So Mad!!

[cazza1982]

Charlie does this to me all the time in public, bless him. There are a couple of times that I have had to get him out of his pram in the middle of Clintons or something and walk him around with me! I tend to go shopping first thing in the morning as it means the shops are empty and thus avoiding the horrid rude public!

Although the main one that really raises my blood pressure is when I am at the doctors surgery with him and our appointment is delayed (again) and Charlie decides to get bored and screams the place down! I am walking around the waiting area pointing to all the posters and trying to take his mind off it, but he won't have any of it! Everyone is staring at us and tutting and by the time we eventually get into see the doctor, I am a sweaty mess with my face all flushed from the stress of the waiting room and Charlie is calm as a cucumber and all smiles!! Typical.

Another issue that I am sure you have all exerienced which really annoys me is single people parking in parent and child spaces so you have to struggle with the car seat and pram with about 4 inches of room between your car and the one next to you....even harder as I only have a 3 door car! When you finally achieve getting your baby from the car in the pram and you are walking towards the store, you see the single person trot back with their shopping into their car which is parked in the space that you should have been in. Grrrrrrrrr!

xxx

 

[Mummy~L]

Really dont understand why people have to be like that. It is not like you LO crying was effecting that man in any way!!! Grrr

 

[Kitten]

This is why I babywear 99% of the time! I got sooo sick of being made to feel like an inconvenience because I needed the lift or he was crying or having to wait for half an hour for a bus because there was no room for a pram.

One time me and OH were in town with the pram cos we'd done a massive shop and needed the under basket to store stuff. We went to get on the bus but the pram spaces were full but the driver said that it was full of people just sat down so to get them to move as there were plenty of seats so OH and bus driver asked nicely. This one old cow, well, I say old, she was about 50, healthy, but scruffy, and had one of those shopping trolleys. She spent the whole journey slagging us off loudly to strangers/just out loud. She made a point of putting her stupid trolley in the middle of 4 seats so no-one could sit down and made comments like "I remember when those things folded down". Yes, and I remember when people carried their shopping in carrier bags. OH nearly had a row with her but I told him to ignore her.

And I agree with the lifts!! I am sooo sick of people taking lifts, especially from the car park when they've just got there so have no bags etc. There are stairs and escalators you lazy fecks!!

 

[tillymum]

What a rude man - how awful for him that a crying baby ruined his walk into a shop - I hope he had a horrible day!!

I was struggling to open a door into a shopping centre last week, had my foot propping the door open while I tried to back the pram in, when about 6 people took the opportunity to walk though while I held the door open for them!!! I was too flustered to say anything, though one kind lady was annoyed by it and went out of her way to hold the door open for me.

 

[Kit]

I am off as well now - so many things mentioned that drive me nuts! OP - you should have given chase and rammed the pram into his heels before going "stupid man"!
People walking through doors when you open them - this happened yesterday. I had opened a door to leave a cafe while carrying the baby - a woman and her two teenage children were just walking towards the door and as I opened it the two children pushed through so I turned to look at the woman who then pushed past, smiled brightly and said "Thankyou"! so I asked her if there were any other members of her family who required me to hold the door open or whether I could actually leave with my baby - rather entertainingly she clearly couldn't think of any appropriate response so just stopped, opened and closed her mouth a few times before scuttling off looking silly.
I was carrying my baby on my back today and the guy behind me while I was getting onto the bus kept shoving me until I asked him to stop - he said "Oh, I didn't see the baby" so I asked him if he really thought I had a second head growing out of the middle of my back!
Final rant - other women with babies who are rude and give people a bad impression of mothers. I seem to spend a lot of my time throwing myself out of the way of other prams - particularly pairs of prams walking side by side, leaving me with nowhere to go but into the road. And people being really unwilling to move their pram along on buses so that you can get in with your pram, even if there is room for two. I saw a rude lady on the bus today - she was sitting in the seats behind the pram space, in the middle of the two seats and an old lady laden down with bags asked her to move over so that she could sit down - the only other seat was right at the back of the bus. The woman just looked at her and said "I am with the baby". The woman had to ask her three times before she eventually sighed and made a big performance of moving over about 6 inches. The poor old lady kept apologising but she was completely in the right. Am I the only one who thinks that just because I have a pram, I am not automatically entitled to a priority seat as well? I have no problem asking people to move so I can get the pram into the space but I always tell them to take their seat back once the pram is in.
Sorry, this went on way too long!

 

[Aidedhoney]

worst was we were in a restraunt wi LO when she was 10weeks old we intentially went at 2pm thinking it wouldnt be as busy we were right we got there to be told no prams, fair enough so i carrier LO in her car seat and OH took pram back to car

ooh, ooh, now you've set me off again!

5 bloody restaurants in a ten minute walk of Haymarket we tried and not one of them let us in. I was bloody fuming!!

Eventually went to Browns on George Street and the waiter couldn't have been nicer. Even to the point where i was off changing Abby when the food came, but when I came back he brought fresh chips saying, the pie will still be roasting hot but here's some fresh chips incase those are cold.....

ps....what about if you had breastfed, do you think that counts as consuming food not purchased there? Where is this place, I feel I should visit it!!

LOL Should arrange a BnB meet for a busy sat lunchtime...........................lol


It takes the piss though, i have lost count of the number of times i have had to move/go on to the road or say sorry just for trying to go about my business.

