Why do old people...

Rosebean · November 2014

See your crying baby and stop by your shopping cart to say "Oh Dear", and then stand there, peering into the cart as if their presence will make a difference? Excuse me, but bugger off!!! ***end rant*** Anyone else with a stranger danger story?

fignewt74 · November 2014

I just feel bad when they try to help by making weird clicking noises, and DS2 is not having any of that. :-q

MommyAndHerLatte · November 2014

It drives me nuts when strangers touch DS. Uhm, get your hands off my baby and get out of my personal space. I always take a step back, but sometimes that's not enough to make them stop.
:-/

Puck1182 · November 2014

Lately I'm annoyed with my dad. He doesn't know how to butt out and let DH and I be the parents. He's so freaking paranoid about DD choking when she eats that he's constantly telling her to "chew your food good." Except lately DD's response to this is to stop chewing, open her mouth, and cover it with her hand, then giggle. So basically, it makes her MORE likely to choke, and he won't take the goddamn hint that he needs to stop saying it to her because (a) I have a better handle on when she's putting too much in her mouth than he does and (b) what he's doing is, in practice, completely counterproductive to the goal of her not choking. But then he gets all butthurt when I try to explain it to him.

tamarar5 · November 2014

Amen! Or express their disapproval of my family size by making underhanded comments to my oldest like, "why does your mommy keep having these babies? "

Thank you mean aunt. I love to hear your opinion of my lifestyle from the innocent lips of my child who thinks it's cool to repeat hurtful crap like that.

Rosebean · November 2014

@tamarar5 if anyone ever said that, my reply would be "because birth control is soooo over rated!" Then wink. Haha! Keep 'em guessing when the next one is coming.

Amstreagle · November 2014

Ugh or when they ask (not so much at this age) to hold your baby. Umm, no I don't know you!

kalyth76 · November 2014

I can completely relate! I just have to share this story...Once in the grocery store, DS was being a little fussy in the cart while I was near the fish display. An elderly woman comes up to him and says "Awww, someone's not happy. Here, let's see if this makes you feel better." And she hands him a piece of ice from the raw fish display, which he promptly eats. I was in utter shock.

Kate

topolina1215 · November 2014

When DD was 3 weeks old, an older lady who worked as a bank teller tried to give her a lollipop! I must have looked obviously puzzled because she kept insisting I could just hold the lollipop in DD's mouth and she would love it. :-/

Rosebean · November 2014

Maybe I should have said "why do strangers" because it drives me ape no matter what a person's age is had they done that, TBH. I'm crotchety like that.

holly321 · November 2014

I don't get the food thing. We were at the grocery store and the cashier tried to hand ds a cowtail. I told her he was allergic and she got really huffy at me, and read the ingredients, like I was lying. Besides the allergies, he doesn't have a ton of teeth and would choke.

tamarar5 · November 2014

@holly321‌ Wth? Why would someone nor believe assn allergy? I don't get that. But it's happened to me, too. C had a horrible reaction to get last vaccine, and the er doctor told me I was lying. Never did find out what the reaction was to, because she's fine with milk, eggs, and grain.

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