The Hemulen
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Was visiting my brothers at the weekend. His wife arrived back from Tesco after we arrived obviously pretty wound up. As well as the normal Bank Holiday supermarket hell things were taken to a new level by the following incident.
A young child wandered up to her trolley and took the shopping list from the clipboard thing by the handle. As the kid wandered off with the list she not surprisingly asked him for it back. At this point the kids mother asked what was going on so she politely informed her that her child had taken the list and could she have it back please.
Now you'd assume at this the parent would return the list with an apology but no.. She asked the child where he got it. He said 'on the floor' so she said 'well he found it so it's his isn't it' and walked off with it.
The mother in question wasn't some tracksuit wearing chav as it might sound either.
What would you have done in that situation? I'm pretty sure I'd have gone balistic and grabbed back the list with some choice words directed at the mother. Probably more sensibly she walked away in case it kicked off.
A young child wandered up to her trolley and took the shopping list from the clipboard thing by the handle. As the kid wandered off with the list she not surprisingly asked him for it back. At this point the kids mother asked what was going on so she politely informed her that her child had taken the list and could she have it back please.
Now you'd assume at this the parent would return the list with an apology but no.. She asked the child where he got it. He said 'on the floor' so she said 'well he found it so it's his isn't it' and walked off with it.
The mother in question wasn't some tracksuit wearing chav as it might sound either.
What would you have done in that situation? I'm pretty sure I'd have gone balistic and grabbed back the list with some choice words directed at the mother. Probably more sensibly she walked away in case it kicked off.