Mother in duty free

[JohnPrescottsPyjamas]

Queuing in DF shop in airport. All 8 tills open but very busy. About 12 people ahead but line moving steadily. Mother with child around 8 years old stands behind with a basket full of chocolate and sweets. She asks her child whether he really needs the sweets as “We’re late for the plane and we might have to put them back” Of course, child says he definitely needs the sweets and proceeds to complain bitterly and then cry at the prospect of not getting them. She then huffs and puffs about the queue ahead, commenting loudly about how they might end up missing their flight and child ups the wailing because he’s anticipating not getting his goodies. I had a brief moment of weakness when I nearly offered to let her go in front of me, but it would have made very little difference in her overall wait.
She then proceeded to shout out the till number to the front of the queue every time one became free, despite the cashiers actively calling people forward. When I got the front of the line, she actually tapped me on the shoulder to point out the next available position even as an existing customer was packing their bags which really raised my hackles!
Maybe because I find travelling stressful anyway, but AIBU or was there a bit of entitlement going on?

You were far more polite than I would have been.

Duty free chocolate for wailing children is a thing now?!?

You're not BU. She could have got to the shop earlier or just not gone in and bought anything? I think I may have had to walk veeeerrrrry slowly to the front

She was BU, but I suspect that she knows that, because she always gives way to her child and his demands for large quantities of sweets.

Maybe she should have packed some to take with her, instead of buying them at duty free.

Especially as there's nothing cheap about the chocolate they sell in there!

Oh I would have walked in absolute slow motion over to that till. Maybe made a big performance of dropping something I was carrying and dramatically exclaiming before picking it up at a glacial pace and giving her a little wave. I hate people who blame everyone else for their poor timekeeping.

Just got back from holiday and the large number of awful entitled people with badly behaved children is amazing and quite depressing.

My top 10 included a dad treating the quiet relaxing pool like his own personal family pool. Loudly braying his 2 children's names and letting them shriek. Heaven forbid he go to the large family pool where games and shrieking are the order of the day.

Also an older woman (no dc) who steamed in front of me and ds as we were "choosing" a juice at breakfast. It was the lack of an "excuse me" and rudeness of shoving in.

I also marvelled at all the children on ipads by the pool (understandable in moderation but some seemed surgically attached).

Also one child who came off the fab waterpark at our lovely hotel that his parents had paid thousands for screaming it wasn't fair and he wanted his Nintendo now!

I think your woman sounds batshit. I won't touch duty free treats. So expensive!

Yes, sounds the type of parent that constantly gives in to their child, hasn’t allowed enough time at the airport, they sell sweeties on the plane and presumably there were shops in resort etc, the failure to plan, doesn’t become everyone’s in the queue emergency! I often think when parents are like this how on earth are they going to cope when their little darlings are teens.