Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to be bloody annoyed that staff in Pizza Express have just looked me up and down and sneered at me before telling me in their most patronising tones that they were fully booked?

45 replies

CitroenDrivingFootballMum · 23/05/2008 18:44

am bloody sick of people making assumptions about me because i am under 30 and have more than one child.

i have 3. big deal.

that does not make me uneducated, inferior, unclean or anything else that apparently Pizza Express do not approve of.

i should have booked. fair point. but the sneering glance - proper top to toe superior snooty down-the-nose type - and over patronising tones were TOTALLY UNECESSARY!!!!

i am pissed off.

and waiting for dominos to deliver.

thank you for listening.

OP posts:
cornsilk · 23/05/2008 18:45

Well, they work in Pizza Express. Remind them.

Vivace · 23/05/2008 18:46

They may have been unfriendly and snooty, but I really doubt very much this had anythign to do with your age or your children.

CitroenDrivingFootballMum · 23/05/2008 18:46

and it also looks as if my spelling has gone down the pan too

OP posts:
KerryMum · 23/05/2008 18:46

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

S1ur · 23/05/2008 18:47

Oh don't worry it was probably your car they were judging you for rather than your children

FannyGropey · 23/05/2008 18:48

... maybe they were just full

and face it, it could've been Pizza Hut and that would have been far far worse

OverMyDeadBody · 23/05/2008 18:48

could you be a leeetle bit paranoid and touchy? Are you sure they sneered at you? Maybe it's just the way they look, poor dears

I find dominoes pizzas much nicer than pizza express anyway. Their loss, not yours.

CitroenDrivingFootballMum · 23/05/2008 18:48

i was too upset and embarrassed so left as quick as possible.

maybe i am being paranoid then - but certainly round here, if you're not at least 35 before you start dropping sprogs, then you are seen as mere innocents that obviously weren't paying attention in biology that day.

apologies to all readers over 35, no offence meant.

OP posts:
WatsTheStory · 23/05/2008 18:49

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

CitroenDrivingFootballMum · 23/05/2008 18:50

didn't take the car. maybe i should've

you're all right.

i'm being totally over sensitive.

damn i need a drink

OP posts:
CitroenDrivingFootballMum · 23/05/2008 18:50

wats are you hacking into my pc? twas what i ordered - with a personal made-up 1 just for me

OP posts:
WatsTheStory · 23/05/2008 18:52

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

hatrick · 23/05/2008 18:52

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

S1ur · 23/05/2008 18:53

Dominos is very anti-abortion though.

kayzisexpecting · 23/05/2008 18:53

I will never eat in Pizza Express ever again!!!!

About 4 years ago a load of us went for a meal there. We all thought the pizzas were horrible and we complained about them. We all got very very sick the next day and my Dad contacted Environmental health. Nearly everyone who had eaten there in the past week had got sick so they investigated. The Chef had been given a warning about using his mobile while at work so he spat on the pizzas and other bodily fluids were found too.

I just cant go in another Pizza Express even though the chance of it happening again is very slim.

hatrick · 23/05/2008 18:56

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

WatsTheStory · 23/05/2008 18:59

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

FairyMum · 23/05/2008 18:59

I love pizza express.They are always friendly to me. I have 4 children. But the I am really OLD.

kayzisexpecting · 23/05/2008 19:01

It was just urgh when we were told. Fair enough normal food poisoning sometimes cant be helped but the fact it was intentional makes it so much worse.

We were all very happy when he was given 6 months in prison. We had no idea it carried a jail term we thought he'd be fined.

beansmum · 23/05/2008 19:02

I didn't think you could book unless it was for a big party? Or maybe they just don't let me book.

Hassled · 23/05/2008 19:04

Last week DS3 had the most fantastic Pizza Express party - for a small fortune nice smily chef guy talked a bunch of 6 year olds through how to make a pizza. Then they ate them. I came home in love with the place.

I am bloody ancient though. And now I know about the bodily fluids it all feels wrong...

WatsTheStory · 23/05/2008 19:05

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

kayzisexpecting · 23/05/2008 19:06

Yeah I didn't. But last year I did my food and healthy safety course with work and you can get years if someone dies of some type of food poisoning caused by your neglect.

Vivace · 23/05/2008 19:07

Slur, so no foetus and anchovy specials then?

Tutter · 23/05/2008 19:11

nice

Swipe left for the next trending thread