To have shouted at a women in the Asda toilet

[pinkmagic1]

Was in Asda this morning getting a bit of shopping for my nan and my 8 year old ds decided he needed the loo. Sometimes he uses the mans but sometimes he prefers to come with me into the ladies. I personally don't see a problem with this, he is only 8 ffs. However there was a women in there who whilst my ds was washing his hands and after looking at him like something she had scraped off the bottom of her shoe asked me how old my ds was. I told her he is 8, she then proceeded to tell me it was terrible that I should let him use the ladies and he should be able to manage perfectly well on his own! She then made a speedy exit and I shouted after her 'mind your own business you miserable cow!' I was really shook up by the whole incident but aibu?

I can't say that I can see a problem with an 8 year old boy using the ladies toilets. If it had been a family outing then his father (or other responsible male) could have taken him to the mens toilets.

Last time went to the toilets in Asda, a woman walked into the next cubicle whilst still talking to someone on her mobile. I was really tempted to make some theatrical groans and emulate violent bodily functions, but managed to restrain myself.

The only shouty incident I've ever had was in my local Waitrose...just sayin'.

I am so trashy. Fact.

Shool up is just being ridiculous.

Id have told her to mind her own business too. Then laughed and forgotten it.

You sound like the reason I hate Asda. The customers. They are appalling.

The snobbish comments about asda are pathetic. Some of you need to either grow up, or take your comments back to the schoolyard where they belong. I have not heard such petty sniping since my school days when anyone who didn't wear the latest brand fad was 'gay'.

And you people are raising the next generation too? Oh joy.

OOOHHHH, I love Asda.
i had a minor disagreement with a shop assistant a couple of weeks ago. She was trying to tell me that a dress by George was designer.
TBF to her, it was in a shop in Malaysia, but still.
The last time I took DD to the loo in our local Asda, she shouted at the top of her voice 'Mum, some dirty character has done a turd on the floor'.

So, you were all shook up, were you also itching like a man up a fuzzy tree, or possibly wild as a bug?

Just asking.

Oh but ripishire George is a designer . D'you not remember all the hype when he got on board Asda.
Designer clothes at supermarket prices.

Sainsbury has Gok Wan (I'm so funky and I lost shedloads of weight, but I'm still going to dress you like a sack of spuds in a paint factory explosion)

Arf@ your DD and the dirty character. (So much classier than filthy bastard)

As a mom to two boys, you have my sympathy and have been in this situation a few times. No one has ever said anything to me.

I would have quietly said 'so you've not heard of Jimmy Saville then?'

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Well said Dizzy - I thought exactly the same. The snobbery about Asda on this thread is so childish - I wonder if some of the people saying it's like JK would be saying that if it happened at an M&S foodhall or Waitrose!

I use men's toilets if there's a massive queue for the ladies.

complexnumber

For some bizarre reason there are many grown adults who still think it's cool to be snobby. I have no idea why.

They seem to garner immense satisfaction from feeling superior to something. It's quite pitiful when you think about it.

Yanbu, she should have minded her own business considering your ds is only 8!
I take my dcs to the toilet with me too, theres too much danger about these days to contemplate leaving a child alone in the toilets.
There has been cases of children getting raped in supermarket toilets.
It's better to know your kids are safe.
Snobby mares like that don't deserve the time off day.

It's depressing that there are actually other people here who think it's okay to shout at people at all, never mind in public (and in front of a child). I feel sorry for teachers if they are having to teach children whose parents have "taught" them that it's okay to be vile.

I'm not sure where snobbery comes into this scenario .

you were just right i take my little boy who is 8 into the ladies toilet with me what a cheeky old cow i would have called her a lot worst good for you!

OK, maybe I shouldn't have shouted what I did and I can assure you it is not something I normally do, however the women was extremely rude in her manner and scurried off before I could challenge her in a more civilised manner. It was a split second reaction and she was so rude it wasn't something I felt I could just let go. I also feel I would not have had the reactions I have should the incident have occured in Waitrose or Sainsburys. There is so much snobbery on mumsnet it is unreal.

FFS, OP said something fairly innocuous, really, in the heat of the moment. She isn't responsible for the breakdown of society, you over-reacting bell-ends.

There is no way I'd let my 7 year old ds use a mens toilet on their own.
Any old pervert could be hanging around and I've read plenty of stories about kids being assulted in public toilets.
I would also have told the woman to bog off.
YADNBU!

Over reactiing bell ends

But won't someone think of the poor little children!

People are taking the piss, yes, saying it wouldn't happen in Asda? Tis a MN "in joke" isn't it?

TBF, the only supermarket altercation I have had was in Asda.

It just attracts that kind of clientele of which I am part

Oh no, I tell a lie.

I had a stand-up row with some hambeast in Sainsbury's too.

See? Happens anywhere.