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.

Yabvu

Erm , sharing my personal history is vile? Well pardon me for being sensitive to loud noises and the inexplicable disappearance of a plaything…….

’personal history’, don’t be so bloody dramatic 😂. I hope you’ve been able to access suitable therapy to explore the trauma of a bursting balloon

That made me laugh and laugh! 😁

No, but linking it approvingly to a mother being deservingly punished through her baby developing a lifelong phobia was.

Poor little boy, I can imagine his excited little face falling. I would have picked it up when the baby discarded it and given it to him pr ordered an ice cream or something to cheer him up

Oh another one wishing distress on a baby and thinking they're hilarious....🙄

I think was this thread has taught me is that an awful lot more people than I realised have not yet worked out that them and theirs are not really being paid attention to by strangers.

Because OP was focussed on her little one walking to get a balloon, she was completely unaware that no one else in the pub had any idea this was happening. Presumably all the, frankly mad, posters wishing hellfire on that Mother’s head also have no idea that no-one else around them is paying any attention to them either. And their mad revenge fantasies are fueled through all the times strangers in their lives have unwittingly ‘wronged’ them through failing to be aware of their existence and motivations.

So, here’s a lesson for you. You are not important to the random people around you. They are not observing your actions, they are not thinking about your motivations and they certainly don’t share your belief that you are more deserving than them.

I think we need more information because we can really make a judgement call.

How long before the attack had the 4 year old set out on his quest for the balloon?

Waa he on horse back or on foot? (The horse would make it more obvious, giving that woman less of an chance to excuse herself.)

How close to the ballon did the attack happen?

Was it a sneak attack? Or did the women's intelligence unit calculations allow here to clear the area before the 4 year old had even entered the ballon area? (Studies have shown this is generally seen as 1 meter circular area with the balloon at the centre.)

What colour was the balloon?

Im glad im not the child of some of these posters.

Not only the obvious bat shit crazy ones who are seeking revenge on a baby but also the fucking martyrs who constantly claim they would willing deprive their kids of things for strangers.

But of course I fully believe its MN bolstering and they wouldn't take stuff away from their kids or actually leave their kids without something for the sake of randomers because NO ONE acts like that.

Its not saintly to always put your own children last and doesnt come across as selfless as you hope to look.

He's 4... I don't think his face fell before he spent the evening lamenting the lost balloon.
Honestly, I would find a stranger sending an ice cream over to my child to be very, very creepy.

No I would only have bought him an ice cream if he was my kid. Otherwise that's just plain weird 😀

You've tripped up, you originally said it happened to someone you know.

yep 😂

I think the (sniffs dramatically) is a rather large clue that it happened to her

It was the happened to someone I know that made me think it, well, wasn't her. 😁
Either way, still very dramatic!
MN is a funny old place sometimes, we're all up in arms about a balloon. 😂

THIS.

The selfish gene.

Never underestimate the power of a mere Balloon!

I remember getting a 'Gas' balloon , my first ever, in a London Department store as a child {It was green} I let it go by accident, and saw it drift upwards and bounce around the ceiling of the shop ..The Staff {male} went and got really tall old wooden step ~ ladder and got it back for me!

One of my early memories.

Thanks to the staff. {Wish I could remember the name of the shop, it had a Children's dept}.

Nothing?

Zombie thread 🙄

How do these Zombies end up on people's feeds? They should be closed after a month.

She was mean. As if the baby would have give a hoot after two seconds!

ZOMBIE THREAD
WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS???

Absolutely this.

Surely a chance to explain to your 4 year-old that there was only one left and someone else got there first?

Yes, I get that it wasn't nice for him, but it's good to start early in teaching children about this kind of thing - otherwise it could lead to entitlement. Sometimes life doesn't seem fair - but there'll be a time when your child is the lucky one and someone else misses out.

I've seen lots of cases where young children, who are old enough to understand this concept, have clearly been brought up to think that no cloud should ever cross their sky, and it's not a good look.

(Also - balloons - grrrrr!)