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AIBU?

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Original poster

to think that my dcs should have taken their shoes off before climbing on the worktops when we got back from the supermarket?

26 replies

Flibbertyjibbet · 09/11/2009 23:10

They are 3 and 4 and pretty lively so I had them in the trolley. Then when we got home they climbed on the worktop.
In their shoes.
I have to put my shopping and handbag on there fgs.

OP posts:
Claire2009 · 09/11/2009 23:14

Did you not think to ask get them to take them off when you came in?

Clean the worktop, they are 3 & 4 and still young

displayuntilbestbefore · 09/11/2009 23:16

at Flibbertyjibbet

Original poster
Flibbertyjibbet · 09/11/2009 23:16

Ho hum obviously my sense of humour is a bit off tonight, no takers.

Or the quality of mumsnet mickey taking has reduced a lot in the past year

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Original poster
Flibbertyjibbet · 09/11/2009 23:17

oops xpost displayuntil. I was beginning to think you'd all had a sense of humour bypass

OP posts:
Claire2009 · 09/11/2009 23:18

Oops Sorry! Lack of soh here tonight

sprouting · 09/11/2009 23:18

I used to have the same problem. Now I keep a rabbid dog on the worktop and he knocks them to the ground if they start to climb.

displayuntilbestbefore · 09/11/2009 23:19

no bypass here - you were just too quick off the draw!

lockets · 09/11/2009 23:19

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Original poster
Flibbertyjibbet · 09/11/2009 23:21

Glad to have brought a smile to some faces!
Nighty night

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 09/11/2009 23:21
Grin
displayuntilbestbefore · 09/11/2009 23:21

nighty night - but please tell me you don't go outside in your nightie

hormonesnomore · 09/11/2009 23:23

Don't you know you should spray your children with Dettol before letting them climb on the worktop!

MillyR · 09/11/2009 23:26

My DS actually was climbing on the kitchen table tonight. I asked him to clean it and he did so by climbing up on it, and he is 11. I truly despair.

cheesesarnie · 09/11/2009 23:28

terrible children

midnightexpress · 09/11/2009 23:33

Never mind the hygiene issues wrt your shopping/handbag, haven't you thought about the health and safety aspects of allowing your children to clamber all over the worktops? They might slip in meat juices/dog poo or crash headfirst onto your (no doubt too slippery) floor.

juneybean · 09/11/2009 23:42

YABU if you didn't give them grapes.

Kerrymumbles · 09/11/2009 23:42

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busybutterfly · 09/11/2009 23:57

Flibberty thank you thought the entire world had gone mad...

Grendle · 09/11/2009 23:59
Biscuit
Geocentric · 10/11/2009 00:03

We keep a pan of antiseptic at the door to clean our feet in. Then of course we all put on our hospital-grade booties and sterilized gowns. Doesn't everyone???

juneybean, I hope your grapes are ethically sourced? (and disinffected)

Servalan · 10/11/2009 01:00

I actually think this thread is a bit unkind. Sorry.

JjandtheBean · 10/11/2009 01:22

thank you for this and good night!

Booyhoo · 10/11/2009 01:28

unkind?

made me larf. but im in shit mood and would take anything tonight.

Ferncottage · 10/11/2009 21:40

yes flibberty everything was better in the good old days of mumsnet before the Crimean war

pjmama · 10/11/2009 21:49

pmsl

Although to be fair, I am a bit pissed...