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To have gone nuts at having 'shit' spurted up mine and DS's legs?

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IceCreamDebacle · 03/06/2018 17:16

DS and I were getting changed in a cubicle at the swimming pool. Almost dressed when suddenly a stream of what I thought was shit spurted from the under the cubicle next to us going all up my legs, DS's and over our flip flops.

It took me a few seconds to register it at first and as the cubicle was silent (no baby sounds had come from it to explain a poonami and hadn't heard anyone in there), I suddenly thought that someone must have had diarrhoea in the next cubicle and a wave of bloody disgust comes over meAngry.

I go and knock loudly on the cubicle and ask rather loudly what has just gone over the floor in the cubicle because we've got it over us.

A young girl about 12/13 opens it in only in a towel which I felt bad about afterwards Hmm and says she does not not what it is but it hit her on the shoulder.

It transpires that someone had lobbed a melted ice cream in a carton over her cubicle. It looked exactly like shit. She didn't get it on her as it slatted on the floor and hit us.

When the relief of seeing it wasn't someone's excrement had passed, I was still bloody furious that someone had done that and ranted a bit at the staff calling them 'little shits' in front of DSBlush which he told me off about afterwards. I then ranted a bit again at reception and told them to look at their CCTV. Not blaming them but saying I'd never seen this sort of behavior in my life and they shouldn't be letting kids come back in the changing room when they'd bought food from the cafe.

Feel a bit like I went OTT now. Am a bit ragey at the best of times due to various things that I'm dealing with.

Would you have gone nuts at this?

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IceCreamDebacle · 03/06/2018 17:54

No I felt bad that she opened the door when she wasn't dressed not that I knocked loudly and asked what it was. That was her choice though, I was hardly battering the door down.

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Rocinante1 · 03/06/2018 17:54

@DerelictWreck

My son heard me say damn when he was 4. He told me off!

crunchtimes · 03/06/2018 17:55

You do seem to OTP angry OP.

Getting ice-cream all over my legs would, for me, be in the category of a bird shitting on me, or accidentally queuing in the slowest check-out queue etc....not great, but nothing getting in a rage about.

I think as you stated there are other things in your life that are stressing you out, and therefore you are more prone to rages.

I feel for the girl you had a go at, but I also really feel for your poor embarrassed son, he has to live with your constant anger, it must be hard for him. It there away you can find a different outlet for this rage, or try and compartmentalise things so that you aren't a coiled-spring all the time?

crunchtimes · 03/06/2018 17:55

Sorry, should be OTT

strayducks18 · 03/06/2018 17:56

The whole situation at best if an accident warrants a grumpy "Oh FFS"

If an act of anti social behaviour and I had the perpetrator in front of me then yes they would have gotten short shrift.

Rocinante1 · 03/06/2018 17:56

@IceCreamDebacle

Why did you bother posting if you're not even going to entertain the idea that you handled this badly?

I would have taken a few seconds to smell and see! Not immediatly burst out and bang on someone's door. It would have been obvious- but you flipped out so the obvious passed you by and you overeacted.
Jeez- calm the hell down and let it go.

QueenDoris · 03/06/2018 17:57

So, you had some ice cream spilt on you and then ranted like a demented fucker at all and sundry. Is that right?

ScattyCharly · 03/06/2018 17:57

I would have been furious about this. Disgusting behaviour from unsupervised, dragged up, brats. They should have been identified and banned from the pool. But nobody will bother because nobody cares about anything these days.

FreudianSlurp · 03/06/2018 17:58

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Jaxhog · 03/06/2018 17:58

I don't blame you for your reaction. You'd hardly expect a chocolate ice-cream to spray up your legs!

I bet all the critics on here would do exactly the same if it happened to them!

strayducks18 · 03/06/2018 17:58

I remember my 4 year old coming into the kitchen and say "are you and daddy arguing because I heard 4 swears?" Blush

werideatdawn · 03/06/2018 17:59

You seem like one of those gunning for a fight types..
If someone spilt ice cream on me I'd be mildly annoyed but it's easily washed off. If someone performed a "stream" of runny poo so forceful it splattered up my legs in the next changing cubicle I think I'd be more worried/scared than angry.
Cringe at you ranting and raving about cctv to the poor staff.

WyfOfBathe · 03/06/2018 18:01

Poor kid. I was about that age when a woman started ranting at the people around me for something just as negligible. I tried to act "grown up" around the strangers but was quite shaken up.

YABU to have "gone nuts" at having ice cream on you. I would have been a bit annoyed, probably said to DC "oh, someone must be being naughty!" and then continued with my day.

ScattyCharly · 03/06/2018 18:01

This thread is so weird. This was not an accidental spillage or any type of accident. Unsure why people are making this comparison.

This was feral children throwing wet food that looked like diahorrea around in a changing room.

It really depends on how the Op spoke to the staff. I think it’s reasonable to refer to the perpetrators as little shits as long as it wasn’t done aggressively and in such a manner as to blame the staff. It is not ok to shout at staff but ranting that ice cream was thrown over a cubicle is not so bad.

MyOtherUsernameisaPun · 03/06/2018 18:02

Next time something happens that stresses you out take a deep breath and count for a few seconds - even just to 5 - and then you should be able to deal with whatever the situation is more calmly. Even if it is something grim like shit you'll be in a better state to deal with it if you're calm and in control of yourself.

Bluelonerose · 03/06/2018 18:02

I'm confused who takes a tub of ice cream swimming? Confused

DwangelaForever · 03/06/2018 18:04

I'm calling bullshit on this whole thread of shit BiscuitBiscuitBiscuit

SoupDragon · 03/06/2018 18:05

I'm confused who takes a tub of ice cream swimming?

Not just any tub, a tub big enough to go all up someone’s legs when it’s dropped into a neighbouring cubicle.

FuckingHateRain · 03/06/2018 18:05

Shit, yes I would have apologised to someone who shit up my legs
That's brilliant! Yes only on MN you shouldnt lose your shit, even if you're fed shit Hmm

OP it was probably girl next cubicle
YANBU you did nothing wrong, how the hell would you be calm after shit splurring? Hmm

IceCreamDebacle · 03/06/2018 18:07

Exactly Blue it was brown and runny. What should have been my first thought?

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jade9390 · 03/06/2018 18:07

Sounds like she dropped it or is a target of bullies who threw it, so she kept silent. You are not being over the top but shouting over was probably a better idea. Ice cream should not be in the changing rooms, so you quite rightly spoke to staff. The people saying if it was just shit and you can wash it off, need their head read. 13 yr olds know not to shit on the floor and would not be alone, if they have medical issues or swimming if they had a dodgy gut, they are not like young children or incontinent elderly people who may not make it to a toilet.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 03/06/2018 18:08

HTF Can you mistake chocolate ice cream for shit. I hope you don't work in an ice cream parlour.WinkGrin

Nicknacky · 03/06/2018 18:08

Goodness me I don’t even think I would have been angry enough to even post about it! It’s annoying but not the drama you made it into.

MissVanjie · 03/06/2018 18:09

What 13 yo shat on the floor tho? Jesus. This thread is crackers

IceCreamDebacle · 03/06/2018 18:09

I couldn't see what receptacle it was in as the girl was in there but there was a lot of it!

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