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Ever pull a Kate McCann late at night

  • 30-05-2012 09:43AM
    #1
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭


    Following on from the kids in cars thread, has anyone ever nipped out to the shops for a few essentials after the kids have fallen asleep, obviously your other half is out at the time too so you lock them in the house unattended.

    I must admit I've done it a few times, especially if there's no milk for the morning cereal or you're out of bread, smokes etc.
    It used to be the done thing until the McCanns made it as radioactive as drink driving.

    Anyone else a sinner like me ?.
    Helen Lovejoys need not throw their oar in.


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  • #2
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    That's not what the McCanns did

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  • #3
    tin79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    From the title I thought you meant the other kind of pull. The actual post is less interesting.


  • #4
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    OP, you should be ashamed of yourself.


  • #5
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Back in the late 80s my mam left me (age 3ish) asleep in our hotel room while her and her friend went down to the bar to listen to the live music. she was up every 20min to check on me but I woke up at one point and got scared, managed to get out of our hotel room and to the lift. Luckily it was an old-timey style one with a big grate and I couldn't operate it. Cleaning lady found me wandering the hall roaring crying, my mam showed up about 10secs later.

    Probably made her look like the world's worst mother, but that wasn't the case at all.


  • #6
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,757 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    ever murdered your kid and covered it up, can't say I have.


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  • #7
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,077 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    ever murdered your kid and covered it up, can't say I have.

    Proof?


  • #8
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Who is Helen Lovejoy?


  • #9
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    28064212 wrote: »
    That's not what the McCanns did

    this


    the mccanns went to the hotel bar and got drunk with their friends in a hotel in portugal with noone supervising/babysitting the kids.

    its a big difference from nipping to the shop while your kid is locked in your car.


  • #10
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    No, and never will.
    I make it a personal rule also never to drink alcohol till they are at least in bed at night and asleep safe.
    (Amid many things in life, if you have kids, you need your wits and awareness as sharp as possible at all times.)


  • #11
    Ms. Captain M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭Ms. Captain M


    No never!

    What would you do if they woke up and freaked out to find you missing, or something happened when you were gone, fire breaking out etc. "Oh I was out of fags!"


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  • #12
    newport2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭newport2


    Insurgent wrote: »
    Who is Helen Lovejoy?

    "Won't somebody please think of the children!!"


  • #13
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i don't have kids.

    na na na na naaaa naaaa


  • #14
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    this


    the mccanns went to the hotel bar and got drunk with their friends in a hotel in portugal with noone supervising/babysitting the kids.

    its a big difference from nipping to the shop while your kid is locked in your car.


    bollox.........unattended is unattended ..........end off. Anything could happen.:mad:


  • #15
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,675 ✭✭✭TheBody


    Insurgent wrote: »
    Who is Helen Lovejoy?

    The wife of Rev Lovejoy from The Simpsons.


  • #16
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,796 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    No and never would.


  • #17
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    I know that unattended is unattended but your kid could be upstairs while you are down watching TV and something could happen and you wouldn't know.

    I know if i had to run to shop for something i'd check before i left the house and again when i got back in. I wouldn't check that often if i was in the house.

    If the kid was awake or prone to waking up i'd have to think differently but a heavy sleeper with a shop nearby then no problem


  • #18
    CL7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭CL7


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    It used to be the done thing

    It used to be the done thing? Where exactly? This has to be a wind up.


  • #19
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    danniemcq wrote: »
    I know that unattended is unattended but your kid could be upstairs while you are down watching TV and something could happen and you wouldn't know.

    but you'd be there, like how could you live with yourself if you were'nt and something happened.


  • #20
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    CL7 wrote: »
    It used to be the done thing? Where exactly? This has to be a wind up.

    I mean more acceptable to society's standards.
    Just nipping out for 5 minutes wasn't seen as a despicable act before the media focused on it.


  • #21
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    CL7 wrote: »
    It used to be the done thing? Where exactly? This has to be a wind up.

    It genuinely was, particularly for something like nipping to the shops or popping in to the neighbours. Up until the 90s, when people became more aware of the dangers.

    Sure I was only discussing this a few months ago with my OH's folks, they agree it was the done thing back when we were all kids.


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  • #22
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    but you'd be there, like how could you live with yourself if you were'nt and something happened.

    But if i was there and something happened would it not be the same?

    i'm not on about a kid under a year or so but when they are to old for the radio thingy and you are in the other side of the house and something happens upstairs it would be the same.

    If the house is child safe (guard on stairs, medicine bottles all away safely etc) then you have reduced the risks.


  • #23
    TiGeR KiNgS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭TiGeR KiNgS


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    ever murdered your kid and covered it up, can't say I have.

    LOL


  • #24
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    OP, you should be ashamed of yourself.

    Susprisingly not, my moral standards are seemingly far lower than yours allowing me to live a guilt free life.


  • #25
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    It genuinely was, particularly for something like nipping to the shops or popping in to the neighbours. Up until the 90s, when people became more aware of the dangers.

    Sure I was only discussing this a few months ago with my OH's folks, they agree it was the done thing back when we were all kids.


    My mother says it was the norm as often the husband would go to the pub in the evening.
    By the time he would be walking/driving home the shops would all be closed so her only opportunity would be to nip out herself.


  • #26
    CL7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭CL7


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    I mean more acceptable to society's standards.
    Just nipping out for 5 minutes wasn't seen as a despicable act before the media focused on it.
    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    It genuinely was, particularly for something like nipping to the shops or popping in to the neighbours. Up until the 90s, when people became more aware of the dangers.

    Sure I was only discussing this a few months ago with my OH's folks, they agree it was the done thing back when we were all kids.

    Fair enough. I didn't know that. I don't have kids yet but I'll never leave them unattended if/when I do.


  • #27
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    28064212 wrote: »
    That's not what the McCanns did


    The reasons for leaving the children unattended may be different...but the net result is the same - the children are still left unattended. You may say, "well one only left their children for a few minutes, the other left hers for a few hours" - but how can you say that one is ok and one is not? If we are going to put some kind of time fram justification on it (ten minutes good, ten hours bad) where do you draw the line? It's either ok to leave your child alone or its not. There is no magical moment where it stops being ok.


  • #28
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    CL7 wrote: »
    Fair enough. I didn't know that. I don't have kids yet but I'll never leave them unattended if/when I do.

    Because societies norms and expectations have changed drastically in the last 20-30 years. I most likely wouldn't do it either, but I certainly don't judge my parents for doing it.


  • #29
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    this


    the mccanns went to the hotel bar and got drunk with their friends in a hotel in portugal with noone supervising/babysitting the kids.

    its a big difference from nipping to the shop while your kid is locked in your car.

    The OP specifically asked about the children being left in the house


  • #30
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,757 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    Proof?

    well it wouldn't be a very good cover-up if they left proof would it?


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  • #31
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Please use Parenting forum, not every thread has to go in AH.
    Also we're all too young here to have kids ;)


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