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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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Andrewofgg · 03/06/2018 18:31

How old is DS? He’s got better manners than his mother!

WhoGetsHeard · 03/06/2018 18:32

So you confronted the child aggressively because you were already annoyed with the group of young pre-teens she was part of. Which means when you 'knocked loudly' on the door, you knew there was a naked or semi-naked young kid behind that door, possibly one who was ill (seeing as you thought it was diarrhea).

I think you need to start questioning yourself a lot more.

Anyone would feel shock and revulsion if they thought they and their kid had been hit by diarrhea. Not everyone would respond by intimidating the child they thought had been ill though.

IceCreamDebacle · 03/06/2018 18:37

Was done but really Loonoon. You and your kid have what you think is someone's shit all up your legs and your first thought would be to worry about the other person?

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Wellfuckmeinbothears · 03/06/2018 18:38

No, you absolutely must keep questioning yourself. You reacted horribly.

You are a nasty piece of work.

Gacapa · 03/06/2018 18:38

How does someone shit so hard that it bounces off the floor in a prefect trajectory under a cubicle and up another person's leg?

Crazy shit, this.

Sparklesocks · 03/06/2018 18:39

Agree with others OP, try to remember how it felt to be a preteen/early teens girl and how intimidating it must’ve been to have been getting changed and hearing a grown woman banging on the door shouting about poo and interrogating you. Not nice.

Gacapa · 03/06/2018 18:39

*perfect

SoupDragon · 03/06/2018 18:41

How did you manage to do lane swimming with a young child with you?

Anasnake · 03/06/2018 18:43

What a load of over dramatic nonsense Confused

PortiaCastis · 03/06/2018 18:44

Surely CCTV in changing rooms is against a law

sweeneytoddsrazor · 03/06/2018 18:44

How did you manage to do lane swimming with a young child with you

I suspect the lane swimming ting is just a lame attempt to try and make herself look better for being so angry about a bit of ice cream.

IceCreamDebacle · 03/06/2018 18:45

I didn't know who was in the cubicle until I knocked Who Hmm. Her mate was hanging around outside the cubicle.

Goodness me.

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Glumglowworm · 03/06/2018 18:47

YABU

shit stinks, especially diarrhoea, if you couldn’t smell it then it clearly wasn’t shit

Shouting at a semi naked young girl over ice cream is ridiculous.

Even if it was shit, how is shouting at a semi naked, suddenly violently ill and horribly embarrassed young girl going to help the situation?!

Shouting at staff was also unreasonable, whether over ice cream or shit, it wasn’t their fault and isn’t something they could’ve prevented.

Wellfuckmeinbothears · 03/06/2018 18:49

I think your behaviour is really ugly.

Wellfuckmeinbothears · 03/06/2018 18:50

As in really, really unattractive. You sound like an ugly person. You behaved terribly, your own son told you off.

Nasty, bullying behaviour.

IceCreamDebacle · 03/06/2018 18:50

Nope teen DS was with me and we took turns to stay with youngest DS (6) in the free swimming area while we swam in the lanes.

He was obvs in a different changing cubicle to us and had in fact finished by the time DS and I had showered and was waiting in cafe area.

Sorry to disappoint on that minor detail.

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MyLearnedFriend · 03/06/2018 18:54

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BastardMs · 03/06/2018 18:55

You the poo troll, OP?

RaubahnsLeftArm · 03/06/2018 18:59

Wow... even if the girl had dropped by it herself She may not have realised it sprayed all up you so why should she shout to apologise? And if it was poo I'd be concerned for her health if it shot out of her backside with such force that it sprayed you and would be asking if she was ok instead of freaking out about something washable

RitaMills · 03/06/2018 19:00

The girl no doubt had it sitting on her little seat in the cubicle and dropped it, obviously young teen isn’t going to admit to it when raving loony adult hammers on her cubicle door screaming about ‘shit splatters’. Shit has a very strong distinctive smell, if you’d have stopped for a few seconds to process the situation before blowing your top you’d have realised it was chocolate ice cream.

Your ears must’ve been burning long after you’d left.

Cannockcanring · 03/06/2018 19:00

I didn't know who was in the cubicle until I knocked Who hmm. Her mate was hanging around outside the cubicle.

Goodness me.
That doesn't make you sound any more reasonable you know? It could have been an 8 year old, alone, that you yelled at then, couldn't it? I suspect you wouldn't be very happy if someone treated you DSs like this Hmm.
Seriously, have a good think and maybe seek help with your anger levels, you DCs may start to imitate this sort of behaviour, and it won't be tolerated in school.

Xmasbaby11 · 03/06/2018 19:02

I think you overreacted and it would have been instantly clear if it had been poo.

WhoGetsHeard · 03/06/2018 19:08

For you, OP:
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WittyJack · 03/06/2018 19:08

If you can't tell the difference between shut and ice cream, I wouldn't be asking you to pick me up a Mr Whippy...!

WittyJack · 03/06/2018 19:09

Shit, not shut. Stop censoring me, iPhone!