We're getting dd a slide for her birthday. Actually it's for the children to share. Anyway, I've been trying for ages to get into town to buy it. Today i finally made it into John Lewis. I left nosy ds looking at lego packet pictures on the shelves nearby, and with dd safely in her buggy ordered what I wanted from the assistant. All was fine and dd neither saw nor heard anything. she was, however, just starting to whine a little. As I typed in my pin I made some soothing noise to her about nearly done. The shop assistant bent down and gave her the garden toys catalogue to look at. Lovely kind lady, I thought. But, then she went on to turn to the page with my slide on it and say to my dd (almost 2, but understands everything) "Look at the lovely slide your Mummy has just bought for you!" .
So she's wrecked the surprise. I know she meant well, but why did she have to interfere like that? It might not even have been for us, and it won't be delivered until next week, so she obviously left the potential for screaming once we got home along the lines of "where's my slide", though fortunately so far dd hasn't mentioned it, and at least ds didn't hear.
I know it's not a big deal in the grand scheme, but I was really saddened. It's the first birthday dd will sort of understand and that was supposed to be our big surprise for her . Dh was furious and wants to complain.