should i have given a piece of my mind to fat cow who swore at my 6 yr old for treading on her toe on the metro?

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I boil up quite slowly... but would it have been worse to tell her what a cow she was?

Maybe she did only have one leg and the other was prosthetic. If your dd trod on her only foot I can see why she swore. I mean let's be honest it wasn't bad swearing and it wasn,t at your dd, more general swearing. Now if shed called your dd a fuming cunt then I'd say that yes you should have politely told her not to be so nasty but as it was I'd have left it.

BitOfFun

WTF is going on ?

Fuming cunt sounds interesting

Fucking iPad, does it have some sort of anti swear filter

Op, are you in Newcastle? Surely if you are then hearing Jesus Christ must be fairly mild? I went to Newcastle once.

Did she really only have one leg? Maybe she shouted out in shock and didn't realised it was child as the metro was crowded? And she didn't really swear. I would have apologised and pointed out that it was an accident?

at 'I boil up quite slowly'. This is you boiling up slowly?

erm no OP swearing is in teh words you say. you cant say something is swearing jsut because of teh tone that was used. dont be an idiot. just for tonight at least. please

and I thought 'fuming cunt' was intentional. I like it, had added it mentally to my list of insults learned off of MN.

Sorry, see she said she one good leg, bot one leg. But guess if your bad leg is really bad then it could be comparable?

booy, i am interrested in what is the balance between pulling people up for their behviour, and just getting on with own life.... iyswim and yes, i was pleased that my child was polite, because i couldn't bring myself to be.

Am crying with laughter now. This thread has tipped me over the edge after several funny and odd ones tonight.

Well you can tell people off without having a row with them. You politely tell them off, no shouting, insults or swearing. If they respond rudely you walk away and keep walking, don't engage.

The place is crawling with oddbods tonight...dragging their bad leg behind them, it seems

vanessa can we go back to the bit about how getting her fired isn't irrelevant pelase?

please

swearing is the word... what if she had said a venomous for goodness sake, she would not have been swearing.

Was she the ticket inspector

I've been tipped over the edge too now.

Have just cracked up over 'a venomous for goodness sake'. Don't even know why.

booy. the coop woman... was a cow....do you do something about it?
The cow on the metro... was a cow... do you say something? i'm not saying that the degree of cowness is the same, just asking where do you draw the line?

'Where do you draw the line on cowness'.

Ah, that eternal philosophical question.

indeed its a post modern conundrum
cowness.and its allocation and significance

its a phrase I have coined well in an attempt not to swear in front off dd it give the same satisfaction as saying for fuck sake.

I just had an image of poor woman with only one good leg on bus, at end of her tether being trod on by a 6 year old who wanted to actually say for fuck sake.

I propose that we ban 6 year olds from being out in public, they shouldn't be anywhere that my dog carn't shit (can you tell i'm bored?)

The Audacity of Cowness.