to find a Dad doing an impression of donkey on a train a nnoying

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ok on train
dad comes on wiht a d of about 3 eating an apple and a ds of about 6/7
ds played nintedno
after 5 mins LOUD parenting where we ALL knew where they were goign and what Heducational Hactivities to do, the dd ate her apple.
the dad coudl nto refrain himself from a nnoying her.
so he started doing THAT NOISE donkey does on Shrek when he is on the way to far far away castle here - the POP sound
then the dd carried ona dn carefully ignored him
i wanted to Say LEAVE HER ALONE FGS

LOUDparenting
dad

" then what are we going to do"

dd " get off the train"

dad"when we have done that"
girl

then we are going to get the BUS and go to the ROMAN ruins

SHUT UP DAD FROM WARMINSTER

And who exactly is Honeybehappy when she's at home?

He sounds like a pillock. But not as big a pillock as the bloomin' moron-mother in the supermarket today, who let her small boy walk around tooting a whistle ffs.

OH NO NO NO
i take your whislte and raise it to

travle hungry hippos on a VV early morning vomit comet from poole to cherbourg in 2007

what fuckign parents thought thatw as a good idea

It's worth paying for first class if you can - nobody takes their kids in there.

Failing that, I love the quiet coach. It's great - once you have asked a fresh round of muppets to please be quiet after every station, it's really quite peaceful

I get free first class travel and I take 3 kids in there! But we try to keep the donkey impersonations to a minimum

Oh God I had some British Museum refugees on the tube home tonight. Poor little mites.

Parents trying to get them to read out bits from the catalogue ffs. Kids reply: "are we going to Pizza Express now?"

poor gits

And Mother replied, "yes and it's a SPECIAL TREAT because it's HALF TERM" just in case we didn't get that normally they'd be going home for tofu casserole.

god that is so accurate

I clicked on this thread because I thought the dad's donkeyness was going ti turn to be more, ahem, interesting.

lol

at interesting donkey impression.
I'll never forget the time I saw a donkey's interesting donkey impression. It WAS really interesting, but it's not done to stare at it in the company of fellow ramblers, is it?

( in the style of the dad)

We had a museums day today and they were full of over-demonstative dads. The mums were generally happy to ignore their children let their children wander, but the dads were pretty much to a man loudly explaining the finer points of crocodilian taxonomy...

And it's all somehow so much more annoying when they crouch down to get on the child's level.

oh god
this one even annoyed ds2 who started a convo about him the next day!!!
it was SO loud parenting.

DH would if I let him I think. I do have to hiss "over-demonstrative Dad" at fairly regular intervals. However, this is only true when there is a Science slant. In art galleries, he's more likely to yell "what the hell's that doing in here?". Not sure which is worse. Usually schedule museum days for weekdays in school holidays...

now I am imagining yr dh as ANY of the three men from the IT crowd in an art gallery, FM.

Have showed this to DH and he is in fact somewhat flattered by your suggestion onebat

He was very proud when I showed DS a Picasso, and DS said "Oh yes, we did Picasso at school. We had faces and we had to stick the eyes and noses and ears in the wrong places..."

Many, many years ago I was on a train going to a meeting. I was looking out of the window, saw something interesting and completely forgot that I wasn't actually with DS and said very loudly 'Ooh look, a llama!'

Fortunately the businessman [a parent himself] sitting opposite me was very understanding

I now keep thinking of Dr Guy Secretan from green wing.

Anyway back on topic, the dad is probably one of those Colin Hunt office-type twats - I'm mad I am, look at me, I can do donkey noises. YANBU. You should have sat there and moo'd really loudly.

do you know I was really hoping it was the donkey and not the dad that was on the train...

you would hate dh, he does a fabulous elephant-trumpeting noise

A boss I had once was sitting opposite an annoyingly loud twat. She is uber cool ex headmistress and she said nothing but passed them a note something along the lines of she didnt want to make a scene by saying something out loud but if they didn't shut the fuck up then she would and they would look even more of a knob than they already did only she said it more poshly and without swearing. Worked a treat.

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