Mother made teenage son wear his wellies to school...almost!

[wellyboy]

I must share this experience. I was walking in the rain last Friday around 8.45am. As it was raining heavily I was wearing my long see thru plastic rainmack over a jacket. I also wore my rainpants tucked into my wellies.
I was minding my own business walking on the footpath when this lady appear from a side road with I presume her two sons. They looked sheepish in their body language.
The first boy was dressed in his school uniform but had a long yellow raincoat on and a pair of green wellies. The second boy, I presume his brother was wearing a shiny green raincoat, rain pants and wellies which were blue.
Their mum wore a parka coat and wellies.
I was walking behind them. The local secondary school was about a hundred yards from the side road.
When they got to the school gates, the older boy stopped and said to his mother in a loud, aggressive tone: "Now I've worn those stupid wellies, I want to wear my shoes into school or I will be jeered and laughed at."
His mother stopped and took his shoes from a plastic bag. He removed his wellies, one by one and put on his shoes. He then struggled to remove the yellow rainmack. It was a button type of coat and his hands were cold enough to be fidgeting with the buttons. Eventually, he took that off and handed it to his mother. He then disappeared in through the entrance gate 20 yards up the road.
But just as he had removed the raincoat another woman came walking by with her dog. I'd say she was retired and suitable clad in appropriate raingear. She knew the woman and her boys. And she exclaimed: " Hi Mrs Bolton, awful weather this morning. I think it is going to brighten up later though. Aren't your two boys very good and sensible to be wearing their raincoats and wellingtons to school".
The younger boy was still standing besde his mother, I was all the time pretending to be taking a phone call on my mobile. The younger boy seemed to be so embarrassed while the older guy had just bolted up to the school entrance.
The mother said goodbye to the younger boy, and then proceeded to walk wit the elderly lady. I walked behind them and could cleary hear the mother telling her friend about the hassle she had persuading the older boy to wear his raincoat and wellies.
The elderly lady replied that she shouldn't give in to her sons and she should insist on them wearing their raingear.
With that I crossed over the road and headed back down to my house.
I wondered if the mother insisted on her boys wearing their raingear later that day, because in spite of what the elderly lady had said about the weather improving later on, it continued to rain.

[Jjai]

I wonder if those two boys will ensure their own kids are dressed properly for the wet weather when they have children of their own?

[Hugo]

I wonder, how many versions of this story are spreading the internet.

[Fender]

When the boys get older,i am sure they like it

[Bill_P]

yeah this would seem to bode well for spawning the next generation of raincoat enthusiasts

[rainponcho]

aaarrrrrrg im getting hard just picturing that rainwear

[bjhaus]

I'm with Hugo - this story has 'urban myth' written all over it.

But I'll assume for just a moment it's true - if the mother was genuinely more concerned with her child than with her own sense of being in control, she's have told that interfering old bat to mind her own damn business. But that's always the way with dominance freaks - couldn't give a flying rats tossbag what their victime think but they'll soak up compliments from anybody else that sticks their oar in.

[pacamac2]

I suppose I come from the "old school" or the older generation where part of the school uniform was in the dark days of winter a gaberdine mac and for the summer showers a plastic mac and if one got to school slightly damp/bedraggled then a note sent home advising the parent(s) that it was not the most sensible thing to do to have their child/children sit in school in wet/damp clothes and advising of a school outfitter where a school mac be purchased for a sensible price

Now it is more than the schools dare to quiestion what waterproof garment pupils wear to school or any waterproof garment at all

I have seen and I dare say others have seen mums taking their children to school...mum in a mac and the children also in sensible waterproof garments
I call her a mum who cares about the children welfare

Then we have the mum.....wearing as little as possible...in the pouring rain....and guess what the children are dressed the same as mum...not being educated it is the most sensible in the world ...to stay dry

As regards the colour scheme this mum imposed on the two boys...not too sure about it.....surely less noticeable colours would have found the boys wearing their raingear with less disapproval

Perhaps a nice black plastic mac and black wellies...get them dead cheap on the internet

One can well imagine before leaving home the antics of the two boys being asked to put on their raingear...having to face the outside world and possibly other pupils on their way to school

There could be a positive side to this...it is widely known that some mac enthusiasts in their infancy hated rainwear and was forced to wear it,....the end result...now fully fledged mac enthusiasts with collections of rainwear

Will these two boys or perhaps one of them be courageous enough in years to come to wear outrageous colours or even ladies macs outside

We do need more youngsters to become interested/attracted in macs as we...the older ones will not be about forever

Peter

[bjhaus]

Needing it is one thing - feeling somehow entitled to it, as if it's somebody or other's duty to provide it, is another, and dressing up that entitlement issue in a whole lot of 'Disgusted of Doncaster' stuff about slack parenting and the state of the youth of today, is yet another.

We are a tiny minority. That's just how it is. To quote Jim Morrison (far from my favorite quote source), 'into THIS world we're thrown!'.

[wornoutwellies]

Was at a Convent boarding school.....Friday afternoons was "hobby" time & I went pony riding with my friend with whom I shared a room (in the 5th form we moved out of the 6 bedded dorms). When we got in one warm September afternnoon I helped her off with her wellies & she went for a shower....I couldn't resist sniffing her wellies......Imagine my horror when she dashed back in for her shampoo......When she did return I ran out for my shower....When I returned she had closed the curtains, was on the bed in her blue gaberdine raincoat & wellingtons. I was told to dress likewise & we had lots of fun in our mackintosh & Wellingtons regulalry.
Still love rainwear & wear my wellies everyday- whatever the weather.