What the hell is wrong with people?!?

[crispysausagerolls]

Went to the supermarket today during their elderly/vulnerable slot. Heavily and very obviously pregnant. Supermarket extremely clear that this is included in the category.

Was literally torn to shreds by all the over 70s, both to my face and in front of me but to each other, about how I wasn’t allowed there and even if I was I shouldn’t be 😱

Aren’t times shitty enough without needing to face down over 70s Regina George and her allies?! How is this necessary?! Even when the supermarket worker made it clear I was indeed allowed in, the bitching continued.

Have managed to purchase some non alcoholic wine for later.

[Elliebobtail]

Yanbu I would have probably been very upset if that had happened to me when I was heavily pregnant.

[LucyAutumn]

I know you feel OP, I'm also heavily pregnant and was in my local supermarket on a day I usually shop (the week before lockdown) and an old lady decided to have a go at me in the queue for the checkouts saying unlike her I was "young and had nothing to worry about". I wasn't stockpiling anything and hadn't even bought any of the hard to get hold of items. I just ignored her, there's no point arguing with people like that.

[crispysausagerolls]

@VladmirsPoutine

I think usually it wouldn’t have bothered me as much - I was unfortunately having one of those days where confrontation made me cry 🙈 even more mortifying really

[Ohtherewearethen]

For goodness sake, it was the same with a thread yesterday, people pouncing on an OP saying she was a disgusting ageist when she was actually volunteering to help the elderly.
How on earth is this remotely ageist? Seriously, spell it out for us please.

[crispysausagerolls]

@Fairyliz

It’s not an exaggeration. There were absolutely 5 people close enough to discuss it. Why would I exaggerate?

[unchienandalusia]

I totally get this happened. In the Olden days (2009) this happened to me on a bus as I was sitting on a bus 9 months pregnant with the worst sciatica ever and was on way to hospital due to lack of foetal movement. I could hardly sit let alone stand. 5 ladies, very mobile, ganged up on me. You get some lovely elderly people and some are cunts, just as they were when younger.

Sorry you experienced this OP. Maybe as PP suggested the quiet afternoons would be more bearable.

[Vaginandtonic]

Aren’t times shitty enough without needing to face down over 70s Regina George and her allies?!

Best thing I've read on here all week 😂😂😂

[crispysausagerolls]

@LucyAutumn

I’m sorry for you. It’s just the worst time to be picked on as, if you’re like me, you dissolve into a blubbering mess! Well done for not

[FredaFrogspawn]

That sounds horrible at the best of times and particularly so now.

I hope you can let it go - you were in the right and they were in the wrong, for whatever reason.

[crispysausagerolls]

@unchienandalusia

You have to have experienced it to believe it perhaps!

[Mrsfrumble]

I think there’s been some misunderstanding about who these early sessions are actually for. I had an online discussion for with a friend in her 70s who was absolutely insistent that they were exclusively for the elderly, and wouldn’t accept that the younger people she saw might have had other conditions or hidden disabilities and had every right to be there. Not sure how she’d got the wrong end of the stick, but she wasn’t budging in her opinion.

I do hate all the suspicion and resentment this is stirring up.

[RufustheLanglovingreindeer]

crispy

Horrible thing to happen to you

[HillAreas]

Yep, old people can be arseholes just the same as any other generation.
Sorry you had this experience OP, please try not to dwell on it too much

[Kordelia]

Of course they had no right to be rude or to criticise you for being there but no exaggeration? Really?!

Was literally torn to shreds by all the over 70s

[olivehater]

Don’t understand why they think shopping in an elderly slot is any safer than any other time. If they are that concerned they should be self isolating. There are plenty of volunteers to get shopping, online slots opening up for them etc

[Nearlyalmost50]

Poor you, these people are horrible, nothing better to do than police pregnant women who are also in the vulnerable group. Even if they though they were in the right, they should have left it to the staff to tell you- and they were in the wrong anyway!

I don't know how anyone can defend their behaviour, so what if they are older and scared, if they are that frightened of younger people then they were in the wrong place in a supermarket! My mum is doing nothing but deliveries from shops in town, that's an option for them too.

Ugh, this is bringing out the best in some, the worst in others.

[frumpety]

I don't really think of people in their 70's as 'elderly' and think I would get short shrift from the people in that age group if I described them as such

[TreacherousPissFlap]

I was accosted by a deeply unpleasant elderly man in Waitrose one morning - I was wearing uniform though no badges (as is protocol) and had just finished a night shift. Even without badges it's extremely apparent where I work.

[SerenDippitty]

Some old people can be sweet and kind .However many can be rude and condescending as well! They often like to moan as well.

And younger people never moan of course.

[JigsawsAreInPieces]

Some people are just nasty. Nasty people grow old and become nasty old people.
I do know that everyone is under a great deal of stress and anxiety and may be on a shorter emotional fuse. Sorry that you were picked on, OP. Hope the rest of your day is better.

[Sceptre86]

Their behaviour was shitty and no you didn't deserve that. Not all the elderly are dear sweet old biddies! Let it go and conserve your energy.

[scarbados]

Was literally torn to shreds by all the over 70s

It wasn't 'literally' and I doubt very much it was all of them. Yet another MN thread hating all older people. And stop using the word 'literally' until you know what it means.