To have expected an apology

[ladyofourmadhouse]

So today at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, a larger lady walked backward away from a fence and knocked 4 year old ds to the ground.
she then has the nerve to tut at me. She doesn't apologise or ask if he's hurt or not.
Who in their right mind thinks this is ok?

So it's the kids fault for being within a mile of the woman and the OPs fault because only adults in crowds with their kids are responsible for being aware of other people in public places.

And the woman whose (relevant) size must not be mentioned was allowed to be rude because MN has decided that the child being injured fat shamed the woman and she was just embarrassed and feeling defensive and probably went home and cried….

OP I think the woman was rude! Not all fat people are fragile self conscious snowflakes who cannot be expected to be spacially aware! Some people are fat AND assholes! And outside of MN people know that..

But yes she knocked a person over and should apologise... if I knocked anyone over I would apologise!

And if she was embarrassed.. which it doesn't sound like because most people over apologise when embarrassed, but say she was and was feeling defensive………… she's still an asshole for taking that feeling out on a hurt 4YO by tutting at them as they cried!

Even Boris managed to apologise after knocking a child over.

it's not that hard is it

Depends on the person

Although he got there in the end

Ds has woken up light as rain today. Thanks for all the replies everyone

Yeah, she was rude and horrible and she should have expressed sympathy for your DS. Obviously she didn't mean to knock him over and didn't have a clue he was there, so it wasn't really anyone's fault that an accident occurred - these things happen - but to tut and not say she was sorry or ask if he was OK is massively rude.

A fat person bumping into a child will hurt a damn site more than a thin person

Except it really won't at all. It's the force with which someone bumps into you that makes a difference, not how fat they are. Fat people don't move more forcibly than thin people, or have more strength. And being fat actually means they have more cushioning so the impact is softer. The woman's size has no bearing on the incident really.

Of course her size was relevant. Would you rather have someone of 7 stone or someone of 14 stone collide with you if you were a small child!

Basic physics: force = mass x acceleration, so bigger mass, same acceleration means greater force.

GCSEs weren't wasted on me

Thanks for bringing the facts Comedyusername. We're veering off topic now but someone had to mention this!

jroz Think my work here is done

That really is very rude, of course she should have apologised! I'm teaching my DDs that they need to apologise if they hurt their sister, even if they didn't mean to. It's basic human courtesy.

That must have been a shock for your little DS, hope he still enjoyed his day.

He still had a lovely time, thank you x