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Original poster

I judged. I am curious to know how the always impressive Mumsnet anti-judgers are going to excuse this one...

88 replies

DuffyFluckling · 22/04/2009 09:36

At the swimming pool. Woman and friend plus ds of about 4 and dd of about 2. Children having a lovely time. Every once in a while one or other of the children would turn a delicate shade of green and the mother or friend would hoik them over to the side of the pool where they would be copiously sick in the bushes. Child would sit quietly for a few minutes, before leaping back into the pool and continuing having lots of fun.

Now surely, either
(a) the children have a tummy bug, in which case take them home before my children and everyone elses get it, thanks.
or (b) the children have some sort of non-contageous, long standing allergy or something, in which case be more organised than to let them vomit in the bushes by the pool where everyone is playing.

Can I judge in horror? Or is there a perfectly uderstandable and reasonable explanation for this?

OP posts:
JustCallMeGoat · 22/04/2009 11:12

barbie that was a fairly ridiculous and offensive post

screamingabdab · 22/04/2009 11:17

Judge away !!!!!

If other AIBUs are anything to go by, though,someone could come up with some non-germy medical reason for the vomming, and then we'll all feel really guilty.

Still disgusting to witness though.

gagamama · 22/04/2009 11:20

I puked IN a swimming pool once, when I was about 8. That went down well.

That is very weird though, but I guess without examining the, erm, product I guess you can't be totally sure that they were puking and not just spitting out/coughing up water... but even if they were, it's pretty fucking weird to let them keep swimming if they keep nearly drowning!

screamingabdab · 22/04/2009 11:24

LOL gagamamma

Original poster
DuffyFluckling · 22/04/2009 12:10

They were puking! I doubted my own eyes so had a casual glance in the bushes as I walked over to the waterchute. Twas vomit. Sorry.

And they were an ethnic minority actually. They were French.

OP posts:
Gorionine · 22/04/2009 12:19

Thanks god I was not there! Usually seing someone being sick triggers me to be sick too! I can just imagine the horrible situation for any onlookers!

YANBU at all!

I think you might actually with this thread enter the very select hall of fame of OP who do not seen YABU at all!

I do "admire" your strengh for going to check it was actually sick!

did the DCs look like that [green]

OrmIrian · 22/04/2009 12:24

What an odd OP.

I don't think anyone would want to say this was OK

ingles2 · 22/04/2009 12:25

Actual vomit!? YUK... YANBU.
one of my boys used to try and swim underwater, when he was tiny, with his mouth wide open he was always coughing up half the pool much to my embarrassment.
I thought you were going to say that.

Sassybeast · 22/04/2009 12:31

Perhaps it was the fact that some other minger let her kid poo in the bushes and every time the poor kid was dragged over there to be sick, the smell just made her feel worse ?

OrmIrian - some of the au naturel poo and pee mums will be along promptly to say that depositing human waste in a public place is perfectly acceptable

missmiss · 22/04/2009 12:44

Yuk. I vomited in a swimming pool once; in my defence, I was eight and three-quarters of the way through swimming my mile. My mother told me keep going...

yappybluedog · 22/04/2009 12:51

this is why I hate taking dd swimming

it's like human soup

elliott · 22/04/2009 12:54

Is said swimming pool in France or in England?
Maybe they do things differently there....

hmc · 22/04/2009 12:57

Not only would I have deeply judged, I would have reported it

Idranktheeasterspirits · 22/04/2009 13:00

YANBU to judge.

YABU to go and check on the spewed item and then continue on to the waterslide. I would have complained voiciferously and left.

barbie1 · 22/04/2009 14:10

wasnt meant to be offensive! simply trying to say that i live in a strong expat community abroad and its very much like home, however there are very many maids looking after children here who are not from england (not be racist, its true) who think that things which we would be horrified at totally acceptable...ie peeing in the pool, spitting etc etc Just wondering if that was the case. Maybe the person written about in the op's post didnt think it was strange at all! Its one of the things i had to get used to living over here....sorry if i offended anyone

MayorNaze · 22/04/2009 14:13

oh i would judge judge and then judge some more.

ick and more ick.

in blighty my friend was mortified - she took her baby dd to baby swimming at 9am - after being in the water for a minute baby swallos some water and is promptly sick - pool closed for rest of day!

squeaver · 22/04/2009 14:17

Of course you're right to judge - gross.

But - seriously - why did you stay in the pool? I'd have been out of there pronto.

DSM · 22/04/2009 14:22

OP - that is disgusting. Why would you stay? I would have had to leave.

Barbie - your posts are ignorant and racist. Think it is fitting that you say the maids are not from 'England', as if it is some superior country.

barbie1 · 22/04/2009 14:29

dsm i am the most un racist person you would ever meet!..
Do you want me to name the countries in which the maids come from??? all im saying is that different people believe different things are acceptable, forgive me if that didnt come across in my post...

junglist1 · 22/04/2009 14:29

I would have screamed, hate vomit. Unbelievable, but not uncommon. I had to sit on a bus with a 10 or so year old puking into a carrier bag, and coughing up green stuff. Was shooting the mother real evils when the boys head was in the bag so he couldn't see. And yes I got off the bus early.

CatBumFaceSuckingOnLemons · 22/04/2009 14:32

purses lips @ barbie, consider yourself judged

SallyJayGorce · 22/04/2009 14:32

Maybe they are engaged in an experiment. Or misguided but altruistic and attempting to boost other children's immune systems by sharing vomit and bacteria. Or maybe it wasn't a bug - maybe the kids had hangovers.

MmeLindt · 22/04/2009 14:33

Eek, that is disgusting. They should not even think about going swimming if the DC are ill.

You have my permission to judge.

pagwatch · 22/04/2009 14:34

a cat bum face sucking on lemons AND pursing lips. What a mental image......

SouthernLights · 22/04/2009 14:36

I'd be a bit more lenient on junglist1's bus incident - the boy might have been travel sick, and the mother might have had no other means of getting him home. But no, I don't think repeated vomiting in a bush would make me think continuing with the day out was appropriate...