Sorry, another whinge/ whad'ya think.

[earlgrey]

Last week, swimming lessons.

Sat down at only availble table next to H. Shared it with a woman with a child in a pushchair, and one on her knee. Older child was in pushchair, with a box of raisins.

This is after 10 miniutes:

Me: I think your son has dropped some of his raisins on the floor (smiling)

Her: What business is it of yours?

Me: None at all, except that I'd think about the next person that sat there, and clear them up.

Her: There are plenty of free tables over there.

Me: Yes, but both my daughters are taking an exam today, and I'd like to watch it.

She left, and I don't think I' particularly anal, but I asked them to sweep them up. Thought stamped in raisins would be nasty for them to clear up, as well as anyone who happened to tread in them.

After 10 minutes of them being on the floor, forgot to add!

It wasn't just a little pile, he'd scattered them far and wide.

Oh God, yes I am anal.!

You're anal and she's rude. IMO, of course.

Maybe she was going to pick them up when she left. If she had a child on her knee she was hardly going to get up every time a raisin was dropped, rather wait until the end and then clear them all up

CD, there were about 40 of them, and she certainly wasn't going to pick them up. Another little pile by the exit, but by that time I'd lost the will.

And she'd gone, anyway.

But would you do that with a toddler? FFS mine are 14 months apart and I wouldn't have subjected anyone to that.

but how do you KNOW? Can you read minds?

I would have ignored the raisins or maybe shoved them under the table where they wouldn't get stamped on.

subjected them to what?

CD, her attitude ' What business is it of yours?' and her clearing off shortly thereafter, followed by the pile by the exit, makes me.... warm to your opinion.

mine are 22 months apart and quite frankly I wouldn't have given a shit

If someone had said that to me (and assume that I probably would have already known) I would have smiled a fake smile and said something like "oh, right, thank you".

Nasty little squashed raisins on your feet, at the local pool, in your car, or in your house.

God I have a lot worse than a few raisins in my car!

Are you obsessively tidy?

Well tbh if someone challenged me on my raisin-dropping DS I'd probably be rude as well and not pick them up just to annoy her.

I wouldn't pick up every raisin either, I'd wait till the end. Chances are I would pick them up, because if I didn't one of the children would start eating them off the floor.

oooooh they is nasty them there raisins

have you heard of an invention called a Hoover?

oo, Why? Why wouldn't you have picked them up?

This has all the makings of a classic Mumsnet thread.

I predict that by about 4pm, it will have kicked off.

Yes, but the poor bloke had to go round with a dustpan and brush.

yy but she only said that AFTER you had anally pointed out the raisins! TBH if someone said that to me I would think bollocks to them and not pick the raisins up as a matter of principle!

probably because I have better things to do with my time maybe

or that I would be busy bribing my two with a sausage roll and wiping pastry onto the floor

or something

I really think it is extraordinary that you think that it is "subjecting" children to raisins on the floor!

surely this is a wind up thread?

Oh no poor him Poor little man having to use a dustpan and brush

Is this a wind-up?

snap olive!