A mum has sparked a heated discussion online about park etiquette, after a situation at her local park left her questioning if she was overreacting.

“Hey Mums 👋🏼– is park etiquette a thing?!?” she began in the post shared to Instagram.

She told viewers she needed to have a “quick rant” about what happened to her and her child at the park.

The mum shared that there was a woman who was already pushing her child on the swing when she arrived, so when her daughter wanted a turn, she told her to be patient and wait for her go.

“But this lady, who was well aware, well aware that we were waiting for the swing, took half an hour,” she said. 

“There was no acknowledgement of, ‘Sorry we’ll just be another 10 minutes’ or, ‘Hey darling, let’s share the swing with this girl’, nothing. None of the above.

“She just proceeded to look at me while she swung her daughter, for half an hour, while there were kids waiting for a turn of the much-wanted swing.

“Is that rude, or is that just me?”

Several other mums responded to the video, with most of the comments agreeing that it was rude for the woman to spend half an hour on the swing.

“That is nottt okay. Some people really have no idea,” wrote one person.

 “That is so rude,” another commented.

“Gobsmacked!!” a third wrote, while another mum said that spending that long on a swing “is diabolical”.

One mum recalled her own experience of having to wait for almost half an hour.

“Omggg that’s happened to me before too! It’s so rude! Try telling your 1.5 yr old daughter we have to be patient.. we were waiting 20 minutes for a turn!” she wrote.

“It’s rude ! Sometimes when people are taking too long, I say ‘Hello, can my son have a turn when you’re done?'” another mum added.

Others could not believe that the mum was willing to spend so much time pushing her kid on the swing.

“Who even wants to push their kid on the swing for 30 minutes. 5 minutes or 10 minutes max if no one is there but 30 minutes that’s ridiculous haha.”

Some mums pointed out that the main issue is that parks tend to not have enough swings.

“Can we normalise parks having 4x the amount of swings.”

“The fact that parks have 2 swings will never not blow my mind, and if taken my kid off kicking and screaming so other kids can have a turn lol” another added.

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