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I can't believe this has just happened. Please share your embarrassing young child/public situation nightmares.

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PirateJelly · 17/08/2013 10:55

Still cringing at this as I type this Blush sorry it's so long.

I suspected I had pulled my neck again last nite while bringing the washing in Hmm and woke up this morning in agony and really didn't relish the idea of a whole weekend spent being unable to move my neck Sad and an ever increasing annoying child to look after alone. Anyway rang my Doctors and was told to come in for 8.30 as they have a drop in surgery on Saturdays.

Just as we are about to leave DS (just 4) manages to wee all over his favorite spiderman pants and joggers while in the toilet. He then refused to wear any other pants or trousers. I was getting increasingly annoyed and frustrated and just told him to get himself dressed and wear what he wants as were in a rush. So off we go to the surgery with DS wearing only thin shorts (no pants) a chuggington t-shirt two sizes too small and his new school plimsoles. Honestly he looked such a sight that was embarrassing enough but I was in too much
pain to care.

Get to the Doctors, which was as expected extremely busy give my name etc and as soon as we sit down DS announces loudly he now needs a poo. So off we go to the toilet. As we come out DS bellows "I miss that pop mummy, it was my favorite pop ever" to which I mutter " you what?" Hmm " yeah it reminded me of Reggie (our dog Hmm) did you see it mummy it had eyes" he said sadly. Que him then tugging on my arm while I waited for another seat and repeating 100 times in an irratating, whiney voice "I really do miss that pop mummy" untill finally I snapped "ALRIGHT I GET IT!" to which a waiting room full of people all look up at me.

Finally get a seat and sit DS on my lap, he then proceeds to ask me every question which could ever enter a small boys head, along the lines of why do we get poorly, do mummys have boys and daddies have girls, why is that lady old, why is that boy fat? on and on with me growing more and more irritated and DS's bored at the waiting audience growing more and more interested Blush.

Eventually a few more seats become free and DS decides to go sit it a free tub chair about 5 seats away. Picks up a Cbeebies magazine and sits quietly for all of ooh 2 minutes before letting out a very loud sigh and loudly saying "I do like my willy mummy it's much better than flaps isn't it?" a few people start smirking, the elderly lady next to him looks uncomfortable, so I gave him the 'look' and he goes back to looking at his magazine on his lap. I admit I wasnt paying him a lot of attention as it hurt just to turn my head to look at him, so I carried on looking at my phone.

I noticed a slightly gazed look in his eyes but tbh was just glad he was being quiet. All of a sudden he loudly announces "Mummy, my willy's gone all hard" I shushed him and asked quietly did he need a wee? "No mummy, I've been pulling on it and now it's like sword" no exaggeration every pair of eyes in the room was on me and I thought I'm gonna go mad here in a minute. DS sensing my annoyance decided to try and tip me over the edge and started laughing and singing "willy, willy, willy, hard, hard, hard" "smelly mummy, stupid mummy,yes, yes, yes" I thought I'm going to have to take him outside and have a word but felt in a difficult postion as although the cheekiness wouldn't be tolerated I didn't really want to punish him for touching himself but needed to explain it wasn't appropriate in a Doctors waiting room full of people!

Just as I was gathering up my things, finally my name was called, so I sharply told DS to come along and as he jumped down from the chair a small boy sizes semi on could clearly be seen through his shorts. DS thought this was hysterical and as a finally to his shocked audience decided to do a silly walk including hip thrusts out of the room Blush Shock

By the time we finally made it to the Doctor his shorts area was back to normal but I most certainly was not. I think a combination of the embarrassment, pain and strong pain killers I had taken finally took it's tole and I came over all funny, so much so the Doctors thought I was going to faint! Luckily he took sympathy on me and prescribed me some diazepam, without which I honestly think I would have strangled DS. When we got outside I told him don't EVER behave like that again to which he relied innocently "What mummy?"

Please tell me I'm not the only one with a child like this? And how can I prevent an incident like that ever happening again? (except never leaving the house or having to constantly main line Valium Confused

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noddyholder · 17/08/2013 13:53

These are hilarious ds used to regularly ask dp why he had a beard on his willy

DeTamble · 17/08/2013 13:55

I have laughed so hard, I've cried.

