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AIBU to think this mum was attention seeking?

225 replies

Sisinisawa · 28/09/2017 22:06

I arrived early for the school run today so sat in the car waiting like everyone else.

Well, everyone except a mum, new to the school this year, who got out of her car, opened the boot, took out a hula hoop and started writhing around with it doing some form of exercise/dance. On the pavement.

I mean, WTAF?

Who does that?

What say you Mumsnet? Attention-seeking or mad as a box of frogs?

OP posts:
MaudAndOtherPoems · 28/09/2017 23:32

I correctly predicted that she runs a class. Where can I claim my prize?

Sisinisawa · 28/09/2017 23:33

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Sisinisawa · 28/09/2017 23:33

Maud you win a free hula class. On the street. At pick up next Tuesday. See you there!

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2017SoFarSoGood · 28/09/2017 23:35

perhaps she had no class today and very little time to get her exercise time in. I see lots of my fellow commuters hopping/jumping/stretching but sadly nobody hula hooping, yet.

I used to always do my pelvic floor exercises while waiting for the bus. Private exercising. Until the day DD piped up "Mummy, why is your bum going all funny then not funny all the time?"

MaudAndOtherPoems · 28/09/2017 23:35

Brilliant! I'd better go and invest in some Lycra.

CreamCol0uredP0nies · 28/09/2017 23:37

Love the idea of a hula hooping class - does she do that swishy ribbbon dancing too ?!

Leilaniii · 28/09/2017 23:38

Mummy, why is your bum going all funny then not funny all the time?

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Sequence · 28/09/2017 23:39

She sounds great Smile She wants to hula hoop for a while, so she does. Even when there is someone watching who wants to bring her down. YABU to assume she's showing off. Why would she be interested in that? She is minding her own business and so should you. She's doing nothing wrong, she sounds fun and unique.

Hardlyhangingon · 28/09/2017 23:42

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QueenUnicorn · 28/09/2017 23:47

I love it, lol.

ElizabethDarcey · 29/09/2017 00:32

OMG what a twat.

cailisto · 29/09/2017 00:41

I think she sounds mad... but brilliant!
I’d rather befriend someone like that than most of the school gate gossipy bimbos that I see on the school run!

HolgerDanske · 29/09/2017 00:49

Ahhhhh hula hooping; bloody good for the waist, that is!

AfterSchoolWorry · 29/09/2017 00:55

Cringe!

Birdsgottafly · 29/09/2017 00:58

"Hmmm, quite strange, why would she do it on the pavement?? "

Because it's dangerous to hula hoop in the road?

Does no-one jog, or ride a bike to pick up, it's sort of like that, I suppose.

Either way, it makes your wait more interesting. We need more hula hoopers about.

HungerOfThePine · 29/09/2017 01:05

I can see why you would think attention seeking and it is outside the norm but if it's a hobby can you imagine her trying to do it with dc around, She is probably just fitting it in with her busy schedule.

It's a hobby or exercise that can be done wherever there is space and time.

I own several hula hoops and always fight the urge to pick up a hula hoop at breakfast club at school. I don't hula hoop these days and usually just do it in the summer in a park but it is fun and you get a kick out of learning to do things other than hula hooping around the waist.

If you are in Scotland hula hooping isn't common but it in england/Brighton it is quite known and in America etc it is huge.

I go with admire someone for not fitting inside the morn.. I love the guy in my town who's mode of transport is a unicycle, doesn't make him attention seeking it makes him happy.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 29/09/2017 01:07

How terribly unBritish of her! Grin

Maybe she just wanted to use the "dead" time to do some exercise, rather than read or play with her phone, listen to music or stare into space like everyone else?

Or she could just be mad as a box of frogs. I don't know. Why don't you speak to her and ask? She might be fabulous!

DontDrinkDontSmoke · 29/09/2017 01:12

Im jealous. Since my kids got them I’ve discovered I’ve lost the knack of hula hooping.

2017SoFarSoGood · 29/09/2017 01:18

Who can actually see a hula hoop and resist having a go? Even very cool DS failed on recent ToysRus visit.

AIBU to think this mum was attention seeking?
KittysMyName · 29/09/2017 05:12

OP yes, we're talking about the sane person!! Grin Knew it had to be her!!

KittysMyName · 29/09/2017 05:13

*same person (not so sure she's 100% sane!!!)

christinarossetti · 29/09/2017 05:23

Please stop it with the 'oh she must have mental health problems' posts.

Hoola hooping isn't a symptom of a MH problem.

Please don't suggest that anyone who does something outside of the norm us mentally ill.

Sounds very understandable behaviour for someone who runs a hoola hooping class.

Andylion · 29/09/2017 05:26

Ahhhhh hula hooping; bloody good for the waist, that is!

Does it do anything for the ankles, because that where the hoop always ends up when I try it.

Firefries · 29/09/2017 05:30

I like it and now I'm trying to get some exercise maybe I should do this too.

sukitea · 29/09/2017 05:57

Please stop it with the 'oh she must have mental health problems' posts

^This. A woman on MN can't do anything that defies conventional norms without being labelled as having MH problems. Before the
massive dripfeed about her having a hula class I was thinking that she might have back problems and sitting in the car makes it worse. My husband has disc issues and sometimes whilst driving has to pull over and do exercises to relieve the pain. Admittedly none of them involve a hula hoop, but there is one were he has to use a length of rubber tubing.

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