I was friends with a mum from the school run for a couple of years. Our DDs are friends and are in the same class most years. I wouldn't say we were very close friends but we got on well, met up regularly with the girls, and often texted or phoned each other.
About 6 months ago the mum stopped talking to me, almost overnight. If I went up to her at the school to talk she would just walk off, and texts were ignored. I tried to speak to her a couple of times and ask if I'd upset her at all but she just ignored me, and she now walks straight past me if she sees me, with her nose in the air.
Fair enough, I don't think I've done anything wrong at all but her choice who she's friends with and all that. However....she works 3 days a week and her mother, who is in her late fifties, does the school run for her. I previously got on well with her mother and we'd have a bit of a chat and small talk at the school. Since my friend stopped talking to me, her mother has done so too. Again no huge loss, but every time she sees me she starts shaking her head, and tutting at me.
We were just walking home from school an hour ago and my friend's daughter was behind us and called DD's name. DD turned round and waved, and I turned round too, and my friend's mum was glaring at me, tutting, shaking her head. She often tries to get eye contact with me on the school run, for example if I am talking to another mum she walks past me, looks at me and again loudly tuts, shakes her head, and glares at me. Also at the end of the Easter term there was an assembly, which my friend's mum went to, and again there as she walked past me to sit down she glared at me and shook her head.
It's like I've done something terrible and sordid and I absolutely disgust her. I don't much care now as to what they think I've done, as my ex friend's childish approach to things has made me realise she's not worth bothering about but her mum is really pissing me off.
WIBU the next time she does it to tell her to bloody well stop doing it and to get a life? DH says to ignore her but that's easier said than done!
AIBU?
To tell this woman to stop bloody tutting and shaking her head at me?
FigaroCat · 15/04/2013 16:18
Wendy was the bully in Blubber and Jill thought she was her friend at first. But Wendy was the one who put rotten eggs in someone's mailbox and told Jill to go and look, then blamed Jill for putting them there and then denied it. When confronted, she was very good at pretending nothing was wrong and passing on the blame to someone else. And she bullied poor Linda and forced the class to hold a trial for her, then turned on Jill when she said it was going too far. And all the other children were scared to go against her in case she made something up about them and they were turned on by their friends.
When I read that the OP's ex friend and her mad mother were Wendy's that was the first thing I thought of, although it's been many, many years since I read Blubber.
Just reading the other thread now though, to see if anyone else brings Judy Blume books into the discussion or if it's just me. 
How was it today OP? Did you say anything?
Ooh ok, never heard of blubber 
but thanks sarah for enlightening me
Yes, OP, how did it go today?
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