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To be annoyed and gobsmacked at a little boy who pinched ds biscuit..?

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shhhh · 20/06/2009 22:39

Stood in the life in shopping centre earlier today, in with 2 foreign women with 3 kids.

The woman next to me had x2 kids who were possibly around 6/7..

Well ds was sat in his pram, holding a biscuit. The lad firstly stood onto the pram apron of ds pram (ds feet were underneath) so as to climb up in the lift...

I was totally and said "excuse me, what do you think you are doing".
To which the woman with him pulled him down...and I assume told him off.

NEXT

He then in a flash pinched ds's biscuit out of his hand and ate half of it (believe me, I have never seen a child each a biscuit so quickly..) and then proceeded to give half back to ds and then take it back have a bit more and hand it back....

I again said, "what are you doing" and at that stage the woman again saw, tutted and pulled the boy back. She tried to put the biscuit into ds hand and I told her to keep it, if the boy wanted it that much have it..and I didn't want ds to have a biscuit back that someone else had eaten .

The woman talked to her friend and then I could make out he saying "he's a good boy really" yeah right...

Not sure if he had some disability I wasn't aware of but Im shocked..totally.

Felt like telling her to teach her son manners...

If the lad had learning difficulties then surely she should have some control..? she seemed oblivious to what he was doing...

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JackBauer · 20/06/2009 22:58

TBH that would piss me off too.

more than the constant 'troll' shouts going on now

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 20/06/2009 22:59

Someone speaking in Gaelic wouldn't be foreign, though. Or Welsh.

shhhh · 20/06/2009 23:00

I did consider offering another biscuit PFE but didn't have anymore.!

oldlady, thats a possible idea.

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RumourOfAHurricane · 20/06/2009 23:01

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shhhh · 20/06/2009 23:01

They weren't gaelic or welsh oldlady.. AND I wouldn't class them as forgein.

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giraffesCantRunA10k · 20/06/2009 23:02

I was at foreign comment but then saw where OP said "she told him off I assume" and understood why she had mentioned it.

Goblinchild · 20/06/2009 23:02

+puts on linguistics hat+

Welsh means foreign

shhhh · 20/06/2009 23:03

shineoncrazy, that was added as an after thought..again, not meant in a harmful way. It was as after I had typed I suddenly thought that...I have had experience of sn kids/adults and never experience that so guess that was my reasoning. Again no malace intended.

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shhhh · 20/06/2009 23:04

yes, giraffes. I don't know what was said to him or the other lady and all I "heard" was thats he's a good boy really.

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Heated · 20/06/2009 23:05

Think some are giving the OP - a long-standing regular - a deliberately hard time on what is an innocuous post about an oddity that occurred today.

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OldLadyKnowsNothing · 20/06/2009 23:06

What, the word "Welsh" means "foreign"? How fascinating, fill in a bit of background?

giraffesCantRunA10k · 20/06/2009 23:07

Chocolate of course. Don't worry I haven't eaten any of it first

limonchik · 20/06/2009 23:08

Storm in a teacup.

SomeGuy · 20/06/2009 23:09

These foreigners eh?

First they take our council houses, then they take our jobs, now they're even taking our biscuits. What ever next? Perhaps they will try to make us eat their dodgy foreign food?

shhhh · 20/06/2009 23:10

Oldlady..you have lost me sorry...Never mentioned welsh being forgein...

Thanks giraffes Can't have chocolate though..to many ww points Unless you want half

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Goblinchild · 20/06/2009 23:11

Yup, Welsh was a nasty word used by all you SSaxon lot. At the same time as they were making laws about being allowed to shoot any WWelshman on a Sunday with a bow and arrow.

www.worldwidewords.org/articles/welsh.htm

shhhh · 20/06/2009 23:12

someguy, please read other posts. Not got a problem with "foreigners" it was mearly mentioned as I wasn't aware of their nationality or what language they were speaking nor was I familar or able to understand what they were saying.

nexttime I shall not say foreigners BUT say the above.

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OldLadyKnowsNothing · 20/06/2009 23:12

Sorry to confuse you shhhh, I was replying to this post:

"By Goblinchild Sat 20-Jun-09 23:02:59

+puts on linguistics hat+

Welsh means foreign"

beanieb · 20/06/2009 23:12

is the fact they were 'foreigners' in any way relevant to the telling of the story?

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 20/06/2009 23:12

And now Goblinchild has replied.

bellavita · 20/06/2009 23:13

If someone had pinched my childs biscuit when they were small I would be peed off too.

And if I was that mother of the child doing the pinching, I would have been mortifed and apologised profusely.

shhhh · 20/06/2009 23:13

beanieb, please read above. IMO yes as I don't know what they said to the boy..if they told him off or said, well done. Thats your dinner for tonight..

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Goblinchild · 20/06/2009 23:14

taking a thread off topic, something I'm notorious for throughout the Interweb.
+need a devil icon+

shhhh · 20/06/2009 23:15

bellavita, thanks. Thing is she never apologised to me...Not much to ask imo.

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