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Original poster

For leaning over and quietly having some very harsh words with a stupid 16/17 year old chav in covent gardens?

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bogie · 27/06/2008 10:10

We took DS 2.6 and his little friend 2.3 to London yeaterday and we sat them to watch a little street show in covent gardens. There was a group of girls sat next to ds and friend and all the way through this one girl must of thought she was being clever was shouting "your shit" "your crap" "fucking get on with it then" ect. I didn't say anything at first but then I went behind her and wispered in her ear "listen you stupid little girl, You either piss off or shut up, there are children next to you and if I hear 1 more swear word come out of your mouth I will give you somthing to fucking swear about."
I said this nice and quitley in her ear so no one else heard it and it shut her up straight away was ibu?

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Mercy · 27/06/2008 16:48

I doubt a group of 13 year olds would be hanging round Covent Garden tbh (unless it was a school trip). Imo, a 16 year old is generally speaking a child who expects to be treated as an adult - but on their own terms. Fine, so be it.

I think the OP did ok, bit OTT, but it did the trick.

queen2shoes · 27/06/2008 16:50

mb I think the way you handled it was good. as someone said no threat or swearing.
I can't wait untill the people who seem to think it is ok to threaten a 16yr old have teens them selves. (awaits the oh my darling will be perfect posts)

VictorianSqualor · 27/06/2008 16:51

Tell them, I totally agree.
When I confronted the two 'kids' on the bus I was 'telling' them, I spoke to them as I would my own children but I didn't threaten them, or swear.

Blandmum · 27/06/2008 16:51

Heckling a street performer isn't being self absorbed, it is being an arsehole.

Talking noisily to each other is being self absorbed.

This sounded like 'acting arsy to impress my mates'. Behaviour to quash IMHO

VictorianSqualor · 27/06/2008 16:52

2shoes, those posts started earlier, when I posted what the mother of that girl could have come here and said.

pointydog · 27/06/2008 16:52

if they were heckling a mime artist it was justified

AllFallDown · 27/06/2008 16:53

DW thinks I'll get stabbed one day ...

Once, when a teen and I bumped into each other (literally) on the street, and he demanded I "show some respec'" (ah, the glories of south London!), I asked earnestly what achievements he had notched up in order to have earned this respect. He looked baffled.

Blandmum · 27/06/2008 16:54

I disagree about the mime artist.

I'm with Lord Vetinari on mime artists. They should be lowered into a pit with 'Learn the words' painted on the walls!

TheChicken · 27/06/2008 16:55

yep thats it
mild mannered dh turns into green monster of rage.

Blandmum · 27/06/2008 16:57

Wasn't there a whip round for councelling for the kid who sat behind your dh, Chicken?

TheChicken · 27/06/2008 16:57

lol

pan was very earnest about it.
dh threatened to fucking kill them iirc

tee hee.

one kick too far

JaneHH · 27/06/2008 17:00

LMAO Allfalldown I would LOVE to have the courage to say that kind of thing in London.

queen2shoes · 27/06/2008 17:03

oh just seen that the op had her dp with her.

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bogie · 27/06/2008 17:10

queen2shoes DP was stood right back at the shops he couldn't see us or the show I was stood on my own with the 2 boys sat in front of me.
wansn't a mime btw a breakdancer type thing

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pointydog · 27/06/2008 17:11

was the breakdancer shit?

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bogie · 27/06/2008 17:14

He was ok he got 2 little kids 5 and 6 to come up and dance for £1 each

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pointydog · 27/06/2008 17:15

the small children had to pay to dance with him?

unknownrebelbang · 27/06/2008 17:17

The child/adult/somewhere inbetween needed telling.

She didn't need to be swore at/threatened.

MB's look/quiet stern voice would probably have been enough. Going back now, but my mother always told folk off for swearing around her, she didn't need to swear herself. The cool voice/that look was enough.

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bogie · 27/06/2008 17:18

no he paid them to show him a dance then he put a helmet on and spun around on his head loads of times

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pointydog · 27/06/2008 17:20

hmm. Now we get the truth.

The breakdancer was so bad he had to pay small children to show him a breakdance which involved spinning on a metal helmet.

You're shit! Get orf!

pointydog · 27/06/2008 17:21

(sorry, don;t know where I got metal from)

queen2shoes · 27/06/2008 17:24

sorry was just going by this post.

bogie on Fri 27-Jun-08 11:12:11
VictorianSqualor I wasn't alone DP and his friends were stood behind me so she wouldn't have got far if she had started kicking off.
It wasn't the group that was the problem they looked quite emmbarresed at times, she seemed like a real ringleader school/collage bully type

Lovesdogsandcats · 27/06/2008 20:20

"At which point I tapped her on the shoulder and informed her that yes, amazingly I HAD actually noticed her crass and pathetic attempt at queue-jumping, and that the only reason I wasn't kicking her ass right to the back was because I had been brought up better than her! But she needn't stand there thinking she was so clever she had got away with- rather that the rest of us were too polite"

brilliant!

BetteNoire · 27/06/2008 20:25

It sounds like the teenager was a fairly accurate critic.

pointydog · 28/06/2008 10:13

I think so, bette.

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