Venues your parents brought you as a child at a loose end

Hal3000

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

If you’ve ever had the misfortune to darken the doors of Ikea on a Saturday or Sunday you’ll see where unimaginative parents take their young when they want a “day out”.

You’ll see the red faced angry dad bullying about with a trolley, the browsing mum stopping at every item for sale and the couple of kids trying to have a small bit of “fun” milling about only to be roared at by the angry dad.

Considering the parents probably don’t see much of the kids during the week you would think the weekend would be a good for spending some “quality” time with them but instead they do that. Sad really.

What a load of crap and it seems to me that perhaps you don't get out much yourself. If you did you'd see that parents are now more imaginative than ever. Parks, museums, farms, beaches are packed with kids, but keep suiting your own narrative man !

Purple Mountain

My dad used to always bring us visiting his aging aunts and uncles regularly.
I'm really happy he did because I still have a great connection to their famililes now even though my grandaunts and granduncles are all dead at this stage.
Family and tradition are very important to me, and it was because of those childhood rituals of Sunday visiting that I'm like this.

This is it

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

No it’s not. These people are taking their kids to a place like Ikea on a Saturday, or Sunday, morning for a “day out” with no real intention to buy anything.

And even then they expect their kids to behave like adults without running off, playing games or jumping on the beds. Then taking their frustrations out on them when they do anything like that.

The “highlight” of the day is then going to the shop “restaurant” and giving the kids a plate of those horrible grey “meatballs” to stuff their faces with. It’s a terrible day and it ruins the trip for those who are there for a reason.

It’s a lazy and unimaginative way for lazy and unimaginative “parents” to kill the time they have to be with their kids. They probably can’t wait for the time when swimming, ballet or soccer start up again.

Yes it is, whether you want to admit it or not. You're judging the parents and you're making wild assumptions about them and their lifestyles when in reality you have no idea.

Don't get me wrong, there are parents who do fûck all with their kids but just because a parent brings their kids to IKEA doesn't make them bad, lazy or unimaginitive.

BrenMar

We used to go for a walk around the new estates and look at the show houses.

ILoveYourVibes

People's parents brought them places?

EmmetSpiceland

Hal3000 wrote: »

What a load of crap and it seems to me that perhaps you don't get out much yourself. If you did you'd see that parents are now more imaginative than ever. Parks, museums, farms, beaches are packed with kids, but keep suiting your own narrative man !

Sure they do, “man”.

That’s why the place is crawling with parent and child combos milling about aimlessly whenever you’ve to go there on a weekend. It’s a bloody nightmare that wouldn’t be an issue if they were taking their kids to the park etc.

The type of parent who brings their children to commercial shopping places like that for a “day out” are, to me, on the same level as the parents you see in those awful discount shops like “Mr. Price” who loudly call their young children the “C” word.

This is it wrote: »

Yes it is, whether you want to admit it or not. You're judging the parents and you're making wild assumptions about them and their lifestyles when in reality you have no idea.

Don't get me wrong, there are parents who do fûck all with their kids but just because a parent brings their kids to IKEA doesn't make them bad, lazy or unimaginitive.

Yes, it does.

Hal3000

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Sure they do, “man”.

That’s why the place is crawling with parent and child combos milling about aimlessly whenever you’ve to go there on a weekend. It’s a bloody nightmare that wouldn’t be an issue if they were taking their kids to the park etc.

The type of parent who brings their children to commercial shopping places like that for a “day out” are, to me, on the same level as the parents you see in those awful discount shops like “Mr. Price” who loudly call their young children the “C” word.



Yes, it does.

You're taking the Mickey now... Not biting !

Yer Da sells Avon

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

The type of parent who brings their children to commercial shopping places like that for a “day out” are, to me, on the same level as the parents you see in those awful discount shops like “Mr. Price” who loudly call their young children the “C” word.

Have you considered the possibility that maybe their young children actually are cunts?

EmmetSpiceland

Hal3000 wrote: »

You're taking the Mickey now... Not biting !

Apologies if it sounds a little “extreme” but I’ve had to endure a number of trips out to Ikea lately and the weekend ones have been hell. Absolute hell.

This isn’t anything new, as soon as I was walking in I spotted the family units and remembered I’d seen it previously. And it only gets worse as you start around and you see the angry headed “dads” grabbing one of the kids and hissing at him through gritted teeth about behaving.

They obviously don’t need to be there, or at least the kids don’t. It’s a horrible way to spend the day and it’s horrible for others to have to witness, and get delayed by, it.

It’s up there with families doing “the shopping” in Tescos, as in the whole family. It’s not the 80s, there’s late openings everywhere. Suffering a weekly grocery shop with the whole family is just masochism but I guess there’s the sadistic release of chastising the kid for being bored or crying over not getting sweets.

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I'd chop acres of nettles at the weekends as a child.

Purple Mountain

Sebastian Obedient Puma wrote: »

I'd chop acres of nettles at the weekends as a child.

You think that is bad.
When times were tough in the 80s for us, we made do with manys a nettle soup dinner.

freshpopcorn

A big Dunnes Stores!

Clara Lara. Just looked at their website. Looks pretty much identical to how I remember it over 30 years ago. Has the place changed at all?