Mean people really do suck!!!

[Guest]

Okay - I've never started a thread, but I just needed to vent to intelligent people!

Has this ever happened to anyone? We were at the grocery store, myself and my two young children (we had a popsicle shortage at home). I turned back to the cart after getting something off a shelf when this woman comes over and starts to yell at my son because she says he "flipped her off". He's 3 years old!!!

I remained calm, though I immediately blocked my kids from her viscious diatribe. I don't know what she thought she saw, and I suppose it doesn't really matter. He was drinking a bottle of lemonade, sitting in the front part of the grocery cart. He is tall for three, but he isn't coordinated enough yet with his fine motor skills to actually make the hand gesture, and he has certainly never seen it at home!!

Well, I can't lose it in front of my kids, so I tell her that she must be mistaken because he is only three, and he doesn't even know what flipping someone off means (and in fact, when she came over to the cart to yell at him, he wasn't even paying attention to her - lol). So then she says - "Well I'm sure I know where he learned!"

I tried to use this as a life lesson to my kids about mean and rude people in the world. I tell you - it still makes me so angry. Luckily my kids were not really bothered by it (they didn't really know what was happening!) so it is just me that remains annoyed!! Ironically, we were stopping at the grocery store on the way home from a church committee meeting!!! Grrrrrrrrrr!!!

Mean People Suck! Thanks for listening!!!!

 

[grrrly]

you should have taken her an aisle over and smacked her upside her head

 

[Guest]

LOL - Oh hey - if my kids hadn't been with me . . . I was trying to be a good mommy - couldn't really call her the bitch she was either!!!

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Should have punched her in the nose and said you learned that years ago on the playground.

 

[Guest]

I would probably feel better now if I had punched the bitch!!

 

[Sixth]

Mean people don't suck.

That's why they're mean.

 

[Eagle70]

It's True, It's True

Mean people really do indeed suck.

I'm quite possibly the nicest person anyone will ever meet, i go out of my way to make people feel welcome and happy and put a smile on their face...but there are those assholes in this world that are just constantly angry because something crawled up their ass and died.

SO then i try to make their lives even more miserable

 

[Guest]

I don't think I would have tried to reason with her. I would have looked at her oddly, and said,

"Excuse me?..........Right."

Shake my head then turned and ignored her. If she would have made the same reply, I would have turned to her and said.

"Did your mama drop you on your head as a child, or do you have to work at being ignorant?"

 

[lilpriss]

Hon, there are mean people everywhere! I hate to break it to you.

But you should have beat your kid just because he WILL be flipping birds if he isn't already... LOL just kidding baby.

People need to mind their own business really. Especially when it comes to kids. What's the best way to re-enforce bad behavior??? Acknowledge it more so than when the kids behaving! Sheesh, humanss do incredibly stupis things sometimes.

But please don't take offense when I say this... You're kid WILL be doing stuff like that one day... I hope you aren't one of those people who thinks their kid can do no wrong... that's recipe for disaster.

Have a great one.

Shoulda just looked at her and said, "pardoneez moi? Je ne parle anglais BITCH"

 

[Guest]

MoonWolf - so right, you cannot reason with an idiot. (and I KNOW better than that, damn it!!)

Eagle - wish you had been here! This woman was just looking for someone to bother, I think.

Sixth - I am still laughing! Terrific!!!

 

[Guest]

lilpris - thanks for the input - and I'm not taking offense at all, I know my kids are no angels!!! They are both intelligent, high maintenance, balls of fire, pains in the butt, typical 3 and 7 year olds!

I am sure that flipping someone off will happen someday (God - let's hope it isn't a teacher! lol) but it didn't happen tonight with a 3-year-old who can't quite make the thumbs up yet!! LOL

I also agree with how ridiculous some people in our society are about jumping in on other people's business. And I WISH I could speak French - and I also wish I'd called her a bitch - but then, I would be reinforcing the behavior I don't want my kids to have - Damn - ya can't win!!!

