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to expect people not to smoke cannabis around children?

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anya37 · 31/08/2009 16:19

I went to a bbq yesterday with some new friends and although I sort of knew that they all smoked a bit, I was surprised they did it quite openly.

My kids were totally oblivious to it and none of the others noticed either. Is this normal? Am I just a complete prude and out of touch?

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MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/08/2009 19:23

I would not do it, but someone else doing it would make no difference to me or my dc.

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/08/2009 19:25

OP did the stoners have children, or was the issue that they were doing it in front of your dcs?

thesecondcoming · 31/08/2009 19:33

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hercules1 · 31/08/2009 19:34

You cant dictate what other people do around your children. If you objected so much you should have left.

pjmama · 31/08/2009 19:36

I pity the DC of anyone who thinks smoking ANYTHING around them is acceptable.

thesecondcoming · 31/08/2009 19:40

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hercules1 · 31/08/2009 19:41

I don't like smoking around children either but I expect and accept it to happen in gatherings of people.

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/08/2009 19:42

LMAO at sanctimonious giffer

They were OUTDOORS!

victoriascrumptious · 31/08/2009 19:42

I think it's very rude of them not to warn people in advance so that if you are not comfortable with that happening in front of your children you have a choice not to attend.

I wonder how they'd explain away the police arriving to their kids

thesecondcoming · 31/08/2009 19:43

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Sidge · 31/08/2009 19:44

I choose not to socialise with people who drink to excess or use drugs at all, let alone at a daytime occasion where children are around.

So I would have left I think.

pjmama · 31/08/2009 19:48

thesecondcoming - of course I drive, but I don't stuff my DCs head up the exhaust pipe! And since as you state you don't smoke around your kids, then my comment wasn't directed at you was it?

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/08/2009 19:49

The police would have absolutely no interest in attending a bbq where spliffs were being smoked, ffs.

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/08/2009 19:50

And in exactly the same way, pjmama, people were smoking outdoors in the garden where children were present, not giving babies blowbacks

TheDMshouldbeRivened · 31/08/2009 19:51

I'm with sidge. I'm afarid I would have left.

victoriascrumptious · 31/08/2009 19:52

Erm they would round my next of the woods. I don't live in Birmingham or some such place.

I actually have no issue at all with people smoking weed. I do think it's rude however to not check that other people are ok with it

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/08/2009 19:54

ROFL at Birmingham

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victoriascrumptious · 31/08/2009 20:01

I've never been there Crack so I shouldnt judge but I was once on a train that stopped at Birmingham New Street. It was very dark and the people there looked very unheathy and angry looking. I decided not to get off

harleyd · 31/08/2009 20:02

god ifi wentto abbq i wouldbe disappointed if there wasnt any....

harleyd · 31/08/2009 20:02

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victoriascrumptious · 31/08/2009 20:03

Have you been skinning up tonight Harley?

Just curious....you understand

hercules1 · 31/08/2009 20:03

rofl at victoria

victoriascrumptious · 31/08/2009 20:04

Secondcoming, those are all good ideas-keep them coming