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AIBU?

To slap this woman

38 replies

fernie3 · 21/10/2009 20:00

Probably over reacting I know but it is driving me insane.
I have three kids aged 5,2 and 8 months.
At drop off and pick up time there is another mum in the playground who makes me want to either a) slap her or b) run home and move house so I dont have to go there ever again.

just a quick list of things that make me angry:

My raincover broke for my pushchair (big double) she started on at me about how i shouldnt bring my children out in the rain. What was i supposed to do leave my daughter at school all night?

my son was standing on the foot rest of the pushchair because he was tired and she started whispering to another mum who told me she was telling her about how she would never let her child stand on there and how I was too soft!
my cat scratched my baby (yes i know shouldnt have happened) and she started accusing me of not caring for them properly!
My son goes in the pushchair and apparently this is not "acceptable" at his age. My daughter was wearing a coat and she started asking if i knew her hands must be freezing and could I get another one (implying could i afford one!)

ok reading back I am being unreasonable but can I slap her anyway?please?

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posieparker · 22/10/2009 09:44

fernie3

BarbaraBlacksheep · 22/10/2009 09:44

YANBU

She on the other hand, sounds like a god awful woman.

StealthPolarBear · 22/10/2009 09:37

fernie3 · 22/10/2009 09:27

lol sorry I thought it was stood for something - still getting used to mumsnet MIL/DH etc etc

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StealthPolarBear · 22/10/2009 09:11

'it', with a typo
(typing while jiggling/feeding screaming baby)

fernie3 · 22/10/2009 09:09

stealthPolarBear - what is ikt?
sorry if being stupid

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LittleRedCar · 22/10/2009 09:09

Ace, Lockets

StealthPolarBear · 22/10/2009 09:08

sounds like ikt, doesn't it/?

baskingseals · 22/10/2009 09:07

I know you really can't actually say this, but maybe just think really loudly 'why don't you tell someone who gives a shit'

fernie3 · 22/10/2009 09:07

bucharest - thats the funny part while she was telling me how awful it is to have my little boy in a pushchair at his age her little girl was playing unattended and unrestrained on the edge of a busy road - to me that is more unacceptable but I know when its not my business lol. Sometime I get the feeling shes very lonely actually which is what stops me being outwardly mean back to her but I really have got the end of my tether now so although I will probably not slap her (i dont fancy getting banned from the school or something lol) I think i will activley avoid her and if she starts on again I may tell her to mind her own business.

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posieparker · 22/10/2009 09:06

Is she related to the nosey old lollipop lady from the other thread??

StealthPolarBear · 22/10/2009 09:03

you could always say "are you asking/telling me that in an official capacity, or simply interfering?"

Bucharest · 22/10/2009 08:58

And I'll hold 6feetunder's coat....

What are her children doing while she's having a pop at you? Are they StepfordChildren?

fernie3 · 22/10/2009 08:49

Well I was all wound up to say something today and my daughter (and me!) have woken up with a fever and sickness so no school lol. I am now lying here on the bed sette in the playroom with my two youngest playing very loudly on the floor with my daughter lying next to me. Im day dreaming of slapping the woman.

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6feetundertheGroundhogs · 21/10/2009 22:44

I'd definately hold your coat, while you slapped her.

What IS it with these people?

Think Lockets idea was great!

SixtyFootDoll · 21/10/2009 21:05

I wouldnt slap her
but I would tell her to fuck off

benjysmum · 21/10/2009 21:04

yanbu, ask her why she feels the need to mind your business. then say in a loud voice to your chilren "stay away from that strange lady".

SecretNinjaChipmunk · 21/10/2009 21:00

i'd be lining up behind you to slap her too. maybe you could come out with something along the lines of
I'm sorry, Talking to you seems as appealing as playing leapfrog with unicorns.

daft bitch needs a slap.

TotallyAndUtterlyPaninied · 21/10/2009 20:54

I'd just say 'mind your own' and leave it at that. Or 'a few people have reported to me that you have been bitching about me. Perhaps you could take your nose out of my business and lodge it elsewhere'.

Straight to the point, not to nasty, gets her told.

teameric · 21/10/2009 20:50

YANBU give the biatch a slap from me too please

JazzieJeff · 21/10/2009 20:47

Actually, I love locket's suggestion. Awesome. Honestly hun, its pathetic. I'd totally cut my losses tomorrow and take all her suggestions really seriously like you're taking notes and then just when she's done being super Nanny, you can narrate back to her; "right, got it children eat at the table, dogs eat at the floor... thanks for that, I think I've got it. Must dash - got to bang the turkey twizzlers in the oven."

VengefulSinner · 21/10/2009 20:44

YANBU

She reminds me of the type of woman that is a curtain twitcher that knows everyone's business and has an opinion on everything!

Slapsies!

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tearinghairout · 21/10/2009 20:33

YANBU

WeeMo85 · 21/10/2009 20:30

YANBU

She sounds like a right cow! A nosey one at that!

I'd call her on it.

TBH she sounds like a sad old witch with nothing better to do than comment on other ppl.

ShinyAndNew · 21/10/2009 20:23

Does she work pt as a lollipop lady?

She sounds very much like the one at dd's school.

YANBU.

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