To find this woman to be needlessly bloody rude?

[Chrissy178]

Had to go downtown to get my 3 year old DS re-registered since DH and I married after his birth. After we did that we decided to look around the shops since we had £6 left on an M&S card to spend.

As we walked along outside the shops in the centre we mostly stuck to walking by the walls, there wasn't a lot of people about so plenty of room to walk around us. Some woman walking toward us, instead of walking around us, pushes past DH and DS and hisses at DH "move your bloody child then". DS didn't seem bothered by it but it really irked me. AIBU or was there any need to be so rude?

I suppose I wanted to vent since this morning has been pretty shit. I had to bite my tongue after a cyclist tore up the path nearly hitting our pram with our 2 week old DD in while we were walking to registry office. :/

That was really rude of her op, don't know why people are so impolite. I was getting two little children up a small flight of stairs, not unlike the brighton post, from Quangle. The chap who was making a huge fuss that we were in his way, barging past, then sat down to eat a large baguette. Im sure the seagull that swooped to take it off the bench gave me a cheeky smile as it flew away .

Isn't this the point where people normally say, "Ah but she might have SEN".

Yep, some people are awful. Earlier today I had an old man use his walking stick to push me out of his way, resulting in DD's pushchair tipping off the kerb and into a busy main road. And last December I had a middle-aged business man actually cross the concourse at King's Cross to ask me "what the fuck I thought I was doing, bringing a pushchair into central London". It wasn't during a busy time, we weren't in anyone's way, he'd actually had to come out of his way to shout at us, and the reason we were in central London was because we lived there!

He went an amusing shade of purple when I responded with "and Merry Christmas to you too sir!"

While we're discussing awful people - there's a guy who does the school run near me.

He rides a bike with a trailer on the back with this child on down the paths to school (this is allowed - bikes and pedestrians share the paths here).

He rings his bell over and over and over the whole way to school, never slows down, just ploughs on and expects people to jump out of his way. he NEVER says thank you when people move for him just keeps cycling and ringing his bell over and over.

It's quite funny, as there' another lady who manages to cycle the same kind of contraption with TWO children in the back of it yet does it with good manners, without ringing her bell over and over and always say thank you when people move out of her way.

Thebookofruth at merry christmas.

But I don't walk around just expecting other people to walk around me

I don't think that was an unreasonable expectation by the OP. Toddlers tend to walk slowly and if there was plenty of room for others to walk around the OP's family why would you not just do that instead of being a dick about it?

We're one of those families who all hold hands so people have to dance round us. No choice as dh needs to hold on to me due to his disabilities. With a small child either side of us I expect we're quite annoying then. Not that I care. I don't suppose for a moment many people would actually like to swap with us.

I hate it when i am walking along the pavement and coming towards me are two people walking side by side and i move into one side expecting them to do the same but oh no they carry on walking side by side. I feel like shouting at them 'where do you expect me to go?' but i dont coz i am polite & just shake my head when i have passed.

However your situation doesnt sound like this so she must have just been a rude cow.

She was rude and nasty and towards a child makes it worse.
I saw the following while standing in a que at a bank in Spain:
There was que of about six or seven people with me being last,right in front of me was an older woman(not Spanish) with a smallish dog on a leash. Waiting to see the manager was a young couple with a little girl around 18m. The toddler would run towards the dog and then run off giggling.She never tried to kick it or harm it in any way and the dog just ignored her. The third time she did this the woman very swiftly twisted her fingers into the child's hair close to the scalp and janked on her hair. The child yelped in pain and ran off crying loudly. Her dad picked her up and kissed her, spoke gently etc. He asked her what had happened and the little girl pointed in the direction. The dad thought she must have run into a pillar and went over with her and "smacked the naughty pillar"
The creepy woman didn't bat an eyelid. I was shaking with fury and was about to tell the dad what had happened but stopped myself as I thought he may completely lose it and start yelling at her or something and then it would be him in trouble.
When I left the bank just a few minutes after her I looked for her up and down the street and in nearby shops to find her and give her a piece of my mind but could not find her.
It's been a few years and it comes to mind every now and then and I still feel so angry that a grown woman of an age to be a grandmother could act like this towards a child. For days I kept going from being angry at myself for not telling the parents to glad I didn't as I have a son about the age of that young dad and if someone did something like that to one of his babies I just don't know how he'd react