Bug is a very active little girl and LOVES to go to a park or playground. Any one will do, she's never met one she hasn't liked:) So Thursday evening after dinner we headed to one of the parks nearby. I didn't like the older kids (age 12 or 13) sliding down the slides at the smaller playground so we headed up to the bigger playground at the elementary school. It's a great playground and she was having a lot of fun...
...I'm not sure which part of what happened next disgusted me more. In fact I'm still kind of processing it. There was a mom with 2 little ones who each looked about a year older than my girls, so roughly 3 and 1/2 and 1 and 1/2. The 3 and 1/2 year old was clearly giving her mother some attitude, but this mother was giving it back. I guess the little girl had indicated that she needed to go to the bathroom so her mother told her they needed to go (Brace yourself...Horror #1), not knowing that it was already too late. The little girl sat on the playground and muttered under her breath, "You stupid mom!" I was shocked! We are very careful not to use that word where little ears can hear, though I'm sure Bug has heard it occasionally. Then, there's Horror #2. As I said, this mother didn't realize it was already too late and that her daughter had already relieved herself. Yep, you can probably guess what's coming...Little Girl had an accident on the sliding board, Bug didn't know the slide was wet (curvy tunnel slide so neither did we) and Bug slid right down the slide through Little Girl's accident. There really wasn't anything more disturbing in that moment than looking up as Bug went running across the playground, seeing very wet shorts, sniffing them and picking up the scent of urine, and then knowing that it was the urine of another child! I'm not a germ-a-phobe, but it still grossed me out. Bug was quickly changed into clean clothes, she happily continued playing, and she most certainly received a bath when we got home! Lesson learned: Always look (or feel or sniff) before you slide!
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