Overheard in the Waitrose cafe

[zeezeek]

At the table next to me, four women. As I was right next to them I couldn't help,but overhear their conversation which went along the lines of...

Mother's shouldn't work until their children are school age leave home and those that do are either career obsessed bitches or married a poor man.....

Then they went onto seemingly contradict themselves by then talking about how childless people shouldn't be allowed jobs that are home based and only parents should be able to apply for those jobs so they can also look after their children......

Which then evolved into how children should be the centre of their mother's universe and when at home with them women should concentrate fully on their children and nothing else.

Was

Forget them.

FOTTFSOF

Breaking news - ignorant, unintelligent, narrow minded and opinionated women sometimes eat in a Waitrose cafe? (They can be found in Tesco cafe's too)

Oops - apostrophe fail.

Meant to be lighthearted.

Yes, I do realise there are more important things in the world. There are even more important things in my life

YANBU. I will never forget the fury I felt after sitting on the bus for 20 minutes behind a couple of elderly women (who certainly appeared to be well-off) agreeing that poll tax was a much fairer system than council tax 'as poor people use council facilities more than well-off ones so they should pay more'. I suspect they were using their free bus passes too.

These women exist unfortunately.

But unfortunately for them, they live in permanent fear that their husbands will leave them for younger women.

Why say Waitrose cafe, not just cafe? I think you might have an agenda OP.

Waitrose has a café? Mine doesn't.

Gotta ask, where were the children?

That kind of judgey crap really gets on my nerves!!! I'm a Nanny and I see how hard working mothers work and to think they get judged it sad :(

My guess is that their children are in their 30s and at work...

If their kids should be the centre of their universe, how come they were in the Waitrose cafe sipping naice lattes without their kids?

Were their own children acting up terribly, much to other customers' annoyance, while their mothers blithely ignored them so that they could pontificate on the philosophy of motherhood? Those are the best value ones.

Why not say Waitrose café?

But unfortunately for them, they live in permanent fear that their husbands will leave them for younger women

talking for yourself?

'But unfortunately for them, they live in permanent fear that their husbands will leave them for younger women.'

They do? Or perhaps the husbands live in permanent fear of them leaving for their personal trainer taking the house, the kids, and more than half the assets including his pension

Hehe. Other people's conversations always amuse, bemuse and fustrate me in equal measure. I rarely find myself agreeing though which says sometging about me I'm sure. I promptly forget about them afterwards anyway because they don't actually matter really do they?

Equally the regular shouts of "stealth boast", "entitlement", "middle class" and "hidden agenda" blah blah blah whenever anyone dares to mention something vaguely stereotyped also bemuse and frustrate me. Again though, I promptly forget about them because they don't matter either.

They're probably surviving on the drink and pretending they believe this shit

Women like that are arseholes who have no idea what real life is about. Women like that should be legally obliged to speak quietly in cafes so their shite isn't overheard by everyone else in society. Women like that are often fucked if their DH's leave them.

Or they may just have a different viewpoint to the Mumsnet approved view.

I would take these people off your radar, they will only cause you distress, otherwise!

Unfortunately, my mother is of this opinion too. :( she is in her 70s, so perhaps it's a generational thing. I have a disability and she still comes out with some really stupid and outdated ideas regarding that as well even though times have changed greatly... generational thing

I am glad these people exist. I'm so staid and boring these days, I rarely get the chance to offend people. It takes me back to the days when I was something of a rebel.

Haha! Guess I married a poor man then!