to be seriously contemplating legal action????

[WaitroseHater]

Shopping in Waitrose this afternoon trying desperately to get baby to sleep in the process. Can't stay in the house currently during her big sleep as have builders in, so planned to do the big weekly shop. DD normally goes off to sleep like a dream but today decided she didn''t want anything without a fight.

I've learned to tune her out, apparently others havent. In the BABY aisle of all places, 2 OAP's blocked my trolley and said I was not allowed to leave the aisle until the baby stopped crying or I left the shop . DD in a sling btw. One of the OAP's SHOUTED that if I needed to 'shove your teat in its mouth then you better do it or I will take her myself and get someone to take you out'. Obv attracted other shoppers and security.

Manager came to see what the fuss was and after me explaining asked me to leave. I abandoned half-full trolley in serious flounce mode. I honestly they were being absolutely horrendously discriminatory against my crying newborn!!!! DH is being extremely unhelpful saying I should have left to 'take the high road' Do I actually have a legal case about this?

Because society to day seems to reward the reproducing people (despite there are more than enough people on the planet to keep it going for MANY generations - we do not NEED more children) and not the hard working childless people who actually pay the child benefit, child tax credit your progeny benefit from.r

No I'm not a troll but I do believe if you want children have them if you can support them - up to 22 weeks having a child is a choice and YOU make it - if you cant it should be aborted or given up for adoption at birth.

If you cant fund you own offspring and control them until they are old enough to behave in pubic do not fucking have them

"the reproducing people"

Like your mum?!

Hello booboo- first off, thank you for brightening my evening.

Secondly, our crying babies are annoying to us. Intensely so.

"The reason we have so many school refusers, ADHD cases etc etc is because Parents let children do what makes them happy."

Thirdly, I would love to know the statistics on school refusers compared to, say, 40 years ago? Do you have them? Or on the increase in ADHD? Or even etc etc? I'm not sure when all this namby-pamby 'responding to newborn cries' started, but I bet it was under a Labour government.

Did you not receive any child benefit yourself, booboo? You know, when you were a child?

So we have gone from the topic of a crying newborn to you going on about not having kids unless you can support them?

And you really expect us to think you are not a Troll?

Whatever!

Again...no leg to stand on, booboo...you HAVE NO CHILDREN, and you are on a forum that is designed FOR PARENTS. You have god kids but they AREN'T YOURS, so you have NO IDEA how to actually raise children. So, please, go out into grocery stores around England and tell parents what an awful fucking job they're doing, but please don't expect to have a SHRED of credibility on this thread, or any others around the forum.

Am I totally wasting energy on a troll?? Seriously??? Grrr....

I don't even care. I just don't want to go to bed.

Me either, tether....

Boobookins.

You have no idea. I suggest you piss off and inflict your views on somebody else.

Boobookins just sounds a bit bitter because nobody actually wanted to have children with him/her.

That is possible.

Apparently boobookins has a Hells Angel lookalike DP who dresses as a cat for the RSPCA that they both work for. Yet boobookins also runs a company, and is a project manager working in large IT systems.

We are blessed that s/he has such a busy schedule and no time for kids.

Boobookins, you are a fucking nutter. Now please piss off to the alternate universe you came from.

Jesus effing Christ on a horse-drawn apple cart.

OP - wherever you are - if your story is true my sympathies are with you and you must complain.

"Booboo is not a Troll and I'm not a man - I'm a 33 year old female who remembers how she was brought up, has seen her god children brought up the same way to grow into well behaved teenagers who will - and if this site is still up in 10 years time I'll report back and confirm - grow into well adjusted adults"

Do you consider yourself to be a 'well adjusted adult'?!

OP, YANBU! The manager mismanaged and although you may have no route of legal recourse, most definitely complain!

I think Booboo is Matthew Wright

Who is Matthew Wright?

Because society to day seems to reward the reproducing people (despite there are more than enough people on the planet to keep it going for MANY generations - we do not NEED more children) and not the hard working childless people who actually pay the child benefit, child tax credit your progeny benefit from.

Society eh? Clearly not something you believe in. Are you Maggie Thatcher?

IME, unless there is a need unsatisfied small babies do not cry when held close to their mothers. Two of my dcs would have cried in a sling, but they had acid reflux. If the sling was not settling your baby then you should have gone home or elsewhere.

Sorry OP.

that crying baby might pay your pension booboo

YouAint, that isn't my experience, dd screams in the sling. Surely if there was something wrong she'd scream when taken out as well? She is usually very happy - just not keen on the sling

I assume you don't put your baby in sling then? My babies have cried in supermarkets but it's usually when my trolley is full and the assistant forgets to ask if I want help packing. Honestly, I did have two criers but I would subject a supermarket to it, I think it's quite distressing when a tiny baby cries. A walk in the park would have been a better idea.

wouldn't ....oh dear.

yes i do because sometimes i have to. we went for a walk yesterday, and today we'll be going to town. Sling both times! She doesn't always cry, but when she does they;re the protesting cries iyswim

This is unbelievable!
I don't know about your legal rights but I would definitely write to Waitrose head office.