm surprised they all got out of there alive.

What an utter twat.

I can direct him to a good bus rally, next week. One where the buses go out on runs. With any luck, the scooters might get run over by a 10 tonne Volvo Olympian.

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 17/04/2016 22:08

Gaaaah scooters. The thing that gets me is around here, you see kids being towed on scooters. They have a special strap and everything, and the kid just stands there on the scooter while mummy or daddy hauls them around. Heaven forbid the special snowflake actually use their legs for something.

TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot · 17/04/2016 22:15

I remember going to a music session at the children's centre a few years ago and at the end in free play time a boy of about three started riding his scooter around the room, which was actually quite small and very crowded with lots of crawling babies. His mum didn't seem to notice he was doing it, but the staff stopped him quickly before anyone was hurt. I remembered thinking the mum probably let him take it there with him to make the walk up the hill to the centre easier for him, but she should have kept an eye on him to make sure he wasn't using it in the room. But then as I left I saw her putting the scooter into the boot of her car, so she must have brought it with her just so he could ride it in there, and she was a regular at that session she would have known how small and crowded the room was.

It's just so bizarre how some people either don't realise there are some circumstances where a child, however small, can be dangerous on a scooter, or seem to believe their child's desire to scoot trumps all other concerns.

SuperFlyHigh · 17/04/2016 22:33

Youarent Grin bet the rest of the stall holders car owners were gritting their teeth and resisting temptation to grab scooters and ram up dad's arse!

IAmNotAMindReader · 17/04/2016 22:34

I am willing to bet it wasn't too much longer before someone blew up at the tosser.

SuperFlyHigh · 17/04/2016 22:37

A few years ago I had the pleasure of working in Mayfair which was lovely yet every morning, lunchtime etc there would be rich Arabs with rich entitled Arab kids on scooters racing along Grosvenor Square on the paths and not caring whether they bumped (which they did once or twice into me).

I tried to mention it to rich Arab dad (or mum) but they looked blankly at me and walked straight on or pretended they couldn't understand me. No sorry and no telling kids off at all. The kids were equally rude and either poked their tongues out or pretended not to understand. Often tempted to buy a small yappy and bitey small dog and train it to run at heels of said scooter hooligans! That'd teach em! Grin

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LaraCroftInDisguise · 17/04/2016 22:40

Wow. Just... Wow. I'd be incensed if someone thought that their child's "right to play" trumped my right of property.

I have a 2000 VW Golf. My car is old, it was second hand and I know it's not the same to these cars on show, but I feel the same level of protection. I worked hard for my lovely little car.

Quook · 17/04/2016 22:50

There were two kids whizzing around on scooters in my local Waitrose earlier this week. Angry I presume trolly surfing is frowned on too Wink

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Nanny0gg · 17/04/2016 22:57

Around here they're all on those balance board thingys.

I'm waiting for someone to unbalance and fall under a car...

DixieNormas · 17/04/2016 23:28

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OneMagnumisneverenough · 17/04/2016 23:31

I'm waiting for someone to unbalance and fall under a car..

DH saw a jakey riding about on a stolen one with his hands in his pockets. He was just thinking that it probably wasn't wise when the guy hit the ground face first....thankfully he staggered to his feet and wandered off.