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To be upset at this interaction in the shop

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Sunnie7 · 09/11/2025 14:01

Was in the charity shop today. A mum was in there with her two kids. Mine accidentally bumped into one of her sons. I don’t think she’d even realised she had done it and I didn’t see it either. I over heard the boy said ‘mum she just bumped into me’. Her mum said ‘I’m sure she didnt mean to but if she does it again I’ll have to say something’. Then the son said ‘she didn’t say sorry’. And her mum said ‘well obviously she hasn’t been brought it up properly’.

I didn’t even see it happen and asked my DD she said she didn’t or didn’t realise she had. I asked her to apologise to the boy and just said we hadn’t realised. The mum continued to be funny with me round the shop

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Berlinlover · 09/11/2025 14:24

Why are there so many threads lately making a big deal about normal everyday occurrences? I honestly don’t know how some of you get through life.

Because this is Mumsnet, the natural home of the habitual, debilitating overthinker. There are so, so many threads where a few simple words would have clarified the situation, but the poster would much rather chew over it to the point of exhaustion.

Sunnie7 · 09/11/2025 14:43

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What didn’t happen?

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Berlinlover · 09/11/2025 14:24

Why are there so many threads lately making a big deal about normal everyday occurrences? I honestly don’t know how some of you get through life.

FOJN · 09/11/2025 14:23

You asked your daughter to apologise for something she said she didn't do so that a random woman in a charity shop wouldn't think you were a bad parent?

Please stop giving a shit about what other people think.

AintNoPunshineWhenShesGone · 09/11/2025 14:18

Also, why do all these non stories begin with 'I was in a charity shop' lately?

There's been so many of them, I'm afraid to step inside one incase I'm compelled to tell MN all about the non event 👀😁

AintNoPunshineWhenShesGone · 09/11/2025 14:17

The mum continued to be funny with me round the shop

She followed you around, telling jokes?

Slobberchops1 · 09/11/2025 14:14

how do you manage to get through life , if this small interaction has affected you so much that you need to talk about it on the internet ?

it’s just kids being whiney ( and a bit Absentminded ) and someone else making a snarky comment, put it out of your mind

Bagsintheboot · 09/11/2025 14:12

This is a complete non-incident. Teach your children to apologise if they bump into someone.

That's the end of it.

ForZanyAquaViewer · 09/11/2025 14:10

Oh, for goodness sake. YABU.

Sunnie7 · 09/11/2025 14:08

Also, DD is 6 and wouldn’t do anything like that on purpose. Just to add

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