to be annoyed at the snarly/growly woman?

[mumnosGOLDisbest]

Standing in a busy queue with dd 4yrs (who is small/average) she accidently stepped on the lady' toe. I saw so i immediately said "sorry" and said to dd she should be careful and stand still. The woman turned and looked at dd then growled said in a nice voice "ouch that was my toe". Shw paid for her things then made a point of limping away. Now if that qas you and you already had a broken toe/foot/poorly foot then i'm sorry but it wwas truly just an accident otherwise aibu to think that was a massive overreaction and the woman was a complete cow a bit harsh and really upset my dd?

OP, have a look at this thread to get a sense of just HOW snarly-growly most people seem to say they'd be in a similar situation!

I'm also interested in the OP's assertion that the woman was walking fine an hour later, and how she knows that; however it has no bearing on her attitude at the time and her later overreaction on this thread.

I think flow4's post regarding how incidents like this help in developing emotional resilience and social skills is spot on.

Gosh Galore, aren't you good?! I think reading this thread would've made me more likely to shout "fuck", to be honest!

Woooo Couthy, I'm that catsbumface woman too.

Yeah well I didn't want to come across as a snarly bitch and have a thread made up about me on here.

LOL

I would probably have reacted in a similar way to be honest because even a 4 year old standing on my foot would cause me a hell of a lot of pain. In fact I probably would've shouted and sworn as well because of the pain. And limped away and carried on limping for the rest of the day and probably days after too.

I think you're overreacting OP as the woman reacted to the pain she was in she didn't deliberately intimidate your child.

:o galore

I don't care if people think I'm snarly and if it was me or my child I would be more worried about the pain I'd caused than the way you spoke accident or not.

Well, the vast majority think the OP is BU but as she said, she didn't come here to have her mind changed. I suspect her daughter will always be whingeing to mummy whenever anyone so much as looks at her the wrong way and the OP will continue to deny any member of the public's right to react if her behaviour impacts on anyone else again.

Some shopping trips I am amazed that my catsbumface doesn't turn me inside out.

It's why I rarely go to the supermarket on a Saturday, if I can at all help it.

I just can't see WHY parents can't control their DC's in the supermarket. And I can't see why some parents don't teach their DC's to apologise to people if they have hurt or inconvenienced them by getting in their way.

1. My DC's wouldn't BE getting in anyone's way or hurting anyone, and

2. If they DID, they would be expected to apologise, NO excuses allowed.