to have asked woman in the supermarket to stop screaming near the baby

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I overloaded the trolley (one of those small ones) in Tesco this morning and a bottle of sparkling water fell out. The lady at the checkout (self service) did this stupid loud exaggerated scream and said 'oh make sure you don't open that first!' I just smiled and nodded but it was a bit embarrassing as everyone looked!

Then the same thing happened again and she did that stupid scream again so I said can you be quiet please, the baby is asleep.

Everyone was glaring at me but she was really annoying me.

Am I just sleep deprived and rude or did I have a point?

YWNBU op. The cashier behaviour was weird. I've told a policeman to stop making so much noise as he would wake up my baby.

YABU and were rude, no need for that any more than the scream.

Anything could have made your baby move, she didn't actually wake up so a complete overreaction on your part.

Go to Waitrose!

"Would you have said the same thing if a child had screamed or was it just because she's a lowly checkout operator?"

What a completely ridiculous thing to say.

Doc - the opposite of 'child' is not 'lowly check out operator' (odd choice of words??) it is adult. Shrieking adults is what is the irritation here. yes kids shriek, and are often selfishly unaware of the affect their shrieking may have on others - that's because they are kids. Adults should know better, whatever their job. I have been a 'lowly' toilet cleaner - I didn't shriek even when dealing with giant turds. I certainly never yelled in the vicinity of sleeping babies. Its quite possible not to.

Why do people think that not wanting people to suddenly and unnecessarily scream near your baby for no good reason is the same as demanding total silence. No one minds a normal everyday hub bub of background noise, no one minds shouting for good reason - the check out operator didn't fit into either of those categories.

In my personal experience I have found that people who scream and shriek at very little, go into 'tortoise on mogadon' mode when a real emergency arises - leaving the non shriekers to take sensible action.

Yes, it's nothing to do with her being a checkout operator, gosh, I'm not that horrible.

I think you sound a little bit intolerant and precious, she may be an annoying but I still think I'm #teamShriekySheila

YANBU.
YWBU to look her dead in the eye, shake the daylights out of the bottle then open it pointing towards her though.

YANBU to be annoyed. I always hated it when people were being unnecessarily noisy in public when my baby was asleep. (He's a toddler now though and doesn't really sleep in public these days.) I also used to get really pissed off in Sainsburys about the frequent, loud tannoy staff announcements when DS was snoozing as I had a rare bit of peaceful browsing.

Don't even get me started on people swearing loudly in public!

""What on earth was the matter with the woman to even scream once, let alone twice? ""

Perhaps she was just warning others to look out for low flying sparkling water.

When I see a pregnant Woman, or Newish Mum be snappy, I give them the benefit of the doubt, Hormones, Sleep deprivation etc, I would never just think "rude".

OP, you dwell on things at this stage, just forget about it, it doesn't matter.

How true Kurri. I work in a place where people generally react to little things with hysterics but when somebody's ill they just look blankly and don't want to know leaving the quieter, sensible types to get on with it.

Saying 'eeeeeeeeee' is not screaming.

YABU.

Well I know but how does one write a scream?

AAAAAAAAAAAARGH

Like that.