Was IBU to not replace this drink?

[SoftPlayStandOff]

Soft play centre. Large one with different areas for different age groups.

I'm sat in the corner of the pre-schooler area - DS2 (4) and DS3 (2) are around and about playing. I stand up and look the opposite way to check on DS1 (7) and DD1 (10) who are elsewhere in the older kids section. When I turn around DS2 has a fruit shoot in his hand. I tell him to put it down, its not his. He does so and I think no more of it.

A couple of minutes later a woman comes up and tells me DS2 has drunk out of her child's drink. I apologise, say that i didn't see him drink it but I'd asked him to put it down when I saw he had it. She went away.

I speak to DS2 and he says DS3 handed it to him so he thought it was DS3's so had a mouthful. DS3 had picked it up from the middle of the floor in the middle of the soft play.

A couple of minutes later the woman's friend comes and asks if i'm replacing the drink. I laugh thinking she's joking and explain that I was sorry but it had been left in the middle of the floor and my toddler picked it up and gave it to his brother. She says again - 'well XXX can't drink it now its had his lips on it, are you going to by another?' I apologised again and suggested that surely a wipe with a baby wipe would be fine? She looks incredulous and says something about germs. I point out that its softplay - germs are everywhere and no, i was not replacing a drink that had been left in the middle of the room that my child had inadvertently taken a sip of.

Had this been a reverse I would have just wiped the bottle and let my kid get on with their drink. If i was the sort to be concerned by germs i would have not been at softplay or at the very least i would have kept my kids bottles by me (as I had done with my own kids bottles).

They proceed to bitch about it loudly until I left.

SO WIBU to not replace the drink in these circumstances?

I did read most of the post just didn't notice the date, I did state regardless of the corona virus I'd still replace anyway so my answer won't have changed. It's not like it's a post that requires an update so I didn't expect it to be old

If it was on a table then yes you should have, given it was on the floor then the other parents are responsible for not watching their own kids and what they are doing with their drinks.

YANBU to not replace it in those circumstances.

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Soft play areas are pretty manky and one of the reasons for this is parents allowing their kids to take food and drinks into the play areas. The rules are clear but the entitled parents pay no attention until something happens to precious little Jacinta or Reuben and then it’s always someone else’s fault.

Those types of parents give me the rage.

@Candyapple49 I let Admin know. hope they can help you get a new topic for this.

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I'm more concerned about the people who think if someone's small child puts their drink down where they shouldn't, it's fair game and their own kids are perfectly entitled to it.

Agreed

I wouldn't have replaced the drink in this situation. I would, had the drink been on their table.

YANBU the drink shouldn't be in the soft play area- so unhygienic.

Just realised this is an old thread

YANBU
If your child had of gone up to their table, grabbed the drink, taken off with it and had some then yes, you would need to replace it.

If they let a toddler wander off, take it into an area that isn’t permitted to have food and drink then the implication is that other parents are not eagle eyeing their kids to ensure food and drink is not swiped. Because they shouldn’t have to. Because it’s not meant to be there. So, I would class this scenario as tough luck.

I wouldn’t have demanded another parent replace a drink as I’m not a tight arse. I’d have just got another myself, saying how it’s probably dirty having been left on the floor for so long.

However, as this parent was a tight arse/drama queen you should have offered to replace it.

I’d personally find demanding a total stranger replaces an inconsequential item which their child used by mistake really cringey and humiliating!

YANBU. Of course you shouldn’t replace the drink. Really annoys me when people don’t supervise their children in a soft play toddler area, but just let them take drinks, crisps etc. into it, while they just sit chatting to their friends.

Zombie thread.

I wouldn't replace it-the kid shouldn't have a drink in the middle of the soft play area anyway - drinks and food should be consumed at the edges and not left where other children can stand on them, pick them up, throw them about etc.

And what about your DS - having had his lips where her child's had been? Is he not just as much at risk of contamination?

I wouldn't have replaced it either.

Zombie thread.

Oh, BOLLOX!

for one mouthful out of a drink that had been left in the middle of the floor?!

I can't believe how many are saying you needed to replace it?!??! I'm actually laughing out loud. Ridiculous - it was left on the floor and abandoned. I would have done the same as you - see ya later crazy soft play mums!

arg - old thread! there should be a warning!

You should have replaced it. I wouldn’t let my child continue to drink from a container some random child had drunk from.

You really think telling him to “put it down, it’s not yours” before he’d managed to finish it is ok?!

Yabu. Wiping it with a wet wipe doesn’t kill germs (and is disgusting).

They shouldn’t have left it in the middle of the floor but your kid still shouldn’t have stolen it. And if you’d been watching your kid, it wouldn’t have happened.

You should have replaced it.

Old thread but bet the empty bottle is still in the soft play...

What gobshite bumped a zombie??

I would have replaced it.

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You should have replaced it