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Original poster

to think that no matter HOW cute your baby is, I don't want to hear you..

35 replies

KissMyEmbroideryHoop · 30/07/2012 23:49

imitating it all the way around the frigging shop!

today I was in a local shop....a small one that sells lots of interior decoration type things...you know knick-knacks.

A woman came in with her baby in a pram and she walked around, pushing the pram round the tiny aisles (I did this too when my DD was a baby so understand her actions...kind of)

But the whole time she was doing ALL the noises that the baby made....in a TINY oh so NOT FECKING CUTE voice.

The baby would say "Ooh" in it's cute and quiet voice...and she'd go...AAAAAW! in a LOUD pseudo baby voice every time...AWWWW!

Except she added the phrase "Cup o' tea!" "AAAAWWWW cup o' tea!" Confused

The baby didn't say "cup o' tea" so I don't know why she kept saying it!
It was all in a cockney voice too....think Liza Dolittle "AAAAWWWW!"

She said it over and over for about ten minutes and the whole shop was silent listening to her and praying she'd piss off

AIBU to think that there's simply NO NEED!

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Kayano · 30/07/2012 23:52

Well the cup I tea is random but the rest is fine

My dd is 5mo in her parent facing pushchair and will look at me and go 'ooohhh... Ahhhhh'

She is clearly
Trying to find her voice or communicate with me...

Am I supposed to give her nothing? No talk or noises back to her to encourage her? Just a stony hopping face of misery perhaps?

Yabu and bloody well daft

WorraLiberty · 30/07/2012 23:53

Weird Shock

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KissMyEmbroideryHoop · 30/07/2012 23:56

Kayano of coure it's FINE to speak to the baby but NOT LIKE THIS in a quiet shop where people are trying to browse!

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TheLaineyWayIsEssex · 30/07/2012 23:56

Woman in engaging with baby shocker Shock

Kayano · 30/07/2012 23:58

I do it all the time. I just don't see why a shop needs to be silent, it's not a
Library.

WorraLiberty · 30/07/2012 23:58

It's the "Cup o' tea!" I find weird...not the engaging Grin

MattDamonIsMyLover · 30/07/2012 23:58

No need to be loud and Cockney :)

Maybe the baby was called Cup-o-tea?

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KissMyEmbroideryHoop · 31/07/2012 00:01

I do HOPE the baby was called Cup o' Tea! Grin

Worra it WAS weird. I wondered if she'd just gone into one of those automaton moments where you're so knackered you just talk shit and don't realise it!

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MintChocAddict · 31/07/2012 00:02

Bit grumpy OP? Wink

Made me laugh. Grin

Was it the cup of tea or the cockney accent that bothered you the most?

YADNBU - I often silently will people to just be quiet in similar situations. You can still communicate with a baby without DRAWING SO MUCH ATTENTION TO YOURSELF.

But then I am a bit grumpy and anti social so probably not a good example.

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KissMyEmbroideryHoop · 31/07/2012 00:04

Yes. Bit grumpy Mint. I had escaped from my own DC for an afternoon and wanted silence! Grin I should have gone to the library. Except that was probably full of other parents ENGAGING in public!

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BigHairyFlowers · 31/07/2012 00:05

I used to talk to my dog all the time when we were out walking.

And I miaow back at cats.

Sometimes, I coo COO coo coo coo back at woodpigeons.

I see nothing weird here.

WorraLiberty · 31/07/2012 00:06

But don't slate the cockney accent or I'll have to get all Dick Van Dyke on your arse! Angry Grin

BigHairyFlowers · 31/07/2012 00:06

Oh yeah, I talked to the baby too!

GwendolineMaryLacey · 31/07/2012 00:06

I didn't know we were supposed to shop in silence. I have great debates with my 6mo about what to buy for dinner or whether to stop for a coffee.

Empusa · 31/07/2012 00:07

If DS is "chattering" to me, I will mimic him, it makes him happy and harms no one. He's starting to mimic me back, so it seems to be helping. Not going to stop it just because some people expect to shop in silence.

Have to say, I don't think I've ever been in a silent shop.

MintChocAddict · 31/07/2012 00:08

Sometimes I coo COO coo coo coo back at woodpigeons.

Grin
Kayano · 31/07/2012 00:09

I asked my baby who was talking away to me in next which outfit she liked. Lucky for me it was the cheaper one she looked at! This was just today!

Someone even giggled and commented how lovely it was and asked dd her name. She now thinks I have a child called oooohhhhh

BigHairyFlowers · 31/07/2012 00:10

Maybe though, they have a parrot at home, and the baby will only settle if the parrot is in the room saying 'Cup o' tea! Cup o' tea!', ergo, when the mother takes the baby out of the house, she feels compelled to replicate the parrot in order to settle the baby.

Perfectly rational, see?

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KissMyEmbroideryHoop · 31/07/2012 00:10

Gwendoline but that's in SUPERMRKETS...not small "Grown up" shops!

And Empusa I hope you mimic quietly.

Worra My Northern accent got slated SO much when I lived in London I reckon I'm owed a free one! Grin

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KissMyEmbroideryHoop · 31/07/2012 00:11

It was you wasn't it HairyFlowers!!!

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GwendolineMaryLacey · 31/07/2012 00:14

I even do it in Waitrose y'know :o

BigHairyFlowers · 31/07/2012 00:15

Wasn't me. I have parrot phobia! Grin

MintChocAddict · 31/07/2012 00:17

If there was a line of talking dogs, miaowing cats and coo cooing woodpigeons outside the shop, then I think you might be onto something OP. Hmmmmm.

HoneyDragonSponseredByCocaCola · 31/07/2012 00:25

Ooooh I love chatting to babies. I am amazed I've never seen a AIBU to punch the mad lady who keeps tasking to my 9 month old? Threadon here. I talk to dogs too Blush, but not cats, cats are aloof.

Noqontrol · 31/07/2012 00:28

Whats wrong with the accent Angry