what nightmare kid has ever haunted your holiday?

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The one whose name you know within minutes of arriving at any place with a shared pool. The one who terrorises everyone, whose parents shout weakly after him, or who simply ignore them, the one who in our case, people arriving back after a two day trip said "You've met X then?'

Her own son.

OH DUR Me

These kind of threads make me feel better about the woman who sat down in front of us on a flight and immediately turned round to my children (who were being very quiet and well behaved at the time) and told them very sharply that she did not expect her seat to be kicked at any point during the flight. The children were shocked and totally bemused. I just smiled and mildly said that I didn't expect her seat to be kicked either.

I assume that she'd recently encountered one of the little darlings referred to in this thread.

Damo. He was about 13 but just wouldn't bugger off away from our young children. His parents went on a day excursion one day and left him behind at the hotel he was that much of a pain in the arse. The children thought he was cool because he wore a crucifix that he kissed every time he went down the pool slide or dived in . We called him Father Damo.

ALFIIEEE! Turkey in 2013. I can't hear that name without wanting to screech it in that way

Lol at Damo

Was he from Liverpool by any chance?

Son of Chipped isn't that bad I suppose!

A small boy we met in the Azores, he spent hours chasing a bat to no avail then caught a moth "I'm going to hold it till it dies! " it did.

One that bounced a ping pong ball repeatedly on the balcony on our cheapie deal to Halkidiki

Some of these are

Ross and Rachel (yes, really) in the Algarve - early noughties.

In fact Ross and Rachel and their entire extended family. Book a villa you noisy lot!!!

No, Damo was a West Midlander. Can't be more specific, we really tried not to encourage him, so we didn't speak to him. Poor kid. Every family was giving him major piss off vibes, including his own.

Not really in the spirit of the thread but it's reminded me of a turkey holiday years ago. We went on an overnight coach excursion and one boy, about 8-10 I think, was horrendously travel sick for the whole time. Parents just ignored him and went about their trip and left it to the coach staff to sort him out, clean up his sick and find him somewhere to lie down. I felt so sorry for him. His parents were the nightmare ones.

William. Algarve. October 2010.

He just stuck to us like glue - he was older than both dc and often took their toys etc while his Mum was glued to her lounger and ignored it all...

One day he came and joined in our family football game. 2 small DC hence v gentle game but William started doing slide tackles etc. So I tersely suggested perhaps he should go and play football with his own Dad only for him to reply that his dad was dead. Cue me feeling rubbish but also even more with his Mum who was v clearly smitten with her new man (and not so much with William).

Michael - South of France 2011. Resembled Pugsley from the Addams Family. Inexplicably dressed as a pirate for two whole weeks and waved his cutlass in our faces constantly. Only left us alone when my son screamed about an inch from his face "Go away you pirate weirdo!!!"
Would normally be shocked and tell my son off - but he only said what everyone else around the pool was thinking.

HOWLING at 'pirate weirdo'

Yes!!! When I was a teen, on a family holiday in Oz (so early 90s) it was "Andrew!!!"

Elliott last year in Lanzarote. Smug know it all. To be fair I think he was peed off that his Mum was expecting again ad kept going on about new baby when he'd been No 1 child for 7 years. Even though that said he was a PITA.

Lol at pirate. Also all the Elliott's.

Laughed out loud at Damo and his crucifix for a good two minutes.

I read it out at work

No nightmare children on our holidays

However, DS has lessons in a particular activity every week and there is one child, affectionately known as Devil Child by me and DH, who seems to go out of his way to ignore the instructor, knock other children over and generally sabotage the lessons. Two weeks ago he was relegated to DS's group. Guess who DS's new best friend is now?

Molly Spain 2013 everywhere we went she was there!

'Arry
Turkey 2013

So, we took a set of small pound shop water guns for DD, 3 yo at the time, for gentle squirting of grandad etc.

'Arry was jealous and tantrummed at leather-skinned nan to get him a water gun. Came back from market v pleased with giant super soaker. Thought it would be a fun game to squirt DD and my dad.

Well that game lasted all of 3 seconds before I had to unleash my Teacher Voice. He soon stopped.