https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 02 May 2026 23:21:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-would-you-have-handled-this#post-718179 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:07:38 +0000 Grace 718179@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have done same as you. Maybe I would have turned sideways so that LO was farther away from the woman. I wouldn't have made a scene. You'd still be stuck next to her in line and she'd just have directed her rage at you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-would-you-have-handled-this#post-718166 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:56:59 +0000 yourekindapretty 718166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i wouldve shoved her. NO IM KIDDING.<br /> i wouldve probably used the car as an excuse to just leave and hit up another post office or come back later to avoid her - if i didnt know how to just tell her to not touch my the baby.<br /> I'm sure it's easier said than done, but im hoping i'll be able to tell strangers not to touch when my lo is here.</p> <p>rant: why do ppl think it's okay to touch a strangers child??? is it just a change in social etiquette btwn generations - and our generation just does not accept touching? maybe im being super aggressive about it, but thinking about even my friends and family, who picks up/touches my baby, without asking first really annoys me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-would-you-have-handled-this#post-718143 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:36:25 +0000 T.H.O.U. 718143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Becuase she was already in such a bad mood I probably wouldn't have said anything unless I thought my child's safety was in the way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-would-you-have-handled-this#post-718138 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:33:56 +0000 Rhdscait 718138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am not an intentionally confrontational person. But, I won't avoid it, either. If something needs to be said, I speak up. In that situation, I most definitely would have politely asked her to stop and move on to someone else if she felt the need to continue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-would-you-have-handled-this#post-718128 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:27:36 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 718128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I am irritated I will speak up. I would have likely said "please stop" very curtly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-would-you-have-handled-this#post-718123 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:22:56 +0000 MsLipGloss 718123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have told her to back off! It's one thing to complain to me, it is another to touch my baby! I pity the foo who messes with my LO! *l left off intentionally. :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-would-you-have-handled-this#post-717866 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:05:33 +0000 swurlygurl 717866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have done exactly what you did... Do nothing for fear of creating a problem, but wish I could say something</p> <p>I'm super un-confrontational though. I dread taking DD out because strangers like to touch other people's babies! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-would-you-have-handled-this#post-717825 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:47:31 +0000 Cchoi4 717825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was at the post office today, waiting in a LONG line. My car was in a non parking zone and I had my hazards on so you can imagine I was antsy to get out of there with LO.</p> <p>The woman in line in front of me started grumbling to whoever would listen. She went on and on about how all the windows were filled and yet there still was such a long wait. Of course, me being right behind her, she decided to direct most of her comments and complaints to me....</p> <p>I thought she would quit after a minute or two but she was literally going on and on. I would just smile, nod but not offer too much back. (I really wasn't in the mood to talk and I have several friend's mother's who work for the post office so, although I was frustrated myself, I wasn't going to get into a conversation about it with a stranger). </p> <p>Then came the part that I didn't appreciate. The lady saw my son with my iphone and started talking to him. He's only 2 and was preoccupied but she kept going back and addressing him about how he could probably run the post office himself, man a window, how he's more advanced in technology than the people working there, etc etc. And then she kept trying to touch him. It was rubbing me the wrong way because 1) she wouldn't stop and 2) she was in a bad mood. I don't think i would have had much of a problem with it if she was just saying something lighthearted like he was wearing something cute ...</p> <p>I didn't say anything but was thinking in my head the appropriate thing to do. I wanted to tell her not to touch him...but then that might have turned into something ugly...I don't know...</p> <p>what would you have done? </p>