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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To think that this lady with the push chair was rude?

23 replies

boogiewoogie · 13/05/2009 16:49

On my way to hospital with dd and ds today, dd in the pushchair. As we were walking along the path, another mum with a pushchair is walking in the opposite direction to us. As she approaches us, I move to the left to let her through, she in turn mutters "ignorant" as she passes. I am ed by her response as I thought that she would thank me!

I thought I was doing her a favour by moving out of her way. Why are some people so ill mannered?

OP posts:

LaurieFairyCake · 13/05/2009 16:50

maybe she thought she owned the pavement

or that 'ignorant' in another language is actually 'thanks'

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boogiewoogie · 13/05/2009 16:51

Or perhaps she was describing herself

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Doodle2U · 13/05/2009 16:51

Maybe she was muttering thanks and it wasn't what she said at all?

Wizzska · 13/05/2009 16:52

Silly cow, or perhaps she was referring to herself

Wizzska · 13/05/2009 16:52

cross posts Boogie

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boogiewoogie · 13/05/2009 16:53

Doodle, it was definitely not thanks.

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stripeypineapple · 13/05/2009 16:57

Forget her, the silly bitch. She obviously has a miserable life and hasn't discovered mumsnet

crokky · 13/05/2009 17:03

Did she perhaps think that you were getting out of her way because you didn't want to brush past her or something? Maybe she thought that you didn't approve of her/thought she was dirty or somthing so you were steering clear...just trying to think of explanation for v bizarre behaviour!

womma · 13/05/2009 17:05

You're right, she was very rude. I was disappointed to find out that there is no 'sisterhood of the pram'. I just feel sorry for these miserable bags who have to be rude to other people to make themselves feel good.

Gorionine · 13/05/2009 17:10

I always move out of the way to let other people with a pushchair go through and never got that reaction from anyone, it must be you!

No, seriously either you misunderstood what she was saying or she was really out of order!

Maybe she is foreign and has been told "ignorant" means thank you? When I first arrived in the UK I started working in a coffe shop and the manager told me that "F... off" meant the same as thank you, only more polite! thanks god I was not born yesterday!

NormaSknockers · 13/05/2009 17:12

YANBU - she was incredibly rude

cluckyagain · 13/05/2009 17:16

She may have been muttering all the way along the pavement, perhaps fuming at something....it may not have been you

Doodle2U · 13/05/2009 18:36

Tourettes?

ilovesprouts · 13/05/2009 18:38

you get people like that id just ignore them

dilemma456 · 13/05/2009 21:43

Message withdrawn

ChocFridgeCake · 13/05/2009 22:04

LOL "sisterhood of the pram"!

On one of my first trips out with newborn in pram, I struggled into a shop with a lady's toddler playing on the floor in front of the narrow door and her buggy blocking the way (lady just ignored the situation, she could see it alright).

On the way out same lady was struggling with door, buggy and toddler in front of me. I left my pram to rush to hold the door open for her, she just left the shop without a word of thanks leaving me to struggle with the door myself.

I was I tell ya! I thought pram pushers were sisters and had my eyes well and truly opened!

OrmIrian · 13/05/2009 22:08

Get some blades on your buggy wheels a la Boudicca to deal with pramzillas of this sort.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 13/05/2009 22:14

ChocFridge - that sounds like the kind of thing I'd do on one of my more frazzled days. I am so polite normally, and appreciate of other people's good manners, but I am sure there have been times when my mind has been totally elsewhere (or at least trailing about 30 seconds behind real time), and it's not till kind person is well out of earshot that I say "Oh, er, thanks!" Too late by then, of course - said kind person is probably muttering to themselves that I'm an ungrateful, ignorant cow!

toddlerama · 13/05/2009 22:31

That's sad! I think there is a sisterhood of the pram. Shame really as I would dearly love some Boudicea wheel blades. YANBU to find her rude. It isn't normal.

ChocFridgeCake · 13/05/2009 23:07

Curly, see I could forgive her not saying thanks IF she hadn't been so blardy unhelpful on my way in AS WELL!

It still won't stop me from helping out others though, can't bear to see people struggle even if they've let me struggle.

Gorionine · 14/05/2009 09:41

Dilemma , I can just imagine the look on that lady's face!

Curly, it is one thing to not say anything because your mind is elsewhere, I am sure this does happen to most of us. The woman the OP is talking did not forget to say "thank you" she seem to have said "ignorant" which does not make any sense in that context.

reach4sky · 14/05/2009 10:43

Don't know what comes over some women when they're in charge of a pushchair. I was ambling along a path once with my three small kids and two mothers with bugaboos came up behind us and one ran into my 3 year old. The mother said "well that's what happens when you walk in front of a pram"

lljkk · 14/05/2009 11:42

What Gorion & clucky said.
I am a terrible one 4 daydreaming & talking to myself.

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