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Original poster

Ok I know I'm not but I was so amazed at this woman in Asda...

141 replies

Wilkiepedia · 16/04/2009 19:25

Cute little 3 year old girl with v rough looking mother (sorry but she was).

Little girl chatting away to mum, mum turns to her and says 'If you don't stop talking in that stupid voice I'm going to twat you over the head so hard that you talk like that forever and will be drinking your food through a straw...'

WTF has that little girls future got to hold?

Sorry but I was so saddened and shocked I felt I had to share. Poor little girl

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McDreamy · 16/04/2009 19:26

bloody hell poor child!

poopscoop · 16/04/2009 19:27

that is awful, poor child.

Lizzylou · 16/04/2009 19:28

That is so awful, poor litte girl

ahfeckit · 16/04/2009 19:29

that is awful. what a sicko mother. honestly, and to have the guts to say that out loud in a supermarket.

Original poster
Wilkiepedia · 16/04/2009 19:29

Wish I'd had the guts to say something but you just have to wonder if it's worth it - would it have made any difference to that little girl? Nope.

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Rumpel · 16/04/2009 19:30

It's not guts - it's ignorance. So many poor wee kids in the same boat I'm afraid.

screamingabdab · 16/04/2009 19:32

YANBU. If she's prepared to talk like that in public, what in God's name is she up to in private?

Just waiting for someone to come on and defend the mother ...........

Baisey · 16/04/2009 19:32

Absolutely awful. Unfortunatly I hear things to that effect quite often at work. Makes you wonder why they even have children in the first place.

ilovesprouts · 16/04/2009 19:33

im not what a nasty thing to say to a child

Dontbringlulu · 16/04/2009 19:35

can't believe that. did she really say all that? i once saw a parent pushing his trolley into the back of his girl's leg the whole way down through the chesse bit. l said something about him being a bully. did nt help anybody. In trouble from dh and big row.

Claire2009 · 16/04/2009 19:36

OMG that is disgusting, the poor child.

Original poster
Wilkiepedia · 16/04/2009 19:37

Dontbringlulu - that is it word for word what she said

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Quattrocento · 16/04/2009 19:37

Wouldn't happen in Sainsburys ...

TsarChasm · 16/04/2009 19:38

That is so so awful.

I heard a little boy yesterday - no more than 4 - in the barbers, with his dad I think.

He was sweet and trying to be chatty. He pointed at something out the window and got horribly told off for 'pointing at things'.

He was being sooo good too. He didn't move an inch off his chair. He was lovely.

CrackopentheBaileys · 16/04/2009 19:53

I think you should lay off the mother.
She sounds lovely, looking out for her daughters future like that. And my son loves drinking from a straw!

TheFallenMadonna · 16/04/2009 19:56

I threatened to eviscerate my dd today.
I'm not rough looking though.

LouMacca · 16/04/2009 20:04

Jesus that is awful. What a disgusting thing to say

When I did my tesco shop on tuesday there was a young mum pushing a trolley with an adorable baby in the baby seat. The baby was around 12 mnths and she was giggling and jumping around happily in the seat. The mum banged her hand really loudly on the trolley handle and shouted 'i said shut up you little cow' My Mum had to hold me back from going over.

What is the matter with these people?

MuffinBaker · 16/04/2009 20:05

Did you do anything?

MuffinBaker · 16/04/2009 20:07

i see you didn't

poor child

CrackopentheBaileys · 16/04/2009 20:13

My God LouMacca

I'm pretty sure I couldn't have held myself back, if anyone hurts their kids it makes my blood boil!

MIAonline · 16/04/2009 20:18

Disgusting vile people, I struggle to even use the term 'parent' when someone feels that it ok to speak to a child like that. Am so

junglist1 · 16/04/2009 20:22

God forbid anything ever happens to her child to make her realise what she actually has. I snap at my kids sometimes, but to threaten a child to that extent is nasty and gutless. I wonder if she's like that with everyone or just people too small to defend themselves?

LouMacca · 16/04/2009 20:24

I haven't stopped thinking about it since and I nearly posted a thread about it when I got home.

I know that if I had gone over I probably would have just got an abusive mouthful. It makes me so sad - why bother having children?

screamingabdab · 16/04/2009 20:34

Why don't we do anything though? (I am asking myself this, too).

I am the sort of person who does intervene in lots of situations eg if someone drops litter/lets their dog poo and doesn't pick it up/if a kid is being beaten up by his friends etc, but I have never done anything in these circumstances (I'd like to think I would if a child was getting hit, but isn't verbal abuse nearly as bad ?)

I suppose it is the knowledge that you'll almost certainly get an earful. But wouldn't it be good for a child to hear someone defending them? Just pondering .....

MuffinBaker · 16/04/2009 20:41

yes, it would be good........