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This is just a rant. I'm in the mall with my 12 year old daughter who is shopping for two separate birthday gifts for two of her friends. She purchases one gift and I foolishly think we are on our way to another store to look for another gift. She then continues to shop in the same store. I ask her why not just go to the checkout counter after she has finished shopping for everything? She replies that its a woman shopping thing and that I would not understand. I then tell my daughter that if she wants a guy (i.e. father, brother or future husband or boyfriend) to go shopping with you drop the "woman shopping thing for the common sense shopping thing". At that second a woman who is standing across from me walks right up to me and says "That was not a nice thing to say to the young lady!!" I replied "Its also not nice to say mind your f#$%ing business, but that didn't stop me either?" The woman turns beet red and starts to go on about my rude response during which I turn around and calmly walk out of the store with my daughter. Outside of physical or verbal abuse where do some people think its ok to insert themselves into a two way conversation. Especially a conversation that was not loud, and was not all that serious to begin with?
This is just a rant. I'm in the mall with my 12 year old daughter who is shopping for two separate birthday gifts for two of her friends. She purchases one gift and I foolishly think we are on our way to another store to look for another gift. She then continues to shop in the same store. I ask her why not just go to the checkout counter after she has finished shopping for everything? She replies that its a woman shopping thing and that I would not understand. I then tell my daughter that if she wants a guy (i.e. father, brother or future husband or boyfriend) to go shopping with you drop the "woman shopping thing for the common sense shopping thing". At that second a woman who is standing across from me walks right up to me and says "That was not a nice thing to say to the young lady!!" I replied "Its also not nice to say mind your f#$%ing business, but that didn't stop me either?" The woman turns beet red and starts to go on about my rude response during which I turn around and calmly walk out of the store with my daughter. Outside of physical or verbal abuse where do some people think its ok to insert themselves into a two way conversation. Especially a conversation that was not loud, and was not all that serious to begin with?
The woman was extremely rude, but that doesn't warrant an equally -- or ruder -- response. I would have come up with a more polite brush-off and just thought the rest of it in your head, especially since your daughter was witnessing the whole thing. (it's that whole two wrongs don't make a right thing) I can understand the temptation, though.
(and for what it's worth, maybe the shopping thing is a 12-year-old girl thing; I, and none of my female friends, shop like that! The only exception would be if you spotted something on the way out that you missed the first time.)
The woman was extremely rude, but that doesn't warrant an equally -- or ruder -- response. I would have come up with a more polite brush-off and just thought the rest of it in your head, especially since your daughter was witnessing the whole thing. (it's that whole two wrongs don't make a right thing) I can understand the temptation, though.
(and for what it's worth, maybe the shopping thing is a 12-year-old girl thing; I, and none of my female friends, shop like that! The only exception would be if you spotted something on the way out that you missed the first time.)
I'm a single dad. I'd get the "how cute, it must be your weekend" all the time. Why does anyone need to say that unprompted? I'd always say "it's my weekend every weekend and I get the other 5 days too". Well I semi-snapped one day when it6 happened at the Girl Scout store. Some mother said that to me and I responded "I'm her assistant troop leader. You'd know that if you ever showed up to any of the meetings". BTW, I was the Asst Troop Leader. I still have the pink eel skin planner Virginia Slims sent to the "woman in me". And while in the general area, why are there only Calgon basket door prizes at the TL meetings? Here's a tip, when this happens to the token male GS TL don't yell "you go girl", he's probably uncomfortable enough.
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