And that is when I turn into this and rip their head off. In my mind of course.
What do strangers say to you that really irk you?
Actually I haven't had any experiences like this lately, thank goodness--I've been really working on not ripping off random people's heads ya know. tis the season.
And here's a true story about my friend. My friend has 1-year-old twins and an almost 3-yr-old daughter. She went to Walmart the other day (a feat in and of itself!). She had all three kids sitting in her cart and was putting her groceries on the bottom of the cart. Then her potty-training daughter peed her pants. all over the groceries. all the kids were crying. her boy was missing a shoe. Walmart. you get the picture. Plus, that day it dropped like 12 inches of snow. Thank YOU Lake Erie. On top of that, she didn't make it home with all her groceries, including the item that necessitated the shopping trip. This girl deserves an award. Can I get a hear hear!
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Oh my goodness, go Rachel.
We had a snafu yesterday on our way to Utah. We were on a flight that stopped in Baltimore (yes, that's on the way to Utah, didn't you know?) We had to stay on the plane while some passengers got off and others got on, so I decided to move the kids and all our crap up to the front so we could get off more quickly in Utah. We got to the front, but then I remembered I'd forgotten my violin in the overhead in the back. Meanwhile, Sal had made herself comfortable and taken off her socks and shoes. So I ran back to get my violin, and Sal followed me, but before we reached the violin, all the new passengers started getting on the plane and we were stuck. We couldn't get back to our seats. So we were stuck in back with Milo crying in one arm, violin in the other, and Sal barefooted, pulling on my leg until all the passengers were on and seated. Meanwhile, someone had taken our seats. And there was no more room in the overhead for the violin. So I had to stow it in the back anyway. When we got everything straightened out, the PILOT bothered himself with letting me know that I really needed to put socks and shoes on my little girl so she wouldn't catch any diseases...? Thanks pilot. Great timing for parenting advice. Too bad he couldn't hear Milo scream for the next 5 hours. I'm sure he would have known just what I should have done.
wow, this was perfect timing for me to hear that walmart story. I had the most stressful grocery trip to date on saturday. Hazel had to go potty and screamed it loud so everyone knew every 2 minutes, but was too scared to go on the potty there. I was panicking, I had to hurry to get somewhere, and I didn't get half of the groceries I needed. I just pulled a pack of pullups from the shelf, opened it up, ran to the bathroom and put a pullup on her. We paid for the opened package later, and she wet herself and cried herself silly.
Annoying strangers' comments? People used to ask me all the time why I cut my daughter's hair. Because I want her to look like a boy? nope. it just grows really slowly.
Walmart is my nightmare with normal children happenings so this incident fills me with pure terror. Go, moms.
Go Rachel and Kate. That doesn't sound like fun at all. My main problem with people at the moment is complete strangers at Walmart (walmart again) touching Liliana's face... seriously people she's 2 months old and it's flu season....
My pet peeve involves the grocery store and my double stroller. I have two kids that are three years apart but I get great use out of a double stroller even though I don't have twins. When I let my older kid walk I load his empty seat up with groceries sometimes. On more than one occasion I've been stopped by concerned shoppers at the door of the grocery store asking me if my "other baby" is ok under all those groceries. They look at me like I'm the worst mother ever and I want so much to be cool as a cucumber and say something like, "sure, he's fine. He's a tough baby and he can take it." But I'm usually so mad that they think I would load groceries on top of a baby. Double strollers are not just for twins! I'm not that stupid that I don't know you shouldn't load all your grocery bags on top of your infant. Arg!!
Love it! Thanks for the vent session and stories! keep 'em coming! Oh Kate, I'm feelin for you. Perhaps I should start making buttons for moms to hand out when a stranger opens their mouth. It should say "Your ugly" or something :)
Holly, I think the button should say something like, "You're welcome to try to do better. I'd love a break for a few minutes." :)
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