To think she should have let my child have the balloon?

[Bleepbleeep]

We were out earlier at a chain pub style restaurant and they had a stand with some balloons on for children to have.

My son (4) went up to get one which happened to be the last but just as he was going up, a woman at a table closer got up and got it (it was very obvious my son was going for it and she turned around to him and said oh sorry).

She then walked back to her table and gave it to a baby sat in a high chair who couldn't have been over 8 months old.

AIBU to think she should have let my son take it rather than giving it to a baby who basically dropped it after 2 seconds and didn't look at it again.

Shit happens, sorry but I would let something like this go.

I'm obviously not upset over this, it's a balloon 😂 but just curious what others would have done. I couldn't help thinking if it were me I'd have given it to the older child who knew what it was over a baby who has no idea what a balloon is and wasn't really interested if it were the last one there.

I agree with you, pretty mean.

But I would've forgotten it about 2 mins later

YABU to write a whole post on this

Oh I did! I didn't say anything of course. Just curious what others would have done.

Let it be a lesson that everyone thinks their own child is the most important thing in the world. 🤷‍♀️

She's a mean knob

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It's the "oh sorry" that bothers me. She knew what she was doing.

And any normal person would realise a ballin means more to a 4yo than an 8 month old!

Who even gives a baby who is still in the mouthing stage a balloon 🤦🏼‍♀️

YANBU I think its mean but then I think of others.

Yabu to be upset enough to write a thread about it.

Maybe a bit mean of her but you could have just asked staff of there were any more

Snooze you lose. You should have rugby tackled the stand and got in first.

Or just asked the staff to blow up some more??

Yabu, she wanted one for her child just as you wanted one for yours. So what if the baby is 8m, they can still play with it.

actually i would have given it to the 4 year old.

Likewise, why waste the time opening and commenting on a thread you think is so unnecessary.

I would have asked the staff if there were any more balloons as there most certainly will have been.

The saying ‘sorry’ to a 4 yo is dickish behaviour, she knew she was depriving of the balloon that he was on his way over to get.

Yeah, that was a low thing for her to do. Some people are like that, sadly.

Yes, she should have let your little boy have the balloon. I would've done, but I'm nice like that.

Also, OP can start a thread on anything she likes. Ignore those snippy comments @Bleepbleeep

Ah yes it was pretty shitty of her. Obviously just a small thing, but sometimes I think it's the small things that let you know about a person 🤷‍♀️

Agree - mean

Nope, too bad but your 4 year old isn’t owed the balloon anymore than a baby. The balloon would have given them something to entertain the baby with over the duration of their meal. Unless you were sitting there seething and staring at them the entire time you really can’t say the baby only looked at it for 2 seconds.
I thought you were going to say an adult woman had gotten it for herself!

FFS really?

YABU. Buy your kid a balloon.

God that’s horrible of her. I don’t think I’d have been able to avoid saying something tbh. Mean woman. And of course the baby didn’t care.

Pretty mean.
In contrast a wonderful specimen of womanhood offered to swap years ago when she got the last "Princess" kids meal in Maccies. My DD was 3 and hers were 7 and 8. She absolutely got it and said hers would get over it!