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OMG just been screamed at by someone in a shop

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getbakainyourjimjams · 17/01/2006 15:23

Took ds2 and ds3 into a newsagents when the wheel snapped off my big Pegasus pushchair. Took ds3 out (to see what had happened) and because it was at an alarming angle, and put him on the floor. He set off (he is a nightmare) and I was running backwards and forwards grabbing him and talking to the man running the shop. The owner was trying to see whether he could make a temporary repair so I could get up the hill and home. Ds3 was heading for the door so I grabbed him just as a woman was coming in. She absolutely screamed at me "keep your child under control" (ds3 is 1 by the way). I ponted to the buggy and said (or tried to say) "I'm sorry the wheel has just fallen off my buggy". and she just screamed back "the child is more important than the buggy" (durr no really). The shop owner looked at me, shook his head and said "take no notice". He offered to get a spanner and try and do something but I said in loud voice "don't worry, we seem to be getting in the way of some of your customers" (it wouldn't have worked anyway).

So hobbled out of the shop carrying ds3 (who is blummin' heavy) and edging along the road with the buggy (I couldn't dump it as it had too many things in the basket.) A roadcleaner and old man stopped to commiserate then a penisoner couple came up and offered to help. One pushed the buggy back for me. So there are some lovely people.

Well dressed, well spoken woman in the shop was just an ultra bitch though. Hope she gets a puncture tonight.

(Lucky with ds1 i have years of practice eh).

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thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 17/01/2006 15:28

presumably you will shortly come up with (or mn will) devastating one liners to put the cow down. as it were. try not to fret, the good outweigh the bad ones, and she's the one who'll have a miserable life if she goes around bing so miserable.

cathyspam · 17/01/2006 15:32

i would have told her to keep her temper under control!

doormat · 17/01/2006 15:35

at her attitude
I would of told her to shut her grid before I filled it

mazzystar · 17/01/2006 15:37

she had pmt, she was late for work, it wasn't about you

sounds exhausting, hope you treated yourself when you got home

getbakainyourjimjams · 17/01/2006 15:38

I was being very reasonable- wish I'd said "I'm not shouting at you so would you mind not shouting at me" (works well actually), but she was storming off shouting over her shoulder. She did leave the shop avoiding me (went the other side of a card rack).

I don't mind the one liners- would she got a puncture

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doormat · 17/01/2006 15:41

bakajj nah dont think she would get a puncture
she sounds like one of those spawny sods in life otherwise she would of been more compassionate

misdee · 17/01/2006 15:42

what a nightmare. she'll get whats coming to her.

meggmoo · 17/01/2006 15:45

Oh lordy what a hag. You should have said to her, Listen lady stop your barking, if I throw a stick will you fetch it?

How horrible for you, she probably has perfect children though, to be fair.

edam · 17/01/2006 15:47

What a cow.

Aloha · 17/01/2006 15:51

LOL at some of these. really like 'shut your grid' - never heard it before and it's so dismissive!
She is ghastly, clearly.

Meanoldmummy · 17/01/2006 15:56

I like "shut your beak"..so insulting

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 17/01/2006 16:15

"talk to someone who cares", in a very bored way is a good one. not at all witty, but a refined way of saying "&^%$ off"

pussycatmomma · 17/01/2006 16:23

dh taught me this one, i used it very effectively when a complete cow of a woman(maybe same one!) was yelling and swearing at me about how i had parked my car so badly in the pick up bay in ikea, she was even trying to get other people to join in....... i stopped what i was doing(loading the car) and just said
"Well unless you can sue me i dont think you have a point. Please dont shout its very unbecoming"
the silly cow !!

WideWebWitch · 17/01/2006 16:25

What a cow jimjams, there are some horrible people about aren't there? I hope you're all ok.

Aloha · 17/01/2006 16:27

"Are you having psychiatric treatment for your problem?" I actually said this to some woman who was ranting at me from her car the other day - I was in my car. As my window was up I genuinely had no idea what she was on about!

tamum · 17/01/2006 16:28

She sounds like a thoughtless cow. Put her out of your mind and think of the lovely OAPs

pussycatmomma · 17/01/2006 16:46

also think of the bad karma she must be generating all by her miserable self,
you on the otherhadn are generating lots of good kind karma, you were not rude back
go have a glass of wine x x

Meanoldmummy · 17/01/2006 19:19

"Didn't your mother teach you any manners?" One of my favourites.

Spagblog · 17/01/2006 19:25

I had a mad lady shout at me in her car. I was coming out of a car park and she started ranting at me. I wound down my window and she went off on one, apparently she was trying to do a U turn, and couldn't I have waited.
I was so amazed that I laughed in her face and wound the windscreen back up!

OldieMum · 17/01/2006 19:34

Puzzled obliviousness is often effective against bullies. Last week, an old woman in a car looked daggers at me while I did a three-point turn in a car park, blocking her way. I lowered my window and said very calmly - "You look terribly angry and I'm not sure what I've done wrong." She muttered something about being kept waiting, but looked very sheepish.

getbakainyourjimjams · 17/01/2006 19:41

oh these are hilarious. My mum (prude extraordinaire) said I should have said "what's the matter, didn't you get any last night?''

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getbakainyourjimjams · 17/01/2006 19:47

oh it's ds2's birthday today and I'd taken him to the shop for a comic and sweets as a treat... He looked a bit bemused by the whole affair.

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eidsvold · 17/01/2006 21:12

what an uptight cranky old bag.......

LoveMyGirls · 18/01/2006 08:33

A woman was having a go about sil's carparking and sil (usually very quiet) said "chill out b**ch, maybe if you lost some weight off your backside you could fit in!"

kama · 18/01/2006 08:41

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