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stupid old woman upset me in Boots.

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misdee · 29/07/2004 12:11

Went in there to pick up the families perscriptions and some fish oils. dd2 started screaming, whilst dh was sorting out the perscriptions. I picked up some snacks for the kids, and went to the check out past the perscription queue. i could hear her and her friend tutting and speaking in quite annoyed tones. i went to pay for the fish oils and snacks. as stupid old lady went out she looked at my dd2 with malice in her eyes and tutted repeatedly at her. the checkout girl asked me if i was ok, at which point i started crying (feeling stupid now). usually i can cope with people tutting etc, aqnd just think they are rude incosiderant people and just get on with it. The check out girl heard her tutting as well.

dh said that she was moaning at the perscription queue, that people with large orders should have to wait. Its not out fault that both my kids and dh have large perscriptions that are regularly needed.

just feeling hormonal today i guess.

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Northerner · 29/07/2004 12:15

Oh misdee some people are just so bloody miserable and narrow minded. Silly old cow.

I know it's easy to say but try not to let it bother you.

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misdee · 29/07/2004 12:16

liek i say, usually it doesnt, and i just swear under my breathe at them or give evil looks back. but today i feeling horrible anyway (joys of pregnancy), and just didnt need it.

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Frenchgirl · 29/07/2004 12:16

she's obviously a nasty mad old bag. The cashier probably thought so too, please don't let her upset you any more.
Hugs xxx

madgirl · 29/07/2004 12:17

sending you a cyber hug misdee. she must be a miserable and bitter old bat to behave like that. i would have cried too probably. hope you're feeling brighter now.

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misdee · 29/07/2004 12:18

well i'm about to go off to mieows, and gonna get a chinese curry on the way, so should be feeling brighter soon.

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oliveoil · 29/07/2004 12:19

You should have asked her if her false teeth were giving her gip, and that she could get something for it behind the counter.

Some old biddies moan for fun, ignore her.

xx

coppertop · 29/07/2004 12:20

Misdee As if you didn't have enough to deal with already.

My dh experienced something similar last week when a shop assistant at our local shop said nastily (about ds1) "Can't you keep him under control?" Dh is usually fairly easygoing but he was fuming for days.

joanneg · 29/07/2004 12:21

misdee. Dont let this narrow minded, grumpy, rude, judgemental old trout upset you and ruin your day. I bet she is rude like that to everybody. Anybody that can look at a child so harshly and tutt like that should not be allowed in public places!

Twiglett · 29/07/2004 12:41

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anorak · 29/07/2004 13:00

She is probably someone's MIL

mummytojames · 29/07/2004 13:01

misdee next time that happens do what me and dp do it gives us a giggle just say to your dh i feel sorry for some people as they get older they forget what it was like to have kids

marthamoo · 29/07/2004 15:34

misdee - it's horrible isn't it? I remember when ds1 was about 2 and he was throwing a tantrum in his pushchair (he had been whingeing for something in a shop and I had said if he didn't stop we were going home; he didn't so I was following through). As I was walking out, with him wailing at the top of his lungs, an old lady said in a loud voice to her friend "that's all you see these days...children crying and their mothers ignoring them...they've no idea these young Mums." I was livid - I wished I'd said afterwards "I'm trying to bring him up properly to know that he can't have everything he wants on demand so when he's bigger he won't go out mugging old ladies like YOU!" But of course I didn't, I just seethed inwardly.

Next time it's someone old just console yourself with the thought that they'll be dead soon

alais · 29/07/2004 15:52

Hi Misdee,

Silly woman. She probably thought she could get away with being nasty to your dd rather than you. It's sooo depressing having to cope with Screaming Toddler AND rude or pathetic people in shops (ultimate shame - in Laura Ashley, shop assistant ignores me and DH while checking out Sales curtain material, ignores us as we say, 'Hmmm, can you see an assistant in this place?', ignores us as we dump huge pile of material near desk, one hand controlling dd of course. Dd decides to jump onto white sofa. Assistant suddenly recovers eyesight and hearing and says, 'Right, can you get out now, please, I've just sold that sofa!'
Good revenge feeling: horrible toddler footprints all over her horrible sofa. so there.

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misdee · 29/07/2004 16:17

lol alais. last time some pushed dd2 buggy out the way she actually kicked them. so i had the last laugh there.

next time, i'm gonna ask if they have a problem with my dd2 communicating in one of the only way she knows. after all she isnt yet two, and her speech isnt brilliant.

Most older people are great, they love her down the local shops, know that she is loud (and she is very loud), but stop and talk to her, not tut at her.

And she was lucky dh perscription was only 3 items instead of his usual 22.

