Not to let another woman try on the last pair of boots in my size!

[Butterfly99]

I walked 2 miles in the snow today to a garden centre and was trying on some wellington boots. I took two pairs in size 6 and 7 and found a seat to try them on. A woman and her husband came over and were looking at the boots, and she was looking for a 7. She approached me and tried to pick up the boots I was trying on. I told her I was trying them on, and she said "Are they a 7." I said they were, but I was trying them and was going to buy them. She asked if she could try them on. I said , no I was going to buy them. She made some comment about me being rude!!! My husband said it wouldn't do any harm to let her try them on (but I had visions of her running off to the till with them!!!)She then made some comment about me being rude again. (also sick of my dh jumping in and not sticking up for me!) So was I unreasonable?!

Did you buy them?

No!

YANBU, you were trying them on!

what a cheeky mare that woman was!!!!!

i would've of very firmly snatched it back off her and give her a growl

GGGRRRRRRR!!!

SHE was the rude one. No harm in saying to you that if you didn't want them then she would like to rty them on but there is no way I would have let her try them on in your positions and tbh I think I would have taken them away as if to buy them until she left if she said I was rude for this (although i appreciate that makes me childish and unreasonable)

I think you would have been within your rights to have bitch-slapped her.

YANBU she could of waited until you had finished and then tried them if you had put them back. If you had let her what would of happened when you where ready to try them on yourself and she had decied they fitted and wanted them!

A little odd but can only guess that she wanted to establish whether the size 7 was a good fit, in case she wanted the shop to order some in?

YABU - poor woman had probably trekked just as far and gets there to have no boots as you won't let her try them on and run off to the till with them. Shocking, where is your blitz spirit?

YANBU she was pretty rude and should have waited her turn ie if you decided not to buy them. Did your dh say in front of her that you should let her cos if he did I would say to him that if he can't back you up he should stay quiet or you'll bitch slap him

Yanbu. I had to wrestle my own coat off someone in a shop once, - I'd taken it off to try on a new one. People are odd (especially once they enter a garden centre)

Lol at Kurrikurri's coat! Thanks everyone, I did think she was being unreasonable not me, but my dh made me wonder. I ended up buying the 6's so had she waited she could have got them (Although now wondering if I should have got the 7's as thought you should normally go up a size in wellies - but I was wearing two pairs of socks and they seemed to fit okay!)

I was trying shoes on recently and the shop assisstant put my manky, broken (the sole is almost bare) boot on the shelf where I'd just removed the new one! How bizarre! I wonder if she didn't KNOW it was used - she checked it thoroughly whilst looking for those of a similar style .....

the woman was loopy... she should have waited!