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To find this woman rude and her ideas odd?

36 replies

StrictlyBoogying · 11/12/2009 13:11

DD2 and I were out Xmas shopping this morning in Glasgow city centre. We were outdoors and she was in the buggy wearing a snow suit, a hat and a foot muff. An older lady/busybody came up to me and said
"that's a sin that poor wean's got so much on. Did you not know they don't feel the cold until they're 2?" How bizarre!
FWIW DD2 was fine - not too cold or too hot and when I got back to the car the display thingy said the temperature was 1 degree.

OP posts:
comefollowthatstarwithme · 11/12/2009 13:13

You just had your idiot magnet on today don't worry about it she was a loon.

kidcreoleandthecoconuts · 11/12/2009 13:14

What a weirdo....the world is full of 'em

nothingofthesort · 11/12/2009 13:14

YABU. Old ladies have a right to be odd. It doesn't warrant a thread.

LetThereBeRock · 11/12/2009 13:15

YANBU. She's obviously mad, don't feel the cold until they are 2?, and it was freezing in Glasgow this morning.

Tomatefarcie · 11/12/2009 13:17

Sympathies...

Old women always have an opinion, and gladly share it.

When DD was a few weeks old, I took her to the photographer's. An old biddie in there grabbed her feet and commented how cold she was, that it was neglect to leave her like this (DD1 was wearing little tshirt and cropped trousers, no socks or shoes, being carried in her carseat). It was superhot outside, I mean uncomfortably hot, and I had a thin blanket in my bag just in case, but poor DD was all sweaty already.

The old bat went on and on, I just walked out.

amystev · 11/12/2009 13:19

I really want to write a book about all the completely lunatic things people say.

I was out with both my DDs when an old woman came up to me and told me that my eldest should have a hat on. What really got me was that both my kids did have hats on! When I pointed that out I was told it wasn't a proper hat. So apparently a knitted hat with fleece lining is not a proper hat. Be warned people.

somewhathorrified · 11/12/2009 13:20

Old women feel the need to justify their existance somehow, just smile and walk away.

Fibilou · 11/12/2009 13:27

You should have said "I hear people don't feel pain over 60" then poked her with a stick before running away

DoingTheBestChristmasICan · 11/12/2009 13:32

YANBU,in work last week there was a toddler screaming in his buggy & the old woman i was serving said to me (but in a loud enough voice for the whole shop to hear) 'Why do children have to scream like that these days'?

I just politely ignored her & she then went on to tell me she had had 4 children & not one of them had cried EVER!

i thought.

LadyBlaBlah · 11/12/2009 13:34

I can't wait to be an old lady

bellissima · 11/12/2009 13:36

Well yes, but we shall probably all be bonkers and opinionated old wimmin one day.

Maybe the one in Glasgow was a Geordie. I mean, honestly pet, a snowsuit before January?? I bet you're wearing tights an all...

diddl · 11/12/2009 13:37

Sounds a bit confused, bless her!

It´s not that they can´t feel the cold, but that they can´t cool themselves down isn´t it?
And I´m sure that kicks in before 2!

GetOrfMoiLand · 11/12/2009 13:39

Lol doingthebest. She sounds like my 13 year old dd - in sainsbos she huffed and puffed at an shrieking toddler - 'mum, why do they have to cry like that, what's the point, they won't get their own way behaving like that in public'.

I did chortle and say that she used to do exactly the same. I will also remind her of the converstion when she has a screaming two year old!

ThumbleBells · 11/12/2009 13:39

at bellissima

Mind you, perhaps she had incredibly hot DC herself so assumes all DC are the same - I couldn't have put DS in what you had your DD in, regardless of how cold - he would have sweated up to high heaven in no time! But he was a very hot baby, just the way he is.

Either that or she is just a random loon who is still firmly rooted in the days of the Depression/ War...

LetThereBeRock · 11/12/2009 13:44

Elderly women do seem to be prone to doing this.
I did once have an elderly lady demand to know why I had my baby in a snowsuit when it was an incredibly hot June day.
I turned my 'baby' around to show her that I was actually carrying my 16 year old Tibetan spaniel, who was wearing nothing other than her own skin and fur.

BurningBuntingFlipFlop · 11/12/2009 13:44

at toddlers screming "these days"!

LynetteScavo · 11/12/2009 13:50

She's maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

DoingTheBestChristmasICan · 11/12/2009 13:50

lol at letthereberock

I nearly said to her 'i bet your lo's did scream but you probably wouldnt have heard them down the bottom of the garden would you'? but i value my job a bit more than that

CardyMow · 12/12/2009 20:07

I had one old lady on the bus when my DD was a baby who said to me "oh isn't he a gorgeous boy". It wouldn't have been so bad had my baby girl not been weraing a pink frilly dress lacy tights and a hairband.....

ChunkyKitKat · 12/12/2009 20:18

She's just got it round the wrong way, their bodies can't control temperature until they're 2 or something like that.

She's a little confused perhaps.

AmericanHag · 12/12/2009 20:23

The trouble with many older women is that they're dealing with so much repressed sexuality. It makes them act absolutely insane.

YANBU to find this woman rude and annoying. You wouldn't even have been unreasonable to tell the crabby old cow to mind her own damned business.

ChunkyKitKat · 12/12/2009 20:28

That's a bit harsh

lovechoc · 12/12/2009 20:39

YABU you just have to see the funny side of it. I've had comments too, but you just have to laugh it off and know that you're the one in control of your own child and know what's best for them.

old people are so funny!

fledtoscotland · 12/12/2009 21:16

YANBU. Its been bloody freezing in glasgow all day. Took DC to softplay this morning (DH's idea) and it was cold in there - normally its totally roasting and they end up sweaty and horrible. today they were wanting warm drinks.

muminthemiddle · 13/12/2009 10:17

Bellissima pml.

We were in London to see Pink at the O2.
As we had parked there we didn't wear coats, we must have been the only couple not dressed in 5 layers of clothing. Being Northerners it was a very mild evening to us though