To have said 'In a rush to wash that greasy hair eyy?'

[jessiaubrey]

Was in sainsburys today walking in between the barriers to get to the self-checkouts and tripped up on something someone had abandoned under where all the chocolate and sweets are. Then this woman walked past me and said 'excuse me hurry up this is an express lane don't you know' and I just blurted it out it was greasy though

Now fair enough that your in a rush but the space I between the bloody things could fit a rhino and the security guard told me she wasn't even actually behind me, she was to the right so it's not as if she actually had to stop!

AIBU?

The woman was a bit rude but you were extrememly rude. I always taught my children it was rude to make personal remarks.

Yes she was rude but you were personal and nasty.
Both of you U in my opinion. Just because someone else is rude doesn't mean you have to be.
Nothing to be proud of

So the woman pushing past was snippy. Big deal.

What I think OP is that you were embarrassed at tripping and took it out on someone else. Thus making yourself look even more of a dick than if you'd just laughed it off.

You were incredibly rude, incredibly lacking in even the most basic of manners and unkind.

pleasejustgo why is that not believable to you? I'm heavily pregnant now so more people make a "fuss" if i trip but I always seem to feel "off centre" when I'm pregnant, even early when I wasn't showing so tripped up a lot, you'd be surprised at people who just laugh at you!

Tbh, if someone I was rude to someone, I'd expect something back, personal or not. I'm not very often rude but if i ever have been (usually in my late teens, stroppy mare) the usual retort would be along the lines of how ugly I was or something. But then I was rude first so it's my problem.

Yabu.
Yes she was rude but you chose to be nasty.

It sounds like you made a complete fool of yourself. Just a shame you had to make a fool of a stranger in the process too.

For all this woman knew the OP could have had a physical disability that prevented her "hurrying up.

I think if you are going to be rude to others then you should expect something back, I wouldn't usually condone personal insult but I think in this instance the woman asked for it.

Yes she was very rude, but you were just plain nasty and now you're boasting about it.

Was the "eyy" like The Fonz?

"Ayyyyyyy"

Noarmani

You're confusing issues, I'm afraid. OP tripped over something that was hidden. I'm under the impression the other woman wasn't aware? Even is she was not entirely irrelevant. She made a hostile comment. OP then proceeded to make bizarre personal insult.

I don't see how any of the above has any relation to your balance issue? What am I missing?

YWBU. No matter how unreasonable she was being, there was no need to be rude.

Downstairsmixup

Right, so if you were vaguely rude to me and I used your pregnant appearance in an insult you'd be ok with that? Hmmmm

If I was rude to someone, I would expect that person to be rude back. Not personally insulting.
And, for what it's worth - I have had balance problems (thankfully sorted now) and tripped a lot, as well as currently undergoing hormonal hot flushes that can leave my hair looking greasy a couple of hours after washing it. A personal comment about my appearance is infinitely more hurtful than one about me tripping up as people presumably assume that I could do something about my hair.

Well if OP has a genuine problem she just needed to say "Excuse me, I have Hard-Not-To-Trip-Up Syndrome, please be patient."

OP was daft and petty bringing greasy hair into it, it sounds like something a gaggle of 14 year olds would come out with before running off shrieking and giggling hysterically at their own daring.

Out of interest how many posters here would tell their children that "two wrongs don't make a right"?

OP, she was rude but YABVVVU to be such a bitch back.
I'm very self conscious and would be have been absolutely mortified if someone had said this to me. It would have stuck with me for months
You lost the moral high ground by being a spiteful bitch IMO

And surely the 'Ey' is said a la Harry Enfield's Scousers, not Cheryl Cole which is an 'Aye'.

I think it's more 'eeey', as in the beginning of Eyeore

EEyore

But that doesn't make sense! "In a rush to wash that greasy hair, eeh?" or "In a rush to wash that greasy hair,ey?" as in a certain way of saying "Eh?".

I'm giving this too much thought.

I would have snapped something back too, but probably not a personal insult like that. You were both rude. There's no winner in this.

I'm going for the most deranged sounding, in line with the greasy hair comment.

It's got to be actually said as if a donkey is braying of course.

I've just tried to imagine how I would feel about someone seeing me trip, not being inconvenienced in any way by my tripping because there is plenty of room, but nonetheless saying 'excuse me hurry up this is an express lane don't you know'.

You know, I really don't think the OP's comment was out of bounds. Yes, it was a personal comment, but not about anything 'fixed' (colour, weight, height, religion). Maybe people like this rather snotty woman would think twice if she thought she'd get back what she gives.

YANBU. She was rude and impatient, she deserved what she got back.

OP did you come on here to boast about being 'quick-witted'? Because you weren't, you were bloody insulting. I would be ashamed of myself for saying something like that, even if the woman in question was abrupt