to still feel bad about shaming this mum a month later?

[DevonCiderPunk]

Perspective, please...

About a month ago I was at a beachside pub with some friends and our DCs. Lots of kids were splashing about at the water's edge mucking about together, me and friends were enjoying a (single!) glass of wine and chatting, occasionally looking over to all the kids playing about 5 metres away in the shallows.

Suddenly I heard a collective gasp go up around the whole beach. I looked behind me (towards the pub) and saw lots of shocked faces. Then I heard a child wailing, so looked back to the water and a boy aged about seven was standing waist-high in the water and sobbing, holding on to his arm. He continued to wail and everyone just sat there. He was holding his arm so painfully that I started to wonder whether it was broken, and he was still quite deep in the water. I looked about to see if anyone was claiming him, but no-one was. It was odd. So I said to my friends "well I'm checking it out" and walked down to the edge.

Once I got closer I could see he was okay and perhaps hamming it up a bit, I asked him if he was with any grown-ups and he just said "my mum..." and got out of the water, crying a bit less, presumably off to tell her about his arm. Nothing to worry about so I walked backp the beach to my spot. Hang on.
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[Turquoisetamborine]

You've got me on the edge of my seat here.

[SunshineOutdoors]

Both threads... I don't know why but I need to know the ending to this.

[kilmuir]

Huh

[PossumPoo]

Did you take a break during your OP

well that is a first...

[SunshineOutdoors]

Beachside pub sounds good

[lettertoherms]

[sillymillyb]

I'm genuinely intrigued.... Will you be back op? Why did you need to go mid post? What happened when you walked back up the beach?

There are just SO many questions!

[SunshineOutdoors]

Don't leave us hanging

[Lottiedoubtie]

.... YA...

[D0oinMeCleanin]

Has OP gone for a fag?

[SauvignonBlanche]

[HecatePropylaea]

Go on

[tethersend]

OW MY ARM

[WallyBantersJunkBox]

Perhaps she's in labour?

[DevonCiderPunk]

...continued (ipad malfunction). As I walked back up, another group of mums hissed at me "well done... That was horrible!" and I replied "yes, I thought he'd broken his arm but he's okay now." Another group I passed were all shaking their heads, at me or "with" me I couldn't tell which. Then as I reached my seat, a woman behind me suddenly shouted "He's all right! Stop your f*ing interfering!" So I said "Yeah, he's fine, just wanted to check his arm was okay" and she replied with lots of fucking this that and the other. I just shrugged and turned my back.

That's when my friend hissed "That's his mum... She threw him in the sea, that's why he was crying."

Well I missed all that, obviously. And I feel all right because my intentions were just to check on the boy, not to show her up...

...but later when we left, I saw her crying on her partner's shoulder, and then I felt rubbish.

AIBU to feel a bit of a prat.

[nevergoogle]

hang on? ok.

[Icelollycraving]

Oh the suspense!

[BramshawHill]

There's something amiss here

[DevonCiderPunk]

ha ha, sorry for cliffhanger (and double post) my ipad said "no"

[ithoughtofitfirst]

Aaaah gaaads woman!!