Who the actual fuck gives their child a harmonica to play with in a train?

[WhyTheLongFace]

I have no words.

CF Parents that’s who!!

See I'm the sort of person who would actually do something about it.

It tends not to go down too well though.

But if no one does anything, they never learn its not acceptable.

yes, alongside 'who the fuck does this' is ' should be 'and who the fuck doesn't say anything?'

I'm getting a bit fed up of being The Only Person Who Ever Says Anything To (for example) The Person Painting Their Nails On The Bus.

Just tried to search for the (very) old thread, but there was a discussion about kids' behaviour in restaurants and needless to say there were posters who were (quite wrongly) stating that all Europeans love children and welcome them wandering around restaurants, including the poster who said her dd had been running around with a tambourine in a London restaurant, much to the joy of the other customers and staff. Yep.

At least you weren’t in the quiet carnage next to someone with leaky headphones and Coldplay on repeat.

Mr and Mrs Adler gave their son a harmonica and I’m sure he played it on the train. Larry had a friend called George who played the ukulele so count yourself lucky, OP.

I was getting the bus back through London with my teacher friend. We both had crippling hangovers and were trying not to be sick or cry. A group of boys got on and started going through all the ring tones on their phones.
Teacher mate calmly demanded that they handed them over to her and said she would give them back when it was their stop. They sat, silent and we carried on snoozing. As we got off she handed them back with a stern “don’t do that again.”

It was only later that she realised that firstly, the boys weren’t from her school and secondly it was a Saturday.

There was a thread the other day where a lady at the next table told OP's dd to "be quiet". Gosh, so many people thought the OP should have slain the woman. In this case the OP's dd had some needs, but people aren't to know this - all they hear is noise in an enclosed space.

I don't care if kids talk loudly or play games. I can't stand Loud Parenting. I can tell darn well the child doesn't have hearing difficulties, and I can see darn well that the mother keeps looking at me waiting for a congratulatory smile. Not getting one.

This is why we had the 'no toys that need batteries or make a noise' rule in our house.
Fecking Nanna inspired that one with her soft toy duck that quacked songs at you. The batteries didn't last long (they kind of vanished, oddly) and so did the fecking duck.

😂
Someone who hasn’t a clue, clearly. A good friend of ours once gave his godson one of those funny little twirly drum things, you know, on a handle with a strings and balls that you twist round and bang, before they got on a flight from Hong Kong to London.

Given the number of adults who are so inconsiderate about not using headphones in public I have no doubt their darling offspring will grow up to be equally selfish.

Probably the same twat who let his son play with a harmonica in a cafe last weekend. Of course they were sat next to us, I’m like a magnet!

When he wasn’t playing it, he was banging it on the table. Dad didn’t say a word, I was in shock!

@Wexfordtransit

Hahahahahaha! That's bloody wonderful!

My uncle one year gave my brother a set of bagpipes for Christmas when he (my brother) was a child.

Oddly, (1) my uncle was childless and (2) the bagpipes went missing within a few days.

This is what loud sweary music is for, Slipknot, Rammstein or maybe some Cradle Of Filth. I bet they won't like their precious little darlings hearing such naughty words!

I'd be like, "Can you not?" Shame a lot of trains don't have windows that open anymore.

I think that British Rail frowns on the defenestration of minors, Sapphire.

I was thinking more along the lines of chucking the harmonica out the window, not the child. Although I'm already annoyed that a bunch of Darwin Award winners have ruined it for the rest of us. I miss having the window open on a hot day. Air conditioning is nice but it's not the same!

My (adult) DD and I were sitting in Costa's this morning. Two tables away from us,a child of about 3 was playing with a toy flute type toy,and was blowing it so hard,I thought the noise was going to rupture my eardrums. My DD looked at me,and rolled her eyes. The woman sitting at the next table to us gave her a filthy look and muttered something to her friend about people being intolerant! Oh sorry! I'm supposed to enjoy the ear piercing racket,am I?

Some parents are just arses. I wonder if they are quite so tolerant of other people’s kids?

@SapphireSeptember, I was on an early train one weekend with a friend, going down to visit a mate at his new house. Some teenagers got on and were playing some godawful, tinny pop through their crappy phone - my mate got out his relatively expensive phone, hit play on Reign in Blood and I dropped it into an empty glass to amplify it some more (because it was going to be quite a big party, we'd been asked to pinch pint glasses from pubs supply some glasses for beer, so we had a bag lined with jumpers and 4 glasses).

They either switched their phone off or retreated to the next carriage.

MitziK Beautifully done! That'll blow way the cobwebs in the early hours!