A woman has told me off for yawning in IKEA?!

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There I am, wandering around the plant section with my friend. I'm knackered today, having had 2 hours sleep, and I yawned with my hand over my mouth, not making a noise.

A lady was opposite me in the aisle and came over with her big trolly and said to me "other people are shopping here, you know"

I thought I was blocking something she wanted to get to and said "oh sorry I'll move" and I did move, to which she replied "no for gods sake, I meant about the yawning. Can you not save that for at home"

I laughed, she tutted at her husband/partner/male friend and then they both flounced away!

So, AIBU for yawning discreetly in IKEA?

Glad to see I am not the only one that is yawning since reading this

Some people are weird. I wouldn't even notice if other people were yawning in public or not! Ikea really does bring out the worst in people!

Yes that's it the OP had food in her mouth

Definitely no food in my mouth, I waited till the end to get my cinnamon rolls

Is yawning a euphemism for any of the following:
Picking your nose
Picking your bum
Scratching your bum
Scratching you fadge
Rubbing your boobs while looking suggestively at some glass tumblers.
Motorboating strangers
Hugging strangers
Hugging strangers while making sex noises
Farting
Making far noises on strangers bellys
Narrating customers purchases with a Swedish accent...badly.

If not shes batshit.

@Thatssomebadhatharry nope, but thanks for the list of things I'm going to do whilst in IKEA next time!

Narrating customers purchases with a Swedish accent...badly.

I don’t think I’ve ever been to Ikea but if ever I go, I will definitely be doing this!

Is this for real?

She is batshit!

YABU for starting this thread, I can't stop yawning now!

hahahahaha
This had made me laugh (and yawn) far too much hahaha

Yawning is involuntary, and she didn't catch the yawn therefore she is a psychopath.

Yep. This really happened.

The yawn talk, has made me yawn, but I'm at home, so quite safe.

We had a teacher at school who wouldn't tolerate yawning, you got sent to the headmaster

Appalled how could you? In public?

WTAF hahahhaha! What a crazy lady.

I once saw a lady walking her dog in Ikea (in Austria) and just letting it pee twice on the floor!

I absolutely HATE to hear or see people yawning with their mouths open. I think it’s so rude. But if you had you hand over your
Mouth and not making noise, I don’t see what her problem was?!

Hello. I don't think you did anything wrong.

Can I just tell you why she might have been offended, not that it was correct for her to be offended. You see, some people are disturbed by the sight or sound of certain things. I believe this is a medical condition. I can tell you from experience, because I personally am disturbed by the sight or sound of ... guess what ... other people yawning!

Its very hard for me to take a bus, or a subway, or a flight, because of this. It pains me sometimes to work in an office where certain people yawn loudly or obviously or continuously. I am 46, and have had to put up with this for the last 33 years or so. It even affects my relationships with my own family, relatives and friends.

Why am I like this? I don't know. I remember the day it started and I have been cursed with it forever since. I have to restrain myself sometimes from getting visibly pissed off - it is harder when people are yawning loudly or continuously.

I do sympathise with you, it seems like you were polite enough to control your yawning, so well done for having better manners!

As for the rest of us who suffer with this, we continue to suffer mostly in silence...

@starcrossedseahorse feel free to report, if I was going to create fake drama I'd at least come up with something better than yawning in IKEA

@crispysausagerolls now that's something to complain about!

I started reading this thread and got to the end of page one when I realised I was yawning far more than was acceptable. It’s making me feel even more tired than the two hours sleep I’ve had was.

It does however make me want to take a trip to ikea just to see if I can find anyone this batshit. My current best is the bloke in the Lidl car park who screamed at me that I had no right to park there (P&C space) whilst I had a car seat with actual screaming baby in my hand.

How do people even find it in them to complain to someone about something so trivial? How ridiculous.
She needs to avoid overseas ikeas where I’ve seen full families asleep on the displays... 👍😳

@happiestparent god that sounds awful, sorry to hear about it affecting your life like that! If the woman did feel like this I assume surely she'd bite her tongue! I hate hearing other people chewing/eating but I know it's sooo unreasonable to approach people and tell them off

@NoParticularPattern taking advantage of something created specifically for people like you to use?! How vaaaiiiryy daaaaaihhhr yewwww!

I got called a “fucking white bitch” In Wembley Ikea once because I’d turned around to grab something I’d forgotten on the one way system. That was special.

😂😂😂 is it wrong to say I would have preened at that comment and reply " Oh my, how kind of you to notice, yes I am, I really am, thank you." Then end it with a nice whip in the face hair flick.

Op did you accidentally spray a bit of saliva before your hand got to your mouth?

@Takfujuimoto I don't think so, it wasn't really a tongue-clickey yawn!