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?

Did it have brownie chunks in and extra chocolate sauce? That's my favourite. I'd have quite happily licked it off my legs and maybe asked if anyone had a wafer to go with it.

I laughed too much at this 😂

@Literary ...😂😂

If this happened the way you describe it then you appear to be an unpleasant person

would you have gone nuts at this?

didn't the ice cream already have them, or chunks of chocolate, even triple mmmm I want choc ice cream now.

Also ice cream is cold, even melted...and shit definitely is not

I think the fact that you've wrote this post shows that you already know you were unreasonable. I would have felt relief it wasn't shit and said sorry to the young girl. Also, people who scream at shout at receptionists for something that they can't control need to have a word with themselves, vent your anger elsewhere or go and have a cup of tea

Also, I have to wonder at someone whose first thought is that what was splashed on them was shit. My first thought would be "what the heck?" rather than jumping to conclusions.

I think if you did think it was diarrhoea, you has quite an unsympathetic reaction. I'd imagine someone would be mortified if that happened in a public space. If I opened the door and saw a young girl and was still mistaking ice cream for poo, I'd be asking the poor thing if she was alright!

Once it was explained I think YWDBU. A quiet explanation to the receptionist and perhaps a suggestion that they shouldn't allow food in the changing rooms (probably a standard procedure that was ignored, anyway) would have sufficed.

*had, not has, sorry

OP I think you have anger issues! I would have remained calm, thought about it for a few minutes and expected the so called “shit”. I wouldn’t bang on someone else’s cubicle you have no idea who could be in there. Remaining calm and rational in situations like this are the best way to deal with things. I feel sorry for the girl she must have felt quite shaken up.

You were bang out of order. If it had been poo your reaction would have been devastating to someone suffering from an obviously horrifically embarrassing case of IBS or krohn's or something. But you knew it wasn't poop pretty much instantaneously because diarrhoea is warm, isn't it? And ice cream is, you know, cold? So you just wanted to go yelling at people. I wouldn't be showing my face there for a few weeks after that.

I’d probably would have acted in a similar way due to the complete disgust of thinking someone had shat on me. Shit aside, chucking ice cream is bad behaviour and the staff need to be made aware of it. Hopefully the staff realised you were cross at the situation (and violation to be honest) and not at them. They probably had a laugh when you left tho

I agree with the others! You would have smelt it almost instantly, if it were an explosion of that kind you would also have heard it, and yeah shit like that would have been hot!
I think, along with others, you went off without thinking and then continued to try and justify it on here which suggests you aren’t really sorry for yelling and swearing either 😬

I wouldn't be surprised if the young girls mum or dad etc want to find out who the fuck this angry deranged women is who was half covered in chocolate ice cream screaming and banging on the cubicle door while their half naked young daughter was inside!

Sometimes shit just happens - no need for out of control anger from poozilla!

Feel sorry for the others at the pool.

God I hate this in AIBU. Person being obviously U gets told so, refuses to listen to the significant majority, eventually a couple of people post something sympathetic, OP latches onto those and considers themselves justified.

Why bother fucking posting? I mean, seriously, "Thanks for the few voices of reason" - if you just want validation, go on Facebook or something.

How could you not tell if it was shit?? Shit smells much worse than ice cream...

I’d probably would have acted in a similar way due to the complete disgust of thinking someone had shat on me.
Seriously though, why would that be your first thought? How often has that actually happened to you? How often have you seen it happen? Maybe I've led a sheltered life, but that just isn't something I've experienced, so why would one assume that something cold and odourless (or maybe a tad chocolatey) was diarrhea?

Poor kid - yes she probably dropped it and was too scared by your reaction to fess up. And IF it had have been poo then she would obviously have been very poorly and it would have been to ask if she needed you to call her parents.
You do sound a bit nuts tbh. I hope she's ok.

And no, if I was in a changing room at swimming where it is very easy to go wash it off in the shower I wouldn't care about a bit of ice cream.
Not much makes me mad though.

I am just confused as to where did the Ice Cream come from?! Who decided to bring that along with them when swimming.

I suspect I would have reacted the same way, apart from having a go at the staff. It isn’t their fault if someone chucks ice cream or poo around, or leaves a soiled nappy in the the changing cubicle, or a sanitary towel, or tissues (or anything else for that matter), or hair deliberately plastered on the wall of the shower, or in clumps on the floor, or leaves behind their empty shampoo or conditioner bottle, (or anything else for that matter). They do their best to keep these areas clean, they just can’t keep up with the efforts of those members of the public who have been allowed out of the sty for the day. (With apologies to all Suids)

Misplaced anger. Get a grip.

@Another, you’re right, shit probably wouldn’t have been my first thought. I would still have been pissed off and shocked at having something chucked at me and my child