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To be annoyed that an Insta-mum told DS3 to get out of her photo?

146 replies

Quirk1 · 18/04/2022 14:33

We're on an Easter trail. I get that, for lots of people, it's all about the photos. But seriously, there were A LOT of plastic tat photo oops available. DS3 is busy enjoying "trying to read" a sign, when Insta-mum comes up, kids in tutus, bends down to DS and tells him to get out of shot. Didn't even look around for a parent or whatever! I dutifully removed him, don't worry. Is she a CF, or is it just me not getting with the times??

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Sleepdeprived42long · 18/04/2022 15:12

Something similar happened to us at Harry Potter Studios. Man wanted a clear photo of something and was telling everyone around him to move. I told him it was a busy place and he just couldn’t expect nobody to be in his pictures and we were all there to see what he was seeing too-if everyone did what he was doing, we’d have been there all day waiting! You don’t go somewhere busy and expect to have a picture with nobody in it!

Seems to me a lot of folk now are more interested in how their picture looks to others than actually enjoying and seeing the thing they are looking at or being respectful to people who are also there to see it! Rant over lol!

Lovemyheathershimmer · 18/04/2022 15:14

I would have followed her and photo bombed every photo she took lol 😂 how cheeky!!!

Sally872 · 18/04/2022 15:14

She is very unreasonable. Fine to get a pic and even ok to politely ask someone to move if they aren't doing anything, but absolutely not on to ask someone to stop reading and move.

RobotValkyrie · 18/04/2022 15:16

@girlmom21

I'd have told him to go back and read the sign and take as long as he wanted, loudly, while looking her dead in the eye.

How entitled.

This. She can wait for her turn like everybody else. Sharing fairly and taking turns is a skill all children need to learn... and some adults too, clearly!
DameMargaretofChalfont · 18/04/2022 15:16

Why on earth did you "dutifully remove him"? Confused Confused

You were in the wrong to give in to her demands!!!

Sometimes adults need to be taught manners - OP, you missed a golden opportunity there!!

Rosesandblossoms · 18/04/2022 15:17

We’ve just been at a beauty spot where there are lots of bluebells, and lots of signs to say stick to the paths as If you stand on them they take years to recover. I saw 3 insta-mums sitting ON a patch of bluebells being photographed by their husbands. While their little darlings trampled a batch nearby. People are idiots. YANBU OP.

crumpet · 18/04/2022 15:19

“Don’t worry, he won’t be long”

Moochio · 18/04/2022 15:19

@Rosesandblossoms

We’ve just been at a beauty spot where there are lots of bluebells, and lots of signs to say stick to the paths as If you stand on them they take years to recover. I saw 3 insta-mums sitting ON a patch of bluebells being photographed by their husbands. While their little darlings trampled a batch nearby. People are idiots. YANBU OP.
Destroying the very thing they've come to see. What selfish people.
AnneElliott · 18/04/2022 15:22

I wouldn't have moved him! They should have waited their turn. Different if they were there first and he photo bombed them!

We had this years ago on holiday. 2 German women took exception to H having a photo by a monument and told him to move - well it was in German but I assume that was what they said. H stayed there and crossed his arms and they had to have their photo with him in the background! I something wonder if they've got that in an album or something!

lilkiki · 18/04/2022 15:22

Oh gosh sorry I didn’t realise how old this thread was!!

Glad all is well

lilkiki · 18/04/2022 15:22

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DameMargaretofChalfont · 18/04/2022 15:27

@lilkiki

Oh gosh sorry I didn’t realise how old this thread was!!

Glad all is well

It's only an hour old!!!!

Hardly a Zombie!!!

Chikapu · 18/04/2022 15:28

@lilkiki

Oh gosh sorry I didn’t realise how old this thread was!!

Glad all is well

Wrong thread?
MojoJojo71 · 18/04/2022 15:28

She was just asking to be photobombed. We would have had a fantastic time winding her up 😂

lilkiki · 18/04/2022 15:29

LOOOL yes wrong thread
I think I used a bad word because my acknowledgement of that is awaiting modifications
Sorry for being annoying!

OkPedro · 18/04/2022 15:29

YABU for "dutifully removing" your son. I'd have told her to get lost

MMMarmite · 18/04/2022 15:34

@Sleepdeprived42long

Something similar happened to us at Harry Potter Studios. Man wanted a clear photo of something and was telling everyone around him to move. I told him it was a busy place and he just couldn’t expect nobody to be in his pictures and we were all there to see what he was seeing too-if everyone did what he was doing, we’d have been there all day waiting! You don’t go somewhere busy and expect to have a picture with nobody in it!

Seems to me a lot of folk now are more interested in how their picture looks to others than actually enjoying and seeing the thing they are looking at or being respectful to people who are also there to see it! Rant over lol!

My pet peeve is art galleries. Some people seem to just walk round taking a smartphone shot of each famous painting then move on to the next. Are they going to look at them after? The quality will be shit compared to the real thing. It's probably available higher quality on Google images anyway. Why not use their eyes, right now, to look at the art in full size and real life?
TweetTweetMF · 18/04/2022 15:37

You shouldn't of removed him and just said " please wait your turn, he's not finished yet. No need to rude."
I hate Insta parents, all for the photos not for the actual child's enjoyment. Angry

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 18/04/2022 15:37

Fuck that, I'd have sent a couple more kids to read the sign!

AdoraBell · 18/04/2022 15:38

YANBU I would have joined your DS, with the other DC, to read the sign and explain it to younger DC. Then explain to the CF that it won’t take long to read the sign, if not interrupted of course.

artisanbread · 18/04/2022 15:38

Sorry but I think if you go to a busy Easter trail at Easter you have to expect there might be people in the background of your photos. Expecting anyone to move for you is completely entitled. If someone had told my child to move when they were reading a sign so they could take a picture I would have deliberately stood there longer.

powershowerforanhour · 18/04/2022 15:40

I hope she gets photobombed from now on by a dog doing a shit. Every single time.

Hertsgirl10 · 18/04/2022 15:42

YABU for not saying who insta mum is 😂
Why did you move your son? Unless he was there for ages holding everyone up.

gabsdot45 · 18/04/2022 15:43

We were on holiday last year and we visited a small town which had a town square. At the entrance the name of the town was spelt out in individual large letters. There was a bench in front of the letters . Lots of people, including us, were taking photos of themselves in front of the sign and people sitting on the bench were included in the photo.
Until The main Character arrived. Myself, DH and another man were sitting at the edge of the bench. Mr Main character came along and said "can you scooch up out of the way".
I said no.
He went off on one, were so selfish, we're ruining his photo etc. We would have had to get up and stand to the side while waiting for him to take his photo.
He also asked a girl who was working on a nearby stall to take the photo instead of taking a selfie like everyone else.
Ugh, such an annoying guy.

RachelGreeneGreep · 18/04/2022 15:46

@Georgeskitchen

She's a CF. You should have photo bombed her 🤣🤣
Exactly. Jump into the photo so she got two of you for the price of one.
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