To want to have a word with ...

[Ooopsadaisy]

....this couple I have just seen in the supermarket.

Couple with baby in pushchair.

Lady is looking at prices of bottles of coke.

Turns to man and she says "Look at how much everything's going up. You're going to have to cut back drinking this stuff."

He says (while pointing at baby) - "I ain't cutting back anything. Make him cut back."

WTF?

I know it's none of my business but I wanted a quiet word (and a large baseball bat).

Hmm, maybe it was a joke?

Maybe they have a particularly greedy and demanding baby who just takes takes takes.

Nope - not a joke.

Sometimes you can just tell when someone means it.

He probably does mean it but I doubt they are talking about starving their baby, he probably wants her to stop shopping in Petit Bateau

It sounds like a joke to me. He probably has a dark sense of humour and his wife probably realises.

If not sounds horrid and YANBU (except the baseball bat bit, obvioulsy)

My SIL was raised with Irn Bru in her baby bottle. She had no front teeth until her adult ones grew in.
My dh regularly had his dummy dipped in jam or sugar.
My MIL says she didn't know any better
My MIL is a lovely woman but not well educated.
It is very very scary.
If it makes you feel a smidge better my dh and SIL have educated themselves about healthy eating and lifestyles although they both have bother with expensive dental treatment.

Cameron's Britain

They didnt' necessarily mean the child had to cut back on coke though. They might have meant the child had to cut back on their shopping budget in general.

Seriously, I dont understand why people get so involved in random snippets of conversation they hear out and about. Find something else to interest you, please!

Oh come on! It was a a joke

No, it was a spectaculalry greedy baby.

I think you failed to get his joke, which was complex and multilayered and easily misunderstood by those with an unsophisticated humour.

YAB a bit U to want to baseball bat him in the cock or whatever you said, even if he does give his bairn coke. It's not like he's lacing his forumla with Class A Glasgow skag.

Still not convinced it was a joke, bupcakes and I don't know if it was coke that the baby should cut back on or nappies/milk and everything else.

Tatty - I know it's none of my business as I said before but what I heard stuck in my mind and I wondered AIBU to be bothered by it?

Without wanting to sound like I've disappeared up my own bottom, I wondered if it was representative of his attitude about the child in general - ie - resentful/neglectful etc.

Gerroff lezzer

you know you want it

greedy as that baby

You should have reported them to the police.

Well maybe their baby is knocking back coke day and night and then wondering why he can't sleep. Seriously, these babies have to be kept in check, or send them out to work at 8 months I say.

I'd be resentful and neglectful if I had that greedy baby stealing food from my mouth

Ok - I'm overeacting.

Just didn't like his attitude I s'pose.

Going to get a life of my own now!

Give it to me Hully, you big foamer.

If you see him again OP, just knee him in the cock. He'll think twice about everything he ever does in life after that. Get him right in the goolies.

Yes - get yourself SS on speed dial, and next time you happen to bear witness to a snatch of conversation that is none of your damn business, and in which you have no idea of context, you can quickly alert the relevant authorities of any behaviour that you percieve as wrong doing. Don't let a small thing like it being nothing to do with you whatsoever, stop you.

At the very least a verbal dressing down from your good self should be issued surely?

I know that I would really appreciate the input of some meddlesome cow in the supermarket! Who wouldn't?!

He is a baby of horror, but he does like a good lezzy grope, so he's not all bad.