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AIBU to take the couple from the bar's DD swimming?

118 replies

PixieXox · 06/01/2018 19:50

Just that really.

DP and I are staying in a Hilton hotel for our anniversary this weekend. We met another couple in the bar last night and got to chatting, nothing amazingly in depth. Just the odd bit of small talk when we happened to pass each other.

We were heading to the pool today and the woman approached me in the changing room with her DD and asked if I could watch her in the pool as her and her DH had arranged to go sight seeing. She said her DD was below the minimum age to take responsibility for herself and needed an adult present.

I said no flat out. I'm not comfortable with children at all and was definitely not up for babysitting someone else's especially when I didn't know them. She huffed for a bit then apologised to her daughter because she couldn't go swimming.

Tonight she has approached my DP at the bar to ask if we can take her tomorrow and claimed that I had said it would be fine. Hmm

Obviously the answer was still no. DP seems to think I'm being unreasonable though. To be fair I would question the judgment of anyone that would trust a stranger with their DC but that's just me.

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PegLegAntoine · 07/01/2018 09:35

They don’t want to go sightseeing, they want to disappear to their room for a shag I expect :o

deplorabelle · 07/01/2018 14:45

I believe you OP. My parents did this with me in the 1980s. They'd never have asked another random hotel guest because they don't like people. Hotel staff were fair game however. They'd stand at pool reception desk and say "You don't mind do you?" If pool staff refused the next time they'd just go without asking.

We were really good swimmers and would generally stay in all morning, but thinking back I consider it a bit off even "back then"

BellyBean · 07/01/2018 14:49

That's so weird! At first I assumed you had a child a similar age and still thought it was cheeky. To not even have children makes it such a weird request.

ChickenMom · 07/01/2018 14:55

I can’t believe that this story is true. Nobody in their right mind would hand their kid over to a stranger in a hotel!!!

Andrewofgg · 07/01/2018 15:01

How about a new MN acronym:

OOTFQ

Out of the fucking question!

ladystarkers · 07/01/2018 15:05

What????? Fgs what is ot with these people? No no and no.

Bumsnetnetbums · 07/01/2018 15:06

Weird.

ladystarkers · 07/01/2018 15:06

In my 16 years of being a mum, I have never come across one of these mythical cheeky fuckers spoken about on here.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 07/01/2018 15:08

Neither have I, @ladystarkers - but I believe it can and does happen. Calling it ‘mythical’ is just as rude as calling it a flat-out lie, imo.

ladystarkers · 07/01/2018 15:10

I believe op actually.

SheGotBetteDavisEyes · 07/01/2018 17:57

What did the hotel say, OP?

Tistheseason17 · 07/01/2018 18:10

I believe OP.
I live very close to the land of CEs!

Tistheseason17 · 07/01/2018 18:11

CFs darn auto correct!

NeepNeepNeep · 07/01/2018 20:34

I could believe this. People leave their children unattended on holiday so maybe in some crazy way they thought this was less negligent?!

freshstart24 · 07/01/2018 21:05

I would mention it to the hotel and make it very clear that you've said no outright. I'm concerned that they are so determined to leave their DD in your care that they might just take off on their trip, and tell their DD that is anyone asks to just say you're looking after her....

I find it very odd behaviour, sad and worrying.

Sorry that this has happened to you on your break away. Sorry for the poor child too.

NotBeingOuted · 10/01/2018 22:23

Did you see them again during your weekend?

SleightOfMind · 10/01/2018 22:46

That poor child. What a bizarre thing for her parents to do.
Hope it didn’t make your anniversary stay too awkward OP.

I’d have been very troubled by this.

babigailwabble · 11/01/2018 11:03

Shock the absolute cheeky fuckery of some people NEVER ceases to amaze me

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