A MUM-of-six has hit back at a bloke who screamed at her in a supermarket after mistaking her weekly shop for stockpiling.
Former Neighbours actress Madeleine West, 39, from Melbourne, says she’s had to get used to the “unguarded glares of passing shoppers” who “assess the contents of her trolley” whenever she goes to the supermarket.
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Writing in a personal essay for 9Honey, the Australian mum explained how its even worse when she gets to the checkout.
She wrote: “I had a bit of an episode a few weeks back when a harried shopper behind me interpreted my Mount Vesuvius-like overloaded trolley to be hoarding.
“He delivered a volley of choice expletives and stormed off to the next counter before I could utter: ‘But I’ve got six kids! This won’t even last the week!'”
But rather than letting the man get away with his outburst, Madeleine kept her cool and delivered a rather brilliant response.
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She told him: “I know my trolley looks like something from a Mike Moore documentary on consumerism, but I am actually a mum to six, and while such a big family isn’t exactly environmentally or economically sustainable right now, one of them might become a specialist in viral pandemics so I’m hedging my bets.”
Needless to say, Madeleine’s retort put the shopper in his place and he then apologised and explained how he’d just had an argument with his partner over a duvet.
Describing how emotions were running high among shoppers, Madeleine confessed how she’d broken down in tears when she found her favourite brand of pasta had been restocked.
Meanwhile, the mum says her three youngest children have been getting “death stares” from members of the public when they have to use hand-rails while walking down stairs.
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She added: “I figure I’ve cleaned their hands for the umpteenth time today and as they still require a handrail it is by definition ‘making use of an essential service’. Either that, or risk them face-planting the concrete.”
Madeleine is famous for her role as Dee Bliss on Neighbours from 2000-2003 and has written the book Six Under Eight where she she admitted she sometimes put her kids to bed in their clothes for the next day to save time in the morning.
But Madeleine isn’t the only mum who has been shamed for her supermarket shop.
This mum-of-eight was left fuming after a stranger branded her ‘greedy’ for stockpiling amid coronavirus outbreak– but it was just her weekly groceries.
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