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Angeliz · 29/07/2004 16:40

misdee, it seems to be a Thursday. (pension day). I started a thread a few weeks ago (on a thursday) about how RUDE about 3 old people were to me in Morrisons!

Hope you are feeling better, honestly SOME old people are bloody AWFUL!

WestCountryLass · 28/10/2004 20:50

What a cow! You need to come up with some one liners to use in situations like this, the world is full of miserable bastards, grrrrr....

colditzmum · 28/10/2004 21:00

You should have said "You're only jealous because my child has better bladder control than you!"

Skate · 28/10/2004 21:01

Yeah, you should have just looked her in the eye and said 'problem?'

I was going round Tesco a few months ago and DS1 (3) was walking by the trolley - it was a weekday so not busy. I think he started to cry (can't remember why) and I'd had a crap day - anyway, this oldish woman looks at him and says 'are you being a naughty boy?'!! Bloody cheek - I looked at her and said 'no he isn't so mind your own business'. When I told everyone they were horrified I'd said it to her cos she was in a wheelchair!! What the hell does that matter! She was rude!

I was heavily pregnant with 2 small ds's but it didn't bother her! Old bag.

Skate · 28/10/2004 21:03

Old bloody women think they've got the right to interfere with anything!

Yesterday I was going into Tesco with ds1 again (we don't live there, honest) and this old woman came up to ds1 saying 'are you coming to Auntie x' (didn't get the name). Needless to say, DS1 cowered adn I thought she was well creepy! Why do people presume they can just come and touch your children??? I really don't like it.

Sorry, off on a bit of a tangent there!

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misdee · 28/10/2004 21:18

well i never saw the old bag again as i moved towns lol. we are now surrounded by old people, and they all adore my dd's. when we moved in the lady whose bungalow backs onto ours said she loves hearing the kids playing outside. they always stop for chats and dote on dd2 as we sometimes pop out for short walks in the afternoons when dd1 is at nursery.

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MarmaladeSun · 28/10/2004 21:26

Sympathies. I remember I was in Boots with DD1 a few years ago now, when she was only about 2, and she was sitting on a chair while I waited for a prescription. She was swinging her legs and singing a nursery rhyme. I saw an old woman looking at her, and then she said to me 'Does that not really annoy you?' I asked her did what really annoy me to which she said ' Having to listen to that all day' gesturing towards my DD. I said 'No, but what really annoys me is barren old bats like you who can't appreciate a child's singing or laughter'. That shut her up! tee hee.

childmindersam · 28/10/2004 21:31

Why are people like it! dont want to start the whole P&C parking thing again but today went to asda and was about to pull into P&C space when a disabled badge holder swerved into it. I got out and asked if he had a child and he said no but im disabled and walked off. No more p&C spaces and i had 4 kids under 4 with me so went and parked in one of the many empty disabled spaces! As i was unloading the car an employee of asda approached me and aske dif i had a disbled badge. I said no but i had 4 kids and did he ask the man in the P&C space if he had kids. I explained my story and told him politely that he was descriminating against me and it should be the disabled man in the P&C space that he should be talking too. He did apologise when i got the kids out of the car!!!!!!!

aloha · 28/10/2004 21:53

Tutting makes me go WILD!! Really presses all my buttons as it is so cowardly and snide. I always go ballistic and start yelling 'Do you have a PROBLEM!!" Totally sympathise. Trout.
Some old bat was wittering on in a cafe the other day, when ds, who was being angelic and eating cheese on toast starting telling me a story he'd made up and when he got to the exciting bit his volume increased a bit, and the old cow said very loudly to (presumably) her baby grandson (but obviously for my ears), 'Look, there's a naughty boy". I just said loudly, "Take no notice of the silly lady". Grrrrr!

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misdee · 28/10/2004 22:02

why are children considered naughty if they are loud? my dd1 has no volume control when excited, it just the way ids are, surely a loud excited voice is better than a whining whingey child?

and tantrums, well if they are under 5 i think we can let kis off lol. after that i expect arms folded type sulking.

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soapbox · 28/10/2004 22:32

I was on a flight to the US once with my DD(5then) and DS(3then) I was walking with my DS to the loo when this grumpy US man said - 'your children are making too much noise and we can't get to sleep'. We had been playing card games with them like snap etc to pass teh time.

I took DS to the loo and calmly walked back to my seat and dug out the ear plugs from the in-flight bag, walked back to mr grumpy and thrust the ear plugs at him, bent down low and hissed loudly in his hairy ear, 'ITS 2 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, ONLY PEOPLE IN GERIATRIC WARDS ARE ASLEEP AT THAT TIME'!!! Then turned around and went and sat down while Mr Grumpy sat with a lemon sucker's face for hte rest of the journey!

Oh the satisfaction of actually saying something rather than just sitting fuming