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AIBU?

to have called a woman in TK Maxx an "effing idiot" for this...

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dontsqueezetheteabag · 07/08/2013 12:46

she had her child in one of those shopping baskets that have wheels and a pull up handle. Child must have been about 12 months old. Woman turned round to look at something on the shelf and let go of the handle on the basket. Child stood up in the basket and it tipped backwards. The poor child fell with it banging the side of her little head on the tiled floor.

I was TRUELY appaulled by this and muttered "fucking idiot".

Why the HELL would you let your child stand in one of those baskets???!!!!

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 07/08/2013 22:26

Why did you never teach your DS not to punch doors?

FrussoHathor · 07/08/2013 22:27

OP I think there's a difference between being silently judgemental in your head and another to call someone a fucking idiot.
Y were BU

YouTheCat · 07/08/2013 22:27

He was 13 at the time and is severely autistic. He was having a total meltdown.

Tbh I don't know how he managed to get to 13 without injuring himself.

AnnabelleLee · 07/08/2013 22:33

never? I doubt that, very much. Perhaps you just blanked it out? I don't believe any parent never did something they probably shouldn't that could possibly have hurt them.

YouTheCat · 07/08/2013 22:39

Never.

MarmaladeTwatkins · 07/08/2013 22:41

Well then you've been lucky. Because the cleverest of women make errors of judgement/sometimes don't fully think things through. Take my SIL who was a midwife for 8 years and then a registered childminder... she has accidentally injured her own child twice. And been mortified for it afterwards.

You don't get any medals for luck, sorry.

Lora1982 · 07/08/2013 22:44

Was this a granny shopping bag??!

YouTheCat · 07/08/2013 22:46

Damn it! I want a medal.

lastnightidreamt · 07/08/2013 22:47

youthecat wasn't changing all the panes for plastic and missing one a bit 'dim-witted'?

Where is the line drawn between an accident and a parent being 'dim-witted'?

HaroldLloyd · 07/08/2013 22:48

Yeah you have been lucky. Everyone in the whole wide world does dim witted things on occasion. Drops something. Forgets something. Thinks oh this is a good idea, oh crapola, maybe not.

SaucyJack · 07/08/2013 22:48

I nearly killed my then two year old by not putting the brakes on her buggy when I stopped to answer a phone call at the top of a hill leading to a busy road.

If anyone had called me a fucking idiot I would have heartily agreed.

Still, wasn't the nicest or most helpful thing you could've come out with.

YouTheCat · 07/08/2013 22:48

The ex changed the panes. You can call him dimwitted as much as you like. I do.

Bogeyface · 07/08/2013 22:49

I rather suspect that "dim witted" is the least of it eh YoutheCat? :o

AnnabelleLee · 07/08/2013 22:49

All of my children have first shown me they could roll over by rolling off something; a couch, a bed etc.
In 13 years you have only done every thing right? lucky you.

YouTheCat · 07/08/2013 22:50

There are many, many other adjectives I have used to describe him.

HaroldLloyd · 07/08/2013 22:50

Come on You, dig deep. There must be something. You never dropped one? left them on the bed and they have fallen off? Used a bumbo on a table? Shut your babies fingers in a window?

AnnabelleLee · 07/08/2013 22:52

I shut one childs fingers in a door. And tried to lock it. Thank fuck their bones are so soft at that age.

YouTheCat · 07/08/2013 22:52

Nope. Can't think of anything.

The ex shut dd's fingers in the car door once. Never dropped them, even when carrying the two of them upstairs at the same time to save a trip, when they were babies.

Seems I am just really lucky.

HaroldLloyd · 07/08/2013 22:55

Bloody Hell, Ive only been in this game 2.5 years and I have done all the things I mentioned. Only to DS1 though, he is my practise one. DS2 has got off lightly lucky sod.

lastnightidreamt · 07/08/2013 22:56

Ah, well it was your ex's fault then!

Dim-wittedness explained.

YouTheCat · 07/08/2013 22:57

I didn't get a practice one. I jumped right in the deepend with two.

musicismylife · 07/08/2013 22:59

I have four kids. I have NEVER put them in a trolley because, guess what, the trolley isn't designed for the kid to piss about in. It is not a mobile play area.

It was preventable and inevitable.

Shame on her.

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HaroldLloyd · 07/08/2013 23:02

Shame on her.

You cant put four kids in a trolley anyway, where would the cakes go?

Bogeyface · 07/08/2013 23:03

I dont remember anything off the top of my head either, but thats because I have a shocking memory! I am sure I have displayed DW behaviour at some point!

My favourite was DWedness on the part of my friends husband and his parents. They all stood and watched my friend as she struggled to get the baby into the door bouncer thing. She asked for help and her (useless) DH said she was doing fine. Then the baby fell and bashed her head on the floor. Friend was in a state, her DH had a go at her for dropping the baby and her MIL said "Oh she'll be fine, I dropped friends DH when he was a baby a couple of times!" and friend said "OH SO YOU WERE DROPPED ON YOUR HEAD AS A BABY? THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!" FIL was not happy, had a go at friend for speaking to his son like that so she had a right go at him and said that if he hadnt been so fucking useless then perhaps MIL wouldnt have dropped the baby either, like father like son!

Funnily enough, her FIL who is known as a bully and a bastard was sweetness and light to her from then on :o

Bogeyface · 07/08/2013 23:04

You cant put four kids in a trolley anyway

You can you know. Two in the twin seats, one in the actual trolley and one trolley surfing on the end

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