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....about the giant strawberry?!

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KentMum2008 · 04/05/2017 22:03

Total first world problem I know, and I'm defo more irritated by this than I should be, but...
I got some amazing strawbs from the market, seriously huge and really sweet. I put one in DS lunch box and it filled a whole compartment (one of those sistema lunch cube thingys)
DS comes out of school and says one of the lunchtime supervisors said to him 'what a mean mummy, only giving you one strawberry. You'll have to ask her for more tomorrow' I know the woman in question she's one of the mum's in DDs class so I jokingly said to her 'I hear you think I'm a bit of a meanie' in case DS was making it up.
I shit you not, she said to me 'well that's terribly mean only giving him one strawberry, that's not enough to fill a growing boy' She was deadly serious too.
For reference, the strawb in question is below. Pretty large, and accompanied by a sandwich, a chunk of cucumber, a babybel and a yoghurt. She would have been at his table from the beginning of lunch so she'll have seen what was in there to begin with. They do a cursory sweep for contraband at the beginning of lunch every day.
Was I BU to say to her 'you're not the lunchbox police Linda, save your concern for the kids with a sausage roll and a can of Coke'?
Because her face was Shock, you'd think I'd just slapped her....

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KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:06

Yeah sorry for the drip feed, the past wasn't necessarily relevant to the thread when I started it. I wasn't expecting such overwhelming support for the #fucklinda campaign if I'm honest...

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LunchBoxPolice · 05/05/2017 20:06

Nee naw nee naw

What's this then?

KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:08

But yes, I think a giant fruit campaign is a good idea. Rally MNetters, find the largest or tiniest fruit you can, and send it to the person who irritates you the most especially if her name is Linda

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KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:08
Shock

Shit. She's found me.

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KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:08

Lunchbox I'm actually crying. Real tears.

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Goingtobeawesome · 05/05/2017 20:10

Love the mini bagel Grin

LunchBoxPolice · 05/05/2017 20:13

Only giving him one wasn't berry nice. Had you provided 4 or 5 you wouldn't be in this jam. Don't blame it all on Linda - it takes 2 to mango.

KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:18

I'm sorry officer, I've been a berry mean mango. Don't report me to the stone fruit council....

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AwaywiththePixies27 · 05/05/2017 20:18

She also told me once how important it was for kids to have their dad around regardless of the circumstances

She sounds a peach. pardon the pun.

It really isn't. I've just had to spent 30 minutes with the Ex for the kids ans I was reaching for the wine 20 minutes in, and I never drink wine. Bless you mango that's awful what you went through. Flowers

KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:18

Incidentally, are you also the badge police? I've got a few issues I must discuss with you. Over a fruit tea perhaps?

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LunchBoxPolice · 05/05/2017 20:22

No no , to invoke the Badge Police you have to write your child's name on a label in biro, use a post-it note or do something equally offensive to the Badge Community.

BorisJohnsonsHair · 05/05/2017 20:23

You have to send a hard-boiled quail's egg. Just one. #FuckLinda

KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:23

She sounds a peach Grin

Ah don't be sorry, it's all done with and I have a lovely Mr Mango to be who is a total dream. It was mega shit at the time, but if I didn't go through that I wouldn't have the little mangoes Smile

I'm feeling a bit bad about venting my feeling about Linda so much. Maybe I'll get her a little something to say sorry for the relentless bitchfest I've unleashed. Maybe I'll get her a bottle of strawberry wine misses the idea of remorse entirely

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AHobbyaweek · 05/05/2017 20:23

Just fill his entire lunch box with strawberries. With a note "is this enough".

KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:25

Oh. Ummm I write on all school uniform labels in biro, use post it notes as a method of communication/property identifier and I have been known to sellotape bits of paper with the dcs names on to their lunchboxes when I've lost my sharpie. Is the latter a lunchbox violation or badge violation?

Holy cow, all the polices are coming for me.

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spiderlight · 05/05/2017 20:48

Send him in with this on Monday!

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KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:52

Ooh spider I might make a giant strawberry and attach it to the back of our car Monday morning.

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KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 20:53

To go with my strawberry hat and strawberry lanyard this is becoming obsessive

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BerylStreep · 05/05/2017 20:58

That was horrible the way she wouldn't include you at the PTA quiz.

Maybe she doesn't like gooseberries?

KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 21:02

Maybe she doesn't like gooseberries?

You calling me a gooseberry Beryl? Don't make me send you some tiny fruit...

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BerylStreep · 05/05/2017 21:15

I think Linda was casting nasturtiums that you were a gooseberry.

BerylStreep · 05/05/2017 21:16

Basically she was saying that unless you came as a pear you weren't welcome.

KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 21:18

She must have felt like a right lemon when our team beat hers

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MrsChopper · 05/05/2017 21:20

Send him to school with a micro-salad. Gamechanger!

KentMum2008 · 05/05/2017 21:25

What's a micro salad please?

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