Being laughed at on the School Run

[ChoccyBiscuits123]

Okay so I'm going to start by saying I'm not usually bothered by people's behaviour - I'm very much a live and let live person....however...there are two women on the school run that I am just perplexed by.

So for example this morning..I had just dropped my daughter off at school and I'm minding my own business walking home. These two other mums come from around the corner and immediately start laughing directly at me in my face...! They then stifled their giggles and walked past. This is not the first time this has happened.
Once they started singing a Kylie Minogue song at me from the other side of the road laughing and twirling around. All a bit much for me in the morning!!

We're all pretty relaxed dressers on the school run..they wear tracksuits and tie their hair up and I tend to wear leggings and a navy joules coat with miminal make up (mascara and perhaps a red lip if I have the energy) so it's not like I'm going to school in Kylie hot pants or full make up or other crazy clothing.

I'm perplexed as to why they've targeted me as I don't know them at all. It's got to the point where it is upsetting me. Someone laughing in my face or stifling giggles as I walk past is hurtful and it's starting to feel like bullying. Am I being too sensitive? Is my make up or dress sense so awful they cant help but laugh? I am so confused! Esp as they don't seem to do it to anyone else.

I want to ignore it and just put it down to them being muppets but I am struggling now.

I can't confront them as they will probably just see it as hilarious and as they've never actually said anything directly to me they could accuse me of being paranoid.

Any help or advice much appreciated. No nasty comment please.

Dear God.

Well don't they sound absolutely lovely. 🙄

I know it must be difficult, but please try and ignore them. They both sound like two immature idiots who clearly have one brain cell between them.

It does make you wonder though. If they behave like this, I dread to think how their children act.......

Best to ignore if you can...but whatever you do don't do a Paddington stare or a tinkly laugh or a "Did you mean to be so rude?"

You'll look Insane

Reddit is over that way, bro.

Put your headphones on, Boop boop de doop along to what you are listening to and don't even look in their direction.

I’m not a social person - currently sitting in the staff room eating and avoiding eye contact with colleagues. So I don’t know much about people…

But, I think you had one awkward encounter with them and then it spiralled and each day became more awkward. They are gigglers and awkward. Perhaps a cheery good morning would break the cycle?

Keen to hear opinions on this.

On threads like this about the school run you always get people saying "I've never seen anything like that on the school run. You must be misunderstanding." They are basically saying that no immature, bitchy women exist anywhere in the UK, which is silly.

This is actually good life advice, love the swan analogy

One of her better ones, to be fair 😉😁

Do you think they were just messing around together one morning with the Kylie thing (not actually to do with you) and now they're a bit embarrassed every time they see you because you were so unimpressed and start giggling about it?

You should definitely do the next school run in gold hot pants and see how they react x

Definitely. They were messing around, saw OP with unamused WTF face, and now it's become a joke between them so they laugh awkwardly when they see OP.

Ugh, they are unintelligent and juvenile, basically.

They are bullies.

It is nothing you have done or do. Just act as though they are not there. Totally ignore them.

Brilliant advice.

The swan thing - swans are graceful on top, even if they're paddling furiously below the water line. Be like a swan! Good luck against these awful women.

Ok, your use of the word "bro" gave away the fact that you're 12.

I would counter this by going full slap and my best clothes and saying to them ‘I feel I’m worth a bit of effort, you know.’ Sweet smile and head tilt.

As Simone Biles once said, a lioness doesn't concern herself with flies.

Just say “good morning” as you walk past.
it could all be consequential.

at least if you interrupt by saying good morning they should hopefully acknowledge you back and may even let you in on what’s so funny.

I had some mean girl mums like this at my dcs school. Obnoxious laughing, whispering, beeping the horn whenever they were behind me in the car.

I decided that I actually preferred it that they didn't like me because who the fuck would want to be liked by a pair of bellends? Perfect the art of looking through them op like they don't even exist. They'll soon get bored and move on, mine did!

I’m surprised by the large number of people on this thread with advise on what they have done in the past to counter such or similar behaviour. I’ve lived 50 years, I don’t think I’ve ever passed anyone who did anything remotely similar to this to me that would warrant half of the responses on this thread.

Agreed. Or I did, but it just meant I thought 'Weird' and got on with my day.

Smile and wave....kindness is the best way forward....they will soon stop if they see it doesn't bother you. Immaturity at its finest x

This would bother me too.

however, are you absolutely sure it’s about you? I was once accused of being horrible about someone and they had totally got the wrong end of the stick, I didn’t actually know the lady at all and she thought she heard me talking about her when i absolutely wasn’t, I’d been talking about a tv show…..she had totally got it wrong and imagined this whole scenario that was totally wrong. She was mortified.

What a pair of nasty little madams. Imagine being that pathetic! Seriously I don’t know how some people get through adult life behaving the way they do, it seems some women never mature beyond the age of 9……… quite scary really that they’re parents.
I would either completely ignore them and make them feel totally irrelevant, looking at them just gives them oxygen, they clearly think they’re hilarious…. or I’d look right at them the next time they laugh in your face and do the exact same thing to them, laugh hysterically and see how they react. They’ll no doubt be mortified/embarrassed as you’ve held a mirror up to them to show them how utterly ridiculous they look and slope off to the rock they crawled out from under! Absolutely hate bullies. I hope you’re ok. x

@LollyLand
”still pumping out babies with no dad”

What exactly is this meant to imply? Lots of children have no Dads for a myriad reasons. How disgustingly judgemental.