I need a flaming - I am the crazy woman in Asda.....

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If you were the woman I approached in Asda then please accept my apology for being an interfering idiot!

Whilst looking in the baby aisle in Asda, a young couple (complete strangers) were choosing a mixture of gifts for a friend who had just given birth or who was just about to, and they were discussing what to get - to me they seemed to be a little unsure (honest, they did) so, big fat mouth Me barged in there with - "excuse me, I'd get item B instead of item A (item A which was already in basket) because (and this is where the sin is committed) I've just had a baby and I don't use item A"

So, female says with a steely gaze "Well, I always use item A with my daughter so therefore I'll stick with what I know thanks"

Of course I apologised, asked them to call me a cheeky bitch - and ran away!

a) What gives me the right to question someones gift for someone I don't even know!
b) Just because I use item B doesn't mean everyone does
c) What made me think that I was the only woman in the world ever to have had a baby!
d) oh, I could go on - but please MN, flame me into a namechange....:)

I was being an unreasonable, interfering cow! I keep asking myself Why??

I know that I'm not the only person in the world to have had a child, I know this! Why I felt the need to interfere in this way I will never know but the words were out my mouth before I could even process my thoughts.

FWIW I went round the corner, dumped my trolley and left Asda immediately - for fear of bumping into them again - I am so embarrassed!

Me too Show, DD is only 15 months old and clearly missed out!

A baby shawl is a teeny tiny shawl they wear across their shoulders at a coquettish angle.....they look ever-so cute

HMC - its a service I provide!!

thanks OP for your tolerance of my ignorance! (and apologies for not addressing your original issue - FWIW I would have just assumed you were being helpful) - yes I would have called those blankets - I bet it's one of those regional brew / cuppa things.

Forget about the Asda Situation...I'm just chuffed that my links worked

Show, c'mon! You've never heard of a christening shawl?

Anyway, OP I don't think you needed a flaming but your thread has given me a much-needed smile. And I think I would probably have done the same as you - I remember being in Mothercare once, buying a present for friends who had just had their baby - I was getting them something that other friends had got me for DS because it was so good. A young girl was also looking and I asked her if she was buying for friends too, she said she was and I recommended the toy I was getting cos DS loved it so much. She wa grateful though, unlike the woman you had the misfortune to bump into!

You actually have to be careful with fleece blankets on babies.

They can overheat under fleecy things as they are 'denser' than crocheted or knitted items.

Oh and DH had at least 2 shawls - lovingly crocheted/knitted by his Australian relatives before he was even born. One is fabulous - it's round, but in sections, fantastic for tucking around him when cold.

I had an elefun in my hand before last Christmas for DS
A stranger came up to me and said "don't get that - they're useless. The butterflis don't go anywhere"
So I didn't and was very grateful. And I spead the word :o

Christening shawl! of course! We have one of those in the family, it went through 7 baptisms, and yes it did look just like a blanket now I come to think of it. But was only ever used in shawl fashion for christenings (and since I have become a heathen and mine will not be baptised my mum sadly packed it away in the loft, sighing heavily). Thanks, I understand it now, can get back to work!

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DP & I have a running joke in our house which is entitled "MeRights's funny predicaments"

I haven't even told him about this episode - I'm saving it for 'date night' which is tonight...

I'd love to have someone chat to me in the shop. Much better than everyone grumpily ignoring each other. All she had to do was smile and say thanks but actually she'd found item A helpful.

Stealth My kids love elefun, and so do all children who come here. It is a brilliant game. They can do it by themselves so you don't even have to play!

Christening shawl? Nope. No idea.

We have knitted/crocheted blankets. They appear to be the same thing. Except you use the wrong word. DD has one that used to be my grandma's. I knitted and crocheted blankets for dd. But my dictionary says shawl is an item of clothing worn by women.

I never understand this thing about the butterflies not flying properly in Elefun - ours only did that when the batteries were going (the thing ploughed through batteries though - there should be a mains option)

Slightly off-topic

I was worse - I saw a couple in the supermarket about to buy a steriliser and told them that I had an unused one exactly the same at home that they could have - they did come for it, but would probably have preferred to be left alone

chickbean - that's a great gesture! I would have loved someone to do that to me...

Talking of Asda if you are the mother of that black boy in the big coat who was in the ASDA in Park Royal the other day and looked about ten with a little sister acting as "look out" sitting in the trolly please inform your son that his shoplifting antics are amusingly obvious to everyone with eyes (and thanks to his sister, ears).

It's pretty much common sense that if you don't want people to know what you are upto you..
A) don't have a younger child with a high pitched voice tell you repeatedly that no one is looking or stop someones looking etc.
B) don't stand at the end aisles looking left and right (as he repeatedly did around the shop from the baby food, booze, milk and biscuit aisles).
C) stuff things down the top of a large coat in full view of everyone at the end of each aisle.

I laugh at your child stupidity/ineptitude and if you didn't get stopped on the way out the shop I'm sure you soon will, such idiots rarely know when to stop.

Ryoko - you saw my thread title and assumed it was me didn't you

Do you shop in Park Royal?

oh this gives me an idea for a thread of rage.

My mum left her things in the trolley in Budgens last week, (we were sharing one) she went off to get some bread and i unloaded all my stuff and waited and waited for her to return........ after three minutes a lady came up behind me and i explained that Mum would be backkkkkkkkkk...... three minutes later she hadnt returned so i let the lady unload her trolley behind me. Mum eventually returned and i asked her if she had baked the bread herself.... Turns out she was helping an old lady find the frozen chips!!!

Didn't read everything but YANBU. It was very kind of you and that woman was very rude.

oh OP i do this a LOT! i am far too opinionated to keep my big gob shut

i even butted in when someone in Boots was asking an actual shop assistant about those nest things you can put in your bed to co-sleep with.

i pointed out they had them in tk maxx just then for a lot less money

and i butted in when a couple were trying to choose a present for their godson in ELC recently. told them to get the thing my 3 played with most rather than the other thing they were looking at.

and many, many other times!