Does anyone else find adults on the swings ridiculous?

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Can't really explain why but I find parents who go on the swings at the park so annoying. Just been to the park with my child and the swings are six swings on a wooden frame all facing each other like in a circle.
Extremely annoying dad on the swings going as high as possibly can and nearly kicking all the other kids feet every time he goes into the circle. Like why would anyone feel the need to do that. Especially when other kids have to wait a turn. Don't mind being told I'm miserable but I just find it ridiculous grown man acting like that, that is all.

Nope I love soft play and a good swing. Burn some calories off and have fun with your kids. Mine all little though I’m sure once they are 9/10 they won’t want me in soft play with them 🤣

Adults having fun = YABU and need to stop being a fun sponge

Adults taking spaces whilst children are waiting = YANBU and they should stop being selfish.

I used to do shift work. Once in a while you would find me on the swings in the early hours hoping no one could see me...and complain. DH bought me a swing for Christmas last year. We had to hire a scaffold tower to put it up in the enormous oak tree at the bottom of the garden.

Love going on the swings with my son if there are no children around waiting. Makes me feel like a kid again, so exhilarating!

Couldn't care less what old miseries think tbh.

I always go on the swing as long there's no one waiting. I'm 40. I race my son to see who cab go the highest and I never let him win

I don't see an issues with it unless there are other children waiting, kids love to see parents having fun and getting involved, but obviously if other kids were waiting I'd expect them to get off.

Grown-ups playing on swings that are built for kids always look like ignorant twats.

@MaeveDidIt, I much prefer to look like a twat, than being one.

I'd just allow people to do what they want.

If a child is waiting for a swing I'd never take it and I'd make sure I got off immediately. But I love a good swing.

The man you mention sounds a bit over the top but you sound a bit over sensitive about the whole thing.

In this particular case he sounds like he went too far. But maybe he's been locked up all day working from home and was dying to get some of his energy out and felt like this was a chance for a release.

We never really know if someone is being a knob or just having a really hard time.

Often it can be a bit of both. If something was really bothering me I'd just give a shout of "hey watch out with your feet mate, you might hurt some of little ones" and then give a smile and a thumbs up.

Chances are he was only on there 5 mins and it made him smile and feel better about his day.

If he was hogging a swing when there were children waiting, that would be poor behaviour and I might well speak up and say, 'There are children waiting.' But that wouldn't be because adults shouldn't use the swings per se, simply that the swings are primarily for children and adults shouldn't hog them when there are children waiting to use them.

The OP didn't say that there were children waiting; if she had, I think the response would have been virtually unanimous that the man was being a twat.

If there aren't any kids waiting, I really don't see the issue. Also, parents who play with their kids at soft play is better than those who just sit on their arse and watch.

The simple joy of a swing! I'd love to have a swing built for me in my garden, but I probably wouldn't use one in a kids' play park. Well, I might if there was absolutely no-one else around!

I think you're a teeny bit U. Let hem enjoy themselves for a few minutes.

Simple pleasures wherever you can get them. Life’s too short.

I tried to get in one today but couldn't fit my backside in. I did fit down the slide though!

It’s the same kerazzy parents who climb all over the soft play. Absolute idiots.

Like the thundering idiot who crashed in to my two year old. They shouldn’t be allowed.

I love a swing.

Higher and higher.

Lie back, feet out, close my eyes, wheeee, I am flying.

I am as heavy as any man.

Surely you won't mind if I hit your child and put it in hospital. After all I am entitled to MY fun.

Sheesh, the replies on this thread, adult desires over child safety much?

You cannot stop a swing quickly if doing anything but a gentle swing. An adult hitting a child is going to do a significantly higher amount of physical damage than another child would.

Accidents can and do happen.

I couldn't live with myself if I broke a child's neck because I wanted a bit of fun.

Helicopter parent because I sit and play with my child rather than letting them roam free for an hour?

Nah, I'm just a parent.

Something you don't really understand.

It’s life and it’s nice to see people having fun with kids! And I’ve never see adults nearly kicking kids. I’ve seen families laughing and having a good time and that makes me happy ! In a world becoming increasingly dark and many bad things happening. I think this is really sad to be annoyed by this. Maybe you need to look deep within you , I imagine you are easily annoyed by a lot

It’s kind of sad to dismiss others who have had children be crashed in to by grown men. How awful to write that off as having fun. Still in these dark times people take pleasure where they can

I can take or leave a swing.. but a giant metal slide landing in a sand pit, I cannot resist! I sometimes put the dog on my lap because she enjoys the wind in her hair too.

Nah I think the playground is fun. And nothing bad will happen if a kid has to wait their turn. Even for an uncle knobhead on a swing!

I am just about to buy a large suitable-for-adults swing for my garden

[quote namechangetheworld]@titnomatani

There are plenty of ways of engaging with your kids at the park without acting like at attention seeking dick and hogging equipment that other kids could be using. Clearly you lack imagination.

Anyway, any valid points you might have been making were quickly invalidated when you used a hashtag and the ridiculous term Karen. Are you even old enough to have children..?[/quote]
Lemme guess, your name is Karen...