I don't have anything nearly that good. My son, however, in a crowded train, sitting on my lap, pulled my shirt down (whilst I was wearing a particularly cleavagy bra) and said "nice boobies mama!".

And, in a bra shop he went up to the dummies which were on a low table and grabbed their bra covered dummy breasts and very loudly told me "nice boobies, mama buy me nice boobies! PINK BOOBIES! (the bra was pink)" He was two and a quarter at the time.

IneedAyoniNickname · 17/08/2013 13:56

Pirate I laugh about it now, but at the time I wished the ground would open up and swallow me. The builders of course made some very crude comments!

Mind you, my friends ds couldn't say flag until recently, and instead pronounced it SLAG! As I'm sure you can imagine,.that was fun on the beach!

KFFOREVER · 17/08/2013 13:57

This thread is sooo funny. My ds is 5months so i have all this to come. Shock

HoopersGinger · 17/08/2013 13:57

My little lad occasionally shouts hello boobies to well endowed ladies. He is only 2.5 and breasted till almost 2. He misses those days

InLoveWithDavidTennant · 17/08/2013 13:57

i just laughed so loud and suddenly that i made dh jump! Grin

heronsfly · 17/08/2013 14:03

As a mother of 3ds i do feel for you, but have reread your post 3 times trying to control my laughter, funniest thing i have read for ages, its brightened my day Grin

buttermellow · 17/08/2013 14:15

First time my sister saw a black person was when we had a visiting priest at our church, I think it was 1996 so she'd have been 3. The priest, a lovely gentle man went to meet everyone after mass and went to say hi to us. He held out his hand, sister looked at it, turned it over a few times before then rubbing her finger on the back of his hand.. She then glanced at her fingers to see, we think, if anything had rubbed off! She finally grabbed on to his finger and grinned at him.

He was a lovely man and just laughed!

Lurleene · 17/08/2013 14:18

I married my DH when my DD was 4. Not long after we went away for the weekend with a group of friends. DD caught sight of DH as he came out the shower and I took her down to the kitchen while we waited for him to get dressed.

We started to eat breakfast with the rest of the group when she announced 'I've just seen 's willy. It's not as big as my Daddy's'.

DH then choose that moment to walk into the room. I never have told him why no-one could look him the eye.

Madamecastafiore · 17/08/2013 14:19

Ds is nearly 9 now and his breast obsession is alive and well. A v v pretty young Dutch girl kept lying topless at the side of our pool on holiday, DS's swimming improved greatly as he swam underwater from one end of the pool to the other to get a sneaky peak. Little sod was not at all ashamed when I teased him, said 'well they are very nice mummy!'Shock

PirateJelly · 17/08/2013 14:19

I've given my self jaw ache laughing so much at these Grin

It's just reminded me when DS had a conversation with my very elderly and thankfully very deaf Auntie along the lines of "I've got a big foot haven't I Auntie Margaret?" (showing her his foot) yes dear and a big willy? daddies willy is massive but Daves is really small grandma told me. Have you got a big willy Auntie Margaret? I bet yours is really
small" luckily all she said was that's nice dear. Oh the shame Blush

Also when he was two (at a different doctors thankfully) I had to nip to the lol to do a urine sample and when we came DS announced to the full waiting room "yuck mummy that poo really stank". Blush Wouldnt be so bad but I only had a wee the little bugger.

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Goldenbear · 17/08/2013 14:27

That is very funny!

Yesterday I was waiting in a 'Baskets Only' queue at a supermarket with DD, 2, in the pushchair, she was quite tired and getting bored of waiting. There was an elderly couple being served on the till directly opposite us, they where taking their time as they wanted some fruit to be swapped. My DD then said very loudly, 'Oh my God Lady!' and then huffed and sighed. The old lady instantly turned around, looked quite surprised when she saw the age and size of the person emitting these inappropriate remarks! I tried to cover it up by muttering something in a corrective manner...'Yes, yes, oh my goodness that lady has lovely fruit'. Something pathetic like that but it would've been ok until DD in response said, 'Sssh, ssh!' - rude!

