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To be disgusted about the parents of this poorly boy

23 replies

iMum · 11/04/2010 13:43

So at the park yesterday and it was heaving as you might imagine! We were in the baby section but the bigger childrens park surrounds it.

A man came into the baby section with his (8ish) ds and goes over to a lady who is supervising her dd, I heard him tell her the ds had just been sick on the round about, everyone looks! and there is a large amount of orange lumpy vom all over it.

The ds sat down with his mum on the bench and had a drink and there they stayed for about 20 mins, dad went off I thought to sort out the round about but when I looked he was kicking a football around in the larger grassed area!

I took it upon myself to stand nearish the roundabout and warn any kiddies that went to play on it.

After a while I realised that they wernt going to do anything about it so I went to the ice cream van parked next to the park and he gave me some water, my FIL popped home (thankfully he lives next to the park!) and got some gloves, disinfectant etc and so we cleaned the roundabout.

I Just could believe that this family thought to do nothing about it! not even a token effort, in fact as yet another person warned another child not to go on it the dad chuckled to himself! They didnt leave for a good half hour after the poor lad was ill as their dd was obviously having a great time but there are so many shops, restaurants and what not about that they could have tried to sort something out but they just sat there, not ever warning the other kids and parents about it and then tootled off thinking it was vaguely amusing.

I was gobsmacked really.

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sarah293 · 11/04/2010 13:44

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thumbwitch · 11/04/2010 13:46

pretty shit behaviour but a sign of the times innit - "not my responsibility, let some other mug clean it up if they want to use the equipment."

well done you for taking the initiative.

Meglet · 11/04/2010 13:57

yanbu

BythewayItsBratley · 11/04/2010 13:57

Agree with Thumbwitch, well done for cleaning it, not everyone would/could have done that!

As for the little boy being kept in the park, he might have said he wanted to stay, might just have wanted to sit down quitely for a bit.

BythewayItsBratley · 11/04/2010 13:59

Oops, just re-read your post... read it wrong, ignore the last bit!

Nancy66 · 11/04/2010 14:25

it was probably the husband of the woman that pissed in the park on another thread

louii · 11/04/2010 14:34

Were they still there whilst u cleaned roundabout, dirty feckers.

JustMyTwoPenceWorth · 11/04/2010 14:43

did they see you cleaning it up?

tortoiseonthehalfshell · 11/04/2010 14:50

See, I'd have actually said something. Marched over with the gloves and the water and 'asked' them to come help clean up.

princessparty · 11/04/2010 19:10

You could only clean up because you live near the park-perhaps they don't.
My DS threw up in a car park the other day,but what could I do about it?

Conundrumish · 11/04/2010 19:39

Nancy66

iMum · 11/04/2010 20:20

Well no actually Princess, I went to the ice cream van and got some water, i could also have gone to the corner shop or the fish and chip shop all places that would have had things to help clean it up, as it happens I had DFIL with me and he went home to get them.

They did see me and FIL clean it up and started to leave once it became apparent what we were doing.
Normally I am not one to avoid confrontation out of politeness but in this case, being in a play park with my dc and FIL with me I opted for the keep schtum and deal approach-but I was just so hacked off really-I'm not that keen on my own dc's sick let alone some one elses!

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BuzzingNoise · 11/04/2010 20:49

Maybe they didn't know what to do about it and didn't think of asking the ice cream man for water.

iMum · 11/04/2010 20:52

maybee Buz, but its grim eh?

I cant imagine my brain not going into "how do I sort this situation out" overdrive.

Then again maybe they were just really skanky people who didnt give a damn.

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BuzzingNoise · 11/04/2010 20:55

It is indeed grim. I was trying to think well of them, but it could well have been that they just didn't care.

pigletmania · 11/04/2010 21:21

Disgusting, i would have tried to clean it up, see where i could get some water or something to wash it off.

dustycups · 11/04/2010 21:30

my friend went to one of our local parks the other day and said that there was poo all down the slide that had come out a childs nappy and the parents had just walked off and left it......would of only taken a handful of baby wipes ffs!!!!!

BuzzingNoise · 12/04/2010 08:55

Dustycups

MrsPixie · 12/04/2010 15:02

Some people are just disgraceful

OtterInaSkoda · 12/04/2010 15:04

DS once threw up on the tarmac of a multi-storey carpark and I left it, but only because I couldn't see any way of clearing it up and needed to get him into some fresh air. I'm rather about it though, and I guess it's rather different to leaving vom on a roundabout.

cheesesarnie · 12/04/2010 15:13

well done for cleaning it up op!tis horrible to think someone wouldnt think to do that!

ChickensHaveSinisterMotives · 12/04/2010 15:15

I had hyperemesis in both my pregnancies, and vomited dramatically and copiously in many, many public places. I was incapable of cleaning it up (I tended to pass out face down in it). I feel hideously guilty about the fact that someone else had to clean up my recently swallowed ginger biscuits.

This has nothing to do with the OP, I just have to share.

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