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To have not removed DS from tea room?

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OtAndBothered · 19/06/2017 18:14

Went for day out to national trust abbey today with DH, DS1 (4) and DS2 (2). It's obviously very hot and DS2 was becoming cranky so we came out of the abbey and headed for a little tea room in the village. Sat down with cakes and drinks and DS became more agitated with the heat and started crying. I tried to pacify him but he became more and more upset so DH and I took it in turns to comfort him whilst also trying to each our lunch. It didn't help that the tea room was an old stone building so the cries were magnified and echoing.

Anyway an old couple stood up and started to leave having evidently not touched their lunch. The waiter said to them "are you leaving already? Is there a problem with the food?" So the old woman said "no but we came in here to relax and it's hardly a relaxing atmosphere unfortunately". The waiter replied "I'm so sorry about the noise" and shot us the most evil glare.

DH became agitated and embarrassed saying we should just leave but the alternative was to take DS outside where it was even hotter where he would have cried and screamed even more! I told DH we should just stay and finish our lunch and try and get DS to drink. Anyway eventually he started drifting off to sleep but then a loud noise woke him up with a start and he began screaming. At this point a younger woman slammed her cup down and snapped "for gods sake!". Her husband looked embarrassed and told her to "just leave it" to which she replied "I can't, the racket is giving me a headache! So much for peace and quiet!"

She shot me a look so I said "I'm sorry, he's obviously hot and bothered, it's not exactly relaxing for us either but it's even hotter outside so I'm not sure what you expect me to do?". She seemed to soften up and replied "no, I'm sorry, it's just that people come in here to relax and the noise is deafening, everyone is leaving for that's reason! Can't you take him for a walk or something?" Shock.

Anyway I said "no sorry, as I said it's hotter outside and my other child is still finishing his lunch". With that DH overheard the waiter apologising to customers coming in about the noise. Afterwards DH said I was selfish and we should have just left but I'm not sure what anyone expected me to do! It was 32 degrees outside, he was crying because he was hot! Taking him back outside would have made him much worse and there were people "relaxing" out there too so surely we'd have ended up in more bother?!

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CorbynsBumFlannel · 22/06/2017 22:15

If people stopped posting asking why people are still posting the thread wouldn't be showing in active conversations so much and people would stop posting on it. Just saying.
I personally couldn't care less if people post on it or not.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 22/06/2017 22:27

Contemplates running in, yelling, "You should have taken him out, you caaaah!" and running out again!

Thinks better of it.
WinkGrin

TheDogAteMyGoatskinVellum · 22/06/2017 22:28

That's erm, quite a username you have there corbynsbumflannel.

CorbynsBumFlannel · 22/06/2017 22:44

Why thank you Blush

Madeyemoodysmum · 22/06/2017 22:53

Pack lunch in future me thinks
What NT property has Harry Potter? I may have to go?

morningtoncrescent62 · 22/06/2017 22:53

Yours isn't half bad either TheDogAteMyGoatskinVellum (username that is).

WarriorsDance · 22/06/2017 23:01

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To have not removed DS from tea room?
becausebecausebecause · 23/06/2017 02:26

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BigYellowJumper · 23/06/2017 02:53

because

It's hardly only women who do that. Go on any male-heavy forum and it's exactly the same.

becausebecausebecause · 23/06/2017 03:10

Hmm, I seriously doubt a kid in a hot tea room registers on their radar...

BigYellowJumper · 23/06/2017 03:31

I suppose they're too busy talking about big important manly things like X Men or something.

becausebecausebecause · 23/06/2017 04:15

Jeez BigYellowJumper try as you might, you cannot possibly make this a male equivalence. Men just do not give a shit about the minutiae of domestic life. Sure, they obsess over puerile (to us) games like X Box often but so utterly rarely do they give a flying fuck about kids in tea rooms, as evidenced by the OPs own dh. Stop trying to feminise it. It's a sexual divide. Women do this.

BigYellowJumper · 23/06/2017 04:59

I literally have no idea what you are talking about.

Men talk about pointless shit.

Women talk about pointless shit.

There is no difference.

Lweji · 23/06/2017 07:51

my dh's assertion that women can take any minute subject and wring it to within an inch of in's life in analysis

"Any minute subject"
Not just parenting/domestic stuff.

Yes, men do that too.

FinallyThroughTheRoof · 23/06/2017 07:53

Sexism and calling a woman a bitch..from a woman. Grim.

Chloe84 · 23/06/2017 07:58

because Does your DH also see women as 'self-entitled bitches'? He sounds like a dick.

Lweji · 23/06/2017 08:17

No man ever has written a book about education or raising children. In detail. Grin

Lweji · 23/06/2017 10:03

No. None ever.

Floggingmolly · 23/06/2017 10:54

Really, Lweji? A quick spin around Waterstones will prove you wrong

BigYellowJumper · 23/06/2017 11:12

It's one of them joke things they have these days molly

Floggingmolly · 23/06/2017 11:18

Oh Confused. Have they removed supposed to be funny from the job description, then?

BigYellowJumper · 23/06/2017 11:31

Damn. I think it was just a light-hearted comment, no need to get the hump.

FinallyThroughTheRoof · 23/06/2017 11:36

Watch out molly or youll get deleted 3 times in a row. Tsk tsk.

StormTreader · 23/06/2017 11:46

I dont think its really mollys fault that the joke wasnt particularly funny, or obviously a joke. Tsk yourself!

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