Thanks for writing - I'm glad I started a thread - everyone is making me feel much better!!!

 

[deliciously_naughty]

My mean people suck story of the day...I work in a NYC hotel at the hotel desk, and just to establish background have worked in the industry for 4-5 years progressively working my way up the ladder. When i moved to nyc within my chain, I took a demotion to the front desk (only job open)...I've been with the chain for 7 months and in nyc for a month...my name tag currently said ******(trainee)

I have a woman come to the desk today and I start to check her in...tonight the hotel is oversold by 10 rooms, and this means certain roomtypes, like king bedded rooms are in high demand. By the time she gets there all I can give her is a room with two double beds on the 8th floor (she wants a king on like the 20th). I apologize (I would have offered to change it tommorrow but it's a one night stay) and I explain the situation (hotel is sold out, room types are a request and not a guarantee, I'm sorry she feels that way...) while she's laying into me. She insists that we have a room higher up (I already know we don't...since I'm aware of my inventory) and I look for her and tell her what I already knew...there are only rooms on the third and 4th floor...that's the highest I can put her. Her comment "What else could I expect from a TRAINEE???" Part of me laughed, especially when the people behind her made fun of her and other part of me got pissed in a "who the f*ck does she think she is?" way. Luckily our name tags are tape and I pulled mine off and tore the "trainee" part off since my manager has been promising to get me a new one with no results for over two weeks.

God I hate rude people...do they really think I'm hiding rooms up my sleeve? I would have loved to give her a room on the 20th floor just to get her out of my face...of course part of the reason I didn't offer to give her something upgraded was that 1. we didn't have it and 2. she pissed me off and I wasn't going to give an inch. Besides the next time she wants a king, she should have her idiot travel agent book her that instead of whatever is there.


ok...thanks...needed to get that off my chest...end of rant

 

[Purrde Flower]

I remeber standing at the grocery check out line when one of my boys was 2 ( my 3 year old now ). He can't wear shows becuase of the way his feet were, very curved in. Straightened out a lot now.

I was holding him through most of the grocery store when the basket got full and I perched his bottom on the handle while I stood in front of him holding on and pushing the basket.

I put him down to pay for the groceries and this fridged bitch comes up to me hollering about child abuse because my son was standing barefoot on a dirty floor. I gave her the look paid for my groceries. I saw one of my friends pushed my basket twards her and asked her to watch my son for 5 minutes..

Walked over to the lady and I said.. 200 dollars please. She looked and me and said What? i said that is the cost for the special medical shoes that I can't afford to buy him right now.
The look on her face was priceless.. Belongs on a master Card commercial.. Then she gfets really mad.. Telling me if I can't afford to have kids I should put them up for adoption.. This is where I haul off and smack her across her face.

My audience gives me applaus. I go get my son and I leave.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for sharing, sub23. Why are people so mean to folks that are just trying to help them??? It does feel good to rant, though - I'm much happier than when I first started this!! (of course - a couple of beers haven't hurt anything!!)

 

[Guest]

Purrde - Oh - good for you - I hope you bloodied her stupid face.

How is your son now? Better, you say? Good thing he has you, it sounds like. I'm a teacher, and worry about kids all the time . . .

 

[brisbon]

maybe he did flip her off ..... I mean why not ....she sounds like an asshole

 

[Purrde Flower]

My son is already going to have to tolerate lil snot kids in school. Im not about to let him hear or take anyhting from a "mature" coughbitchcough adult.

 

[floridaguy64]

People like that exist.....everywhere!

LOL - Oh hey - if my kids hadn't been with me . . . I was trying to be a good mommy - couldn't really call her the bitch she was either!!!

From the playgrounds to the boardrooms...........bullys are everywhere.

I personally find it most pleasureable as a General Contractor to affect them where it is most effective........ "the wallet"

Otherwise, I know they exist and I am also am aware that they are not worth the time to think of them, much less sink upon their "pond scum" level.