To be shocked and embarrassed by my friends behaviour today

[bagpuss90]

Bumped into a friend today at the local Tesco’s . She was in a check out queue , I stopped to chat . There was a woman with a screaming baby in a sling and a screaming toddler in a trolley . The poor woman looked totally stressed out , she started to put her shopping on the check out conveyer belt (I’m not sure she realised my friend was in the queue) my friend snapped at her , told her she’d jumped the queue. The woman asked if my friend minded if she went first as she’d got two screaming children. My friend told her no and added she might have considered it if she hadn’t pushed in front . She then told the woman’s screaming toddler to shut up ! I might add my friend doesn't have kids and it would seem not much empathy either .

This is horrible. I actually saw an incident yesterday of this rude individual on the phone in the nail shop, being rude about a baby crying and she said "these people want to talk in their own language say it with your chest" cause apparently one of the men were rude to her last time.

Some people are just disgusting I couldn't be friends with someone who tells a toddler to shut up

Did she nick the toddler's PomBears and start stuffing them in her face too because childless women can be frightful like that.

Some of you are a bit mean. Why can't someone who is struggling go in front of you?
When my dog was little I had her outside a post office, she was screeching crying because she couldn't see me, this kind man let me go infront of her cause he could hear my pup was distressed. Another woman was watching her for me.
There is nothing wrong with showing some kindness to someone else you may need it one day.

Did everybody clap?

I'm also childless BTW

She sounds like a nasty selfish cow and I'd avoid meeting her in public again.

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Crikey, what an absolute charmer she sounds
Would have loved it if the other woman slapped her with a fish.

I think she was naive to say that ..weak is a horrible word to use ..not everyone is vocal it takes all sorts it doesn’t mean she is weak everyone is different so don’t call her out and say she is weak

That’s horrible. Poor mum , any decent person would have unloaded her trolley then packed her bloody shopping for her.

Definitely

If anything, you sound naive if you can't read the undertone in the OP with the childless reference.

If it did happen then the OP was weak for standing and saying nothing whilst her friend told a toddler to shut up.

Yes, it does. I don’t think I could ever do it though!

I would be mortified!

Well of course she doesn't have empathy she doesn't know what true love (or tiredness) is yet...

Like I said everyone is different you don’t know this woman’s nature and it doesn’t make he weak in my opinion

Wow coming at me know you seem wonderful and trust me I’m far from naive..I find you very confrontational pity you wasn’t at the Sean🤣🤣

It's hardly "coming for you". It's a response and reflection based on your inability to read the OP undertone and umbrage you have taken with my opinion that to watch a friend behave poorly and do or say nothing is weak. Which it is.

The queues at Aldi are broken in the middle to allow shoppers to pass through - unless you remember to turn and look up the aisle to see it it continues after the break, it's easy to think the short queue you can see is the entire queue.

It's easily done. A smile, sorry, and a swift move to the back usually sorts it out. Being accompanied by two screaming children might make you mistake the end of the queue.

The OP’s friend is really rude and lacking in empathy. She was not obliged to give up her place if she did not want to , but she could have just said “Sorry, I’m afraid not, I’m in a hurry.”

The OP should have said something, but I’d imagine she was just a bit stunned and lost the opportunity. I think I would have been the same, to be honest.

Unless there is some backstory about some terribly stressful situation going on that may have pushed the friend over the edge, I would be sending her a message and asking her why she said what she did.

This sounds familiar! You may have picked up an ex-friend of mine who used to do the same sort of things. Very embarrassing. We are no longer friends!

And sometimes it can be frightening for the toddler, I know I'd err on the side of caution! But others, like you 🤷‍♀️.

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Some nasty replies on here.
I would have offered to let the lady with two children go first. Where's the harm ?
But l work in a supermarket and it's always women trying to shame another woman in a situation like this. I have seen it time and time again.

Childless women are just awful. I've heard that, when it's a full moon on the third Tuesday of the month, they whisper in babies ears that Santa isn't real.

Also to add, had you given my toddler a "stern word", you'd fucking get a few choice words back!

Nasty bully to a child, you've no idea why is upset!