to want to shout at old women?

[kayzisbroody]

Little background - Our oven is broken so we have been unable to make ds any food so have had to buy jars today.

While in shop buying said jars 2 old women moan at me I should food ds proper food and that children should be taken away from their parents if they aren't fed real food.
This made me feel really upset I didnt think feeding a baby jars of food would be a reason for having your baby taken away, ds doesnt have any real junk food. He'll have a rusk every now and then.

AIBU to have wanted to shout at them?

YANBU. i would have told them why i was buying jars - but it probably wouldnt have helped, as they would have said in thier day they rubbed two sticks together to make a fire i expect!!!!

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would have pointed out the cr*p they had in their basket/trolley

I find old women difficult to deal with they seem to feel they have the right to comment on whatever they want.. DS2 was sick last week and I put him in the buggy and baby in the sling to do the school run.. some old lady walking past said 'look at the size of that child in a buggy, is there any wonder childhood obesity is a problem' I wouldn't mind but DS2 is on the 9th centile for his weight!
Ive had other old ladies look into my pram at DS2 and say 'you must be really disappointed you didn't get your girl' GRR. I'm so proud and delighted with my boys.. disappointed never

If we have had a busy day and havent got round to making any he has jars but no one has ever said anything

What a strange thing for anyone to say. There does seem to be a grumpy old person for every occasion doesn't there?

I've come across this before too. The thing is you always hear old people complaing "young people never have any respect these days".
What do they expect they never give it!!

yeah, that's why places like Boots etc have aisles and aisles of jars/sachets/pots etc, just to trap unfit parents who are willfully poisoning/neglecting their children.
stupid women
outraged on your behalf - nasty old pieces of work
i actually don't understand the snobbery around jars etc, there's some half-decent ranges out there
just say to yourself "One way flight to zurich, one way flight to zurich" until the anger goes away
(Zurich is where the euthanasia place Dignitas is based - had to start doing this when the IL's are about).

Old women are the worst - followed by young women! Old men know to keep their mouths shut, but women seem to know it all btw my dses were almost exclusively jar-fed, they have a much wider variety than I could make, and I was on salads most days, trying to lose the baby weight, so didn't do cooking!

Like bus queues. If someone is there before I get there then I let them get on before me, but the amount of times I'm there first and when I get on they moan about it.

Someone tried to get on before us once and the bus driver said "No the person with the buggy is first" I think he saw the person push infront. Then when he got on the bus he walked into my dh and kicked the pushchair.
The bus driver kicked him off the bus

I would have waited till they were not looking and hid condoms and KY jelly in their shopping

lol at Kimi might do that next time, one of them did put there shopping on the floor

actually, i was thinking, that in days gone by, jarred food was hailed as the way to go.....sterile, nutritionally balanced, etc, so i'm surprised they were of the opinion that you were neglectful
anyway, oddly enough, in Boots yesterday, stocking up on DS's oatie biscuits and a few JARS of banana pudding, an old bid just approached us and started going on about how good it all looked, and wasn't he a lucky boy?
so they're not all evil dried up witches.
she won't be going on that special flight...she can stay

yeah...one of the vibrating condoms
oh, go on

and a large tube of cannistan [sp] cream

and anusol

I agree, whilst some old people lovely and i have met many on the bus, very sweet and love the children and are always saying how lovely the children are!! But there are others that are very rude, lacking in manners (i have had a few just drop a door on me whilst they can see i am pushing a pushchair) and seem to think that because they are old they have the right of way around the supermarket and that it gives them the right to jump the queue!! I would have politely told them in the nicest way, to butt out, and that your oven broken...that would have made them feel about the size of an ant!! After all you know the truth and their comments were wrong..they obviously have nothing better to do...lets hope we don't behave like that when we get old!!

I really really hope when I'm old I wont behave like that

you think your being unreasonable for wanting to shout at them? i'd of hit them the cheeky old battle axes

just ignore them. shouting wont do any good at all. i get used to old people moaning inc my pils.
i think some old people just bored
hopefully we dont turn into them when older
i often tell that to me.

But on the other hand, a lovely old woman helped me today when i was trying to put ds2 in a trolley at the supermarket - he is a bit big to go in the seat but was feeling under the weather - but then I think she was "forrin" like me so maybe that's why she was more helpful

Kayz - I know what you mean about buses. i ahve to ge tthe bus every day and it is hysterical watching them at the bus station. I got there first on Tuesday and thought, "I AM getting on the bus first" and sat on the empty seat nearest where the bus parks.

OrmIrian - LOL at the "grumpy old person for every occasion" bit like a Hallmark card then...

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