Ds, fund raising and the yummy mummy

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Ok so this is an AIBU on behalf of DS.

He is a third year student in central London. He is fund raising for Breast a Cancer Now. Yesterday he was at a central London tube station with a fund raising bucket, dressed in a charity t shirt, and underneath the t shirt and pink feather boa he was wearing a denim shirt and chinos.

Over the course of the two hours he raised over £200. I'm pleased, he is pleased and the charity is pleased. So why did the yummy mummy abuse him with foul language and end with telling him to get a job?

He is genuinely asking the question given no one else at all was quite so rude. He isnt bothered by the langauge, he isnt a precious snowflake, he genuinely would like suggestions as to why she might have been so rude. He fund raises regularly and has never been abused like this. Thanks in advance.

This morning my dog tried eat a plastic bag. Does anyone here know why?

Don't laugh Hecate.
This could be the day I get all the answers!

Does he often tell you things that upset him? He does sound snowflakish

Some people are cunts.
She was having a bad day.
She didn't like his outfit.
She was in a hurry, and a cunt.
She'd had a previous bad experience with a chugger.
The particular charity raised emotions for her, and she lashed out a bit.

And so on.

There are a lot of street collecting "charities" that opperate like MLMs and a lot of their reps are cretins

Your son is BU though to ask why "yummy mummie"s can be rude. They can be rude because they're PEOPLE. Women and mothers and even attractive ones are allowed to demonstrate the same range of personalities as everyone else! FFS

It wasn't just the Hyde Park ones that were loud and annoying. I told one to fuck off yesterday. Walking past idiot bellowed in my ear, I declined and was nice about it. He jogged at the side of me, just a couple of pence he said shaking his bucket. He managed to jump in front of me blocking my way shaking his bucket, so I told him to fuck off.
So of the idiots also have whistles, which they were loudly blowing.

I used to shake a bucket for a few charities (without my mum going on MN to say how great I am) and there's all kinds of wankers. Which he would know if he did it more than once. If he only got one in two hours, he's doing pretty well.

And I find the pink feather boas/cupcakes/fairy wings for cancer really irritating.

Some of them also literally step right in front of you!

Many of the sub contracted companies that manage charity collecters pass on very little to the actual charity

Some charity collectors imply that if you care you'ld give money, when I bet that they've never themselves "got their hands dirty" to help anyone in a less glorified/glamourous way

Lots of them can fuck off in my book

Did she really say that out of the blue? How did he interact with her before she said that?

I'm pleased, he is pleased and the charity is pleased. So why did the yummy mummy abuse him with foul language and end with telling him to get a job?

How did the woman know he raised £200? And what does your DS wearing chinos have to do with anything? Is he a yummy boy?

And what does your DS wearing chinos have to do with anything? Is he a yummy boy? obviously the OP thinks it demonstrates that he wasn't like one of those dirty unemployed types who can't dress themselves

It also could depend on what colour his chinos were. I think we need more information OP.

Maybe she's a cancer survivor who hates being reduced to a fucking pink tshirt.

And how did you know he was wearing chinos? Why did he tell you that? Do you tell your mum what trousers your wearing when you call her at the end of the day?

Ratonastick

Op I have gone through the treatment for Breast Cancer and have lost friends to it. I am afraid that the pink brand does not go down well with most people who have had to cope with the realities of breast Cancer. It is all just candy floss that trivialises what is in fact a brutal disease. I have no idea if this woman was trying to make that point, or if she was a yummy mummy . However i would say that a bunch of young men and women loudly partying at the tube station entrance in pink tutus and boas would be at the extreme end of my tolerance. I have just once tackled some, who were loudly partying in my High Street in tutus, feather boas and in the girls' cases just their bras. I wasn't rude but I did just ask them to think about what exactly their conduct and dress (the girls had only bras on) had to do with the reality of Breast Cancer, not least the disfigurement. The sight of every celebrity with a pulse getting their tits out for Breast Cancer Awareness week is similarly tactless.

It actually recognised by both the charities (who face the dilemma of it alienating the very women they are helping but then again being such an effective way to make money, by airbrushing out the fear and horror) and medical profession. Perhaps your son should read this for some insight medhum.med.nyu.edu/view/12824

Is this the same poster who was offended that someone asked her if she had funded preschool hours, because you could see from her buggy that she wasn't that type!

Some people are mean.

Sometime ago I was in London sightseeing with a friend (a visitor from abroad). He was so fascinated by the dudes dressed in women's clothes fund raising that he donated just so he could take a picture with them :D

Your son is awesome, she was a cow. Some people just are...

But... surely this thread is bullshit and we are all biting?
Using 'precious snowflake' and 'yummy mummy' in the same OP screams GF to me...

But... surely this thread is bullshit and we are all biting? Shhhh it's still fun if we all pretend it's real.

Which, by the way, is my new attitude to trolls. Fuck 'em. We know it's bullshit but why not just go with it?

She's posted here for traffic from all the yummy mummies........

hot

So, are we all yummy mummies? Well, maybe we should just embrace the label? ;)

(although, I admittedly have to google what a yummy mummy is... oops )

Of course we're not.

Some if us aren't even parents after all.

Still, try telling that to the journos.

I'm just trying to imagine the conversation

DS: "Mum, why did the nasty lady abuse me, when no-one else was quite so rude?"

OP: "I don't know love. Shall I ask some random people on Mumsnet for you?"

DS: "Oh yes please. They're bound to know".

Sounds fun!

Worra!

Maybe she had PMS?

Maybe she had just lost her job?

Maybe she had terminal cancer?

Who knows!! YABU to ask on here. As you've probably gathered by now....