The parental units amongst you may recall that some time ago I posted a rant about a mother who excluded my toddler son from a playdate on the basis he had an almost imperceptible cold. It was annoying and not how I would have proceeded, but she's utterly paranoid about germs and each to their own.
The very same mother came out with us on Good Friday, when we went to the Watercress Line to see Thomas the Tank Engine. After she had taken her son to the loo for about the tenth time, I enquired after his health.
"Oh, he's had the worst diarrhoea for days now," she announced. "But I'm just so sick of being stuck in the house and I so wanted him to see Thomas."
I have just changed my toddling daughter's soiled outfit for the third time this morning, having had two days of a little boy with a horrible upset tummy. Neither will now be able to attend nursery tomorrow, at an approximate cost of £250 and a day's work for me. It is my son's third birthday party this weekend, for which I hope everyone is going to be well - I don't fancy cleaning the bouncy castle if not. There is also the small matter of my delicate condition and the complications, which I have previously been hospitalised over, of stomach viruses on a pregnant woman.
So I can kill her, right?
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Mary Evans
offlineMemberPosted 3 years ago # -
fernandomando
offlineMemberHmm... Private nurseries, earnings of £250 per day, and Ford Focus C Max. What next- 'I've just cleaned poo from the inside of my leafy suburban detached house' or 'My brand new multifunction washing machine is really working overtime today'? ;)
Posted 3 years ago # -
sauce
offlineMember((( Mary )))
Horrid, horrid, selfish bitch (well, I don't know her and never will, so I can say that). I had a "friend" from playgroup we invited to Thanksgiving dinner (we were in the States at the time, in case anyone is wondering wtf?) and her eldest daughter (4) threw up all over the table. "Oh dear. She did that earlier. I hoped she'd be ok by tonight" AAAAARRRGGH. Of course we all caught it and spent a week of utter misery and far too much laundry.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Sigmund Freud
offlineMemberStop beating about the bush. Tell her and tell her straight. Remind her of the prior incident and tell her what she has just caused. You can't lose - she'll either never speak to you again or she'll buy you some top notch wine which you can tuck into once you've popped Tarquin out.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Mary Evans
offlineMemberSense of humour now at mega-breaking point. Little Miss Mary just spent last 45 mins vomiting her very soul out of her little body. Can now expect it to go round the rest of us like wildfire, please God doing no other serious harm other than probably cancelling the birthday party my little boy has been looking forward to for weeks. Have had to put phone in the car to stop me from calling her and screaming at her. Utterly, butterly furious.
Posted 3 years ago # -
fernandomando
offlineMemberYou have a phone you can put in the car? And you can afford utterly butterly? How the other half live
Posted 3 years ago # -
Scroat
offlineMemberNever had this type of experience Mary, but other kids' parents were always a source of consternation for me. And it gets worse when they're teenagers and start pushing the boundaries. Different parents have different rules, and some seem to have none whatsoever.
For practical reasons I'd keep your distance from the offending parent - simply because of the germs. See a doctor BTW?
Posted 3 years ago # -
Stan Laurel
offlineMemberPersonally, I think Thomas the Tank Engine is highly over rated.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Mary Evans
offlineMemberIt's feeling very over-rated currently, Stanny...
The world has gone mad. I was due to take the febrile and poorly Little Miss M to the docs later, but now I know the source of her under-weatherness, I shall keep her germs at home. I just called my GP surgery to say that I will cancel the appointment so I don't spread a vomiting virus around a roomful of already sick people, but could the doc give me a quick call just to check I'm doing the right things to keep her hydrated etc as she can't even keep water down currently. The shit-for-brains receptionist told me that if i want a doctor's advice, I'd need to make an appointment and come to the surgery myself.
Bloody hell, I picked the wrong trimester to quit drinking.Posted 3 years ago # -
Mary Evans
offlineMemberBless you Dr Simon. And judging by the Jnr tag, obviously the doctors are getting younger... I'll steer a course for the downstairs loo, trying to avoid the hall carpet and low-lying shoes.
Thanks to the kind majority of you who have tolerated my temporarily turning the site into mumsnet. And for those who haven't, you are of course quite right, this is a place for comedy contributions. I look forward to your first ones.Posted 3 years ago # -
Oxbridge
offlineMemberI may have done this one at the time but WTF.
Many moons ago, when Mrs Oxy and I still lived in the land of Competitive Mums, there were loads of the little hens clucking around the headmaster at my daughter's, then my son's, infant school. He was a screaming Friend of Dorothy, BTW; it was the aura of power around him, I suppose. He certainly loved his little in crowd. We didn't get involved, so our children passed through the school without being noticed.
Anyway, at the end of school performance for Master Oxy, who as usual was playing the third spear carrier from the left, one of the darling darling ladies got her son up at the end to present the head with his large showy present while all the others fumed and tossed their expensively crimped hair jealously.
Only on the way home did we remember that said son was (a) three years gone from that school, (b) off school from the juniors because (c) he had Bird Flu. Stupid f*****g cow, f******g exposing 100 or so children and adults to f******g Bird Flu so she could show off how 'in' she was FFS.
Kill 'em all, I say.
Posted 3 years ago # -
StoopyDeGunt
offlineMemberMary,
Hell is other mothers.
I got funny looks once, just because I didn't wash my hands after changing a nappy.
And the silly cow didn't touch the sandwich I'd just made her.I think some people just like complaining.
Do you think feminism has gone too far?
Posted 3 years ago # -
Mary Evans
offlineMemberBless you gang. Stoopy - what an ungrateful cow, I hope you gobbed in her tea.
Thanks Sauce, I managed to get hold of the doc, who was more than happy to proffer some helpful advice, thanked me for not bringing the bug to the surgery and said she'd call back tomorrow to see how we were.
Ta Scroaty - she's a tough old bird, she'll be fine - has responded to the whole business by falling asleep all afternoon, which is the best thing for her. Young Master Mary was a little traumatised by watching his little sister perform her exorcist routine, so has retreated to watching The Incredibles on Mummy's lap, occasionally asking how Little Miss made fishfingers come out of her nose.
Will be speaking to plague-bearing mother. Possibly with my daughter projectile vomiting at her as I do so.
You have all been wonderful. I thank you.Posted 3 years ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberWill come back to you about the bitch mother from hell, but am sooo impressed that you can use your lap as VDU.
How cool are you?!
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberRight, this thoughtless, selfish mother. I've told you before, just send her address and a recent photo to me, and I'll pour puke through her letter box, and leave disease ridden shit in her kitchen.
What a cow! I do hope that you will be telling her what has happened, and point out the health implications of a pregnant woman being in close proximity to this virus.
And then nut her.Posted 3 years ago #
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