today in the Target store with a woman. We were making a special trip to a town with a Target. That was 60 miles away. I also had to go to the jr. college there to buy a textbook for a class.
Her very large son was growling and making loud noises and speaking loudly and in a garbled manner. I was not sure if he was probably mentally challenged.
But I have also seen supposedly normal people in stores that get angry with very slight provocation. They tend to be extremely conservatively religious and most likely gun owners. If I used the common word for that socio-economic category I would be called racist at DU.
We heard him before they got in the checkout lane, when they were about 40 feet from it. They started to get in the checkout line in front of us (at a 90 deg. angle) and hubby said "Let's get away from him before he barks at us again". The young man was large and was scary. She said "Oh no, you don't have to move."
So i walked backwards holding on to the cart to get us out of that line.Hubby was holding on to the front of the cart pushing it backwards.
While we were checking out in another line, a woman came up and started crying and told us he had autism and that we were not supposed to say anything about her son barking.
She walked away before I could say anything. I was so stunned that she didn't give me the chance to tell her that I have hypertension, take medication, have had it for 22 years, and my nerves are shot. Hubby also has hypertension and takes medication as well.
I have a right in a public place to get away from someone who is large, loud and disruptive.
We were both intimidated by the mother and son both, completely drained by this expression of anger at us, and I felt like a hopeless dishrag with no energy, like I always do when someone gets mad at me or violates my boundaries. Confrontation really sucks my energy away.
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