To have asked a 4 year old and 2 year old to let me sit down in the Doctors pharmacy?

[CandyLoo]

At a small, tightly packed, busy pharmacy opposite Doctors surgery.
3 chairs (barely any standing room).
A lady, and the 2 children taking up the 3 chairs.
2 children not ill, in there with their Mum collecting a prescription.
No free chairs, I asked if I could sit in one of the chairs.
Mum moved one of her children, the other moved to stand with her sister.
Mutterings from the lady next to me, and when she left, said rather pointedly to the child, 'Here you are love, sit in my seat'. They left soon after.
By this stage, the pharmacy was very busy, I have no qualms giving up my seat to anyone older than me or simply if anyone needs it.
AIBU? The lady sitting next to me obviously thought I was, rude comments about me to her husband when she was outside.

The misuse of the word respect is going to force me to hide the thread.

Which is a bloody shame as I was enjoying it

Good point OAPs get free bus passes round here, they also get the priority seats to. Should they be made to stand with the children.

I have honestly never come across this sitting around in a Pharmacy thing. I go to Boots with mine though and miss all the excitement.

Actually I'm going to find my birth certificate and go and demand some respect down the shops

Children who are treated as equals learn far more about mutual respect.

I quite often go into chemists and just turf people off seats for the fun of it. That way, not only do they respect me, but they fear me as well. Half the time I don't even have a prescription!

Jins

I'm going to scream oy you little fuckerzzz bow down before your master! I is 37 give me your seat and your fucking pop & crisps.

If those had been my children they would have sat on my lap or stood. I was always expected to treat older people with respect and I brought up my DDs the same way. YANBU.

I'd have stood up myself or put 2 year old on 4 year old's lap possibly - the stea would have been given but how would be up to me. I don't get why my solutions would be disrespectful.

I think we should all post our age. The oldest person on the thread is bound to be right, after all it's a matter of respect.

Jins ain't got no respect

So you have children Op?
I have been that mum in the pharmacy with the 1 kids and they have sad until someone who needs it more came in. By that I mean elderly,ill,pregnant rather than simply older.

Love mumsnet.

I have arthritis and the bones of an elderly woman and so i want this noted.

I agree with the moaning woman but I would have put the 2 year old on my lap anyway so it probably wouldn't have arisen.

However I do not and never will agree that some random adult deserves a seat more than my child.

I think for someonbe else unrelated to comment on the situation with the DC and the mother - then it was probably how it was all conducted that was the issue.

Oy PickledFanjoCat get off that seat and give me those crisps. I'm considerably older than you

I'm only 24, seems I don't have enough respect for my elders. OP I hope you treat yourself to that carry seat

The last time I was in a pharmacy the pharmacist slapped a small child who got near the medicine waiting on the counter and told them to sit down.

So you can't win.

Well I don't have little ones anymore so can I join the nasty old woman clique? Am looking forward to getting a walking stick to help me cope with the gammy knee so I can trip the little feckers up! Heh heh heh!

i remember attempting to give up my seat to an old lady on the bus but she was deaf and/or ignored me, so I gave to a toddler who was skittering about on the floor and was about to get hurt....
the old bat spent the rest of the journey slagging me off for giving up my seat to a child.....
ffs
children need to sit down too, so unless u were heavily preggers/disabled/about to faint, YABVU

I don't think it's a question of respect. That word is getting really over used. It's a question of courtesy.

Oh and on the basis of contributing to society making you more deserving of a seat my 6 year old dd deserves a seat more than anyone else in our family. I am a SAHM, ds is home educated. She's the only one who has to go out of the home and spend the day being moulded and educated. Her contribution is far greater than ours .

THIS IS A FEMINIST ISSUE a few years ago all the men would have gave up their seats for any woman, now they don't so some narky old women take it out on little dc's.

Hooray!!!!! Someone else understands what respect is

LookBehindYou can join my 'courtesy gang'.