Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To still be quietly fuming when a woman assumes my dd's chocolate bar is her dinner in sainsburys??

39 replies

Hillls · 25/04/2007 21:13

I went to Sainsburys today to do my shopping, my dd has a bar of their chocoalte as its the only free from chocolate she can eat due to her allergies. We were in the car park putting our shopping in the boot when a woman walks past and says to my dd? 'Is that your dinner' she walked off before I had chance to answer her, I am still cross with this woman, should I just laugh it off? She was not joking either!

My dd only has one bar of chocolate a week, I dont allow sweets or chocolate normally.

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
brimfull · 26/04/2007 08:27

think you should return to the carpark ,same time next week,hunt thei evil comment throwing bitch down and give her a good slapping!

belgo · 26/04/2007 07:42

I get annoyed by comments like that. And I fume about them for days ..... until finally I get some persepective and forget all about it.

Fillyjonk · 26/04/2007 07:33

i think none of us except hills were there, and if she doesn't think the woman was joking, its fair to assume that she didn't come across that way

but hills, fgs, don't worry what a stranger thinks! you can't parent according to what others think anyway.

Katy44 · 26/04/2007 07:31

I thought you meant the woman ate your DD's chocolate!

niceglasses · 26/04/2007 07:30

I think she was just having a joke with you - I actually think she was just being friendly. Sorry, don't mean to sound rude, but thats mad - whats the problem?

SofiaAmes · 26/04/2007 07:25

Just ignore it. She probably has never had a child of her own. I once had a woman tell me she was going to call the police because I was letting my dc (4 and 6) ride on the escalator without holding their hands. She said it was tantamount to child abuse! (I did contemplate responding that the only child abuse happening was her scaring my children with her severly plastic surgeried face!!!!....)

maisym · 25/04/2007 23:00

bambira - thats so awful - did you complain?

I'd have answered no it's her breakfast

Original poster
Hillls · 25/04/2007 22:56

yes she was rather up her own arse if I may say, I just wish I'd been quicker instead of having my head upsideown in the boot of my car. Grrrrr

Quite[shocked] by some of the things said to people, especially the one about the photographer!!!!

OP posts:
Porcupine · 25/04/2007 22:47

Hills just think

" you are mad you unhinged woman" and msile

staceym11 · 25/04/2007 22:35

ok i must jump in before the strangers say it because i say that stuff to the strangers, maybe its a defence mechanism...hmmm

Ripeberry · 25/04/2007 22:33

Just today i was trying to get my dd aged 2 and in the middle of a terrible 2's tantrum to get into her pushchair as we were going to cross the road and she was refusing to hold hands.
A stranger says "OH what an EVIL mummy" but luckily for her she smiled as she said it and she was elderly.
Anyone saying that without knowing me would get a piece of my mind if they did not mean it in jest.
AB

staceym11 · 25/04/2007 22:31

i say the pinching thing about my own children if they'r going off and someone says 'wahts wrong with you then' i turn round and say 'well iv been pinching him/her when you're not looking, didn't you realise?'

hillls try not to bother too much, you know the truth!

sunnysideup · 25/04/2007 22:26

bambi how AWFUL! What a cow.

Bambiraptor · 25/04/2007 22:10

I wouldn't worry about it. It is no where near as bad as when my dd had a flare up of eczema on her face. We went into the local supermarket where there was a professional photography selling point. The sales woman greeted me and was about to give me the sales pitch but she saw dd and just turned away. I felt like punching her.

Original poster
Hillls · 25/04/2007 21:39

Cheers Cod

OP posts:
Porcupine · 25/04/2007 21:35

oh go get over it you lily livered owman

Aloha · 25/04/2007 21:35

The dalmation was unbelievably cute. Even ds's classmates were congratulating him on his sister's costume
I'll email you a picture to prove it!

Lizzer · 25/04/2007 21:34

Fume away - I hate stupid comments like that

PrincessPeaHead · 25/04/2007 21:33

a dalmation! ahhhhhhhhhh that must have been SO sweet

Aloha · 25/04/2007 21:31

Ah but PPH you could franchise your confidence!
But yes, she's a silly old boot who doesn't deserve a millisecond of your time.
A tip: if you want people to coo over your child in a most gratifying manner, let them go out in fancy dress. DD went to school pick up as a dalmation yesterday and spent the whole of today in a fairy costume. She was a complete showstopper both times. It was like walking down the street with Marilyn Monroe in terms of attention, but much nicer, of course.

Original poster
Hillls · 25/04/2007 21:30

Princess I do have a sense of humour, It just made me cross, the situation came accross all wrong, not jokingly just very judgemental. I dont care what people think but she really made me feel crap.

OP posts:
PrincessPeaHead · 25/04/2007 21:27

Hillls you really need to lighten up
grow a sense of humour

And why do you give a shit what some random stranger thinks or doesn't think of you? What does it matter? Why should it bother you for more than ooooh about 1 second?

oliveoil · 25/04/2007 21:27

dd2 was having a strop the other day and some old dear said "I know what she needs!!!"

I thought after that I should have said "YES. AN OFF BUTTON!!!!!!"

hatrick · 25/04/2007 21:26

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

NuttyMuffins · 25/04/2007 21:23

Hmm over reacting IMO.

I was giving ds a bit of a talking to outside Wilkos today as he was generally being a little sod, and some old woman said 'you want to give him a good hard smack'.