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Original poster

To hate the track suit families?

177 replies

GhostlySinCity · 16/10/2008 11:58

Ok, I know the general concencus is going to be that I'm a snob but...

AIBU to get irritated by 'tracksuit' families? By this I mean families who litrally live in tracksuits?

There is a family opposite who have two boys aged 9 and 11. Both of them wear tracksuit bottoms for school (and all other times!) so they basically wear the school jumper, t-shirt etc and scruffy tracksuit bottoms.

Come september when most people buy all new uniform I make a point of wondering if their mum will buy some school trousers for them to go back to school in...

Just before the holidays one year my son was talking to one of them and he said something about his new school trousers...Next day he left the house and it turned out that his mum had bought him NEW TRACKSUIT BOTTOMS to go back to school in!

Another family down the street with boys was out in the driveway one time and their mum said (or screeched!) "oi you two, I've got you some new clothes...but you can't have them now, they're for best!" so the lads ran to the bags and took the stuff out and it was all tracksuit bottoms! And the woman genuinly believed that they were smart and could be born for 'best'

Another lad down the street...just started secondary school...went to school first week all smart in new uniform, 2nd week he left the house in tracky bottoms but with the rest of the uniform still looking nice and smart!

I know it shouldn't, but it annoys me!

OP posts:
BroccoliSpearedThroughTheHead · 16/10/2008 12:00

Tracksuit bottoms?????

THE BASTARDS.

mazzystartled · 16/10/2008 12:00

yep, snob

periwinkle · 16/10/2008 12:01

Perhaps you should get out a bit more, eh?

Tamarto · 16/10/2008 12:03

Why does it irritate you so much?

Original poster
GhostlySinCity · 16/10/2008 12:03

Come on, there must be someone else it annoys!!

OP posts:
bran · 16/10/2008 12:03

Oh yes, definitely full moon.

I should just log off MN now, shouldn't I? This is the third full-moon type thread this morning, and I've only read five or six.

aDad · 16/10/2008 12:04

you're right, the general consensus is going to be that you are a snob.

OrmIrian · 16/10/2008 12:04

Unspeakable.

Original poster
GhostlySinCity · 16/10/2008 12:04

It irritates me so much because its scruffy! chavvy! the kids that wear them are always the same ones out chucking stones at cars and touching other people's property! It just bugs the hell out of me. Is it really so hard to buy school trousers (for £5 a pair!)??

OP posts:
Tamarto · 16/10/2008 12:06

Not very judgmental then

periwinkle · 16/10/2008 12:06

I find your post irritating, actually, but there.

tiredemma · 16/10/2008 12:08

I wish I had time in my life to give a shit about what the kids over the road are wearing.

gemmiegoatlegs · 16/10/2008 12:09

whilst i do think you ar being a bit judgey, i do agree that uniform is there for a reason the clue being in the uni part of the name. As you say school clothes are pretty cheap now, no excuses for not wearing if you have the money to buy other clothes imo

PoppyCoc · 16/10/2008 12:10

I hate people that send the kids to school in tracksuit bottoms. I couldnt care less what they wear any other time of the day. But tracksuits bottoms to school does annoy me

Original poster
GhostlySinCity · 16/10/2008 12:12

yay! I have some support!

OP posts:
pramspotter · 16/10/2008 12:12

What the heck kind of neighbourhood do YOU live in?

Can't stand people who live in tracksuit ghettos. ;)

mazzystartled · 16/10/2008 12:13

maybe they are zip or button-phobic

LadyOfWaffleIsScaryEnough · 16/10/2008 12:13

Tracksuit bottoms?!

But... aside from the fact tracksuit bottoms are heaven I wouldn't send my child to school in them. Do they not get told to wear the uniform trousers?

Tamarto · 16/10/2008 12:14

You hate people who send their children to school in tracksuit bottoms?

You need an outlet for all that aggression there, it's not like they are forcing you to do the same now is it.

jumpingbeans · 16/10/2008 12:16

Get the stick outta yer arse

KimiTrickOrTreat · 16/10/2008 12:16

There is a time and a place for track suit bottoms, school and 24/7 a neither.

If they come out in shell suits shoot them

DoubleBluff · 16/10/2008 12:17

I think you need to find something else to focus on and mind your own business.

PoppyCoc · 16/10/2008 12:17

And you need an oulet for your fussiness tamarto.

'It annoys me when people send their children to school in tracksuit botoms'

Is that better?

thesockmonsterofdoom · 16/10/2008 12:17

God forbid, children should wear comfortable lothes that they can happily play in, my dd2 lives in leggins and she is only 2 you would hate me wouldn't you.

brightongirldownunder · 16/10/2008 12:18

Entire families wearing crocs - now THAT is surely wrong...
And before anyone says it DD wears them, so I'm not a complete snob. Its just when a whole family is out together and they form this rainbow of plastic on their feet...
THEY DO SMELL YOU KNOW.
At least tracksuits don't smell.