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Rude Mother At The Park - Tight Over Banana

156 replies

Oneday · 30/08/2005 19:21

I was asking about mother and toddler groups. I don't know her, but we've spoken a couple of times and I've always found her weird with me. So on this occasion her little girl had run off, having presumeably eaten most of the banana. My little girl reached out at the banana in the woman's hand (only a tiny piece left). She hid it behind her back, said "Oh, you like banana too, do you?" with a "Tough S**t" expression on her face and a ridiculous smile to me. What sort of cow would begrudge a baby reaching out for a piece of wretched banana? What is wrong with her?

She has not taken to me from the outset, this woman, and I've tried to be overly pleasant so that I am the 'bigger' person in this, not lowering myself to being rude etc and possibly trying to prick her conscience because she is always off with me.

I know it's not that big a deal, and I'm hardly crying into my pillow about it, but this is not on. Is it?

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Mud · 30/08/2005 21:19

Oh well if she's pregnant then that's why she's off with you

Oneday · 30/08/2005 21:21

Thanks, Mud. I know. She's off with me because she's pregnant. And I think actually she's a lovely woman. I talked to her when she wasn't prenant, and she was still off, but that would be because she was pre-conceptual. That's why.

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Mud · 30/08/2005 21:24

that would've been pmt though wouldnt' it?

Oneday · 30/08/2005 21:24

I am brittle.
But bananawoman isn't lovely. I couldn't give a toss.
Does anyone deliver wine, like a pizza? They don't, do they?

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Mud · 30/08/2005 21:24

pay a cab to get you some

Oneday · 30/08/2005 21:25

PMT, possibly, yes, of course. Poor bananawoman.

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Dior · 30/08/2005 21:25

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Oneday · 30/08/2005 21:27

Oh, now you're talking. But must cut costs, must cut costs. I'll wait till tomorrow. Wine tomorrow. Good cost-cutting girl. Wine tomorrow. Are the wine boxes with taps any good? That'd be cost-cutting.

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Oneday · 30/08/2005 21:28

Thanks Dior. After I'd read that I felt like I'd had a nice glass of wine and everything will be alright. Thank you.

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Dior · 30/08/2005 21:29

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motherinferior · 30/08/2005 21:29

Taps ultimately cost-widening as apparently bottomless.

Janh · 30/08/2005 21:30

Wine-boxes with taps are the BEST, esp one box per evening each

Mud · 30/08/2005 21:30

you may find this hard to believe there are many peole i do not particularly like but i get really upset when they turn round and don't like me, i really take offence at it and then i get really falsely over the toip nice to them till they do like me so i can go back to disliking them

(but not once have any of them refused to let me have a bite of theri banananaas)

motherinferior · 30/08/2005 21:31

I once had a Bus Ticket incident like yours, incidentally. Have never forgiven.

Janh · 30/08/2005 21:32

Someone who wouldn't give your DD a bite of her bus ticket?

Mud · 30/08/2005 21:32

rofl

Dior · 30/08/2005 21:32

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philippat · 30/08/2005 21:32

what, MI, someone refused your dd a bite of her bus ticket? no wonder you couldn't forgive...

cod · 30/08/2005 21:33

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motherinferior · 30/08/2005 21:33

Someone I gave a bus ticket to for her daughter to play with (I had a very small DD1 with me) and she didn't say thank you.

philippat · 30/08/2005 21:33

bugger, type too slowly

Oneday · 30/08/2005 21:33

Yes, that's why I won't use the 3 for 2 bottles offer at the offy across the road. Cos I'll think Great I've got 3 bottles of wine to drink, Gosh is the first one finished already! Not to worry...

Mud, I do that. And I was trying to explain that I was trying to kill bananawoman with kindness. Or something. Anyway, now we are not talking about her, we are talking about wine.

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Oneday · 30/08/2005 21:34

gosh, Mother. That's awful.

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motherinferior · 30/08/2005 21:35

I mean, she had a grouchy baby I had a not so grouchy baby I thought the whole thing that made parenthood bearable was that cameraderie wossname you get between parents bearing up under the horror of taking a bus round the South Circular with a buggy...

...OK, you see, mine was truly petty. Banananananas now, are different.

philippat · 30/08/2005 21:35

you have an offy across the road? Shall I suggest you take the baby listener with you to get some wine? then this thread could REALLY get going...

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