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Rude People
Hi ladies, i hope you are all well (and your bumps too). Sorry just need to rant about how rude people are. im 29 weeks and 1 day pregnant with my second child. And this past week ive had to go down town to do some shopping a cupple of times and the amount of people who just walked into or pushed into me and my bump or walked into and knocked my 3 year old daughter over is horrendus. ( please note that my bump is very notestable and that i was holding my daughter's hand at all times). and every time that this happened i would say to the person" you could of said exsuse me" they would look at me like i was some kind of nutter. also i went to get the bus home and coz the bus was full the driver called out " can someone get up for this woman please" 3 times and everyone just looked out the windows petending not to see me or hear the driver. so i ended up having to get a taxi home coz there was no way i was going to be able to hold the shopping, hold my daughters hand and stand for 20 min on the bus. even my oh has notest how rude people are towareds pregnant women or parents with children. i dont know if it is just were i live or if others are having the same problems. ( Sorry i just feel abit stressed about this) x.
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I haven't experienced the same thing, however when I was in Morrisons a few days ago a lady let me go in front of her in the queue which was really nice of her...
Philippa
18+6
Stand up for yourselves, these people are whimps!
27+6
you have actually beaten me to it with your post on rude people - i was going to do the same earlier this morning but didnt get chance.
I was in town on Saturday doing the last of my xmas shopping when i went into Woolworths and followed two adult men into the shop. they both went through the double doors and both of them let the doors slam into me. I yelled after them 'excuse me- youve just let the door slam into me!!'. One looked round at me and didnt say anything so i shouted again at them saying 'you could at least have the decency to apologise'. then the other bloke turned round and actually smirked at me. That set me off, i was yelling like a mad women shouting that they were obviously brought up with no manners, did they think it was funny to let doors slam into a pregnant woman (or anyone for that fact) and called them ignorant pigs'. If i could have got nearer to them, i think i may have been tempted to kick them in the legs!!
Then a woman in Morrisons banged her large handbag into my tummy and when i said ouch - she didnt even apologise.
I am so glad ive got all my shopping now as this is exactly what i wanted to avoid and I;m not even that big yet (I'm nearly 22 wks).
What is wrong with these people??
But in a few weeks it'll be a little bundle in a pushchair, hmmm, pushchair means wheels at ankle height.... you know what, i might have to chase all the people who are bashing me around the town and take their ankles out, revenge is sweet!
Obi
38+0
I think the only bit of rudness I have experienced is with people taking the parent and child spaces when they dont have kids with them. I always point out to them that they shouldnt be abusing the spaces, and VERY occasionally they apologise and move. Ususally tho they either mutter somethig and scuttle off or get all uppity and start to argue. (If they think Im the type to back down they are VERY much mistaken :lol
Maybe we should have a survey to get an idea of where all these rude and ignorant people are so that we can all avoid the areas with our bumps 'n' babes?!
I live in north Wales, so maybe we are just more mannerly and polite around here !!!
So I guess it depends on where you live.
hehe
hormonal or what?!
xxx
xxx
25 weeks + 4!
Good luck all xx
now don't get me wrong I dont expect special treatment but, come on, how mean and uncaring are people, I always move for people who are worse off than me be it old pregnant, laiden with shopping or babies.
Although its not always bad, I once went for lunch with my OH and son and he was screaming his head off (my son not OH) with bordum and the very old couple on the table next to us said oh give him here and sat him on her lap and chatted to him, he was giggling his head off while we sat having dinner chatting to old couple and we finished just as there dinner came out! restored some of my faith.