Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

After being ‘told off’ in front of a group to leave group after

228 replies

31133004Taff · 23/08/2020 19:05

Group activity. I OK’d it with assistant group lead to basically go to the loo. I inadvertently caused a 5 minute delay in the group activity. It’s a social group. When I returned, I was told off by the group lead in front of the whole group.

When told off, I agreed not to do this again. I felt awful.

I’d really like the activity and if I left there is no alternative locally.

How do I get past the humiliation of being told off. WWYD?

Perhaps this group lead is too hard core for me? Perhaps the lead was acting in response to complaints from the group?

OP posts:
PatriciaPerch · 23/08/2020 21:38

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

mumoflittlemice · 23/08/2020 21:38

@EggyPegg wasn't it just?!

Everything I came for tonight, I found. Smile

Beachbodylonggone · 23/08/2020 21:38

Next time take a she wee and piss on her shoes...

ChristmasCarcass · 23/08/2020 21:40

I knew it would be walking! My mum's local group has a retired older gentleman leading it, and he is similarly...officious. She said trips with them were like being an extra in Dad's Army. Nothing else to do with his time and nobody else to boss about since he retired, so he takes it out on the Ramblers chapter.

She drives over to the next town and walks with them instead. You should do the same. Honestly, there are so many walking groups in the country that you don't need to hang out with the Toilet SS.

NiceGerbil · 23/08/2020 21:41

Walking?

They couldn't wait a couple of minutes to start a walk??!!

That's bonkers and hilarious Grin

feistyoneyouare · 23/08/2020 21:43

I'd be out of there. I'm an adult and won't tolerate being spoken to like a child.

HerRoyalNotness · 23/08/2020 21:45

That’s really odd. Did they expect you to squat on the side of the trail 10mins later?

IDontLikeZombies · 23/08/2020 21:46

Walking? No way! I've been amusing myself imaging all the things that might have been seriously affected by stepping aside to relieve one's self.
I was thinking about that bit at the end of Flash Gordon 'Flaaash, aah, ahh, he'll save everyone of us' in 5 mins when he's back from the loo.
Or maybe whichever Henry it was (V maybe) wouldn't have had any success in the breach if he'd waited until after he'd visited the back of a bush?
At a push, maybe even heart surgery or some kind of Sliding Doors affair but walking? That didn't even make it onto the list.

mumoflittlemice · 23/08/2020 21:48

@Wavescrashingonthebeach make that 3 times!! Grin ahahahahah! DH asking what I am laughing at while I LOL (lol!!!) at stick up their arse

Oh my god, who even am I?

IDontLikeZombies · 23/08/2020 21:49

Also.just wondering if anyone else is proofreading their posts like crazy before posting? 😂

IDontLikeZombies · 23/08/2020 21:51

ChristmasCarcass Grin

midlifecrash · 23/08/2020 21:52

I've only read 2 pages but am offering 6/4 on this being some kind of diet related shit

Redcups64 · 23/08/2020 21:53

Walking!!!! WALKING!!!!

😂😂😂😂😂🤣🐴🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

that’s made my day!

(Notice the horse typo....autocorrect done that)

ThaGugaBlasta · 23/08/2020 21:54

Maybe they thought you should do a Paula Radcliffe and just peel off for a bush-based loo break once they were underway?

midlifecrash · 23/08/2020 21:56

ok i was completely wrong, luckily no takers

mumoflittlemice · 23/08/2020 21:56

@IDontLikeZombies haha, yes totally! Grin

BlackeyedSusan · 23/08/2020 21:57

wwid? remind them of the equality act.... since my condition means I need to pee more. but then I would not be walking anyway as it also means walking is painful.

giantangryrooster · 23/08/2020 22:00

Arrwhh come on a nazi walking group leader?

I sort of imagined it to be much more juicy Grin. Thought you were an aspiring biker or member of the ferocious embroidery club or even hell's grannies.

As pp, buy a she wee and soak the group leader.

(Don't kill me for language or spelling, I'm forrin, runs for cover).

Hotwaterbottlelove · 23/08/2020 22:00

Some kind of circuit or CrossFit group? Where people can't start without starting together?

Hotwaterbottlelove · 23/08/2020 22:01

Oh I'm way behind! Stupid old phone.

Merryoldgoat · 23/08/2020 22:03

How in the name of fuck does an adult allow themselves to be told off for going to the toilet?

CircleofWillis · 23/08/2020 22:09

@Merryoldgoat

How in the name of fuck does an adult allow themselves to be told off for going to the toilet?
My uncle was arrested once for going to the toilet... or rather... as we are being pedantic on this thread... I suppose he was actually arrested for NOT going to the toilet but peeing against a building instead.
allthewaytoboomer · 23/08/2020 22:10

I was really hoping this was cheerleading and you were at the bottom of the triangle.

SilentSally · 23/08/2020 22:11

Hardcore walking group?

So it’s like a running group then?

piss on the group leader next time

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 23/08/2020 22:11

@mumoflittlemice i too am giggling in bed

@IDontLikeZombies

Omg. I always thought it was "Flash! AHH! SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE!" Are you telling me ive had it wrong all these years?

And i made a fatal flaw of their / there in my haste to correct my first post.. oops Halo