Public Property ?

[lakeland27]

today i had an incident occur involving my 3 and 3 quarter year old son . its something that happens reasonably often.. and i wonder if it is rude of me to respond in the way i do.

I take him with me to the local shopping precinct in order to run some errands , and he tends to attract a bit of attention from some 'ladies' there as he is rather a cute little chap (its in his DNA 🙂 thanks tone).

anyway, the first lady drops down to his level and says 'i'd like to take him home .. what a gorgeous little boy.. etc'' i say 'yes , a lot of people say that' (or something similarly bland) and the woman ignores me totally and continues to annoy him with tickles and other unwanted attention. I take his hand and walk on only for the same thing to happen again... lady talks to my son and ignores me totally. dont get me wrong, i don't want the attention of these people.. but i do get annoyed with the ignorant behaviour so i asked the 3rd person not to talk to him, and told her to 'retreat' in no uncertain terms as the boy gets tired of it himself. needless to say person No3 gets irate and calls me various things .

am i being unreasonable ? it seemed a fair number in the crowd there thought so.

[cherry*135]

LL has mentioned the boy child before Gill.

[*pepe]

your only mistake was not telling the first two to get their mitts off your son.

[lakeland27]

o dear LL...not a fantasy...?  my idea of you from your posts is a man really past child bearin 

sorry if I've made a mistake

 My OH is a tiny bit younger than me Gill,  lets just say he was an unexpected  addition 🙂

i also thought i was past it to tell the truth.

[lakeland27]

your only mistake was not telling the first two to get their mitts off your son.

the first two didn't touch *pepe.

[chuk_77]

teach your child to say in a loud voice

stop i dont like it. and get him to pull away, they'll soon stop and it teaches him he does not have to put up with being touched by strangers 

[*pepe]

the first two didn't touch *pepe.

is tickling not touching? 

[lakeland27]

is tickling not touching? 

i guess you are right,  looks like i have to go back to sort her out too 🙂

[vampire-teddy]

my mother is a shocker for that.  just a couple of weeks ago i went into the loo and when i came out she was nursing some man's new born baby.  i tell her to stop but she talks to all the little ones.  i think it is her age she is 77.  

[vintage-star]

OMG!!...... The same thing used to happen to me!!!....... People would ignore me and bog on about my kids (both of them) poke poke!..... Hair mussing etc etc. .....while I stood there like a dill!!.......... LL,I eventually did a similar thing to you, I would keep walking and say, " no, don't touch!!

[**meep**]

whats the world coming to.....

you know, it has come to a point where an adult, especially a male would be too afraid to offer assistance to a child that was in trouble.....I have seen that happen...