to have thought that this was a display of smuggy smuggishness

[cupcakesandbunting]

This morning, went with DS into local Sainsbury's for supplies and we were looking at the cheese and stuff when another mum with two LOs under 3 in her trolley. She also peruses the shelves then says to her eldest child "oh my GOODNESS! There's NO tzatziki!" Little one looks at his mum like she's off her rocker then she says again "There. Is. NO. TZATZIKI!" She then summons a shelf-stacker to moan about there being no tzatziki and explains to him at length that it's all that her two will eat with their crudites all the time doing a terrible cat's bum mouth that suggested that the shelves of hummous/salsa/raita weren't agreeable to her wunderkind's palate.

I almost handed her a tub of humous and told her to get a grip. AIBU aren't I?

Oh, thank you cupcakes, I reread my post and thought wow, could I BE smugger? Thank you for rescuing me.

Thanks also, stealth. I am not worried about my neighbours. One is a lovely woman with whom I share mutual friends and won't mind, and the other one is batshit, collects buckets of water in which to breed mosquitoes, and likes to tell me things like 'yes, i hear your husband and you talking through the wall all the time, he's got quite a nice friendly voice hasn't he? always laughing'. We live in detached houses with a strip of garden between.

what a load of tosh! what the hell is so smug about someone wanting a yogurt with cucumber/garlic??? what's so bloody exotic about it? do you all live in the seventies or something? jeez......my kids eat a lot of foreign stuff, not cos we're smug but coz we prefer it to pop tarts, chip butties and whatever else is "ok" to eat without sounding smug.

My mum and dad used to look after their very pretentious neighbour's kids after school. Mum would always stop at the village shop on the way home from school and buy us a treat, and she asked the neighbour's youngest (who was about 6 at the time) what he would like. He replied that he would like a 'creme patisserie'! I still don't even know what one of them is!!

Also he came out with the classic line once 'It's about this time of the evening that usually I have a mug of Um Bongo'. My mum and dad still use this as a euphemism for going up the pub!!

Oh dear. I remember a long ago trip to get champagne from waitrose with DD1 for some celebration or other (waitrose being the nearest supermarket). Ever since then, whenever we go to waitrose, DD1 bounces out of the car shouting 'come ON, we've GOT to go to WAITROSE to get some CHAMPAGNE'.

Oh how I wish that was really my life.

My Dad has a fishmonger pal that smokes his own wild salmon, Dad used to bring German clients in to buy some so he'd always give Dad a big bag of whatever was fresh in as thanks. Nice for us - there was always lovely fish in the freezer. Sadly ruined for my Mum when brother aged 6 bellowed up the street - "dinner better not be bloody scallops again" - this in 80s suburban Dublin.

A few years ago DD1, about 3.5 at the time, had a tantrum because there were no brioche rolls left for her snack to take to nursery. ' I neeeeeeed a brioche' she wailed.

DH's friend looked at him in mock disgust and barked' Hand over your Labour membership card now'

Yes Baaboobaa. Because those of us that don't make a song and dance about there being no tzatziki all chow down on pop tarts

You see, if I actually liked tzatziki, I would make the blooming stuff, not buy it at 15 times the cost of the ingredients. I am not sure my DC have ever tried it, but if they did I suspect they would quickly diagnose it as yoghurt and cucumber. Do you think perhaps smug woman had not worked that out?

Tzatziki is shit anyway.

I'll make her something nice with the rose harissa that I make from scratch. I can outsmug anyone with that.

Lazy old baggage could have made it herself if the situation was that desperate

" He replied that he would like a 'creme patisserie'! I still don't even know what one of them is!"

Actually there is no such thing as a creme patissiere. Creme pat is the thick, custardy pastry cream that you get in fruit tartlets. So unless said child just wanted very thick custard...

Very good thread.

We went to CentreParcs. A group of children and parents, by some non-verbal, team spirit, playing in the woods together type way, organised a really good game of running up and down the gant see-saw. There were about 20 involved and it was lovely.

When the various Boden velour stripey sweaty chldren assembled around their lovely hotpotch top and sassy jeaned mummies to eat little bags of carrot sticks, dd1 [4] shouted from the far reaches of the play park....

'Mu-um, is there nowhere around here I can get some chicken nuggets and chips and some totato sauce????'

In her thickest yorkshire accent.

T'was hysterical.

And our nearest Waitrose is 70 miles or thereabouts

Please! If you ever see this mad woman again, tell her in a very loud voice that Lidl's are selling their own brand of tzatziki now for 79p a tub, might take the wind out of her sails

Snort!

This thread is FAB! I love the Aga-saga woman link

Waitrose is fabulous!

I got all shirty in sainsburys as they had no wholemeal self raising flour that wasnt organic, and I was NOT paying THAT much for it!

So I went next door...where they too only had organic brown self raising that cost exactly the same....but it was ok...it was WAITROSE