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

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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 me.

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 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 DS 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?

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?

Erm, yeah. I'd think it was disgusting and would want it washed off immediately, but I'd definitely feel sympathy/ pity/ concern to the other party. Not many people are spraying diarrhoea for fun?! I'm not sure, even if it was poo, what you hoped the outcome would be. Surely you were just going to be confronted by an embarrassed, unwell person being made even more embarrassed by your actions? How does that help anyone? Meanwhile the poo is permeating on you and your DC whilst you have this little bitch fit at them. I'd be straight to the showers personally, and internally hope the other party was ok.

Op: was I unreasonable?

Mumsnet: yes, and a bully

Op: No I’m not! There’s this other minimal details that make it fine!

Ugh.

I'd have just turned into an amusing anecdote down the pub with my mates...

chill out :)

I cant remember the last time I laughed so much. I can't breathe. I'm LOVING some of the phrases on here. BRAVO folks.

Currently dying at "not many people are spraying diarrhoea for fun!"

Shits n giggles innit

What if it was poo? What would you have done then? Shouted at someone who had an awful accident and probably feels terrible? You need to work on your anger issues.

How’s would poo get under a cubicle and up a leg ?

Me too Gacapa! My current favourite is Oh so after all this drama your son then wanted a chocolate iced cream as it put him in the mood for it after you both thought it was poo?

I'm having trouble with so much of this thread. Feeling something squirt over you in a changing room and INSTANTLY assuming it's poo, rather than chocolate-scented shower gel or someting along those lines. And asuming that a teen girl would scream or make some sort of noice when ice cream lands in her cubicle! She was probably very sensibly not giving any reaction to the yobs who'd chucked it at her....

I know the new theory is that it was hers. but you've already said she was in the pool at the same time as you. so it seems unlikely she'd have gone to get an ice cream and brought it back to the changing cubicle to eat....

Either way your reaction was a bit bonkers OP.

'Am a bit ragey' - you don't say

Soooo.... You ask if you are being unreasonable. People tell you are - then you argue that you don't think you were. Why ask then if you don't want honest responses? Yes, I might have thought wtf if this happened to me, but I certainly wouldn't have lost my shit at the poor girl next to you who probably had no idea you were in the cubicle next to her and I wouldn't have lost my shit at the staff either. Yes, you were unreasonable. Life's too short.

What a total overreaction and it’s hardly up to the staff to police kids coming into the changing rooms with ice cream is it YABU

Imagine you'd banged on the door and angrily demanded to know ''what has just gone over the floor in the cubicle because we've got it over us.'' and it turned out some poor old dear (or young dear!) had indeed been ill.

Would you still have stormed about the place ranting?

You were over the top and owe apologies to the people you had a go at.

I am baffled as to how ice cream could be confused for poo.

Some people are very, very stupid.

You the poo troll, OP?

Possibly. Which is why the OP asked the cafe if they sold shit-looking ice cream. Perhaps in the hopes of buying some?

Her mate was hanging around outside the cubicle.

Did she appear there out of thin air given you “didn't hear anyone going past outside”?

This post should have been called, "I was being unreasonable today"

I'm just surprised you think the normal human anus is capable of delivering such a highly-directional splatter. Unless, of course, you saw someone with an arsehole like an emu's beak flapping about their ankles sauntering pool-side?

I'm calling bullshit.

If something I thought was shit hit me, I would be horrified. I would probably shriek ‘ugh’ in shock.

But before doing ANYTHING else I would ascertain that it was actually shit. And once I knew it was ice cream I would calm right down.

If it had been shit, I would be knocking gently on the door and saying ‘are you all right’ ‘can I get anything for you’ etc having sluiced myself and DS down in the shower.

If kids had been a menace in the changing rooms I would report it to staff without ranting at them.

You sound hot headed and over wrought.

I hope you didn’t call the staff ‘little shits’ as the grammar in your OP implies? If so you are even more U.

What's with constantly using the word "spurted"? What you mean is "AIBU to have gone nuts at having ice cream splashed on my legs?'

And ice cream looks nothing like shit.

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My dd is quite shy. When she was that age she would have stayed quiet because she would have felt mortified at dropping something which splashed next door. She would be wondering if anyone was next door and if they were splashed.
It’s a chid you were talking to( shouting at) ffsand she was probably intimidated by you.
If someone had had a bout of diarrhoea you would not go shouting at them for that either. No body does that sort of thing on purpose. I think you need to learn some empathy if it’s at all possible !
However I think you probably showed yourself up as being rather insensitive and a bit crazy.

I've never seen melted ice cream that looks similar to shit, surely the smell and texture would have made it easy to realise it's definitely not poo but you let your anger take over so you weren't even thinking logically no more. Why not just politely explain to the staff the situation? there was no need for the swearing and dramatics, honestly you sound like you have some anger issues and should talk to somebody about that.

And if it was ice cream it would smell chocolatey rather than shitty ?