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

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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??

Having thought the process through and been proactive in the distribution of the savoury snack, you are infinitely the better parent, and so reign supreme over these shortsighted women.

This thread sure has brightened up a Monday morning.

next year make your own crisps and personalised packaging.

bet the teachers loved you as you provided a nice easy job for them. keep up the good work and hope your dd is rewarded with the time they saved with your plate. merry christmas

LOL at SnowLeopard. You haev a gift for retorts.

They were unreasonable and rude, as someone said earlier, bitchy, bullying behaviour you don't expect from grown ups.

But YAB a bit U to be confrontational in front of your daughter TBH. Doesn't set a good example.

well as an ex teacher I would have loved what you did, it is hard having 30 kids trying to help themselves out of various bags & packets at these "do's". Also hard to get rid of/save left overs. i always took in my own plastic bowls and plates for dishing it up into. And clingfilm to save leftovers for the next day/sending home etc

Nasty bitches! Just ignore them, they obviously have nothing better to do.

as it is my DD's xmas party tomorrow, i have decided to take crisps on a cling film-ed paper plate as a tribute to the OP.

i will stand firm

I wouldn't of put them on a plate, but if one of the other parents had I wouldn't even of noticed, what an odd thing for people to comment on.

lol @ plate (in a nice way) mine would have been dragged sent to school with a multibag still in the carrier bag...........purchased at the co op on the way to school. After she has reminded me 5 minutes after we are due to leave the house that we need crisps for the party Oh how I wish I was organised enough to remember the crisps let alone plates.

If anything similar happens again just remember people who have the time/inclination to pay that much attention to what you are doing must lead very boring and unfilling lives. Tell them to try having more sex

Maybe your fancy paper plate with covered crisp bags in cling film was all it took to make the feel totally inadequate.

Plate sounds ok to me. I wouldn't have thought of it but you sent something in for the crisps to be served on. No problem.

What crisps did you send? Next year bugger the lot of them and send kettle crisps or other posh ones (Quavers girl me, know nothing about crisps!)

YANBU - they are rather sad if they think that's important enough to comment on. Just ignore them, they sound very childish.

blinks - lol, lol.

Reminded me of Wolfie!

I wouldn't have attempted to put crisps on a plate in the school playground. Far too windy. It would have been a crisp buffet for the sea gulls.

Just ignore the stupid cows. The highlight of their day is probably watching Jeremy Kyle.

loobeylou - you wouldn't really send leftover crisps home would you? surely no one would want them after 30 hands had been mauling them. yuck.