To think she should have waited her turn?

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We were at the supermarket and DS (3) was playing in one of those car rides that are often found there. He loves pretending to drive the car, but is terrified of it moving and making noises, so I never put money in them (tried it once and he got scared).

DS had been sitting in the driving seat for a minute or so when an older girl (about 5) came up with a pound in her hand and pushed in front of him to turn the car on. When the car started moving, he leapt out of it and started crying. I told him to just wait a couple of minutes until the girl was done. But I thought she should have waited her turn. Even though she was going to pay for the ride, she could have waited a bit and I would have told DS to give the girl her turn. She shouldn’t have pushed her way in front of DS. There was only one seat in the car so they couldn’t have both used it anyway. Her parents were nowhere to be seen. AIBU?

@Thehogfather exactly right! You said it far better than me, but that's what I was trying to say!

I'm afraid PFB is going to be one of those irritating kids that sits at the top of the slide and doesn't want to slide down. Then mummy of PFB let's him do it, holding the whole queue up ...... because he takes his turn differently.

He wasn't have by a turn, he was hogging the ride while mummy let him do it! Get him off and let five year have her turn! Like she would know he didn't like his turn to be a moving turn!

I agree with you OP. She was rude and if 5 should know about not pushing people out the way. You would have taken your son out so all she needed to do was say Excuse me can I have a turn.

Of course she’s young and excited so that explains it but i wouldn’t want my children to do it. Whether her fault / parents fault / whatever, I’d have been annoyed too.

Some people on here - so angry!

And some of the comments about “she’s a paying customer” - hilarious. What about someone using the slide in a park and someone else shoves them out of the way to use it? No money involved; still rude

juells that was tongue in cheek.

club no, going up the slide age 5 and op complaining that the 6yr old sliding down it should have waited.

@Thehogfather

juells that was tongue in cheek

DOH! I'm a bit dim sometimes 😂

juells only as dim as me for assuming my sarcastic tone of voice could be heard in text

Is this serious? ? It's bothered you enough to ask Mumsnet, wow.
Entitlement is alive and kicking at its best.
In answer yes YABVU, payment always supercedes non payment

This thread is like one from the pre moldies golden age of mn

10/10

Classics please

I have no idea why you started this thread when you think you did absolutely nothing wrong. Total waste of time.

I agree with the OP. When I was growing up we were taught that if another child was playing with something, you waited your turn. I have a 3 year old LG myself and there have been times at playgroup where she tries to take toys from another child while they were still playing with them, I always returned the toy to the child and apologised, then explained to my LG tgat you don't snatch, you wait your turn. She's ASD so it took her a while to get It, but now she no longer does it. We can't bring our children up to just snatch things when they feel like it, imagine if adults did that? Having said that, the 5 year old wasn't to blame - her parents should have been there to explain this to her.

Your ds needs to man up

Your ds needs to man up

I fucking loathe that expression.

She shouldn’t have pushed but she is five and likely didn’t know any better. She was in the right to use it over your DS.

I fucking loathe that expression
And?

And?

People who use it are twats. HTH.

Man up? What exactly is manning up?
Is there a women up?