Marks and Spencers in Loughton

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I've name changed purely because i've disclosed my location...

Am I being unreasonable to have expected the woman in the queue behind me to have apologised?

She had her pushchair so close to me that she hit me four times with it. After the fourth time, I asked her not to and she told me off for talking to her, said she didn't do public confrontations and that I was embarrassing myself.

Oh, and if the woman in question reads this (and I really hope she does)... I hope your day got better after I saw you because taking your bad mood out on me was unnecessary. A simple 'sorry' would have sufficed

was it a wag,a permatanned mammie.pushy nature pushy prams in loughton

Of course she should have apologized

YANBU.

She sounds like a rude, self-obsessed loon.

like folk who inch forward with trolley.shuve and poke as if it makes queue move any faster

if push pram mammie turn up will you virtually fight?

hell yeah! i'm definitely up for a fight

i'm not 100% sure she was mum, she may have been grandma. but i referred to the boy in the pushchair as her son because i didn't want to be rude (that was before she went off on one!)

lol,clever put down not sure if gran or mam.embelish more deetaiol please are we talkin pat butcher or janine

may i hold your canapes,ansd wine if scrap occur

lol, i was only in there buying bloody sweets for the trick/treaters! so it'll be my mars bars you'll be holding! (why does that sound rude?!)

she was about 5'5, about a size 12/14, a fair amount of makeup on with dyed blonde hair. dressed reasonably smart, she was probably judging me and my scruffy jeans!

I love loughton, everyone's so chipper and i love being called darling by total strangers.

but yes, of ciourse she should have apologised abd sayinf you were embarassing yourself is a confrontation.\

There are some very glamorous grannies in loughton ... I have also never seen so many yummy mummy changing bags as well as bugaboos

Poor DD in her cheapy stroller

The checkouts in that m & s are really narrow as well

I would have held your mars bar for you!

pricy changing bag and bugaboo,well you should have said.id be up there like a shot

I was once rammed repeatedly by a trolley in Tesco on Christmas Eve. I turned round, slowly and calmly and said to the woman "please don't keep ramming me with your trolley. It hurts, and also there are a lot of people in front of me and I cannot move any faster" She gave me A Look.

if anyone does shuving trolley.i pack really slowly and footer about for card.put receipt away really slowly, gather bags slowly,have wee blether at till

just because they shuved me

That is a good plan Sm imo.

(you could even tell them you had forgotten something and could they ask a colleague to go and fetch it as you havebeen injured by someone attacking you with trolley. )

aha good suggestion ther can you get me another footer aboot wait on assistant returning

and then query various items on receipt whilst still at till. (more effective if you smile in a sweet but vague manner at the accused behind you)

in Cambridge MnS today, someone was nudging me in the back, with her basket, and wanted me to move along - BUT I COULDN'T, because I had the buggy and it would have hit the person in front. I didn't want to do to the people in front of me, what happened to the OP today!

In my case, I didn't say anything to her, because I've got raging PMT, had a row with DH that's made me even grumpier and wasn't sure if I was over reacting.

Today must be the day for it in branches of MnS eh?

This thread reminded me that once in M&S I was with dd2 who was about 1.5 months old and needed feeding every 6 minutes or so and slept at the most for about 20 minutes (or so it seemed)

I nipped in for literally 30 seconds to snatch something off the shelf and go and pay for it so dh and I could eat something hot in the evening with minimal effort as we were wrecks at this point due to aforementioned dd2.

We were stopped by (no exaggeration) about 10 well meaning shop staff/little old ladies in the space of 3 minutes. It took every ounce of strength to grit my teeth and smile politely at their advice telling me to feed her/let me sleep. I so wanted to scream let me pay and get out of here.

My 'favourite' experience like this was an elderly man in an electronic ride-on wheelchair in my local M&S. There was I, with my single buggy & dd2 happily sitting in it, wandering round the Christmas bits & pieces.

So, I hear the words 'oi fat bum, move your lardy body out the way, I need to get past'. I look up, slightly shocked that anyone is saying that at all. Only to find the comments are being directed at me.

Now I agree that M&S sometimes load stuff a tiiiny bit too high & wide at Christmas, which doesn't leave much space for anyone. However, for the record (this still rankles) I was 30 weeks pregnant (& a size 16, not massively huge), we were by no means the only people in the way & we were in a side aisle, so not a major thoroughfare.

I decided to respond with the direct but to-the-point response of 'no' (although thought of 100000000 smart alec one-liners in the following 3 hours or so). Luckily, my lack of wit was forgiven as the group of elderly ladies next to me turned on him with quite frightening levels of venom. I may have heard the words 'evil wanker'...

Some nutjobs out there in all shapes & sizes.

Frogthistle....that is utterly brilliant