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Original poster

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.

OP posts:
HobbyIsCodeForDogging · 28/05/2019 22:28

I wonder if they went for a hat trick and had a crap in the queue as well.

It is grim that they didn't report the puke so it could get cleaned up properly, and they probably should've made some attempt at covering the potty. Actually maybe they wanted to make it clear that they weren't gross enough to have used it for a shit in the queue, cos you know, standards.

It was mean to their sickly child that they didn't take them out of the queue to recover and see if they even wanted to go on more rides.

ihadedto · 28/05/2019 22:29

OP did you really want this poor couple to leave the queue, that they’d gallantly stood in for 45 minutes or so, for the sake of a bit of air-borne bacteriaWink

ihadedto · 28/05/2019 22:33

For some reason I’m picturing this couple wearing faux 50’s gear - you know, him with a DA quiff & her with a big ballerina-style skirt & horn-rimmed specs?
I need to leave off the wine but i am in holiday

SomeoneYouLove · 28/05/2019 22:43

I am amused by the thought of someone taking a potty on all the rides Grin

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 28/05/2019 22:45

A potty full of wee 😂 did they leave it in the cage with all the backpacks while they went on the ride?

MrMeSeeks · 28/05/2019 22:52

Yanbu, i’d judge too, and my face would show it! Envy

QuestionableMouse · 28/05/2019 22:58

If someone pukes outside at work, it gets hot soapy water dumped over it and washed down the closest drain.

IncrediblySadToo · 28/05/2019 23:06

Unfortunately I know enough kids that puke frequently (various reasons - non contagious illness, easily over excited etc) that I wouldn’t assume the child needed to not go on the ride. All the ones I know would be fine to go on. So I think there’s a lot of judgement there that is unnecessary.

Potty of wee...really can’t get a steam up about that one. I wish we’d had one for my niece when we were at the theme parks! Little bugger senses when you’re at the furthest point away from one.

I guess at least he tried to remove what he could with the wipes, but they could have used their water bottles too.

How certain can you be they didn’t tell the attendant about the vomit when they were getting on the ride?

Sagradafamiliar · 28/05/2019 23:26

I think I'd be a bit disgusted but I think your actions were more grim considering it was indoors- going over and diluting the vomit with water. So whoever ended up cleaning it up had much more mess to deal with and it would've been running everywhere. Very odd.

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YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 29/05/2019 12:34

Really? I sluiced it to the edgeso people didn’t have to walk through it.

You’ve got to love how people will ALWAYS find a way to sayYABU. Seriously it’s fascinating.

OP posts:
Twickerhun · 29/05/2019 12:39

In stead of the potty thing what would you rather the family had done?
Yeah it’s gross but you surely only take a potty around if your child is still training and needs to wee with not enough notice to get to a toilet. Then you’ve got to empty the potty...

PuppyMonkey · 29/05/2019 12:46

I also wouldn’t have sluiced tbh. I’d have alerted a staff member and kept right out of the way.

SmellbowSmellbow123 · 29/05/2019 12:49

Sorry but it’s minging. Leaving a pile of wipes covered in vom is rank. Leaving the rest of the sick on the floor is rank. My face is appropriately screwed up reading this post op!!

FrancisCrawford · 29/05/2019 12:53

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Sagradafamiliar · 29/05/2019 12:58

Yes really. The vom would've been easier and more contained to clean up once staff put down some sawdust/salt/whatever else they use then swept away. Instead you added water to it, indoors. Not outdoors where it could wash away.
I'd you wanted to help, you could've said, 'watch your step, mind the mess, might want to walk round that' or something.

CaptainMarvellous · 29/05/2019 12:58

Shame the kid couldn't have vomited in the then empty potty

DirtyDennis · 29/05/2019 13:05

Grim. The older I get the less inclined I am to stay silent. I didn't grow up in the UK and I think that's part of it too.

DP cringes and just leaves me to it but I can't help but confront disgusting bastards like this.

I tend to find that once one person (me!) has said something, other chime in and agree.

Mississippilessly · 29/05/2019 13:05

No one in their right sane minds can think this is ok.
But this is AIBU so someone will always find a way!

1forAll74 · 29/05/2019 13:23

Just get over this please, how do you think the child was thinking and feeling.

Kaddm · 29/05/2019 13:39

I am going to suppose that they travelled far and paid a shit tonne of money to try and do something nice for their kid, legoland I expect. Having paid the money and spent ages queuing for anything, they decided to plough on when their kid pissed and sicked because they had invested time and money by now. I can see their point of view and desperation to get the kid the experience they paid for/wanted to give the kid a good life.

It wasn’t me btw Grin my kids are much older but I remember those (quite literally) shitty times.

Most probably the kid was travel or ride sick. One of mine was like that. Puked in car, bus, boat, plane. I never went anywhere without a freezer bag and I am an extremely skilled puke catcher Grin. It is very different to something nasty like noro virus and if the kid is a puker, they would have known the difference.

Krazykitty · 29/05/2019 14:15

Urgh so utterly disgusting, some people are just so gross. If one of my dcs was sick I definitely would’ve left the queue and apologised to everyone nearby, I don’t care how long we’d been waiting, I would think of the other people around me too, just a bit of courtesy.

People amaze me to think that this is reasonable behaviour. As I said, just gross!

breakfastpizza · 29/05/2019 14:47

No one in their right sane minds can think this is ok. But this is AIBU so someone will always find a way!

This.

OP - YANBU at all. We have basic hygiene standards for a reason.

AlaskanOilBaron · 29/05/2019 14:51

Gross, gross, gross.

If a child is vomiting in advance of a ride, obviously you leave the park FFS because taking in the rides is not going to improve the situation.

As for dumping pee, I have no words.

Seren10 · 29/05/2019 14:51

That is absolutely disgusting - I am with you OP!

Anyone OK'ing this needs to give their head a wobble!

AlaskanOilBaron · 29/05/2019 14:53

Just get over this please, how do you think the child was thinking and feeling.

'I want to go home, please'.