Went to Tesco this evening, needed some teething bits for my 4 month old and some bananas for my 3 year old so was a quick in and out stop.. just before I ran in I parked up and gave my 4 month old a quick bottle feed before I took her in (no pram just carried her as I was only going to be a minute) walking through the car park a woman started giving me weird looks while she was having a conversation with her partner, I caught snippets of the conversation like "disgraceful" "police should be around" "it's disgusting" nosy old me started looking around to see what she was talking about.. couldn't figure it out so I carried on until she turn around looked straight at me and said "you should be ashamed of yourself" then she sort of hurried off
I was so shocked didn't know what she was talking about so just ignored her and carried on my business
Happened to bump into her in a few isles followed by more muttering and snide comments on her part
I realised for what she was saying "under her breath" she thought I didn't have a car seat for my baby and she also said something along the lines of me being a bad person for taking a newborn out to a supermarket..
I ignored her because it's a load of rubbish obviously maybe she had seen me feeding and just to a crazy conclusion and my DD is small for a 4 month old so she's often confused as newborn
Like I said I kept my cool ignored her and carried on my business
Once I was loading my shopping into my car she walked past me again and started shouting and swearing saying she's gonna call the police on me and she has my car reg and all that rubbish at this point I lost it a bit
I started having a go back took the car seat out the car to show her she's mad
I even shouted at her that my baby is 4 months not a new born and if I want to take her to a supermarket that's my business
The worst part is she had a baby with her probably about 6 months ish so not far off from my babies ago
I feel bad now for losing my temper and shouting back and basically giving her what she wanted, a reaction
Anyway
Aibu for reacting?
Should I have just ignored her?
Had this sort of thing happened to any of you before?
A few years ago a neighbour told me very rudely that I should strap my child in his car seat properly and then walked off
I went young to see what he meant basically my son was strapped in perfectly fine it was just the long excess straps that was trapped in my car door
I always regretted not telling him to mind his own business
Why do people feel the need to judge or comment on things that they have no clue about I'm so fed up with it