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AIBU?

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to give my friend's kids 2 packets of Skittles in secret?

73 replies

SuperSmartMum · 07/03/2010 21:17

Hi there, new on here so go easy on me - I'm a luittle bit shy. Anyway, bit of background info - I'm a mum of two kids - River (4) and Mercedes (3) and they're great kids who I love to bits, would do anything for and treat them like little celebs!!

Anyway, my best friend and her husband have been staying this weekend and their kids have been an absolute nightmare. Moaning, whinging, getting up early, demanding to be bought stuff in every shop we went in Saturday and Sunday, running around the pub when we were supposed to be having lunch, using their straws as pea-shooters this morning in McDonalds - you name it, they did it. Proper annyounbg OPKs!

Anyway, my best friend and gher husband are a bit stuck up - you know the sort, checking how much salt is in everything, insisting on veg withy everything for their kids, having such a routine on what their kids eat and at what time - you know the sort, just general 'we're better parents than you' type snootiness. We gave their kids Easter Eggs and they were immediately whipped out of their hands

Anyway, they were travelling back to Durham tonight but as pay back for thier behaviour and as a two-fingers up to 'Mr and Mrs Perfect Parents', I secretly gave both kids two packets of Skittles to consume upstairs in River's bedroom without the Snoots knowing - I read somewhere that Skittles make kids go proper dizzy and hyper so that should make the journey home a lively one!!!

Anyway, that's not me being unreasonable when your best friend turns up with two rotters and proceeds to spoil your weekend with their 'perfect' routines?

OP posts:
jenduff · 07/03/2010 21:19

[hmmm]

ASecretLemonadeDrinker · 07/03/2010 21:19

1/10

jenduff · 07/03/2010 21:20

gah too many ms should have previewed

differentID · 07/03/2010 21:20

you sound as bad as each other.

If you dislike them as much as you seem to, why are you friends with them, anyway?

TootaLaFruit · 07/03/2010 21:21

Anyway....

GetDownYouWillFall · 07/03/2010 21:21

and this is your best friend?

rubyslippers · 07/03/2010 21:21

snort @ treat them like little celebs ...

do they have agents?

botox for breakfast?

EcoMouse · 07/03/2010 21:21

pedastool?

heQet · 07/03/2010 21:21

They're not that stuck up re food if the kids are having McDonalds!

And yes. YABU. You don't take it upon yourself to give someone else's children something that their parents don't allow them, because you want to stick two fingers up at the parents!

You wouldn't like someone to undermine your parenting, so don't do it to someone else.

And if you don't like these people - don't have them in your life any more! It's not rocket science.

Rindercella · 07/03/2010 21:22

Just 2 questions...

What's an OPK?

And fucking hell, do they really serve vegetables in McDonalds????? Who'd have known?

itsmeitsmeolord · 07/03/2010 21:22

Dull. You forgot to put fruitshoots in there somewhere.
Does your friend wear Boden perchance?

ILovePlayingDarts · 07/03/2010 21:23

If Mr & Mrs Perfect Parents are so paranoid, why were they in McDonalds? That's they last place I'd go (no, I'm not being precious, I simply don't like the taste)

lagrandissima · 07/03/2010 21:23

This has to be a creative writing assignment...

tiredlady · 07/03/2010 21:25

Welcome to mumsnet but a word of warning.
Try not to make yourself so readily identifiable. Your children's names are very distincive. People may easily guess who you are - including your friend

GoddessInTheKitchen · 07/03/2010 21:25

rubyslippers

GetDownYouWillFall · 07/03/2010 21:25

you may be new but this is what they call a flaming

Sassybeast · 07/03/2010 21:25

YABU. Shoulda made it a Greggs sausage roll.

And I really like wind up posts to be yunno - FUNNY ?

StewieGriffinsMom · 07/03/2010 21:27

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SuperSmartMum · 07/03/2010 21:27

OPKs - Other People's Kids.

Just noticed I've got a few mistakes in my post, is there any way to edit it?

Judging by some of the responses, I think I mustn't have conveyed just how God awful their kids were this weekend. When i say they were bad, I really mean it.

Anyway, it's my best friend (their mum), we're still friends and will be for ever but we just don't see eye to eye when it comes to parenting.

OP posts:
GoldenSnitch · 07/03/2010 21:28

The secret to a good windup is to not include more detail than you would in a normal post....

differentID · 07/03/2010 21:28

Have you ever considered they may think exactly the same of your delightful offspring?

cluckyduck · 07/03/2010 21:29

But what are your feelings on bumsex?

GoddessInTheKitchen · 07/03/2010 21:30

did you type 'mumsnet' by accident? did you really mean 'netmums'?

ShadeofViolet · 07/03/2010 21:30

The childrens behaviour sounds quite normal to me.

I think it is you that needs to grow up!

TheBolter · 07/03/2010 21:33