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?

"Why should I have to suffer your wailing children because you cant calm them if I do not opt into child environments"

because that's life.

Would you ever really complain about a crying child in a supermarket? i mean really?

I've never been in a Waitrose because they have't opened one in in NI. We only got Asda, Sainsbuys and Tesco a few years ago.

Happy to take our money now aren't you? [bitter and twisted]

I never knew Lidl was supposed to be pronounced Leedle until I saw those adverts...

What a horrible thing to happen to you - what right old bags! I'd complain to Waitrose, but wait until you're calmer before you write that letter.
I had a similarly 'helpful' but not quite so rude old lady come up to me when I was in Ikea and DD decided to have a bawl to tell me to give her a dummy. I said we didn't use them and she looked at me as if I had two heads.
Maybe the OAPS were similar mothers to my beloved Granny who thought babies needed lots of fresh air and thus in turn parked all her 4 boys in their pushchairs at the very end of the long garden...I think this enabled her to completely 'tune out' their crying...

Whitney would never had a hit with a line like... children are not the future.
Whitney was wrong.

I have never been into Waitrose either, but I find it really bizzare that there are really people out there who think things that happened in the OP 'just wouldn't happen in Waitrose'... is it some kind of magical universe where everyone who steps through the doors joins in with some kind of wonderous ethos?

Waitrosehater, why the name change? You dont feel you did anything wrong. if you want more people's honest opinions and no calling of "Troll" then dont name change

It's got the makings of a good Doctor Who storyline though..

The children are dead the adults must breed must breed children dead kill the childrennnnn (a Dalek voice is required for that otherwise it just sounds creepy)

I can hear the alternative Whitney number now...

"I believe that children aren't the future
I believe we can kill them all
And then have lots of sex
Do-doo-de-doo-de-do..."

gosh - I think I get it. Only a certain type of person goes to Waitrose?

Am I right? Waitrose good, Asda bad. Am I close?

yy what cocolepew said right at the beginning.

Boobookins- all opinions are welcome here but seriously your chain of thought suggests a disturbed mind.

Also a crying newborn is completely different to a toddler / preschooler/ child. Sometimes it can't be helped, you can't stop them, you may have fed, winded changed etc- all you can do is hold them close (or leave them to it if thats your style) and having her baby in a sling the OP was already providing comfort.

Some babies, DS included go from contented to livid and very loud in seconds- in certain situations I would make myself scarce but not at the supermarket.

OP YANBU to be livid but I don't think legal action will get you anywhere - maybe a letter to the store manager asking why on earth you were asked to leave for having a crying baby.

Good point, MadamDeathstare. I don't suppose there is a shopper in any supermarket here who would say teat, unless they were a visitor from a parallel trippity trappity universe.

Probably an actual bottle teat, that's a while ago.

why do so many of you think this is bullshit?

ROFL at henry

Binkey Craddocks

Oh and by the way, I was robbed twice while shopping in Waitrose- first time had my handbag stolen, second time when I realised how high their prices are.

So not everyone who shops there is a certain type....

Sounds like something for an assertive letter to Waitrose headquarters to see what sort of response you get from them, a decision if you don't get an adequate response from them to shop elsewhere and maybe, if it's your kind of thing to contact the local media. Waitrose would not like the adverse publicity.

DF

It's just not a very believable story, really is it? The Waitrose bit is a good joke but can you really imagine trolleys at dawn with OAPs, and a security guard and the OP and snivelling brat being marched out into the cold. It's just a tinsy tiny bit far fetched. have you ever heard or seen such a thing - I think not.

Mind you, there are plenty of people I'd like to see marched out of supermarkets but that is another thread entirely.

OP YANBU.

I feel for you, you were trying to calm your child in a sling and 2 old bags and an oaf of a store manager asked you to leave??

How dare they. I would write a letter of complaint for that.

And as for all the people who think "Oh no this wouldn't happen in waitrose" and think that the OP is making all this up and generally being unsympathetic to her, Get Real. She was doing her best and you all need to accept that. People have to go out and do whatever it is that they need to do and if others don't like it that is tough.

What's a stripper name?