That my sister was out of order and should have apologised?

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I'm at my mums for Sunday lunch and sister is here with niece who is 6. My sister has let her bring her roller skates and use them in the kitchen whilst dinner is cooking and she has crashed into the dinner table and knocked a whole up of fizzy drink all over me. I now have to borrow my mums clothes or sit and eat my dinner in soaking wet clothes. She hasn't even apologised. I think she's shows a lack of respect for me or my mums home. My mum has glared at me as if to say shut up and don't say anything.

I now have to borrow my mums clothes or sit and eat my dinner in soaking wet clothes.

I did go back and read it again. OP hasn't clarified which choice she made.

Your sister shouldn’t let your niece skate in the house. It’s just a bit rude really, fine if it was her house and she was happy with it but it’s not really fair doing it in someone else’s house. Equally though, given she is only six, and it was an accident by the sounds of things, I don’t think I could get too bothered. But I have young kids so for me, a fizzy drink would be nicer than the reflux I’m constantly getting covered in😂

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Sounds to me she borrowed her mum’s clothes

Niece is only 6. If not properly parented, this is what will happen. Ridiculous to roller skate in a room where boiling water/hot baking trays is going on. Sister seems like she isn't looking after niece properly. Also disgraceful of your sister not to apologise. Your mum is probably just trying not to piss off your sister as then she'll see her granddaughter less.

Put your clothes in your mum's washing machine and decline the next invitation.

Yes fizzy pineapple haha

I’m not very young and I’d be pissed off too if I got fizzy drink all over me because a child was roller skating in the house and then nobody bothered to even apologise.

Roller in the house (especially in the kitchen) is a bad idea. If you spill something on someone then you apologise. It’s really quite simple IMO 🤷🏻‍♀️

Your sister is an idiot and the child will turn out a brat if this continues. I’d have said something whether others liked it or not. It’s annoying enough to be soaked but there’s potential for even worse accidents in a kitchen.

Next time the niece might get some scolding hot food all over her. Perhaps your sister will then see the benefits of not rolling skating in the kitchen.

Um yeah. 6 year olds should understand to apologise and if they don't it's because their parents have not taught them. It shows a complete lack of respect from both the child and the mother.

It wasn't intentional but it was careless and resulted in something unpleasant. Of course there should be an immediate apology from niece and the child's mother.

What's he get you also complain that young people have no respect these days when something untoward happens to you.

This😂

Just be thankful shes not your kid you can walk away from it.

It was an accident and yes there probably should have been an apology. However, if this happened to my sister I would be pissing myself laughing

Sorry 🤣🤣🤣

My sister has let her bring her roller skates and use them in the kitchen

Why would it occur to anyone to do this?

Why do your Mum & sister think it's OK?

Is your Mum scared to say no to your sister?

Weird!

Why would it occur to anyone to do this?

@diddl

There was a fairly recent thread about kitchen design and there were a surprising number of posts from people claiming to have designed their kitchens specifically to allow for roller skating!?

Clearly OP's mum was not on that thread :-)

people claiming to have designed their kitchens specifically to allow for roller skating!?

Wow!

Well I've never owned a kitchen big enough so it wouldn't occur to me.

@diddl I don't thank many any of the people on that thread did either!

Nah, I doubt I'd sit there in drenched in soaking wet clothes 😂

But then again, I wouldn't start a thread on an internet forum about a 6 year old accidentally spilling a drink on me.

I'd probably tell my sister she was a divvy for bringing roller skates for her daughter and my mum wouldn't be so feeble as to let a 6 year old wear roller skates in a kitchen cooking hot food, but I doubt this scenario would make me come out thinking that young people just don't have any respect these days.

I think that your niece should not be allowed to roller skate in the kitchen while cooking is taking place. It was an accident waiting to happen; and it could have been a much worse one. And it would be more polite if they apologized. However, I don't think you should be thinking of it in terms of lack of respect for you. It's silly and potentially dangerous behaviour, but not a personal slight.

I cannot imagine being so mad at a child that I needed to immediately vent to strangers AND demand an apology from a parent. This is all a whole load of nothing. Drenched in a fizzy drink, really? Did you have a whole barrel of it on the table?

No she sounds justifiably pissed off that her niece js allowed to do run riot in someone else's house.
It's not funny.
What if the kid had knocked into a pan if hot gravy. I'm guessing the,idiots wouldn't find it so funny then.

If you have any say then obviously ban rollerskates from indoors. But if it's your mum's house and she doesn't care then tell your niece to apologise and help you put the clothes in the wash and dry. Too late now but after the event it feels like you lost the opportunity to teach the kid about if you make mess, you clean. If you break it, you replace it. Her mum is a terrible example clearly.
You should not let them in your own house if they won't behave correctly.

Roller skating indoors is ridiculous but I wouldn't be annoyed at the six year old - plus it's not your home you're just a guest the same as your sister. Just laugh it off.

I keep hearing how brilliant today’s children are, so Who are these six year olds who don’t understand respect?

You should have told her off, or accidentally spill some on her too.

Your mother sounds terrified of your sister, who sounds wholly incompetent.