Why some mums are so weird ?

Haha this hypothetical working class council estate mum probably would have helped, offered you a either a brew or a gin in a tin and your kid a snack and asked your life story 👌😆

This isn't specific to mums, surely. It's about people. People can be weird but this particular interaction is a weird thing to start a thread about.

Even so, there could be a reason why she didn't want to engage with you at the moment. She could have had something else going on and not wanting to be bothered by you.

It couldn't have been that hard to find the entrance.

Because she was going to a child and parent event?

Agree. Why do people say things like ‘ why do you care?’ It’s a bloody forum for things like that. If you don’t find it interesting or relevant bloody well move on - to more important and meaningful topics!

There are plenty of weirdos in London. It’s possible she didn’t want to engage in case you were odd or strange.

Hm, after your update OP I'd say she had indeed observed your previous interaction and was absolutely determined that she wasn't going to engage with the person who likes to make friends with everyone in thirty seconds.

I asked a dad for directions once and he pointed to the sky - he had a long twirly beard as well 🤔

If it was Mudlarks, I've been but can't remember the entrance specifics to get in there. Discover Children's Stories people hang out outside, the main door is fairly obvious only when it's open, but I wouldn't remember if you go straight in or have to queue for slots.

Like a PP said, most likely she was distracted waiting for someone who didn't show up, and wasn't sure how to help you with the entrance directions.

I agree with all of this! I also have been based in the same area and don’t know the different entrances. Even with a ticket sometimes they tell me to queue in the garden part and others to skip the queue etc.

Could it just be that she was having a bad day and you caught her at a bad time? So perhaps she didn’t mean to be short but she was.

I was about to ask if you were a woman of colour or not.

Slightly off topic OP but this is a workplace 'thing' too.

I asked a bus driver if the bus he was driving was going past Liverpool Street Station he said, I don't know.

Asked the jeweller if they had any tennis bracelets she said, I don't know.

Called the GP to book an appointment and asked which day was late night opening? I don't know was the response.

I could go on...

In the workplace I feel the 'I don't know', should be followed by, 'Let me find out...'🤔

To add, I have a job which requires a lot of interaction and "helping" people. I'm also a single mum. I get communication burn out and just want a quiet life sometimes.

Some people ask stupid questions and if you're having a bad day you might not necessarily want to engage. I generally don't enjoy chatting to people I don't know. I can do it easily but I'll avoid it if I can. I must look like the Oracle because every time I catch the train these days (not often) people will ask me daft questions. I will be polite and try to help but some people are seemingly helpless to try to figure out things themselves. I also have a terrible sense of direction and can't follow or give directions so avoid either (figure it out myself using maps/pictures of buildings etc). I have an adult child and a primary school aged child and I don't remember needing as much help as you seem to OP. I'm nothing special nor spectacularly intelligent, I just try to be a self sufficient adult.

I would assume she got stood up by the friend 🤷‍♀️ Plus she was probably feeling stressed about whether her friend was going to make it.

I don’t think it’s unlikely that she couldn’t answer your questions, even if she had been there before. I’ve lived in walking distance of the NHM for over 20 years, one of my DC lived practically next door in halls, I’ve been there many times as a child, parent and now as a grandparent, and professionally to the bit that isn’t open to the public. I would say I know Albertopolis very well but I couldn’t answer your question about the queue and it would depend where you were whether I could direct you to the nearest entrance. I know where the central entrance is and the one that used to be the geology museum but, although I know it exists, I couldn’t direct you to the west entrance 🤷‍♀️ The queuing system has changed many times and I seem to remember it is different on busy days. I think it depends on whether you are going to an event, have a timed ticket or are a walk in.

Oh the irony of someone whinging calling someone else a Karen. 😂😂

(is that the kind of stereotype you like?)

Maybe they had a different entrance last time?? Also it’s not a mum’s are weird thing, it’s more a ‘everyone’s different’ thing. Also, London.

Some people are weird. Some of them are women who have children. I'm not sure there's any correlation or causation between them.

She suspected you were a mom, not a mum? 😂

I got lost once in a city all I knew was the hotel name I asked a lady if she could point me in the right direction and she walked with me to the hotel! Don’t be disheartened still is some lovely people around x

I don't know ! 😆
Seriously I come across the I don't know brigade all day every day. I think people are simply dismissive, possibly passive aggressive. I swear certain people would respond, 'I don't know' if you asked them for their name.

Goodness me OP you have lots of condescending responses from exactly the same type of people as the woman outside the museum.
I do agree though that it's not just mums it people in general. Most people where I live are quite nice and helpful. I'm glad about that.

I have said you are being unreasonable because I don't think the fact that the woman is a mother has anything to do with her behaviour and you can't conclude that mother's are weird from that example.
You can say some people do strange things but we all know that and it's their parental status isn't relevant to their behaviour.