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To think this was utterly revolting and to wish I’d said something?

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YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 28/05/2019 20:45

We were queuing at a theme park today for a family ride. Family in front of us with a small child of perhaps three plus older child.

The 3yo vomits. Copiously. Like an entire puddle across the walkway, chunks and all. The dad got out the wet wipes and tissues and started sort of scraping it up. I think we all just stood there waiting for the mother to leave the queue with the child but she didn’t.

After a few minutes of scraping puke into a corner they left the pile of tissues and just carried on. We sort of shuffled forward a bit, and I poured my half bottle of water over it to try and sluice it. No one said anything, it was all very British.

Interestingly both parents then got out their own water bottles and... drank from them.

Anyway, much nervous shuffling and ignoring and the queue moved on. Until about ten minutes later when the same mum pushed past us with a full (open!) potty of wee in her hands. Presumably she went to the end of the queue to empty it? No one that I could see came back with a mop or anything so I don’t think she mentioned the puke incident.

I went to say something and DH nudged me not to make a fuss but come on. Really? The family behind were also doing the same loud muttering but none of us actually said to the couple that they were actually inconsiderate and disgusting.

They then merrily got on the ride with their puking pissing child and that’s the last we saw of them.

I double dare you to find a reasonable excuse for this. The only thing I was BU about here was not saying something, I reckon.

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YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 28/05/2019 20:47

Oh and if you are reading this, blonde couple with red headed kids in Windsor today, you are gross and the entire queue judged you.

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Eustasiavye · 28/05/2019 20:50

Vile.

waspsontoast · 28/05/2019 20:51

That's grim. They should have asked a member of staff for the necessary equipment to clear it up. Was this legoland?

witchy89 · 28/05/2019 20:54

We yeh that is grim. Hopefully the kid was just sick because of the rides? But if it was a bug then they have just contaminated everything they've touched with their vomity hands!!

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YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 28/05/2019 20:54

It was indeed. I’m replaying it in my head now thinking wtf why didn’t I say something and suggest they get some proper clean up stuff?

It was really surreal. And the piss filled potty just tipped me over.

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teyem · 28/05/2019 20:58

I don't think anyone that brazenly vile would do anything to remedy the situation even if you had said something.

JustHereWithPopcorn · 28/05/2019 20:59

That's gross!

AudacityOfHope · 28/05/2019 20:59

That poor kid, throwing up and being dragged onto rides :(

UpsydaisyandIgglePiggleareatit · 28/05/2019 21:00

Wow. I’d been hugely embarrassed if my kid threw up in the queue like that, I’d also be asking for something to clean it up with properly and be apologising to everyone in sight... then LEAVING... imagine if the poorly little one then started spewing all over the ride? Poor little bugger probably felt awful and they just carried on queuing? And then went on the ride?! I would have expected you’d probably have gotten a mouthful of abuse though OP if you had said something... I expect the fact that they behaved like that in the first place would mean they would give no shits about being called out on it.

AmeriAnn · 28/05/2019 21:06

They or someone with more manners should have told the theme park staff so they could clean it up.

DarkDarkNight · 28/05/2019 21:06

That’s disgusting. Did they seem surprised their child was sick? If my Child vomits out of the blue I would make a fuss, ask him if he’d felt ill etc. If they didn’t even remark they probably knew he was ill and still dragged him on rides and risked spreading a virus around.

I would be inwardly fuming, but say nothing. So British.

IsabellaLinton · 28/05/2019 21:09

Oh, that is disgusting. I would have died of shame and apologised to everyone in the vicinity, tried to clean it as best I could, or gone to get a staff member to help me.

ifyouneedmenow · 28/05/2019 21:15

That is disgusting ! i know kids throw up and wee but id leave due to embarrassment .
This made me lol Grin
They then merrily got on the ride with their puking pissing child and that’s the last we saw of them.Grin

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YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 28/05/2019 21:20

I think I just sort of assumed they were so morto about the vom that they froze and didn’t know what to do and so I felt a bit sorry for them. And then when she sauntered past with an open bowl of piss I realised what absolute shits they were. The type that think the little darlings are so special that the whole world will turn a blind eye to their bodily fluids.

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Passthecherrycoke · 28/05/2019 21:23

I’m not sure tbh- puking at a theme park is pretty common isn’t it? Presume you were outdoors and not inside, what would staff have done? They don’t mop the pavement.

Weeing in a potty isn’t really anything to get worked up about.

It’s not a nice scene but I can’t quite see why you’re so worked up

MollysMummy2010 · 28/05/2019 21:26

My daughter wet herself in a queue at Chessington when she was 3. She was with a friend rather than me and there was no option to turn back. My friend also tried her best with wipes but it was wee not vomiting. If she had been sick I would expect that my friend would have found a way out of the queue.

MozzchopsThirty · 28/05/2019 21:26

I don't understand the fuss, what did you want them to do??
I have a ds who pukes all the time, we're so used to it we mostly ignore it and let him carry on

pictish · 28/05/2019 21:29

What a lot of fuss about very little. So the kid puked. Then needed a pee. Unfortunate that it happened while in a queue at the theme park. You seem very disturbed by this.
I wouldn’t have liked the puke but hey, theme parks full of junk food will see their share of it I guess.
Meh.

Afternooninthepark · 28/05/2019 21:29

Good job My 11 year old dd wasn’t there, she has emetophobia and would have had a massive meltdown. People are disgusting, I would have left the queue with vomitty kid, that is just not fair on everyone else.

Sparrowlegs248 · 28/05/2019 21:29

I think someone should have alerted staff to the puke. They would have cleaned it up.

The wee, well I can't get worked up about that. 3yr old needs a wee, potty is better than the floor!

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YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 28/05/2019 21:29

Haha oh brave attempt to make it ok.

Nope. We were actually high on a walkway, not outdoors, half way through a queue, not a pavement by any stretch.

I seriously don’t believe you let your DS puke ON THE FLOOR at all times and do nothing. If you do, I am judging you hard.

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YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 28/05/2019 21:30

Honestly I knew some people on AIBU would have a spin on this but nah.

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BitOfFun · 28/05/2019 21:31

I think I'd expect them to at least call an attendant to put sawdust down or something- does that make me sound old? That's what the school janitor used to do anyway Grin

Tbh, if a child is puking before going on a ride, I'd assume that the parents would leave the queue and let him recover and go to the toilet.

Passthecherrycoke · 28/05/2019 21:31

You’re really weird OP. And massively overreacting

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YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 28/05/2019 21:32

Also this wasn’t just a bit of posseting or regurgitation. This was a full on chunky hurl that covered the width of the path.

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