DD’s friends have absolutely destroyed my carpet.

[MyOwnBestFriend1989]

I don’t even know the point in posting this but DH is on a business trip and all my friends are probably watching the England match so have got no one to rant to.

my DD (12) had her friends over today and they went to B&M or wherever it was (honestly couldn’t care less at this point) and bought some of those stupid stress toys. They’re the ones filled with fluorescent, possibly radioactive, liquid and you squeeze them. when they came back they were instantly playing tug of war with them, jumping on them and just stretching them beyond their limits. I said, in no unclear terms, “if one of those pops and goes all over my carpet I’m going to hit the roof”. Obviously I got the whole “we’ll be careful!” reassurance, and please don’t ask me why I didn’t confiscate the toys off them because I honestly don’t know!

i was downstairs catching up on Eastenders and one of the girls comes down looking guilty and sheepish and disappears into the kitchen. She comes out clutching my Zoflora and I instantly ask her “what do you think you’re doing with that”, she claims the girls were “just making potions”. My response was “not with my Zoflora you’re not now what’s the real reason.” Cue her bursting into tears shouting “we didn’t mean to!”. My stomach dropped.

I’ve marched upstairs and there it is - a, what can only be described as marinated, ocean blue stain clearly smeared into my cream carpet. Not only that, there was also some scrunched up bits of toilet paper in it which had a faint blue tinge to it meaning they had obviously rubbed it in in an attempt to get it out.

i have to give myself credit for I didn’t scream or shout at the girls: I said “girls, you have half an hour to ring your parents and get them to collect you.” There were no arguments and rightly so.

it is now 11pm and I’m yet to receive an apology text from one of the parents - not that a “sorry” WhatsApp message will pay for my carpet to be professionally cleaned.

don’t know what the point is in posting this but just deflated to be honest. Unless of course anyone has any advice on how I can get this stain out or indeed on how to passive aggressively message the parents to imply that I do indeed want to be indemnified for a professional clean.

I don’t know why you lied to be honest. I’d have told them their darling child was responsible to see the reaction. I bet the children said fuck all to their parents.

Huh? You think the ops child and her bear no responsibility?

Making potions with Zoflora? I love the imagination 🤣

I'd try to remove the stain. Cream carpet isn't sensible...

You seem to snap quite often 😕

Goodness knows why you lied, how are they going to know what to clean it with? And if their daughter did tell her parents why she had to be picked up early you're going to look like a crazy woman.

Why are you only blaming the friends and not your own daughter, who had invited them and who was effectively in charge of them?

Of course they won’t have told their parents, and you don’t know which of them actually caused the damage anyway. You can’t expect all the parents to pay for your carpet.

You're weird for lying about the kind of stain to a professional. Also, you told your daughter's friends to disclose to their parents why they'd been sent home, so lying is useless. This thread is messier than a stain on your carpet.