"Would you mind stopping that now, please" Was I rude?

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dizzydizzydizzy · 05/05/2022 19:12

Lying down with eyes shut on gigantic upcycled bench made of pallets and astroturf.

2 kids ages about 8 jumping off backrest of bench onto seat about 20-30cm from my feet. Their mother was sitting in the bench about another metre from that (the bench is 5m long). They did it about 10 times each and each time they landed by my feet they made the bench vibrate. I then asked them if they could possibly stop doing it.

Their mother told me I was very rude and said I should move to an empty deckchair.
I told her I needed to lie down. She then told her kids to keep jumping.

Was I being rude? Or was she?

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eastegg · 08/05/2022 17:02

Evangeli · 07/05/2022 17:21

I don't know why I find this thread so fascinating.

For me the clincher is the mom telling her kids to "keep on jumping". Whatever moral high ground she held before (and she didn't), once she told her kids to keep on annoying the person who asked them to respect her personal space, she lost it. I mean, who does that??

team OP, mom's the villain. (and I am the mom of 2 high-energy kids who have told them many, many times to watch where they're going or doing and told them off for accidentally violating someone's space, while apologizing to the person).

Yes! A polite request to stop jumping, vs ‘keep on jumping’, and people still side with the mum! It’s like some people just can’t see past the fact that lying down in public is slightly unusual. And think that talking to someone else’s kids is the worst crime you can commit.

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