Would you call a mom out

[game blouses]

Jan 31, 2015 23:17:01 GMT -5 lilac05 said:

No.

I'm also guessing that we can't even partially excuse it because she was older than old and no longer has a filter, right? The really old little ladies probably don't know that the recommendation changed from covering with your hands to coughing into your elbow.

Good for your son for ANY attempt at covering his mouth while coughing!

She wasn't even old! Maybe 40!

[redheadk]

Jan 31, 2015 22:17:55 GMT -5 game blouses said:

Ok thank you. I got called out in the grocery store because my 2.5 year old was coughing into his wrist instead of his arm.

I'm surprised she even needs to worry about others getting her sick since she sounds insufferable and exactly the kind of person nobody wants to be around.

[dojo]

Not in a million years. Lead by example and survive the coughs that are not sufficiently caught in the crook of another's arm.

[keyslover]

Jan 31, 2015 23:33:11 GMT -5 game blouses said:

Jan 31, 2015 23:17:01 GMT -5 lilac05 said:

No.

I'm also guessing that we can't even partially excuse it because she was older than old and no longer has a filter, right? The really old little ladies probably don't know that the recommendation changed from covering with your hands to coughing into your elbow.

Good for your son for ANY attempt at covering his mouth while coughing!

She wasn't even old! Maybe 40!

I am just happy 40 isn't old!


No, people are stupid. Your child is a step ahead of many adults by covering his mouth

[motzie]

Jan 31, 2015 22:25:26 GMT -5 meganew said:

Ollie's 3.5 and I say "elbow! Elbow!" every time he coughs. Doesn't stop him from doing it directly in my face.

I have been working on this with DD. Every. Single. Time. Or she'll do it right AFTER she sneezes with a big dramatic "aaaachoooo"

[wildfloweragain]

No. However once my MIL called me out to H as evil because ever since he married me he doesn't cough into his hands "like a normal person."

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[hisno1girl]

No, and I would have coughed right in her nosy face,

[4speedy]

Why is this even a question?  In what society is it acceptable to call a mom out because her kid doesn't cough to her liking?  

I don't think I like living in a society that has become so superior and angry that we feel it is ok to "call out" people for anything we disagree with.

There are some instances, like serious matters of child safety, where intervention is justified.  Coughing is not one of these instances.

[underwaterrhymes]

Jan 31, 2015 22:22:04 GMT -5 game blouses said:

Jan 31, 2015 22:20:40 GMT -5 @weeble said:

WTF?  That's crazy town.  I hope you gave her The Look and kept on truckin'.

That is exactly what I did. Her comment was "you should teach him how to cough into his arm (demonstrates) so he doesn't get everyone around him sick."

Did you say, "I guess someone should have taught you how not to be rude to others."?

[pandorica]

No, never. But I also didn't know coughing like that was a thing. I'm dying at "vampire cough"

[4speedy]

Jan 31, 2015 22:17:55 GMT -5 game blouses said:

Ok thank you. I got called out in the grocery store because my 2.5 year old was coughing into his wrist instead of his arm.

I'm not planning to shake your 2.5 year old's hand so I could not care less if he coughs into it.  

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

I will say that I have been known to yell ELBOW!!!! whenever anyone coughs near me. But then I go wide eyed and frantically apologize and sputter that it's a reflex from getting hacked on constantly at work.

[bab]

People have lost all sense of what it means to be polite. I just can't anymore with people...

[kadams767]

Considering that I barely remember to do this myself, no, I would never even think to call someone else out, especially a little kid.

[CloudBee]

I can't even remember to do this. I still use my hand most of the time.

[macmars45]

Heck no! Any attempt by a little kid is awesome.

I teach preschool and my 3-5 year olds still have to be constantly reminded to cough into their elbow. (BTW, I'd never heard it referred to as a vampire cough. It's pretty funny and I'll tell my preschoolers; they'll get a kick out of it.)

[Deleted]

Jan 31, 2015 22:21:33 GMT -5 Queen Dick, Hibernating Bear said:

I am astonished at her hubris.

I am impressed with your use of the word hubris.

[cherryvalance]

I bet she's the type to call out of work tomorrow because some germy kid "infected" her.