mummy why is that lady fat?

[Cupcakeannie77]

Ok, so me and DS sat in bus stop and there are other people there too when my DS pipes up 'mummy, why is that lady fat' obviously I'd like the ground to swallow me up whole, but I politely explain how we are all different. You'd think this might be an acceptable answer to DS?? Noooooo he wants a more in depth discussion about why people are fat. Thankfully bus arrives and we get on. As we do I turned to the lady and said 'I apologise for my sons inquisitive question and we meant you no offence!' To which she replies 'you my dear need to teach that boy manors and show him a firm hand' to which she thumps past me and gets on the bus. I'm left dumbfounded and the bus promptly leaves with me an DS stood on the pavement! I'm now quietly raging. 1. You can't predict kids and their questions and 2. What the hell should I have done? Smacked his legs and said shhhhh?
I've always felt it better to be honest with DS and not shhhhh him am I wrong?

It's fine for the posters here to say that they Wouldn't have minded but the woman concerned clearly did mind. And she wasn't being unreasonable to have been embarrassed.

You don't know her story, what her day was like, she might just have been having an off day. Not everyone is delighted to receive personal comments from small children.

Your answers were perfectly fine, except that at no point did you tell your child that it was rude. that's what she was upset about.

I can't believe all this criticism of the op's parenting. Her child is 3! She was put on the spot and did the best she could think of at the time and apologised. The women however, was deliberately rude and it sounded like she shoved the op and her child out of the way. Not a word of criticism of her behaviour though.