Earlier in the same supermarket I was joking with my DS, 6 about getting the largest meal ever for dinner last night as we hadn't had any lunch- DC had some toast and a banana but DS doesn't class that as lunch. He knows I'm trying to 'lose weight' so in response to my joke suggestion of having a huge plate of pizza he said in all seriousness, 'but if you did that you would 'win' weight and you are trying to 'lose' it?' Yes thanks for reminding me DS!

NationMcKinley · 17/08/2013 14:40

hoopers I just read that your boobie-shouting son was only 25 not 2.5! Grin

Cheesyslice · 17/08/2013 14:42

God these are excellent.

pizzaqueen · 17/08/2013 14:47

Out at shopping centre this week with DS nearly 3. I had my period and needed to change my towel. I had no choice but to take him into the loo with me (he can't be trusted to wait outside the cubicle).

After waiting in a long queue for a free loo he very loudly says 'what's that mummy, in your pants mummy, like a nappy, ooh it all red, why your nappy pants all red mummy, oh yuck! you need poo poo or just pee pees mummy?'Blush

I'm all for being upfront and honest with children rather than making up stories but really there's just no way to explain periods to a 2 year old.

smaths · 17/08/2013 14:50

That has made me laugh so hard a little bit of wee came out [in my defence I'm 40 weeks pregnant]

SweetSeraphim · 17/08/2013 14:54

One when dd (now 15) was about 3, we were sitting at a bus stop when an old lady came along. I got dd to move so that the lady could sit down and she said 'I'll sit on your lap Mummy. I don't like sitting on Daddy's lap in case I sit on his BIG FAT WILLY'

I could've died. Still makes me cringe thinking about it.

pictish · 17/08/2013 15:02

I remember when ds1 was about three, and we were getting a bus uptown.
He was singing a wee song on the bus, and a man who was clearly homeless and lacking a full set of teeth leaned forward and said (in a friendly manner) "that's a good song - I like your singing"
Ds1 stopped singing abruptly and fixed the man with a hard stare of cool appraisal before asking "are you an idiot?" then turning to me "mummy...is that man an idiot?"

Ohhhemmmmgeeeeeeeeee!!

30ish · 17/08/2013 15:03

Yesterday we had to leave the cinema when watching Monsters University because my ds (3) was trying so very hard to roar (very loudly) like Sulli and Mike. Lots of laughter from the audience encouraged him to roar even more loudly. I was mortified (especially when the lady behind us started telling us to be quiet) but I couldn't remove him from the cinema quick enough because I was laughing/ dying of embarassment and had lost all strength in my arms. Kids hey, who'd have 'em!

pootlebug · 17/08/2013 15:06

In a public toilet, clearly audible to people in the queue and surrounding toilets, when DD spots tampon string:

"Mummy, have you got a mouse up your bottom?"
"What? No!"
"Yes you have Mummy, I can see it's tail. A mouse, up your bottom! Look, there's its tail"

The one where she spotted a man with a lot of tattoos on the train was also fairly embarrassing. "Mummy, look - that man has drawn all over himself. Why has he done that Mummy? It looks really silly doesn't it Mummy? When will he wash it off Mummy? What a silly thing to do" etc.

pictish · 17/08/2013 15:11

The one where she spotted a man with a lot of tattoos on the train was also fairly embarrassing. "Mummy, look - that man has drawn all over himself. Why has he done that Mummy? It looks really silly doesn't it Mummy? When will he wash it off Mummy? What a silly thing to do" etc.

Guffaw!! Grin

I like tattoos (even though I don't have any) but that really made me laugh!

Pacific · 17/08/2013 15:15

When DD was little, I parked her in the supermarket trolley just outside the photobooth whilst I got some passport photos. The huge fags and lottery queue was snaking around the booth.

I had just got myself positioned and features arranged when a small hand pulled the curtain aside and said "Are you doing a wee wee, mummy?"

The passport photos were like this Confused Shock Blush Grin

Then I came out and the whole queue was shaking with mirth!

Parsnipcake · 17/08/2013 15:21

Poor you. My most embarrassing moment was in a posh carpet shop. There was a roll of cream, very nice carpet, which I supposed could look like toilet roll for giants. At least that is the only reason I can think why my 2 yr old pulled her pants down and and started wiping her bum on it. She left a big skid mark too. It was mortifying.

EnlightenedOwl · 17/08/2013 15:30

hilarious to anyone but the owner of the carpet shop I imagine.

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