Awful Target outing today, I'm still shaken up

jlh123 · April 2010

I had my babies in the stroller and I was pushing the stroller and pulling the cart. I stopped to read over my list, then I look up to see a little girl (probably 6 years old) with her head in the stroller putting her hand in my daughter's mouth. I firmly but politely said to her "what are you doing (out of shock and surprise)? please don't touch her or put your hand in her mouth. Thank you".

The mother says to me, "what did she do". What she meant is she knew what she did but what harm was it.

I said... "she was touching my daughter and putting her hand in her mouth"

She cut me off and said "but she was gentle" and then she pulls her daughter to her and says "weren't you gentle?". And then she went off on me. Yelling, I'm not kidding when I said yelling. She followed me yelling that I'm a mean women and how dare I tell her daugther to not touch MY babies and how gentle she was.

I said to her "my babies were born 2 months early and were in a hospital". She was livid screaming at me telling me I'm a mean lady and telling her daughter to never go around mean ladies. THen she's pulling her daughter and following me yelling at me. Other women were staring at her and giving her looks. I basically just tried to escape her. I finally did but then found a security guard. I checked out and asked him to escort me to my car because the women clearly was nuts. Seriously, she could've been on something.

I am so upset. I'm so protective over them. I immeditately started wiping them down with teh kiddie wipes I had. I didn't know if she touched my son.

Seriously, every other mother always says "oh twins, look but don't touch" to their kids. I've never seen someone tell ME it's OK to

jlh123 · April 2010

sorry for all the posts. I've never seen someone tell me it's ok to have their kid touch my baby or put their hand in my baby's mouth as long as they're gentle. Heck, my hand rarely goes in my own babies unless I just cleaned them!

Sweets2005 · April 2010

OMG! What a horrible B! I am so sorry that happened to you!!!! I would have called the cops on her, seriously. That is SO uncalled for. She should have just walked away!

We had our own bad experience today (although not as bad as yours but I thought I would share). I was getting an ultrasound at MFM and as we were checking out, this bratty little 3 year old runs up to my stroller and sticks his face in DS' carseat. He then proceeds to growl/yell in DS' face!!! He did it once and I just kind of looked in shock, hoping his mom (or one of the other 80 people she had with her) would say something but she just kept talking on her phone! Then the kid did it again only louder and DS jumped and looked scared! So I said, "Don't yell in the baby's face, you will scare him." The mom still sits there. And then he does it again only LOUDER and scarier! The whole time he is really in DS' face, too. So I said to DH (loud enough for the mom to hear) "You better take them out in the hall." And DH starts pushing them out the door and the kid jumps in between DH and the stroller and starts to "help" push the stroller and that is finally when the mom jumps up to get her kid and says in a laughing voice (like it was cute), "ohh they dont need help!" WTF!!!!!!!!!!! I was pissed!!!! Poor DS had a scared look on his face until I got out to him.

Anyway, I'm really sorry again. That is horrible. I would be so apologetic if my child put her hand in a strange baby's mouth, even if she was gentle!

Rachel&Joe · April 2010

I would have FREAKED OUT like an animal. you are a bigger woman that me to have contained yourself. hugs to you.

hewinked · April 2010

My goodness, what a psycho! I'm happy you got a security guard to escort you out!

I didn't like when people touched DD when she was first born and for many months after. She was only 5 weeks early and was healthy, but I was super cautious about it, given that she was born early. I told a young child to please not touch, as they rubbed on DD's face. The parents were very nice, stating, "She loves babies" and then apologized. People just don't understand. I'm sorry you had to go through all that!

Mrs. Destructo · April 2010

Welcome to the freak show Sad

I also would have (actually, I have) freaked out like an animal on stupid b!tches that touch my babies. I would have screamed at that little girl, then screamed at her mother until she needed to get a security guard to get me off of her. And honestly, I think it would be perfectly acceptable for you to react the same way if this happens again. It's okay to protect your babies, even if you look like a total B while doing so.

jlh123 · April 2010

I just got back out from pie and coffee with my Mom after such a rough day.

I have no idea why so many posts and my grammar was horrible! (I said women and it should've been woman a few times and some other mistakes).

This took a while for me to calm down today. Thanks ladies for understanding.

I wanted to go off like crazy but my son was already very scared and I wanted to keep them both calm. We don't yell in our home so they aren't used to screaming and going nuts and I needed to protect them. I was shaking though. I couldn't get a word in with her because she was going nuts. I honestly think she may have been under the influence of something.

Now I'll go erase the other posts!

At1stsight · April 2010

I am so sorry. I would have been beyond upset too. And if what happened to Sweets ever happened to me, I'd be ALL up in that kid's face the moment he first growled. I'm so glad we haven't had anything that crazy happen yet. Thanks for sharing your story - I feel like I hadn't really thought about how I'd react to these kinds of ppl until now. :hugs: Hope you're feeling better!

Bippy798 · April 2010

Wow! I would have been livid!

abbzy85 · April 2010

I don't understand how these people are also mothers. I'm so protective over my kids too, I would never let them go touch other babies, it's so obnoxious. I think parents just think it's cute that their kid wants to touch babies, but HELLO babies do NOT need to be touched.