My dear Mum gets right on my nerves at times. She's just called me to say "I've bought you a paddling pool!"
She's also bought a large sandpit last week which I accepted with thanks though the garden is tiny and it's crammed in and large, blue and plastic when DH was going to make a nice wooden one. But I said thanks.
Anyway...she said "I've got a pool and I'll bring it tomorrow." and I said "no...Mum I don't want one...we live in a 2nd floor flat and I can't fill it up."
Use the hose out of the window she said.
I don't have a hose I said plus I'm on a water meter and a tight budget and the girls aren;t bothered about paddling pools...they go in for ten minutes and then dump it the second it has grass or muck in it.
Oh but EVERYONE has one and they NEED one! It's FAR TOO HOT for them not to have one!!!
All said in a sort of "And that's final!" voice.
I had to be really firm and say "Look keep it in your house until I get a hose...I don't want one at the moment. Or take it back...I can buy my own when I'm ready to."
You don't just do that do you? Buy something like that without asking first?
They have had them in the past but aren't fussed about them and never ask for one.
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To think not ALL kids have a paddling pool?
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MrsWinnibago · 23/07/2014 13:01
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