To think these women were rude and tell them so

[RunawayWife]

Was in town with DS2 this afternoon and he wanted to get something with his pocket money from the toy shop.
So he is waiting to pay (one person serving and one person being served) when two old cows women come up, look at DS2 who is 9 and go and stand in front of him.
So I say Excuse me but he is waiting to pay" so they move and stand behind him and one turns to the other and starts on about well he was just standing there (um yes standing in the queue line waiting for thew woman in front to be served) don't know why he was just standing there, so I turn and say, he is standing waiting to pay, waiting for the person in front to finish being served, and having good manners unlike you two who were clearly dragged up in a gutter with no manners at all.

I hate people like these two, so because he is 9 and they are old, they think they can push in and then be rude about it.

So it is ok for old bitches women to call a child an idiot, push in front of him, they were just embarrassed, but I was rude.
God some of the ideas on Munsnet are twisted!

Well it is done now, they shut up.

And yes I would say something the next time someone thinks it is ok to push in front of a child then exclaim very loudly "he" is the one thats an idiot!
I am used to all sorts of idiots being rude when I am out and about with my mother in her wheelchair...maybe they are all just embarrassed not guttersnips after all

soem people when they get old they get ofrgetful and leave their manners at home - those old people that had manners in the first place to forget that is

I agree they were rude, I agree you were rude. Moral highground lost, but I agree on the principle that old people can be very rude to youngsters. (And vice versa I must admit.)

I think you showed the perfect amount of rudeness! Good on you for saying something!

DS1 has AS and tourettes but even he can manage to queue without pushing in and be polite.

I am astounded by the day to day rudeness, and a lot of old people are very rude.
In the last two weeks I have heard an old couple refer to a black man as a darkie, (Jim Davison 1970s style) when out with my mother in a very mixed race area.

I admit the young can be as bad, but old people do seem to be getting ruder by the day.

the thing is you said about being dragged up in a gutter or whatever. you could have just let it lie. yo had already made your point.

if you really felt the need then you could have just said 'please don't be mean about him, he's just waiting his turn the same as you.'

YANBU I'm a great believer in children learning from the adults in the community/ world and how are we meant to produce a society of kind considerate children who'll become adults one day if they are taught that once you grow up you can please yourselves.

proud of your ds for standing still and waiting and not reacting to these idiots woman.

And I say it again, why post in this topic if you then start bitching about some of the responses and slagging off the MNers who gave them.

I guess you were expecting everyone would fall over themselves to tell you how wonderful you were for been rude sticking up for your son.

" I'm a great believer in children learning from the adults in the community"

Not sure that the gutter comment was a particularly good lesson to learn Someone pisses you off so you insult them.

"So it is ok for old bitches women to call a child an idiot, push in front of him,"

when has anyone said that what these women did was ok? not a single person on this thread has said that.

I think it was fair enough - I don't get the impression at all that these ladies were just embarassed and neither did the OP - and she was there. Society works by establishing boundaries and if no-one stands up to rude and/or bullying behaviour then it just goes on.

I wish I'd said something a few years ago when I was in the Tesco's cafe with my 80 yr old MIL, on the way back from her hospital appointment. We're in the middle of lunch when a woman with a toddler in her trolley asked us if we could get up and move - not just move ourselves, but physically move our table - so that she could get her trolley past.

Being polite people, we started to get up, but I looked around and realized that to get to the clear table, she didn't have to move any furniture, she could just have gone around, so I hesitated and - before I'd even said anything - she started screaming at me about what a rude unhelpful cow I was!

I was too taken aback to say anything, but I wish I had!

To be honest, this has always gone on. I remember often being ignored in queues when I was a child. Don't think my mother got to wound up about it. They were rude, but being rude back doesn't really teach your child much.