'Told off' by a random stranger

[hibye123]

I was on my way to an appointment with the Midwife this morning around 10:30am.

I was running late because I was feeding DD and didn't have time for any breakfast. Left to get the bus and grabbed a pack of Salt and Vinegar Squares from Sainsbury's and ate it at the bus stop once I had gotten off the bus.

Minding my business eating my Squares and some woman comes up to me saying 'you shouldn't be eating crisps at this time of the day' I told her I'm pregnant and I'll eat whatever I want when I want. She then said I was rude and unfit to be mum and went about her day!

AIBU in thinking she's actually the rude one coming up to me telling me off as if I'm her 5 year old child lol

I came here looking for the takeaway rice post 👀
Any link pretty please?

I had a newborn during the height of covid and expecting a dpd delivery. I live in a flat and he buzzed and told me to come to the ground floor to collect it as they're no longer coming up. I said I'm shielding and also have a newborn sleeping, can they please drop it to my door and I'll come out and get it once at a safe distance. The intercom got cut off half way as it times outs after 30sec so he probably thought I cut the line and so stormed up. He thumped on the door until i opened it and told me I should know better to make him come up to deliver a parcel, "you should know better, call yourelf a mother" was the exact sucker punch line followed by newborn now awaking screaming at top of his lungs and hello the baby blues train also arriving bang on that I just burst into the most hysterical tears ever experienced.
He sheepishly left.
I continued to cry for most of that day and night without any ability to pull it together.
To this day I still think what a dickhead he was.

@chayago

I came here looking for the takeaway rice post 👀 Any link pretty please?

😂 only because I'll name change again after this!

DP ate my food😡 http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4386308-dp-ate-my-food

I said to a mother of twins in a shop how gorgeous they were. That I remembered it well "double the trouble &double the love " She glared at me like I was a monster! Since when was polite mother conversation been so unwelcome?!

I’m surprised that there’s a time stipulation for crisp eating. You’ll be telling me that a choc ice isn’t an acceptable breakfast next.

Years ago we were on holiday in Blackpool, and I’d gone outside for a cigarette. Dc were inside with my then dh. This guy gave me a lecture for smoking while pregnant.. except I wasn’t pregnant, I’d gained weight due to medication I was on, and I was already really down about it. It really knocked my mental health. People need to keep their comments to themselves.

I’d have told her to get stuffed

Well said

Definitely rude but I'm intrigued by all the salt and vinegar squares eater. I also eat loads of those when pregnant.

I rarely eat crisps but In the first trimester all I could manage before midday was to lick the salt off plain crisps.

I offered my 3 year old the dessert menu choices of ice cream after our lunch out today...vanilla, chocolate, mint choc chip, lemon curd & rum and raisin. He chose the rum & raisin. There was an audible gasp from the lady on a table opposite me who had previously been watching him sit & eat nicely for about an hour whilst we drew & he played with his toys (whilst I read an entire magazine). It was bliss for me but quite clearly I was a horrendous being in her eyes 😂

@Minster2012 well obviously letting your toddler have rum n raisin ice cream is going to turn him into a raving alcoholic by the time he's 6

@SonOfABench

I was once on an external work training course. a lady who I had never met before told me I was ‘extremely common’ for dipping my custard cream biscuit in my tea.

Good job you weren't eating Cadbury chocolate fingers by nibbling both ends and sucking up the tea like a straw......

Malvarosa - I agree that it’s an age and also a class issue.

Eating and drinking anything outdoors is still, in some circles, considered the height of bad manners. (Eating on public transport is a no no and considered to be the height of bad manners and insulting to other passengers)
Don’t know why you were considered a potentially bad mother.
If parents/teachers haven’t explained this then why would op know.
Times change.

Weird person just ignore

My mother once took a cigarette out of a pregnant woman's mouth once!

When my daughter was a few weeks old we went to a garden show. Did was screaming and I was rushing to find somewhere to feed her. A woman in her 60's came and leant over the pram and screamed at my daughter. I was stunned and she just said scream back at them and they'll soon shut up!!! And stalked off.

Not read all the replies but I'd have honestly laughed in her face
WTF
I'm a crisp fiend in my 40s and I'll eat them when I like lol

hibye123
I never realised the crisp could stoke wrath. Anyone remember the signs at swimming pools for no heavy petting or signs of being able to breastfeed these signs were obviously made with this person in mind. Maybe this person could wear a sandwich board to the bus stop about the use of crisps in public ? The person strikes me as having issues or the whole Covid regulations has gone to their power crazed head.
My friend also a pregnant crisp lover was given nutritional advice by the owner of a Junk shop . As in when in your condition should you be eating that ? Is it good for the baby. Bearing in mind I seriously doubt he has carried a child or studied nutrition in pregnancy she told him where to get off Those Spicy Knicknack cravings were because of a healthy beautiful baby boy who she now goes jogging with.
Now if someone had told the revellers on the Nightbus of my youth or the tramp that took a shit on the bus we were downwind of to get off I would have been grateful but of course no one did . Maybe we were busy holding our breath and dreaming of taxis ferrying us home. No wonder I am more of a homebody these days

She’s a nutcase. Ignore her. Take care x

I read somewhere that if a person makes an impolite/intrusive comment to HM QE2, she smiles, says "How interesting . . ." and moves on. Not a bad strategy, in my opinion.

What?!?! Total nutter! Girl.. you eat those crisps!