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Alright, it is getting to be that time of year again.... when we go to water park/splash parks and let the kids play. My children enjoy this one splash park that is in our area and REALLY quite small. It is free and if you get there early enough you can get a picnic table for a group to have lunch together and it is a great viewing spot of the entire area- very close and you can dump all your stuff there to keep dry. There is no swimming and you can see all parts of the splash park from certain picnic tables. It really is a GREAT park because it is so small and the kids get cooled off, have a blast and it is free. We can't wait to start heading back there this summer....
Now, I was thinking about this park and an incident we had last summer (that I remember like YESTERDAY!) where a woman wanted to actually get into a fight with me because I asked if she minded moving over a bit so we would be able to continue to watch our kids. You all can tell me if I am in the wrong here. We all (4 of us moms and our kids) got there early and got a picnic table, set up, let the kids run off... come and go as they pleased.... we had already been there about 45 minutes when this woman sets up shop RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!!!! So we can't see the kids. She has a double stroller and just stands there in front of us and plops her stuff down blocking our view....there really is no reason for this... So POTLITELY.. really- I used all the honey on my tongue I could.... I asked if she would mind moving a tad to the right or left so we could keep watching our children..... She started yelling at us and told us to get off our A$# and move. I sweetly explained we were already set up and our children were running around and knew where we were..... again... please in order to not upset or frighten our kids who were busy and distracted would she mind moving over.... Again... she was in my face. Now we do not live in a rough part of town, but a nice suburban area. This was so shocking to me. So, unfortunately we were forced to move.... She didn't stop either... it continued, because the park is so small and we were left standing right next to her... she kept making obnoxious comments about the audacity of being asked to move and some people! How dare we.... and now we have to stand next to her like this... It was so obnoxious... I just kept the world's LARGEST smile on my face the entire time.... I wasn't going to let her see she was getting to me. We never took our stuff off of the picnic table though because we were hoping she would moved and we could return to our spot.... and in the end we decided she was most likely trying to bully us out of the picnic table.... but we were unsure.... it was a shame and ruined our afternoon. Luckily the KIDS didn't catch on to this and THEY had a wonderful day.... which really is all that matters... (and that I didn't get beat up!)
Have any of you experienced anything like this or do you think I was in the wrong for asking her to move? It just seemed like a total over reaction to such a small request. Seeing as it is THAT TIME OF YEAR again I want to go in PREPARED this time LOL Keep my mouth shut or am I in my right?
things like this happens to everyone, and from both men and women.........i rather just think that they are on PMS then to argue with them..........and yes, smiling was the best thing in that situation
I had a similar problem with a woman once who was smoking at a parade, in an area that is illegal to smoke in, and the smoke was going into my children's faces and making them cough, not to mention bothering my asthma. When I asked if she could move over just one foot for the children, she flipped out on me, then flicked the ashes so they would go in their faces, and a hot cherry hit my 2 year old son on the cheek, just below his eye. It was after she put it out that I saw the police officer across the street. Should have calmly walked over and reported her.
Wow, what a nut job! I'm always very careful not to get in front of someone to block their view. Being parents, we are all aware that we need a good viewing spot of our kids. If I was in her spot and you asked me if I wouldn't mind moving, I would have skootched over, no problem...guess there's one in every bunch!
I had a similar problem with a woman once who was smoking at a parade, in an area that is illegal to smoke in, and the smoke was going into my children's faces and making them cough, not to mention bothering my asthma. When I asked if she could move over just one foot for the children, she flipped out on me, then flicked the ashes so they would go in their faces, and a hot cherry hit my 2 year old son on the cheek, just below his eye. It was after she put it out that I saw the police officer across the street. Should have calmly walked over and reported her.
OH We had another smoking situation at another park (smoking in a play park with kids I don't get btw)... We went to a small park in VA on vacation that was fenced off and my kids were the only ones there. It was across from our hotel and this woman looked like she was on her break or somehting....talking on a phone, sitting on one of the benches right next to the climbing equiptment puffing away.... She was on the phone though... But instead of saying anything to her I told my kids they couldn't go on the playset because the woman talking on the phone was smoking by it. Then they started saying at a kids voice level how people shouldn't smoke near kids playsets... Why would poeple go to a park and smoke near kids like that Mommy? Were are her kids Mommy? I don't see her kids mommy... why is she smoking here mommy? I want to play on the playset mommy.... can I play on the playset mommy? and I just repeated at a normal volume that they couldn't play on it because the woman was smoking there... and they kept it up.... but they would go on other things until she got annoyed and left the fenced in area. Some people just don't think I guess..... I didn't harass her to say...it was like the silent smile I guess.... since the playground is FOR kids!!!!
The woman sounds unbalanced. You can't really reason with crazies like that. I think you handled it fine-it wasn't worth it to get into a fight with the nut. And you stood your ground with keeping your table, so she didn't win on that. I feel bad for the nut's kids who have to live with her everyday!
Wow, what a nut job! I'm always very careful not to get in front of someone to block their view. Being parents, we are all aware that we need a good viewing spot of our kids. If I was in her spot and you asked me if I wouldn't mind moving, I would have skootched over, no problem...guess there's one in every bunch!
I didn't think I was asking think too out there or unreasonable.... I too would skooch over without a problem. I think some people have become very inconsiderate as of late. Am I the only one? It is like they have lost thier sense of common courtesy or something?? people need to stop and relax, just breath... and think about others for just a minute... moving over wasn't going HURT her LOL (but maybe me in about 10 more minutes HAHAHAH)
I had a similar problem with a woman once who was smoking at a parade, in an area that is illegal to smoke in, and the smoke was going into my children's faces and making them cough, not to mention bothering my asthma. When I asked if she could move over just one foot for the children, she flipped out on me, then flicked the ashes so they would go in their faces, and a hot cherry hit my 2 year old son on the cheek, just below his eye. It was after she put it out that I saw the police officer across the street. Should have calmly walked over and reported her.
The cherry hit your son?? Was anything said to her about it???
The cherry hit your son?? Was anything said to her about it???
Wow, no kidding. I wouldn't meekly put up with someone injuring my kids.
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but we were unsure.... it was a shame and ruined our afternoon. Luckily the KIDS didn't catch on to this and THEY had a wonderful day.... which really is all that matters... (and that I didn't get beat up!
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people need to stop and relax, just breath... and think about others for just a minute... moving over wasn't going HURT her
LOL (but maybe me in about 10 more minutes HAHAHAH)
The cherry hit your son?? Was anything said to her about it??? 