 

[Blondie2008]

Thanks for all the responses to this guys
It is really annoying when people are rude like that. I always decide that they are the ones with the problem not me.

The BIGGEST annoyance i find is when people park in the mother and baby parking spaces at the supermarket. That really gets up my bloomin nose. Especially when there are loads of other free!!!

Raaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

Oh i've started something here! ;-)

 

[bjl1981]

how rude! I'd have said to my LO in the pram "silly man tutting at you!".

 

[Lucy_lu_84]

Grrr yes the parking space thing gets my goat to! I've very nearly on a number of occasions gone up to the person and asked what right they have to park there!

The other day we were at Asda, all the baby places were full but we saw a single female getting into her car. So we stuck on our indicator to wait and she took about 15 minutes to actually get out of the space. She has a baby seat in the car but no kid...seriously my OH had to stop be getting out of the car and telling her jsut because she has a kid somewhere does not give her the right to park in the space when they are not with her! Normally i am not a confrontal person but it so annoyes me.

We have a 2 door also, so the extra space it really helpful

 

[Kit]

Grrr yes the parking space thing gets my goat to! I've very nearly on a number of occasions gone up to the person and asked what right they have to park there!

The other day we were at Asda, all the baby places were full but we saw a single female getting into her car. So we stuck on our indicator to wait and she took about 15 minutes to actually get out of the space. She has a baby seat in the car but no kid...seriously my OH had to stop be getting out of the car and telling her jsut because she has a kid somewhere does not give her the right to park in the space when they are not with her! Normally i am not a confrontal person but it so annoyes me.

We have a 2 door also, so the extra space it really helpful

Two door cars are a nightmare - I drive our ancient two-door car when I am out on my own with baby as our proper family car is an automatic and I don't know how to drive it! We have a car park near us that has the smallest spaces ever - I can get into most of the spaces as it is a small car - but trying to get the baby seat out of the car is a nightmare. There was one day I parked and discovered that while I could get out of the driver's side and out of the space, I couldn't get to either back door to get the baby out - I had to walk round half the car-park and squeeze under the mirror of a 4-wheel drive and climb over the bumper of the car behind me!

 

[Logan's Mum]

Some people just dont have a clue.

Alex is normally really good when we are out and about but whenever we go into Marks And Spencer foodhall (even if just walking through to get to the car) He Screams.

Dunno why think its cos the fridges are so noisy but i have lost count of the amount of tuts etc etc i have heard.
If someone tuts i just follow them now haha

Best thing you can go is take it all with a pinch of salt x

HAHA! just to say that Marks and Sparks is the only shop that Logan HATES!! whenever we go in, even if he is asleep, he starts to stir, wakes up and cries (and hes not the fussy sort of baby either). Thought perhaps it could be the lights waking him up. Either way, hes not a fan, which is a shame as I could spend oodles of time and money in the foodhall

 

[mamalove]

omg that is horrible,i would've killed him!!!

saying that,i've never really had any problems,if anything people offer to help me with twins if they're crying

i was in asda few weeks ago and they were both screaming,this family stopped and asked if they could hold one while i held the other one and their childre would put my shopping on the line and the father would pack my shopping bags!!!

 

[Aidedhoney]

Some people just dont have a clue.

Alex is normally really good when we are out and about but whenever we go into Marks And Spencer foodhall (even if just walking through to get to the car) He Screams.

Dunno why think its cos the fridges are so noisy but i have lost count of the amount of tuts etc etc i have heard.
If someone tuts i just follow them now haha

Best thing you can go is take it all with a pinch of salt x

HAHA! just to say that Marks and Sparks is the only shop that Logan HATES!! whenever we go in, even if he is asleep, he starts to stir, wakes up and cries (and hes not the fussy sort of baby either). Thought perhaps it could be the lights waking him up. Either way, hes not a fan, which is a shame as I could spend oodles of time and money in the foodhall

LOL I think my OH has trained Alex to hate it so that he doesnt have to part with his cash.
Strange eh

 

[Aidedhoney]

omg that is horrible,i would've killed him!!!

saying that,i've never really had any problems,if anything people offer to help me with twins if they're crying

i was in asda few weeks ago and they were both screaming,this family stopped and asked if they could hold one while i held the other one and their childre would put my shopping on the line and the father would pack my shopping bags!!!

That is so sweet

 

[jms895]

Arsehole!

 

[charliebear]

omg that is horrible,i would've killed him!!!

saying that,i've never really had any problems,if anything people offer to help me with twins if they're crying

i was in asda few weeks ago and they were both screaming,this family stopped and asked if they could hold one while i held the other one and their childre would put my shopping on the line and the father would pack my shopping bags!!!

Aww, how kind.

Really, dont get me started.....

AJ has a new thing for squealing, so were in clintons and he's squealing.
I'm making a joke that we couldnt hide from daddy as were picking his xmas card as he makes alot of noise
So im like, chatting away and AJ's squealing more.
Lady: 'wow, he's noisey'
Me: 'yeah well at least i'll never lose him! Your just learning arnt you son' giggling as she didnt expect a response! OH peeing himself laughing!!

I really dont mind the bus as long as I get room for my pram, although I got told off the driver to stop letting the old people on as they were going to sit in my space! I'm not bothered about getting a seat and regularly give mine up.

Sometimes I feel invisable some people are soo rude....I'm going to have some pram rage!