Mama Confrontations Part 2
Beware the mall....
To catch up on Part 1 of my confrontation, click here.
So there I was, amazed that this lady was having a problem over a kid bumping into her. After all, we were surrounded by them in a very confined space. I turned to her and said “Is there a problem?” She said, “Yeah, your kid just ran into me twice now and it really hurt and she didn’t bother saying excuse me or sorry or anything! ”
At this point my heart is beating so fast it feels like it’s about to pop out of my chest. Was this really happening?
I turned to her and said, “ Well we ARE in a children’s play are and there are tons of kids running around, what do you expect?” She said, ” I expect her to say sorry or you to say sorry for your kid, maybe you should teach your kids some manners……” I couldn’t hear anything after that I was shaking and absolutely irate that some stranger was talking not so nice things about my daughter. I looked at her and said ” You’re obviously very hurt, would you feel better if I had my four year old child come apologize to you, would that make you feel better?” (Yes, I was being sarcastic.)
Anyway, the “conversation” ended in her turning her head away from me while I was talking and her putting her hand up and saying “shut it” to me.
“Shut it”? Who says that? Especially to a perfect stranger? This lady obviously had issues and it wasn’t uncommon for her to get into fights with random people over nothing.
I stayed for another 10 minutes or so; I wasn’t going to cut Serophina’s play time short cause of the immature person sitting next to me. After we left the play are, we walked around the mall some more and headed back out. Our exit was right by the play area and when we walked past, she was still talking about us to another perfect stranger! I could tell she was describing the situation because her arms were reenacting everything.
At that point, I just laughed. I had gotten over it and moved on, and she was telling anyone who would listen the atrocities that befallen her in the play area.
Have you ever been in a situation like this? What would you have done if this happened to you?
Erin told me about this. I thought it was pretty amusing, especially you getting sarcastic with her. I mean, how injured could you be with a 4 year old running into you, not to mention the whole being in a kids play area? Anyway, thought you handled it well.