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toddler had tantrum in clothes boutiqe yesterday

64 replies

narkymum · 29/05/2008 09:00

on his behalf he was right to be pissed off as i had been dragging him round looking for wedding outfit for saturday got my dress and popped into "one more shop" to grab a cardi to throw over it on way back to car park it matched beautifully but i needed my size. said excuse me to pinched faced 50 something full made up lady. who ignored me said it again and followed her line of vision to my son who was throwing head back into pushchair and shouting she had a look on her face of utter contempt i said in my poshest voice ohe hates being in here seems you have the same opinon. No she replyed this is not the place for children at which i snapped oh get over your fucking self luv your a shop assistant and strode out. but that bloody cardi matched perfectly do you think i should go back in like a twat and get it or just live the rest of my life knowing my dress could have had a matching cadi (if it helps to decide may i add it had lovely beadind round edges too )

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hana · 29/05/2008 09:01

you were a bit rude to the shop assistant I think, two wrongs and all of that.

no idea about the cardi

MrsWeasley · 29/05/2008 09:02

can someone else go in for you?

chinchi · 29/05/2008 09:02

Can you get someone else to nip in and get it for you?

MrsWeasley · 29/05/2008 09:03

oh look at that rogue

Sorry

chinchi · 29/05/2008 09:03

:O

missblythe · 29/05/2008 09:05

Can you slope past and see if she's there? She might not work every day, but if she is there, there is NO WAY that I could go back in!

LazyLinePainterJane · 29/05/2008 09:06

If I wanted the cardigan, I would go back when someone else was working as I couldn't face her again.

littlelapin · 29/05/2008 09:07

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narkymum · 29/05/2008 09:13

think i will skulk about while friend nips in to get it. and now i have solved that dilema i will go back to working on world peace

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MrsWeasley · 29/05/2008 09:14

chinchi: I was referring to my rogue grin not yours.

cornsilk · 29/05/2008 09:16

Well I don't think you were as rude as she was. Well done narky mum.

lazarou · 29/05/2008 09:17

That's so funny!

lazarou · 29/05/2008 09:17

was it monsoon?

smartiejake · 29/05/2008 09:20

"This is not the place for children"? People with children don't need clothes?

Unless she owns the shop I would find out who does and complain about the old cow. Sorry but I would look for a cardi elsewhere. I would NEVER give my custom to a retailer who had treated me so appallingly.

Yes you were rude but you were provoked.

smartiejake · 29/05/2008 09:21

Lazarou- I nearly asked the same thing about Monsoon- I have found them very rude and patronising to children in the past (strange as we were actually buying little girl bridesmaids dresses at the time!)

narkymum · 29/05/2008 09:29

no very much like it, East

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CoffeeCrazedMama · 29/05/2008 09:38

John Lewis usually have East concessions - can you get to one of those? Poor ds - I always feel like saying something like that when treated rudely by a sales assistant but am wimp(Also scared of ending up with dilemma like yours )

harpomarx · 29/05/2008 09:38

this sort of behaviour to shop assistants is known as 'throwing a grapefruit' in my family.

in honour of my mum, who claims she did this once to a miserable git of a greengrocer who never said a word to her in the years she did her shopping with him. He finally broke his silence when my mum was choosing a grapefruit - he asked her not to touch them. So she chucked one at him

Couldn't go back in the shop of course, and it was the only greengrocer in the village. It's a wonder we all don't have scurvy!

no, you are not being unreasonable, she was very rude and I would have done the same. Sod the cardi, it will have bad karma.

harpomarx · 29/05/2008 09:40

ps I have 'thrown a few grapefruits' in my time. It's in the blood you know.

NotABanana · 29/05/2008 09:40

You were both in the wrong but if I wanted the cardigan I would go and buy it. You never have to see her again and it will bug you if it is perfect and you don't get it.

littlelapin · 29/05/2008 09:41

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fishie · 29/05/2008 09:41

east cardies i think you might complain about her. surely most east customers have children.

harpomarx · 29/05/2008 09:51

I try not to throw them too often these days, littlelapin. It's not good to get in a ruck when you have a child with you and I live in the kind of town where you are always bumping into people you have thrown grapefruit at!

lazarou · 29/05/2008 09:51

You should complain about her. If she says that you swore at her then you can say she was so rude, it just automatically came out because you felt so angry and humiliated.

I once called a security bloke on tesco car park a 'fucking jobsworth' and also complained about him. Tesco were very apologetic.

harpomarx · 29/05/2008 09:53

maybe if you complain, you will get a free 'bad karma cardie'!

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