to wonder why all of mumsnet seems to meet NUTTERS

[SuSylvester]

and i have never had mad old women givine me parenting tips or similar.
it is
a) becoz I is perfect
B) they all live near you lot
C) you all attract them

does anywone ele not have mad passer by moments?

It would be a much nicer world if we did all talk to one another a bit more tbh.

oh, i saw this little girl last week wearing the most AMAZING red spotty wellies. i said 'nice wellies' and she beamed at me and her mum started telling me all about her other brothers wellies.
other 'nutters' out there.

ooh PixieOnALeaf, do people really get offended by 'nutter'?
ooh, does it offend people who have a nut allergy?

i told a random pregnant lady outside mothercare that she had a lovely bump! she was very pleased and went off happy!

I love talking to children, people with dogs, pregnant ladies, people with buggies...

Lots of mumsnet posters, a large proportion of whom will post if they get berated by a stranger. Smaller proportion (but not 0) who will post if they have an unremarkable day. Ascertainment bias.

I haven't really had people saying stuff about my parenting/DS. I did get some woman who told me I should smack my DS because he wouldn't get in his car seat and I was choosing to ignore him until he did. She was a stranger but her BF was a work pal of my DH.

Strangely I didn't take her 'advice'.

Totally agree su. It never ceases to amaze does it.

They never meet people who talk rationally to them, they're always 'screaming'.

I live in a busy city and never see people screaming abuse at mothers. Nor have I heard anybody use the term 'terrible mother' though by all accounts it's bandied about liberally.

As for doctors, nurses and receptionists, all I ever get is ordinary ones whose worst trait might be a lack of charisma. I feel cheated. Why do I never get the ones who want to yell at me, refuse me appointments and judge me? Mine all insist on remaining resolutely reasonable and hard working. Hardly seems fair.

.........That is no way to speak of Mr Cameron.

I tend to meet very nice people. And talk to them. Rarely meet any other sort. Whether they are nutters or not is moot point.

Ooh... I met a right nutter once... she walked right up to me, and started talking about mumsnet!
I think her name was SuSomething...

Yesterday out shopping with DS (just recently toilet-trained) I thought i'd check to see if he needed to go wee-wee. "No mummy" came the reply. Then immediately he changed his mind and said that he did. So took him to the loo and sat him there for about 5 minutes before he decided he didn't need to go.Popped him back in buggy. Then literally 2 minutes later DS says he needs a wee. Took him back to the loo. Sat him there for TEN minutes. Nothing. So popped him back in buggy and left the loos.

DS NEVER has tantrums, he's just too placid but omg did he ever have an epic one yesterday... Despite us both knowing he didn't need the loo he went ballistic in his buggy, standing up and screaming "I NEED A WEE! TAKE ME TO THE TOILET" I was telling him no because he was just playing me up. The whole time I could feel the eyes of strangers burning into the back of my head. LO was really embarrassing me by this point. Then a middle-aged cunt woman approaches me and points to DS and says "I think your LO needs a wee-wee" Couldn't be arsed to explain to her so I just said "I think the whole of the street knows he needs a wee. i really didn't need telling!" FFS. But guess what? DS didn't do a wee until an hour later. So stick THAT in your pipe, you nosey cow.

Sorry, but it riled me more than it should have done.

I've had less people bother me in Switzerland than any where else. The best bit of unsolicited advice I had was that our car was not to be driven by a woman. I was trying to get dd's pushchair into the back of our patrol. A very nice man watched me struggling to get the back door open in a sand storm. His advice was to wait until my dh arrived. I said he was at work so that wouldn't happen. He said I shouldn't have been driving a mans car and should invest in a Suzuki Jeep and walked away leaving me still struggling.

But you were much ruder than she was. Making you the nutter that she met, not the other way around.

Ds (nearly 5) now goes round complementing other people's children on their coats or wellies as appropriate (that must make me a nutter by association, surely!)

I couldn't give a crap if I was ruder than she was. Why make the effort to cross the street to tell me the bleeding obvious when it's plain to see that I am struggling to control DS? Grrrrr

You get back what you give out, ElleBing.

BritFish - I have a nut allergy and i'm pleased to inform you, i am not offended at all.

I'm in the group that doesn't get approached by the nutters, has rarely had my parenting commented upon by strangers, hasn't been tutted at for breastfeeding in public and has a nice MIL whose visits I enjoy.

Perhaps we should set up a Support Group...

IMO there seem to be a lot of 'nutters' on MN. Maybe that's why. I think it's fairly unhinged to be abusive and aggressive to strangers for making comments or giving advice (even if wrong on unwanted). But MN appears by and large to think not

I am a nutter* (what's a preferable term? magnet, myn Mum is too.

Partly becuase I smile at people rather than run

Anything from the aldy asking if my small baby was going tom die in Wilkinsons (does this look like an incubator?) to people shoiuting at me that ds2 didnt have a hat when he'd just thrown it off the pier in summer, the lot

Mum remembers one particular choice trip when someone sat next to her on a trip back from garden centre that deals in reptiles with a pet box on their lap (Mum like me has a strong phobia of a certain type). She spentthe entire trip in panic whilst neighbour told her about how she'd been saving up for new pet, then as they pulled up person reached into box and pulled out a frigging cucddly toy!!!!

• I am not necessarily referring to people with MH issues, unless you count DH , just people who try and force thir oddness onto me when I don't know them- can't think of a better term that nutter, sorry.

Kreecher - there are sand storms in Switzerland? Well I never.

Thanks for that fact. I'm going to share it with the next toddler I meet in Sainsbury's.

I think there shoudl be a thread for 'I met a ncie person today' it would fill up just as fast!

I think I might be a nutter too. I speak to people on the bus and in shops. I have been know to say "I really like your handbag" to randoms on the tube. I also wink at small children.

But I am a non-Londoner living in London. I couldn't get over the SILENCE on public transport when I first moved here.