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shouting at 10 year old about a mask

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usytvud · 02/01/2022 10:57

Out in a town where mask wearing is obligatory but a lot of people are not wearing masks. I am wearing a mask and my 8 and 10 year old are too. 10 year old walks to a shop window to have a look at some model airplanes. He has pulled down mask as he is about to eat something (permitted by rules). Man behind him says something rude about him to another person, so that dc could overhear, about dc not wearing a mask. Man had a 2 year old on his shoulders and his wife was carrying a baby. Dc told me this later, he said he froze in panic and called me over instead of putting on his mask. I walked over and and as i do the man shouts loudly and passively aggressively "masks are needed ALL over [town]" in a "this child is totally stupid obviously". Dc was really upset. I said the man should have just reminded him to pull up his mask. As we stood about 5 other families went by with children of a similar age without masks. Had that man just gone round shouting at everyone all afternoon I wonder? Why not just say "you need to pull up your mask" in a normal tone of voice?

I didn't register what the man had said at first, as I thought dc was just calling me over to admire a plane, and by the time I had realised and turned around to look at him, he had disappeared into the crowd. Obviously not so willing to be rude to a grown adult as he had been to a child.

Small thing I know. Just fed up of rude people. Maybe I am being oversensitive.

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milly74 · 02/01/2022 10:59

Covidite. Lot of them about. Just ignore him.

IncessantNameChanger · 02/01/2022 11:03

Was this in the UK? I bet he wouldn't have been so rude to someone bigger than him.

There are pricks everywhere. Imagine being his kids knowing that daddy shouts at random kids all day long.

BunsyGirl · 02/01/2022 11:09

I have experienced this where I live (Home Counties). I was picked on my a male security guard despite wearing an exemption badge but he let a couple of young males walk by unmasked and unchallenged by him. Also had a bad experience in a hotel lift even before masks became required again. Over Christmas I spent a few days in the Northern city where I grew up. No one said anything to me there about not wearing a mask. I honestly believe it’s because up there if you’re rude to someone you expect to get a mouthful back. If anyone is rude to me again “down South” I will just give them some Northern girl attitude Smile

MajorCarolDanvers · 02/01/2022 11:11

COVID has many some people crazy and given others licence to let loose their inner areholes

MissyB1 · 02/01/2022 11:16

Bet the pandemic has been an absolute gift to someone like him. Now he feels fully justified in throwing his weight around.

orderagain · 02/01/2022 11:23

Is this the Uk? I'm bamboozled by different rules in different regions/countries, but my understanding is in Uk masks are only required in indoor settings, not outdoors looking into a window ( or indeed when eating)

kittensinthekitchen · 02/01/2022 11:27

@orderagain

Is this the Uk? I'm bamboozled by different rules in different regions/countries, but my understanding is in Uk masks are only required in indoor settings, not outdoors looking into a window ( or indeed when eating)
The OP clearly says this is in a place where mask wearing is obligatory.
CeeceeBloomingdale · 02/01/2022 11:30

Where are you? In Scotland for example the child should wear a mask, in England they are exempt.

kessiebird · 02/01/2022 11:53

This happened to me in the leisure club gym, a mysogynistic old man was aggressive with me for not wiping down the equipment which I genuinely thought I had. There were other men in the gym who hadn't. This unfortunately escalated into me having a go at him for picking out the woman and not the other men, then at his wife as she had a go at me in the changing rooms while I was speaking to the leisure club attendant followed by me complaining to the hotel manager. All in front of the Turtle Tots parents who were tut tutting about their darling sprogs overhearing the circus. May not have been my finest moment but maybe they'll think twice about picking out the seemingly weaker person to vent their frustrations in the future.

2X4B523P · 02/01/2022 12:16

When masks are finally a thing of the past the self appointed mask police will need to find a new hobby.

Omicrone · 02/01/2022 12:17

What a cunt - my kids aged 10 and 8 have never worn a mask?

Lacedwithgrace · 02/01/2022 12:29

People are worried and we all react differently to stress. It's not nice but as long as you're following the rules try to ignore them

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Hellolittlestar · 02/01/2022 12:58

I would have gone up and coughed in his face. what a prick of a man to verbally attack a child like that.

Againstmachine · 02/01/2022 13:07

It's obviously not UK as nowhere has mask wearing outdoors.

He should be told to get lost.

hamstersarse · 02/01/2022 13:10

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Svara · 02/01/2022 13:16

He is a covidiot and a bully to pick on a child

llantwitminor · 02/01/2022 14:20

Would he have done the same thing to a 20 year old, or someone older?

Andacherryonthetop · 02/01/2022 14:58

I thought under 11s didn’t have to wear masks anyway. He sounds a horrible man

ReformedWaywardTeen · 02/01/2022 15:06

I saw similar in my local Asda just before Christmas. DH and I were walking out, two young girls were walking in without masks.
Asda employee comes over shouting about masks and get them on or leave. Girls looked really upset/shocked- as a mum I was about to say to her about her tone.
Luckily, I didn't need to, the employee obviously didn't realise that actually, their mum was just a little behind. She immediately told her to shut up, saying they were ten (they did look around that) so were under no obligation. She then demanded the manager or an apology.
I wanted to pat her on the back!

Yes we should all wear them, but life is too short to concern yourself on what others are doing. Wear your own, keep doing your own thing, leave others to do theirs.

PAFMO · 02/01/2022 15:09

@kessiebird

This happened to me in the leisure club gym, a mysogynistic old man was aggressive with me for not wiping down the equipment which I genuinely thought I had. There were other men in the gym who hadn't. This unfortunately escalated into me having a go at him for picking out the woman and not the other men, then at his wife as she had a go at me in the changing rooms while I was speaking to the leisure club attendant followed by me complaining to the hotel manager. All in front of the Turtle Tots parents who were tut tutting about their darling sprogs overhearing the circus. May not have been my finest moment but maybe they'll think twice about picking out the seemingly weaker person to vent their frustrations in the future.
So a man saw a woman not doing what Covid protocol in the gym said she should do and he had a go at her. She, meanwhile, leaving aside her obvious ageism (or is the fact he was old relevant in some way?) has managed to notice that other men in the gym didn't do what she didn't do. Perhaps the man who had a go at you hadn't noticed that you were all not following the regulations? You then had a go at him and his wife. And you don't like other people's children who happened to be at a children's session in the same place.

You sound atrocious.

And he probably had a go at you because you were acting like an entitled bore rather than because he saw you as a "weak woman". You sound quite the opposite.

PAFMO · 02/01/2022 15:10

@Hellolittlestar

I would have gone up and coughed in his face. what a prick of a man to verbally attack a child like that.
Hark at the pot calling the kettle.
BrokenCopper · 02/01/2022 15:16

I am small and foreign, I come across rude people a lot, not even something I have done, queue jumping is a common one. I would reassure DC and not let it ruin the rest of his/your day.

ilovesooty · 02/01/2022 15:40

@Hellolittlestar

I would have gone up and coughed in his face. what a prick of a man to verbally attack a child like that.
Yeah, sure you would. Hmm
anon2334 · 02/01/2022 17:15

@Lacedwithgrace

People are worried and we all react differently to stress. It's not nice but as long as you're following the rules try to ignore them
It’s mass psychosis and frankly disgusting behaviour that could effect people mentally. Fear is not Excuse plus a piece of cloth is not as effective as it could be Is it’s a n95 is what should be worn