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To have had a go at these 'mums' in the playground?

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innapropriate · 15/12/2008 12:18

It's DDs christmas party today and we were asked to take crisps in. So I sent DD with a paper plater with four packets of crisps on it (still in their bags obviously) covered with cling foil.

When we got to the school gate DD ran off to play and then returned to say I had to take the crisps off the plate as her friends were taking the mick out of her. All of the other kids that had taken crisps had just taken a multipack bag of crisps in as they are.

I told her not to be silly and to cut a long story short, when I walked her to her line I heard one of the other mothers saying to her son "give me your biscuits so I can present them on a plate nicely with clingfilm" and she and a few other mums started laughing.

DD was looking daggers at me so I asked the woman if she had a problem and she said "no, I just don't like the way you have to try and go one better than everyone else all the time". All this because I put the crisps on a bloody plate??

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FrostytheSurfmum · 15/12/2008 12:37

Now you've got me wondering how to send in the cherry tomatoes on ...

CrackopentheBaileys · 15/12/2008 12:38

next year use icing sugar as glue and cocktail sticks to arrange them into a 3d model of santas grotto......

Gorionine · 15/12/2008 12:39

Put the cherry tomatoes in his/her coat pockets

CatchaChristmasStar · 15/12/2008 12:39

Why does it matter if you put them on a plate or not? Fail to see that as being an issue at all!

The point is these women were rude. Ignore them and thank your lucky stars you have nothing to do with them. No you were not unreasonable.

Personally I would have put them in a bowl.

chequersandroastedchestnuts · 15/12/2008 12:40

They were rude. Why are they 'mums' though?

Tn0g · 15/12/2008 12:40

Hee hee - crackopen

You should have made a crisp tower with a big sparkly candle on top just for good measure

Flibbertyjibbet · 15/12/2008 12:41

Next time send a pinapple and cheese cocktail stick 'hedgehog' thingy and accidentally leave it in its bag on the offending mother's chair

Oh, you won't be able to take anything with cocktail sticks within 500 miles of children will you HEALTH AND SAFETY !!!!

nappyaddict · 15/12/2008 12:41

They probably just thought it was a bit odd. I would have just put the packets of crisps in a bag along with a paper plate if the school weren't providing plates.

Tn0g · 15/12/2008 12:42

Competitive crisping.

Perhaps you could make it an annual event.

kormaisforlifenotjustchristmas · 15/12/2008 12:44

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FrostytheSurfmum · 15/12/2008 12:45

What sort of crisps? Own brand or kettle chips? Maybe they had a point .

JoDeeMagi · 15/12/2008 12:45

I nominate this thread for the Mumsnet Classics section!

HSMM · 15/12/2008 12:45

Your poor daughter. My daughter hates it when I do something different to the other Mums, but I just try to do the right thing.

Sherbert37 · 15/12/2008 12:47

LOL at 'competitive crisping'. That has cheered me up.

poshwellies · 15/12/2008 12:51

Instead of the walkers multipack thrown in a co-op carrier bag,next time,I'm gonna be sending in Burts crisps on a wooden platter.

Let the witches glare at my competitive crisping..ner.

Libraloveschristmas1975 · 15/12/2008 12:52

I don't get this, sounds sensible to me if you are asked to provide crisps for a party then I would have presumed they would want to put the crisps on something so everyone can help themselves, the same reason I put crisps in a large bowl when I have people round for supper/party. The clingfilm makes sense as no child is going to walk carefully enough to keep the packes on the plate until they get to the classroom.
My DS is only 5 months but he is obviously destined to be bullied because of his strange mother.

ingles2 · 15/12/2008 12:52

how weird. I would have thought sticking the packets on a plate quite sensible. Open packets, pour on plate, cover with cling film.
What's odd about that?

FrostytheSurfmum · 15/12/2008 12:53

Shall I make 30 little Rudolphs and have each tomato as a nose?

Tn0g · 15/12/2008 12:56

Do it!

hecAteAMillionMincePies · 15/12/2008 12:58

You always go one better seems like she has an ishooooo with you. Any idea why? Any truth in it? Some people see making any effort as some sort of insult Like you are making a statement about them, or something, maybe, actually, such sillyness is something I find hard to understand, so I am no doubt talking bollocks.

donnie · 15/12/2008 12:59

this is such a great thread. You can't make this stuff up, you know.

Pmsl @ 'competitive crisping'.

donnie · 15/12/2008 13:00

FWIW there is nothing wrong with crisps on a plate with clingfilm!!!

Lockets · 15/12/2008 13:01

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DoesntChristmasDragOn · 15/12/2008 13:02

I think it's a little bizarre to put the unnopened packets on a plate covered with cling film - have you not heard of over packaging??

I do think it was rude of the other mother to make a joke/be rude about it in front of the children (or at all really).

harleyd · 15/12/2008 13:02

why cant they just have their own packet.
30 little pairs of dirty fingers pawing all over the same crisps
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww