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Called Unsociable 10 year old a fat c*nt

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Herefortea2 · 12/06/2025 22:46

Ok, am I the worst person ever??
Last week I was at marks and spencers and there was this boy there, about 11 who was riding around on a electric scooter, whizzing past people and behaving in a passive aggressive way. When I past him he loudly made throwing up noises several times right in front of me, to scare/shock me and I said oh are you ok, maybe you need a doctor (because I don't like to be initimdated by youths). Anyway I do the shop and keep thinking about him, I was in a bad mood already and he really annoyed me, I'm fed up of little shits thinking they can terrorise people.
Anyway I saw him again on the way out and again he was whizzing past scaring people. He came past me again and then I said it.....I said 'fat cnt'!!! Now I actually do not use that word, I don't like it, I don't like it when it's used around me either but I was so pissed off that that's what I said!!!! Anyway he circled round and was like what did you say....I ignored him and he started insulting me and following me as I walked to my car, saying is this your car you fucking bitch, cnt, etc etc. I walked away saying I'm calling the police! Then this guy comes over who's his dad! He apologies and says he's trying to get him home (the kid had been in the car park for half an hour at least, maybe longer), the kid tells the dad what I called him and the dad says 'no she didn't' then the kid goes off at the dad for taking a strangers side. The dad is completely useless as the kid is still circling me where I actually have to push him away from me! Eventually he leaves after a lot of verbal abuse, from the kid. Now I'm thinking I shouldn't have done it and feeling guilty and also worried that I can't go back to M&S because he might be there and start abusing me and I have 2 young children. Thoughts? I am going to hell?

OP posts:
Splcam · 13/06/2025 00:03

This reminds me of an incident that Walt Flanagan of Kevin Smith films 'fame' once described in a podcast. Whilst out at a shopping mall, his daughter had a nose bleed and so he went to find some tissues or napkins for her. He then ran back through a car park with said napkins and some teenaged girls hanging around the car park shouted at him, “Run, Forrest, Run!” Walt, pissed off at this, stops and says to them: "You know what? In 15 years you’ll all be in a loveless marriage and hooked on painkillers if there’s a god”.

A bit more verbose than just "fat cunt' but in the same register I would argue 😀.

NC28 · 13/06/2025 00:04

WhistleBlower8 · 12/06/2025 23:59

Calling him that was a bit unnecessary. You should have stuck your foot out in front of his scooter and sent him flying instead.

Haha!

Bubblegumicecreamm · 13/06/2025 00:04

Herefortea2 · 12/06/2025 22:46

Ok, am I the worst person ever??
Last week I was at marks and spencers and there was this boy there, about 11 who was riding around on a electric scooter, whizzing past people and behaving in a passive aggressive way. When I past him he loudly made throwing up noises several times right in front of me, to scare/shock me and I said oh are you ok, maybe you need a doctor (because I don't like to be initimdated by youths). Anyway I do the shop and keep thinking about him, I was in a bad mood already and he really annoyed me, I'm fed up of little shits thinking they can terrorise people.
Anyway I saw him again on the way out and again he was whizzing past scaring people. He came past me again and then I said it.....I said 'fat cnt'!!! Now I actually do not use that word, I don't like it, I don't like it when it's used around me either but I was so pissed off that that's what I said!!!! Anyway he circled round and was like what did you say....I ignored him and he started insulting me and following me as I walked to my car, saying is this your car you fucking bitch, cnt, etc etc. I walked away saying I'm calling the police! Then this guy comes over who's his dad! He apologies and says he's trying to get him home (the kid had been in the car park for half an hour at least, maybe longer), the kid tells the dad what I called him and the dad says 'no she didn't' then the kid goes off at the dad for taking a strangers side. The dad is completely useless as the kid is still circling me where I actually have to push him away from me! Eventually he leaves after a lot of verbal abuse, from the kid. Now I'm thinking I shouldn't have done it and feeling guilty and also worried that I can't go back to M&S because he might be there and start abusing me and I have 2 young children. Thoughts? I am going to hell?

@Herefortea2 just be careful the next time you decide to verbally abuse motorised children. You might accidentally do it to @wobblyewobbly s DC and end up escalating your antisocial behaviour from verbal abuse to punch up brawls in the local m&s

Delphinium20 · 13/06/2025 00:06

I am cheering you on, OP. Sounds like this one is well on his way to being like the boy from Adolescence

Obimumkinobi · 13/06/2025 00:07

I was shocked, OP but more in a "get you!" sense, rather than a "you're a vile human being", which I'd personally reserve for far more serious crimes against humanity.

I don't know what it is with kids in M&S (maybe they're mainlining too many Percy Pigs?) but 2 teenage boys walked past me a few months ago and without warning or reason, one of them jumped in front of me and screeched "aargh!" , obviously designed to shock me "for a laugh". I did tell him "fuck off" but I'm comfortable to be considered vile for doing that. I genuinely don't think store security or the police would have been remotely interested or acted on this.

At least 2 kids have learned that mild mannered woman going about their business in M&S, will push back occasionally with a bit more than a "I think you're a very rude young man, unless you've been traumatised, in which case, as you were".

Childish, I know but I also think it's funny his Dad didn't believe him.

5foot5 · 13/06/2025 00:08

Slightly bemused by the posters who think calling the kid a c**t was wrong but understandable while calling him fat is unacceptable. Maybe it is my age.

The thing I find strangest about this is that it happened in M&S. I have never experienced anything like this in Sainsbury's.

whackamole666 · 13/06/2025 00:09

Well, If a fat kid acts like a cunt ....

Slatterndisgrace · 13/06/2025 00:09

Obimumkinobi · 13/06/2025 00:07

I was shocked, OP but more in a "get you!" sense, rather than a "you're a vile human being", which I'd personally reserve for far more serious crimes against humanity.

I don't know what it is with kids in M&S (maybe they're mainlining too many Percy Pigs?) but 2 teenage boys walked past me a few months ago and without warning or reason, one of them jumped in front of me and screeched "aargh!" , obviously designed to shock me "for a laugh". I did tell him "fuck off" but I'm comfortable to be considered vile for doing that. I genuinely don't think store security or the police would have been remotely interested or acted on this.

At least 2 kids have learned that mild mannered woman going about their business in M&S, will push back occasionally with a bit more than a "I think you're a very rude young man, unless you've been traumatised, in which case, as you were".

Childish, I know but I also think it's funny his Dad didn't believe him.

Brilliant. This thread is the gift that keeps on giving.

TheOmbudsmansComingtoGetYou · 13/06/2025 00:10

Not your finest hour but I think it’s quite funny 🤭 especially that the dad didn’t believe him.

NC28 · 13/06/2025 00:12

I think the real win for the OP was his dad not believing him. I’d have sauntered off to my car giving the young shitehawk the wanker sign from behind his dad’s back as he desperately tried to convince his old man that I had in fact, called him a fat cunt. 😂

ScholesPanda · 13/06/2025 00:12

It's funny how people want a village to help them raise their kids, until it means someone doing what they can't, and actually pulling their kids up on the shit they pull.

Alucard55 · 13/06/2025 00:13

Trendyname · 13/06/2025 00:01

But how would calling her a fat cunt have stopped going to M&S?

I've no idea really but we have nothing else to go on.

Slatterndisgrace · 13/06/2025 00:15

Alucard55 · 13/06/2025 00:13

I've no idea really but we have nothing else to go on.

Apart from a big dollop of hypocrisy.

Slatterndisgrace · 13/06/2025 00:15

ScholesPanda · 13/06/2025 00:12

It's funny how people want a village to help them raise their kids, until it means someone doing what they can't, and actually pulling their kids up on the shit they pull.

I concur.

TheOmbudsmansComingtoGetYou · 13/06/2025 00:20

wobblyewobbly · 12/06/2025 23:00

To put it shortly - it basically means going to that same shop wouldn't even cross someone’s mind again if I found out they’d called my child what this grown woman did.

😂😂😂

Hard as nails.

Obimumkinobi · 13/06/2025 00:21

What we're all forgetting, of course is that it was M&S, so he wasn't just any fat cunt.....

Slatterndisgrace · 13/06/2025 00:22

Obimumkinobi · 13/06/2025 00:21

What we're all forgetting, of course is that it was M&S, so he wasn't just any fat cunt.....

😁😁

Agapornis · 13/06/2025 00:25

Thin cunt doesn't roll off the lips as well, does it 😂
Tiny cunt?
Rude cunt?

Glad the dad backed you, even if he was wrong useless. Take up self defense before your next visit to M&S. Even if you hopefully don't need to use it, you'll feel more assured in standing up for yourself.

KeepingItReal2017 · 13/06/2025 00:25

Sounds like he was being a fat cunt TBF

PyongyangKipperbang · 13/06/2025 00:27

Is it ok? Probably not.

Is it forgivable? Hell yes.

Would the kid be such a little fucking shit if his father wasnt so bog useless, and he had had some proper parenting and discipline in his life? I very much doubt it.

What I find amusing is that he will one day, probably quite soon, try his tricks on the wrong person and get real consequences. A few weeks ago, Easter hols I think, there was a young teen wandering the local kids park with a machete. His father is known in the town as a die hard criminal, dealer, violent, you name it. Someone called the police who attended fast. As he tried to get away from them, he leapt a wall, broke his leg and landed on his own machete. I believe that is called poetic justice. Now I am not saying that this kid will do something like that, but pick on the wrong person and he could well end up with a punch to the face.....and he would deserve it.

Yes I am going to hell. I booked my flight years ago.

RedRock41 · 13/06/2025 00:27

Pinkelephant66 · 12/06/2025 22:51

Was he actually fat?

🤣👍

Slatterndisgrace · 13/06/2025 00:32

PyongyangKipperbang · 13/06/2025 00:27

Is it ok? Probably not.

Is it forgivable? Hell yes.

Would the kid be such a little fucking shit if his father wasnt so bog useless, and he had had some proper parenting and discipline in his life? I very much doubt it.

What I find amusing is that he will one day, probably quite soon, try his tricks on the wrong person and get real consequences. A few weeks ago, Easter hols I think, there was a young teen wandering the local kids park with a machete. His father is known in the town as a die hard criminal, dealer, violent, you name it. Someone called the police who attended fast. As he tried to get away from them, he leapt a wall, broke his leg and landed on his own machete. I believe that is called poetic justice. Now I am not saying that this kid will do something like that, but pick on the wrong person and he could well end up with a punch to the face.....and he would deserve it.

Yes I am going to hell. I booked my flight years ago.

I suspect this child (and others like him) know not to push their luck with men and older, tougher boys….

Crackanut · 13/06/2025 00:35

This is the funniest thread I've read on here in a long time 😂😂😂

Well done OP, he deserved it👏

BethDuttonYeHaw · 13/06/2025 00:35

Unacceptable

PyongyangKipperbang · 13/06/2025 00:35

Slatterndisgrace · 13/06/2025 00:32

I suspect this child (and others like him) know not to push their luck with men and older, tougher boys….

Yeah you dont tend to get many tough nut men shopping in M&S do you?

But you cant swing a packet of Percy Pigs without hitting an elderly lady......pathetic that anyone other than that is too fierce for him!

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