This man was rude or am I being an idiot

[Queenie6655]

So walking out of shop today with my 3 year old DD a man was walking close behind us
It was a narrow walkway so we both sped up as he was indicating he wanted to get by
As he rushed past us my DD fell and everything in her hands fell onto the ground
She hurt her hand and knee
He stood watching
I had to drop everything in my hand to help her up
Everything was on the ground
He got in his car
Sat watching us
I rushed her to my car to get her comfy
Ran back to the pavement to gather up everything (shopping - fruit , veg, etc)
He sits in car still staring
So I stop and look over at him And threw my hands in the air
He prob thinks I'm bonkers
He's an idiot
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ugh 🤦🏼‍♀️

@GreyhoundG1rl

The narrow passageway is a load of hooey. There is no way there is a one person only way in/out tunnel to a busy shop. If there is; they wouldn't have been allowed to open under the social distancing rules.

Actually there are several of those in the historic town near me. The alleyway is barely wide enough for two people to pass and leads from the high street down to the major shops behind. There are three or four of them all down the street. Everything wasn’t designed and built in 1990 everywhere you realise.

And yes, they have all remained open throughout Covid because without them you’d cut off half the town. The council rely on people being a bit sensible.

@GreyhoundG1rl

The narrow passageway is a load of hooey. There is no way there is a one person only way in/out tunnel to a busy shop. If there is; they wouldn't have been allowed to open under the social distancing rules.

There are narrow paths leading out of my local supermarket.

My gosh some of these responses
Like seriously

And the comment about women on MN being 'meek'??!

Enough

Glad to know I was in the right and the man was a creepy, rude arsehole

Bye 😊😊

Keep telling yourself that. It'll make you feel better.

slightly overreacted me thinks , and not quite sure what your getting het up about

Not sure why you asked as you obviously haven't listened to all the people saying you were unreasonable.

I think she was totally reasonable.

Good for you OP!

Shocked at so many women think men staring at you like that etc was just aok

And in fact you were asking for it and had done everything wrong.

I found that I had more encounters with men being aggressive when I was pregnant. Or had a pushchair toddler etc.

They know you are very very vulnerable.

It's shit.

@Rosebel

Not sure why you asked as you obviously haven't listened to all the people saying you were unreasonable.

Not sure why you think she should chose too given there are also dozens of posts saying she wasn’t. What a strange post.

Ah for reasons I don't understand. Sometimes the mood is the woman is wrong. And that's that.

It's interesting to watch.

Anyway.

As I said waaay earlier in the thread. The initial falling bit well who knows wasn't there.

The staring and staring and staring was weird/ aggressive/ intimidating and I find it hard to believe that in real life many women would have been totally not phased / or feeling terribly guilty for the way her awful behaviour had upset a nice man so much/ etc.

I found that when I was pregnant/ had a pushchair/ toddler and pushchair, that it really seemed like a magnet to some aggressive men.

@NiceGerbil

Good for you OP!

Shocked at so many women think men staring at you like that etc was just aok

And in fact you were asking for it and had done everything wrong.

I found that I had more encounters with men being aggressive when I was pregnant. Or had a pushchair toddler etc.

They know you are very very vulnerable.

It's shit.

Well said and sadly also very true.

I also find it hard to believe that so many of the posters on here wouldn't feel uncomfortable with a man sitting and staring at them from his car in similar circumstances.

Not sure what the OP wanted from this thread aside from it probably didn't happen it shows why some of the advice on here is bonkers . I don't think I'd want the OP advising me the day of the week.

I know it’s a fairly minor point and totally irrelevant by now anyway, but… I still can’t get past the number of posters who’ve never seen a narrow pavement and don’t believe such strange exotic things exist.

Because it shows that OP had already made up her mind and wasn't really interested in getting opinions unless they agreed with her.

FGS if COVID is used as an excuse not to help then humanity has nothing left.
He was a fucking selfish idiot he can wait five seconds for a child to move. I would have lobbed a tomato at his car.

Yanbu he was in the wrong.

@Moelwynbach

FGS if COVID is used as an excuse not to help then humanity has nothing left. He was a fucking selfish idiot he can wait five seconds for a child to move. I would have lobbed a tomato at his car.

Precisely what I had in my mind 🤬🤬🤬