Name changed as don't want to out-myself.
Yesterday I was out with DD (22 mo). We had stopped at a juice bar in a busy shopping centre and DD was standing up on a bar seat (a wooden chair).
We are not in the UK (but I am British).
A woman approached us and asked if I spoke the language - in my broken local language I said sorry but no and then in English she started to tell me that it was disgusting that I would come to their country and not respect them or their traditions. She said that they would never let children stand on chairs and I should leave the bar immediately, and that I should just go home (to my own country) because I wasn't wanted.
Taking a very deep breath, I apologised that my actions with DD had offended her, and said that I wouldn't take DD down (and that we weren't offending anyone else around) as her shoes had not been outside and were not dirty, but that I would be sure to clean the chair anyway.
She said again that foreign people were not welcome and that we all thought we were better and that we should just leave the country. Then she said again that I was offending her and should leave the juice bar.
I didn't leave, but I did ask for a cloth to clean the seat off. I felt pretty awful. WIBU?
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WIBU to pay no attention to this woman when she shouted at me for being foreign....
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Caledoniacalling · 29/03/2013 12:26
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