I was at IKEA today. It opened exactly one month ago, and it's still extremely busy, as it's the first IKEA store in our state. There was a family with three children, and all of the children had those wheelie sneakers with the wheels in them, and were skating around. The two younger, smaller children were sticking close to the parents, but the oldest child, a girl of about 12, was all over the place. She kept running into displays, and knocking things down, but worse, she kept running into people. She hit me twice, once hard enough to knock my purse and my loaded IKEA bag off my shoulder. I was annoyed, but I didn't get really angry until she ran into a very petite woman with a child on her hip. She hit the woman so hard that the woman actually fell forward, nearly dropping her child. She threw a hand out at the last minute and caught herself on a sofa. I shudder to think what would have happened had she been by the castered office chairs.
What does one politely say, and to whom?
2007-06-24
00:59:00
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Bronwen
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Etiquette