Not sure what to think, but I am feeling quite upset. Feel free to tell me to get a grip.
It was the Christmas Bazar yesterday. The children had decorated jamjars and filled with sweets, and taken in to school. The idea was that the jars could be bought back, but after 1 pm it was free for all. I was sitting on a bench with another mum and told ds to go to the jamjar stall and look for his jar, it was around a quarter past one. At the time I did not know that the cut off was 1 pm.
He came back with a different jar. His jar was sold, so the woman in charge of the stall sold him another jar.
I put the jar in my bag, but it was sticking out, and as we were walking across the school yard another woman ran after me and ripped the jar out of my bag saying is this my daughter jar? It was.
I told her my son had bought it as his jar was already sold. She said it didnt matter, it was her daughters and her daughter would have a heartattack if her jar was sold. Her friend backed her up saying that they should not have sold the jar to my son, as the jars were free for all after a certain time.
By now my son was standing next to me crying, as the jar was taken away. She did not care, she just kept insisting that the jar was hers. I did not want to cause a scene, but I found her behaviour very rude and abrupt. So I said to her "well, can you at least pay me the pound my son spent on the jar".
She paid me. Her friend was telling me that the jar should not have been sold to my son, as they were reserved for a certain time. I did not know then that the time had passed, as I did not know about the time restrictions.
The point is, if the jar was so damn important, she should have been there to buy it before the cut off time when all jars were free for all.
It never occured to me to start hunting around the playground for whoever had bought my childs jar and demand it back!
I am also quite sure she knew the cut-off time, as I noticed later that she was manning the stall in question, and would have received instructions beforehand relating to when the jars could be sold on.
Aibu to find her extremely rude?