To think I wasn’t an “ignorant bitch”..

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At a local lovely place yesterday paddling in a river. Large family showed up, one woman in particular was swearing really loudly - they had 4/5 kids between them and my DC there. I was > < this close to asking her to tone it down, but actually felt a bit intimidated.

As I was getting DC into shoes at the edge a massive lump of wood missed my head by about a centimetre and splashed into the water. I said nothing, just carried on.

As I walked off with DC they were all laughing - one man said “sorry” but I was a fair way up the steps by then.

Sweary woman yelled “you didn’t need to apologise it wasn’t even close to her”. Other woman said “is she antsy- ignorant bitch”

Then Sweary Woman yelled “IGNORANT BITCH” at me.

Fortunately DC too interested in looking for bugs to have noticed...

God its so depressing, isnt it? That there are people who behave like this? Well done OP for keeping your counsel and getting out of there. Sounds like she was just spoiling for a fight. I don’t know why some people are so very aggressive these days.

Forget Brexit - cant we just round these people up and get rid of them instead?!

She sounds thick. What does she think the word ignorant means?

bookworm is right it's a backronym. Just because someone has many years subsequent to the origin of the word, identified the initials as corresponding to 'Council housed and violent' doesn't mean this is the working definition of the word. It's not.

Thank you LimitIsUp!

Same thing has me once. Two absolute milbegs (Northern Irish female chav) let their dog run riot over our brand new kite and it broke.

All they did was laugh they didn't even apologise while their spide (Northern Irish male chav)!kids stood gawping.

As people say its a weird underclass.

If I'm honest, irrelevant of their swearing prior, if someone apologised to you I find it very rude to sinoly ignore the person and would personally have turned round and said no problem or whatever. Clearly they felt the same, but in less polite tones,

If one of my party apologised to you I'd have felt you were rude by ignoring them, and would possibly have commented how rude you were to my friends.

Two wrongs don't make a right and their poor behavuour doesn't justify yours.

What!? Why on earth should she say 'no problem' to them, they were deliberately being awful.

have turned round and said no problem

No problem? People lobbing chunks of wood in the OP's direction is a huge problem. If this had been some kind of genuine accident, like being hit by a ball, I would agree, but why should the OP be gracious about someone throwing a chunk of wood at her?

Horrible. You handled it correctly though, no point adding fuel...

If one of my party apologised to you I'd have felt you were rude by ignoring them, and would possibly have commented how rude you were to my friends

As I said, I was a fair way up the steps away from them, and they’d all been pissing themselves laughing about the wood nearly hitting me. I didn’t particularly want to engage with them because, as I said, they were a bit intimidating and there was no one else around.

She didn’t comment how rude I was to her friends - she yelled it to me at top volume.