to think this woman's attitude stinks

[froglegs]

I was in my local small supermarket earlier and there were a couple of young girls (estimate ages 6 & 8)standing at the front of the shop tearing up bits of paper and chucking them on the floor.

The security guard asked them who they were with at which point there (I assume) mother appeared. The security guard politely pointed out all the paper on the floor and suggested the girls should pick it up.

The mother's response? 'you've got cleaners to do that' and whisks the girls out of the shop muttering loudly to the children about how rude the guard was and how they didnt have to pick up the paper as thats what cleaners do blah blah.

It makes me sad. What sort of example is that to set to the kids?

YANBU! What a horrible attitude to pass onto kids!

I guess she may have not seen her kids dropping the paper, and presumed the security guard was just asking them to pick up random paper? I dunno, thats the only way I can justify it!

were the girls wearing chavvy primark slut-in-training clothes too? LOL

YANBU - people like that who set their kids no basic boundaries about how a society functions really wind me up

YANBU.

Slippery slope. Awful. If you've ever been to a country where the whole population thinks this way you'll see what happens. "Somebody else's mess" is terribly corrosive of social cohesion. Sounds like an exaggeration but really you should see the results when everyone has this as their mindset.

Ooo this kind of attitude makes me so angry. It's so symptomatic of our prevalent 'don't blame me!' culture where people are too bloody childish and bloody minded to accept their own responsibilities.

YANBU. This is like people who litter in the streets but think it's ok because 'the council' will clear it up. Don't they realise that the costs of clearing litter is passed on in council tax, or via prices in shops when they have to employ more cleaners, to pay for it. Stupid bloody woman.

YANBU. What a disgusting attitude to be passing onto her children.

I've seen a boy at home time being asked by his teacher to pick up the sweet wrapper he'd dropped "the Filipino will do it" said he of his au pair.

Dragged up not brought up, disgusting behaviour fromn the mother.

Generally seeing people drop litter makes my blood boil - sadly it happens a lot where I live (south London) and I often approach people who I see doing it. I shouldn't really (especially when I am with my DS) as there is a chance of repercussions.

"I've seen a boy at home time being asked by his teacher to pick up the sweet wrapper he'd dropped "the Filipino will do it" said he of his au pair."

Yes yes yes. It's not confined by class.

Gasp!

My God, if that is a wide spread belief, I really worry about the future....

What a horrible woman.
Vile.

barefoot - which country is that?

Horrible attitude!

Giveitago- er, that was at a leafy suburb in SW LOndon- and not a private school either!

giveit: it feels a bit "culturalist" to say, so would rather not, but returning nationals complain about the same thing, not just expats

deadei: why does that not surprise me

I once saw a child open the door of a parked car to drop a banana skin right onto the middle of the pavement just in front of me. I meant to kick the skin out of the way so it would not be a hazard to others (it was school kick out time and only just around the corner), but the way my boot caught it, the skin flew into the air and landed right onto the bonnet. The look on the face of the adult sitting in the front seat was priceless!!

Ooh litter dropping winds me right up. I do actually think that if we all took responsibility for our litter we would be a happier nation.

When I was at school we had to pick up litter, it was also one of my chores at home, to clear the litter in our front garden and the pathway and verge.

I think that is the best way to teach our yoof, getting them to pick it up themselves and not expect someone else to do it. (The kid who expected the Filipino to pick his rubbish up would be on toilet duty in my imaginary school)

Well done - mumdrivenmad - even if unintentional.

I'd try to do that on purpose, but if the window was down I'd prefer to bend, pick up skin, and pass it back into car saying "I think you dropped something" while 'accidentally' dropping it in their lap!

I just cannot fathom why adults think it's ok to behave in this way!

I live very near to a takeaway and people often park near my house to sit in their cars eating fried chicken. So many of the adults think nothing of discarding their half eaten bones in the gutter, and quite often, the whole nasty yellow polystyrene box it came in along with an empty coke can or two for good measure.

I recently saw a girl of about 12 in the front passenger seat of a respectable looking people carrier type vehicle, being driven by a middle aged woman who I presumed was her mother, launch an empty drinks bottle out of the sunroof, in full view of the mother who did not bat an eyelid.

Just makes me that people have so little regard for this beautiful planet.

oh a huge bug bear of mine, litter louts! mind you I'm still chuckling at mumdrivenmad

YANBU (of course!)

But keep an eye on this AIBU board for a thread later this week likely entitled "AIBU to think nobody has the right to tell my PFB what to do?"