To be irrated with people who dont feed their kids on days out?

[StarryStarryNight]

There we were, me and DH, our kids, and the other couple and their kids setting out a 15 mile cycle ride in the country side together, and not only had they packed nothing to eat, had no drink bottles, and had not even had breakfast first! FGS 15 miles on NO food and drink in baking sun? (DH had told them we were packing just enough for us).

Thats the thing, I never leave the house with mine without at least a bottle of water or some fruit juice (love innocent juices), a sandwich, a banana, possibly also a cereal bar and a small box of raisins), and that is just for a small trip into town, playground or park! It is beyond me how you can start a cycle ride hungry and not bring anything!

Well, they did have a bottle of sunlotion. The kids were stars, the youngest cycled like a real trooper, we gave him a banana and her a bag of grapes, I offered him a bag of grapes but he declined as his parents had bought him a bag of winegums.

I remember MIL had the great idea to climb a high mountain in Wales when I was six months pregnant with my first. It was a baking hot day and I had water and food, as did dh, but MIL and BIL didn't bother to carry any. We had to share ours as they may well have died without it, but they enjoyed a walk up the mountain unencumbered by food or bottles - unlike us.

This was 8 years ago. Can you tell I'm not over it yet?

So emphatically YANBU.

Adorabelle - lol I was being ironic. It's bloody stupid not to take those things.

Twinklemegan- yeah I got the irony but maybe
someone should have a word with these parents- we don't live in a day an age now where a kindly farmer/village dweller might ask our parched/totally dehydrated children if they would like a nice cold drink of traditional lemonade!

I guess some people just don't think......

You are sooooooo not being unreasonable!

As a part of a group of people who were left with insuficient water in the middle of the summer and with the nearest point of civilization 3-4 hrs walk away because some selfish persons decided not to take their own I can say that you are not being unreasonable, particularly if children are involved in the equation.

One of the guys in my group ended up in such bad state that it took him 5 hrs to cover the same distance.

I take my own picnic in preference to buying food with my dd - she's impatient when she's hungry (Muuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm I'm huuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy) and I'm stingy . There's plenty of times I'm not with her when I can treat myself to shop-bought food.

yanbu

Sorry Adorabelle, I completely missed the LOL in your post! Duh!