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Original poster

to think that this is terrible !!!!!

107 replies

thecloudhopper · 14/02/2010 20:26

Was in Boots printing pictures and a man walkes up to the counter - lady behind counter asks man if she can help he replys with "yes I need something to shut the baby up"

I was horrified
The lady behind the counter fair play in my opinion said "WE don't sell anything like that here!!!"

As it happend the baby in question was teathing.

My thought was don't hve children if you are not prepared for them to be wingy at times.

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EccentricaGallumbits · 14/02/2010 20:29

I wasn't prepared for the DDs to be whingy, noisy, messy, annoying, demanding nor miserable. perhaps i shouln't have had them.

heQet · 14/02/2010 20:29

Do you think maybe it was his idea of a joke? Oooh, gimmee something to shut the baby up.

lockets · 14/02/2010 20:30

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heQet · 14/02/2010 20:30

I don't think anyone's prepared for it Eccentrica, are they? If you knew what to expect, you'd sew your legs together and fend off your husband with a baseball bat

LadyOfTheFlowers · 14/02/2010 20:31

I don't understand.

He was trying to be funny, no?

usualsuspect · 14/02/2010 20:32

I think he was probably joking

gorionine · 14/02/2010 20:32

Enough nights without any sleep can make parents act as horrible people even though they are not.

sunburntats · 14/02/2010 20:33

its just a thing you say out of either humour or utter utter desperation.

mine had colic.....i litterally begged for some thing to help shut him up at the time. didnt mean anything sinister or cruel by it.
dont be offended.

OrmRenewed · 14/02/2010 20:34

I've said worse

it was a joke. Possibly didn't sound like it through the gritted teeth.

nickytwotimes · 14/02/2010 20:36

It's the kind of thing I can imagine having said when ds was colicky or teething. Not meant literally (though that would havbe been nice).)

Fwiw, I was prepared for some whinging, but not the level ds manages to achieve on an hourly basis...

SixtyFootDoll · 14/02/2010 20:37

Depends how he said it?

sunburntats · 14/02/2010 20:37

glad you werent in ear shot when i told a dad at school last week when he asked me if i wanted to have another child that actually i dont like the one ive got, never mind thinking of having another!
I was OBVIOUSLY kidding due to being a tad fed up with bieng asked if i intend on having another child (ds is nearly 7 and i have just had my 5th mc...so fuck off i cant be arsed explaining myslef to a stranger in the play ground frankly)

taffetacat · 14/02/2010 20:45

sort of thing my DH would say, and he's a loving, caring father

in fact can imagine a lot of his friends saying it too

its not meant to be offensive

totalmadness · 14/02/2010 20:46

My dh would probably say that and think he was terribly witty with it too!

pooexplosionsareimproving · 14/02/2010 20:50

Depends. Are you a perfect parent in every way, OP?
No? Then YABVVVU.

itsallaboutpootle · 14/02/2010 20:54

bloody hell, OP, you are clearly a saint. well done. us mere mortals, however, sometimes find our children irritating - it makes them no less adored or wanted.

FabIsGoingToBeFabIn2010 · 14/02/2010 20:57

WHat did he say to what she said?

Original poster
thecloudhopper · 14/02/2010 21:06

He then said the boody child keeps crying coz he is teathing .. Im sory to me he was not joking he had a nasty tone to his voice.

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Vallhala · 14/02/2010 21:17

While you were there, OP, you should have asked for something to shut my teenagers up too. I would have.

It's amazing how you can phrase things when you've had little or no sleep, are bored s**tless and thoroughly fed up of everything you try being a waste of time. Poor sod, despite the passing of the years I can still remember how it felt to be kept awake by a screaming, inconsolable baby or toddler.

Anyone in charge of a child/ren who isn't sometimes irritated/bored/exasperated/tired is either a saint or a liar... and I don't believe in miracles.

Horton · 14/02/2010 21:23

My mum once asked a woman in a shop if she had any rope (to tie my darling small two year old brother up with). He was a bloody horror. He's very nice now though in his twenties (and has never been tied up with rope). My mum was about forty and I was seventeen. We both pissed ourselves laughing while various old ladies in the queue tutted audibly and sent us dreadful looks.

psychomum5 · 14/02/2010 21:23

not terrible at all IMO.

YABU!

if he was that way inclined (abusive, going on what you are implying from his tone of voice), he certainly would not be asking for help in boots..

he would have beaten the baby behind closed doors!!

you really cannot take a 10sec snippet of overhead conversation as gospel, especially from a probably very tired and run down father.

@ the OP.

taffetacat · 14/02/2010 21:24

Poor bloke prob getting it out of his system before he goes back to another sleepless night.............

piratecat · 14/02/2010 21:26

what was his tone of voice.?

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