To not understand this

[callmebymyname1]

I picked my son up from his childminder last Thursday. I asked the childminder if she’d put everything in his bag like his lunch box, etc and she said yes. Got son home and lunch box was nowhere to be found. I messaged her and she said she’d bring it to school with her on the Friday when she was picking children up.

I waited for her on the Friday to find she’d forgotten it again. We were leaving to go away on Friday night as the schools were off Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

I said to her I’d pop round and get it before we left on Friday night but she said she was going out and if it was ok could she give me it next Thursday (yesterday when she was next picking my son up). I didn’t mind and said ok. Was wanting it back in case it was a nuisance for her.

Anyway, she gave me it back yesterday and my god the smell off it from the food that’s been rotting in it for a week. Fruit and the ends of sandwiches my son had put in.

She actually said to me, god it smells really bad and I couldn’t help but say, did you not think to empty it and clean it? She looked at me like I had three heads.

I’m not expecting people to clean my belongings but where she’s forgotten to give me it back twice!! I kind of thought she’d at least take rotting food from it.

What is wrong with people? AIBU to think keeping a smelly lunchbox full of rotting food in your kitchen for a week without emptying it is odd?

Odd

I with you. Having forgotten to return it, I'd have checked it, emptied it and washed it. Even if YOU'D left it in my house and you'd forgot to come for it, I'd have emptied it and washed it, safe in the knowledge you don't want week old food waste

@SleepingStandingUp

I’m the same. My children’s friends have left their jumpers etc at my house and I’ll stick them in the wash with my own kids and give them back clean. I wouldn’t ever think to leave a lunchbox full of food for a week. It’s horrible.

Weird that she never washed it.

Yes that's so odd. I wouldn't wash a child's jumper though because so many have skin issues but this is just weird.

Some people, I've found, are jaw-droppingly dense at times.

Jumper would depend. Scho style so fsiy indestructible, yeah. Fancy woolen thing, no I'm dangerous. Clean looking, possibly not. Absolutely rammy, yes.

Yeah. I'd probably be shopping around for another one with a bit more awareness really.

My child once brought someone else's lunchbox home by mistake - same design. There was a half eaten sandwich left in it and empty wrappers. I washed it all out before they took it back to school the next day. The other parent who got my child's lunch box had done the same.

Surely it's just common sense to do that.