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Best disguised snidey remark you have had from another parent LOL!

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Moosmummie · 03/11/2008 13:56

I have had "Oh when your DS grows up I think he'll be head of a demolition company" LOL and recently on telling another Mum I was going to let my 9yr old walk home from school on his own "oh aren't your brave! I could NEVER be that brave" LOL meaning oh aren't you irresponsible - he'll probably get run over LOL

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mummyplonk · 03/11/2008 17:21

Ds (3yrs) needed tonsils out, mega opinionated friend said " Oh yes, he does look like a child with big tonsils" questioned what she meant and she said because he had a "Fat head"!!! my poor baby.

lljkk · 03/11/2008 17:50

"You have so much more patience than me" (ie, you are soft and let your kids play you up something rotten)

Why couldn't that be made into a genuinely positive remark, ie "You are very clever about choosing your battles carefully"?

HeliumBee · 03/11/2008 19:11

"Oh it's so nice to come round someones house who obviously doesnt care about it being tidy and the toys being everywhere."

(I had spent about 2 hours tidying up/manically hoovering)

Lotster · 03/11/2008 19:27

Err not snidey exactly, more outright offensive..

I was picnicking in the park with a friend and her little girl when our kids were about 10 months and my little boy was still a chunky little cherub. Two passing thai nannies cooed at them as my friend's LO crawled up to them and waved, my son was rooting through my bag and one of them shrieked "aawwww, look at theeee chubby one - you think he's lookeeeng for foood?!"

My face froze in shock as I was working out whether to PMSL or punch her!

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Moosmummie · 03/11/2008 20:21

I remember one really good competitive mummy moment with DS No 1. He spoke very early and I had joined an NCT group. I was at one woman's house (they were vastly more wealthy than us) and I was basically showing off that DS could name all the dinosaurs in a jigsaw puzzle (he was about 2 at the time) and she said to me "god isn't it boring when they only have one interest" LOL Her son couldn't say Stegosaurus - lol my own fault for showing off.

She also used to make comments about our little house - when my mother was staying "where DO you put everybody?" etc I stopped seeing her in the end.

My MIL was a star when it came to pure tactlessness though - she asked the man in the pram shop when I was pregnant if "we could take the pram back (whispers) if we sadly didn't need it for any reason!" and told me I ought to have a girl otherwise I'd be stuck with daughters in law and they were never the same as real daughters! Bless her ;o) I loved her really lol

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KatieMorag · 03/11/2008 20:30

I get

how do you get anything done?

he has a lot of energy, doesn't he?

does he EVER sit still?

...all the time. i assume they mean

"your child is a nutter"

Weeteeny · 03/11/2008 20:33

"a lovely child, but isn't it a shame he has such a dreadful glasgow accent" From one granny (DH's mum) to other granny (My mum)who incidently is from Glasgpw. Not even snidey just plain awful!

fidgetyfeet · 03/11/2008 20:36

I had a half hour full of undisguised negative comments from DS's friends mum, worst coffee I've ever had I can tell you. But DS has come up trumps today - like many, has selective hearing, which can be to x ray level when he chooses, but often mis-hears things. He heard me whisper an aside to another friend about said child's mother ... 'cos his mother's a bitch' .......... and DS informs me today he's been asking friend why his mother's always so itchy. Ha ha , best laugh I'd had in a while!!

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Moosmummie · 03/11/2008 20:39

oh LOL fidgetyfeet - love it!

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fidgetyfeet · 03/11/2008 20:44

I know, it's a classic - one for the album. I'm still grinning!

ScottishMummy · 03/11/2008 20:48

"sooper you don't mind lo getting active" (eg dirty) clothes covered in park and detritus

oh and

dont you mind lo will love the nursery nurses as much as you (you baaaaaaad mutha missing out on precious moments)

fidgetyfeet · 03/11/2008 20:52

oh tell her to look at all the research that tells you kids do better in the long run if there's a balance of home and childcare. Hoorah for working mums!!!!!!!!

ScottishMummy · 03/11/2008 20:55

thanks we have no problemo with FT working but have heard every snide comment and the look

Starbear · 03/11/2008 21:12

I feel I'm going to say all the wrong things at the wrong time and get it oh so wrong. If you see a woman with a plaster across her mouth at the school gate it will be me My old work mate (just a mate now) still laughs at me. Used to kick me so hard under the table sooo many times. I used to be the skinny bitch that used to complain about her weight to all the fat girls oops Serves me right as I'm err chubby now

dollybird · 03/11/2008 22:36

When I went out for a drink with the mums from DS's class about a year ago one of the mums didn't know me - after explaining I was DS's mum she said, 'oh yes, you work don't you?' like I was some horrendous mother who couldn't be arsed to look after my children - I actually did the school run 6 out of 10 times a week at that point (only do 2 now, so god knows what they think of me now!)

ScottishMummy · 04/11/2008 09:39

funny how you work can be made to sound like you take crack dont you bad mutha

giantkatestacks · 04/11/2008 09:50

Only last week I got 'you know that their school blazers can go in the washing machine dont you?'

ScottishMummy · 04/11/2008 09:53

LOL cheeky mare!

seeker · 04/11/2008 09:58

My brother is the past master at this sort of thing - we have dds the same age.

Me my dd loves dressing up, does yours? Db"Oh no, my dd's imagination doesn't need props"

Me "Dd is in Mrs x's set for maths" Db That's the same set as my dd - that can't be right, surely?"

And so on. And on.

frazzledoldbag34 · 04/11/2008 10:17

I have 2 DD's, am pg with DC3.
To good friend (who has a DD and a DS) - 'I'm pregnant!'
She replied -'I don't need to have another baby. I've got 'The Full Set!'

although I also happen to know that she's asked her DH if they can have another baby too, because 'eveyone seems to be having a third' and he's said no.
Some people are so strange.
Also MIL (at the weekend) said 'For goodness sake, let's hope this next one is a BOY!'
DH and I did our best appalled faces and said 'oh, hope not. we're hoping for another girl!"
She looked aghast.

People are weird.
IMHO anyway!

stealthsquiggle · 04/11/2008 11:13

dollybird I get that too - last week (party on Friday):

other mother 'what have you and DS been doing over half term?'
me: 'well I took a couple of days off and we did x,Y&Z'
OM: 'Oh yes I had forgotten it was a working week'

stealthsquiggle · 04/11/2008 11:14

FrazzledOB - PMSL at wanting a third 'because everyone else is having one'

notyummy · 04/11/2008 11:31

'dd's imagination doesn't need props'

PMSL

What a PONCE.

Sunshine78 · 04/11/2008 11:47

One mum at a group I go to always makes a point of all the quality time she spends with her dc and the lack my poor to get as I work. Have to lol though as mine run into school excited to be with their friends and hers cling to her and cry!

Umlellala · 04/11/2008 11:47

My gosh, some of you read WAY too much into things...