Pass remarkable sales assistant??

[BitchinBlack]

So I took 16month old DS for a pair of new shoes today to a local shop. The sales assistant seen fit to comment "what?? He's not walking yet? (With a shocked look on her face) He really should be at that age"
DS is sofa surfing and walking with support he just hasn't taken of independently yet. I am absolutely livid and I gave her a good dressing down, so was I unreasonable??

Maybe its just me, but I always had the idea that people who worked in shops which sold children's shoes knew something about - well, children's shoes, feet and walking habits...

No?

⛏️ - for the hole you're digging OP.

Have I wandered into Upstairs Downstairs?
I wish I had a local shoe shop.
Do Freeman Hardy and Willis still exist? They were the shoe shop equivalent of Woolworths.
I used to buy pure wool socks, boil wash, and sew on leather soles for my pre-walking children.

I generally tip anyone in customer service that does a good job. I'm shocked that more people don't??

By "tip" you mean "visit at Christmas to deliver chocolates and wine"?! To ANYONE who has given you good customer service during the year?

How many bottles of wine and boxes of chocolates do you typically deliver to retail businesses in December?

Could you give us a typical list? Do you buy in bulk?

OP what a load of old shite. My DS was premture, weighed 1lb 12 oz, didn't walk til almost 2, didn't talk til he was almost 4. People sometimes commented, I just explained he was premature without being as rude as you were today. No excuses, you're just snotty and look down on people you think you are beneath you. Mind you your sales assistant's manager was out of line too. She should have stuck for her staff member because as you've just proved, the customer is not always right.

You work in customer service? Really?!

There's a big difference between saying something like "I would prefer you not to comment on my son's development given that he's had many health issues to overcome", and giving someone a ranty public dressing down, which is what your first post implied. If it's the former then I don't think YWBU but if it's the latter then YADBU.

As for buying your DH's shoes and tipping the shoe shop, I have no idea what to say to that...

Try shopping at John lewis with all the other snobby customers.

Now have an image of OP giving the boy in Waitrose a pound for directing her to the boxes of chocolates

I own a shop and no one ever gives me chocolate at Christmas. Maybe I am pass remarkable. I've heard that and also can't work out how to put it in a sentence.

someone got a chip on their shoulder haven't you OP
as for someone talking 'above their pay grade' who do you think you are she's an assistant not a serf

I'm tickled by the idea of tipping in shops. I'm going to start doing it now. Tomorrow I'm going to tip in Poundland, M&S and the garage that's replacing a tyre for me.

Should I also tip the estate agent?

it just occurred to me that 'in my own salon' could mean in you are a hair dresser or manicurist or the like. I read 'in my own salon' with a very snooty voice and translated it to 'in my own drawing room'

Very odd manner, OP. Intriguing, but odd.

I work in retail by choice but am medically qualified. You never know what someone's background is.

My DH is a fully grown adult so buys his own shoes as does my DDad, my DB and every other adult male I know.

I am PMSL that you buy your husband's shoes for him

Another Scot here, and I've only ever met one person who used the term "pass remarkable".

People buy shoes for children who can't yet walk?!? That is surely up near the top in the 'most pointless things to buy award.'

I'm going to tip bus drivers who got me safely from A to B, a thank you when exiting the bus is not enough.

How can you buy your husband's shoes anyway? His actual feet need to be in the shop to try them on.

poochsmooch will you tip a pagan in Poundland? You can't tip 10p because they only have pound coins in their tills, it'll have no where to go.

You're very rude, OP, and it's not acceptable because she struck a nerve and you're over sensitive about your kid.

Is pass remarkable Scottish? I'm half-Scottish but never heard it until I moved to Northern Ireland.

OP I actually don't think you were being U - it isn't right to comment on someone else's child's development. Unfortunately your posts were very snooty and people are giving you a hard time because of that.

I bought my then DH a pair of shoes once, but that was because I saw them on special offer, and he needed a new pair for work because the cat had peed in his other pair, so a bit of an emergency.

Why on earth would a grown man not buy his own shoes? Does he buy shoes for you? Weird.

16 months is late to not be walking, as you know.

Did you actually post this in 1952?

Gosh, some of you are being a bit pass remarkable about the op's shopping habits.