Was I rude?

[Natalie1989xo]

Just walking to the school to collect my son and a large groups of adults and children are approaching on the footpath. I slow down so they can see me and move as I had a pushchair (they did not). A woman and child are directly in my way and don't appear to be moving out of my way so I stop where I am to allow them to pass. The child moves around me and the mother (presumably) continues directly at me and dodges my stationary pushchair at the last second and walks around. As she passes me she says 'wow you are rude'. I can only assume she is aiming that at me? I mean, should I have thanked her for not allowing me to pass her? Or should I have apologised for being in her way?

Some people do seem to assume they have a God-given right to have everyone jump out of their way. The other day I was in a shop with a fairly narrow aisle when two women approached me from the other direction. One was looking at something behind her as she talked to her friend and obviously assumed that it was her right to expect anyone coming towards her to move to accommodate her. I would have done so, if only to avoid a collision, but there was no room. I slowed down and said "excuse me", and at the last minute she looked round and did an exaggerated jump and made some loud remark about rude people barging through. I pointed out that the only person barging was her and that good manners normally require that you look where you're going, and she was most taken aback - clearly she wasn't used to people answering back.

Not rude at all. We tend to spread out on the pavement as a family, but when someone is coming the other way, we always go single file so that everyone can get by. If it is narrow and another pushchair or a mobility scooter, etc is coming the other way, I will line my family up single file to allow the other person to pass. I always thought that was just polite.

It's not just prams. The amount of people that HAVE to walk THREE abreast on the pavement and will not move over and almost force you onto the road just beggars belief. Luckily I am a bolshy type and don't move either so one of them HAS to break stride and hang back thus it becomes a battle between them and one loses the overall power dynamic in the group which pleases me greatly.

No you were not rude.

Wwwwhatabitch

You were definitely not rude or unreasonable. The other woman was very rude.