WWYD?
Show your support
She sounds very entitled and I’m surprised her son is so polite and thoughtful when she behaves like that towards a toddler, even indirectly. Not sure how I would react, save for avoiding her if possible in future. Did no one stick up for you? You’d like to think someone would try and deescalate yelling at a kid’s party.
@Rachel thank you - that’s how I felt that after apologising a fair few times. Unfortunately I couldn’t just go suddenly as my toddler was having his tattoo at that moment but luckily it finished quickly.
@Donna no one stuck up for me. The face painter tried but really no one did.
I’m really sorry about that. I don’t handle conflict well and would probably have not known what to say and it’s hard if you can’t just walk because the lady is still painting. Hopefully you don’t have to spend any more time near her and she’ll likely get her comeuppance when she runs her mouth at the wrong person.
@Donna thank you :) It felt rubbish in the moment but I’m grateful I didn’t argue for the sake of arguing.
Oh definitely. You don’t want to sink to her level. Sounds like she royally humiliated herself and her son.
First of all well done Incog for not retaliating and rising to the bait. I like to think I am healed and a changed woman, but honestly if I was in that situation, I’m not too sure the unhealed savage IDGAF Neena wouldn’t have reared her head and would have politely asked her since she wants to run her fucking gums so much, let’s go outside and see if she’s so brave when she’s about to get thumped 🤣 About shout in my face at a kids party! 😤 I wouldn’t have apologised in the first place that’s for sure. Her son and the other child said they were ok with it. She can get fucked if she thinks her railing up will get her anywhere. I would like to think if it were me and my small child was next to me, I would ask her if she’s not embarrassed acting like a loon, shouting at a kids party, over nonsense, and would then tell my toddler see look, this is what happens when you don’t have control of your emotions, you look like a silly person 😂
Whoever was hosting the party should have a polite word with that lady, she was rude despite you telling her and the painter. She just sounds angry, and that's a bad example for her own child but you did the adult thing and praised the little boy. In hindsight if you wasn't as calm as you were it most probably would have been a worse situation if you yelled back. At the end of the day you came out as the adult and you have a toddler also it's not like the same age as her child. I'm just thinking what is it to her if her child had to wait for something at a party, she is too overbearing!
Tell her to seek professional help and adjust her dosage and leave it at that.
Tell her she can yell and embarrass herself if she likes but unless she can be polite and reasonable you have nothing left to say to her, you don't want to fight but you're also not going to stand and be shouted at because that is not how reasonable people communicate. Then turn/walk away as soon as possible. Literally ignore it. Would maybe make the person more mad but then they'll just embarrass themselves more. Easier said than done, in the moment I probably would have just gawked at her and not known what to say. But I wouldn't have been embarrassed for myself only for the person acting like a dickhead!