You can always tell some women are childless by the fact that they....

[NinaInCognito]

...get in the way of you when you are in the supermarket dragging around a pram, trolley and fiddly child and then they sneer down at you with their basket full of organic lettuce, baguettes and mini-tampons while your trolley is loaded with nappies, a giant pot of Sudocrem and enough chocolate bars to re-sink the Titanic.

You then have to manoever around them while they continue said sneering.

God you can tell what sort of evening I have had, can't you? And I am embarrassed to admit that I used to be one of those women. I apologise to all you mums out there unreservedly.

Now for chocolate bars and MN......

dammit, now i'm craving a pudding and DH is saying it's time for bed.

lol my free sweet was syrup sponge a calorific delight

go on say it Aitch

I just found myself wandering into a thread about identifying ones DH and their bits...

I'm off to read what is apparently a 'vintage Rushdie' Midnights Children... I am hoping it lives up to being

"one of the most important books to come out of the English- speaking world in this generation" New York review of Books

We will see... or, at least I will see, since none of you are reading it too.

i read it a long time ago, much more accessible than i'd imagined as i recall. although i am kinda repulsed by salman rushdie.

I agree with the repulsion... not sure I can put my finger on precisely why, my mum said the exact same thing when I bought it the other day.

Will give book a go. Have a couple others on the go to dip into if the going gets too difficult.

Oh, also, I can't help chuckling and thinking of the bit in Brigit Jones (film) when she is at the book launch... " oh yes, and Mr Rushdie, your books were also good, very good... and Lord Archer, yours too....... "

My goodness, what an odd thread.

I'd like to take the opportunity to make a vicious, unprovoked attack on the OP and say that I don't really identify with this - I didn't used to sneer at mothers when I was childless, and nowadays I'm not specially aware of childless women sneering when I'm out and about.

< furiously vents bile >

you bitch.

oh dear .... i often have ds at the supermarket at 9pm in his pyjamas shoot me now!!

he doesn't go to bed til 9:30. i prefer to go this time of night than the weekend when it's manic! what's the problem? why the need to huff about it to all your friends?

My, that was cathartic though. I should do these venomous attacks more often, I feel so much better now.

BRING ON THE TRUMPETS

LOL TBGP

"Have fake tan on, beautifully styled hair, nails not full of baby poo and money in their purse"

is that what I'm supposed to look like!!

:P

we can't actually buy it until 12.30, so you have an extra half hour to get those truffles

It would appear than MN is losing its sense of humour.

I tried and failed in another thread to make lighthearted fun out of a pink fiat panda and even that got defended.

Threads like this always end up with the in-crowd having a good old laugh together about something not related to the op, leaving the op (who may not have chosen the best thread title...) is left feeling totally crap.

Nice one.

VVV, thanks for the offer of a pointless row but I'd gone to bed by the time you'd posted, but another time maybe?

GordonTheGopher

I've only read the OP, and skimmed the thread. Despite the lighthearted title the OP is not in good humour - it reads as a post from a silly and paranoid woman who imagines that random strangers are sneering at her, because she herself was the sort of arse who would do that.

In reality these women probably don't notice her and couldn't care less about her trolley load of nappies. And of course there will be a tiny minority who feel sad when they see babies because they can't have them, are grieving for their loss or are struggling with an unwanted or difficult pregnancy.

I saw the title and took the OP as she meant it, but guessed from the number of posts that others had chosen not to & a bun-fight was in progress - there's something so reassuring about MN somehow

"Childless". "Barren women". Such loaded terms.

The title is great - I was looking forward to some lighthearted banter. The original post is all about someone fantasising about being sneered at in supermarkets.

What's loaded about childless? What other term do you use about childless that isn't loaded? (child free is at least as loaded)

People actually have time to look if others are sneering at them, etc...when in a Supermarket with young children?

Well...when I am out with mine I tend to go round the shop mostly blocking out anyone or anyhting around me...takes all my attention to keep an eye on the Kids and making sure my trolley isn't laden with stuff dc may decide they need and finding the stuff I do want to buy, because the Supermarket, yet agin, decided to change their isles around....so, I can honestly say, I would not notice if anyone was sneering at me or whatever....not that I would care anyway.

Think Aitch had a valid point, btw.

When people look at me in supermarkets I imagine they are wondering where I managed to find e.g. the courgettes. Or I think they are probably thinking about what to have for dinner or the long day they've had at work...

Normal people generally don't look down on random strangers. Unless fruit shoots are visible. Or a crate of WKD.

How as a thread with a light hearted OP turned into such a bun fight?

Was it full moon last night?

oh it's just the joys of mumsnet.