How to Ruin Someone's Day...

This is not particularly "Finnish" but yet again, a situation that happened at the local S Market...
(I'm sure if you've read my previous odd experiences they're a hoot and I'm glad they entertain you.  No really - I am!)

I was having a pretty decent day - considering my oldest son screamed for an hour at 2am and again at 4:50am...stomach pains or teething - not sure.

Anyway - we had gone downtown to do some shopping - the grocery shops were packed because tomorrow is a holiday (Finnish Independence Day) - and of course, we needed to get some groceries....

So we walked back from downtown and headed into the local S Market and I was checking off things from my mental grocery list (milk, meat, bread, coffee etc). when the Chinese lady saw me and said hello.

What Chinese lady?  Oh, well the one who tried to give me her cat awhile ago...

She stopped me and started chatting with the boys and V�in� was in a pissy mood to begin with - so I told her "Oh don't mind him he's in a bad mood - he has new teeth coming."
She smiles and nods and apologizes to him for making him scream more...she's touching his dinosaur fleece hat and under his chin...and she pulls it back and sees a HUGE black bruise on the bottom of his chin.

Rewind to last Saturday...V�in� jumps A LOT.  He's a spirited kid (more energetic and more demanding etc.) and doesn't have very good aim sometimes.  He jumped from one couch to another - missed and caught the couch frame (bottom part where the cushions rest) with his chin.
It's black....Tim nor I have never had a black bruise before..anyway.
(Fast forward)


So she looks at the bruise and shock is all over her face and she looks at me and is about to yell "WAHHHHH" or something else - who knows.
I cut her off before she could out-loud accuse me of beating my child and said, "He fell off the couch."
She THEN continues to stare at the bruise and at me...and this is the part that ruined my day...

"Why you not watch him?!"
"I do watch him - he's very fast and ..." me (NEVER MIND the fact that I also have a new baby in the house - well he's almost 2 months old... and that I MIGHT be home alone when this happened and my husband could be at work...Anyways...)
"Why you let this happen?!  He hurt!"
"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!"  I say firmly
"Oh you bad mom letting him get hurt!"
(Count to 3 before I slap her silly)
"Look - I'm going to leave now before I really yell at you.  Good bye." and I walk away.

THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In true Chinese-fashion - she laughs really loudly and starts smacking me in the arm...
"A HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAA" (smack smack smack my arm)

I guess she didn't get my hint that I was super pissed about her comments either.
I wasn't joking about yelling at her - and perhaps she wasn't joking about calling me a bad mother and silently accusing me of beating my kid.

When in Finland...

Now if that was a Finn instead of a Chinese lady - oh wait.  That wouldn't happen if it was a Finn because they do us the kindness of keeping to themselves.  Perhaps if it was a friend that is a Finn - I'd laugh it off a lot more...but a person I barely know (whom I am pretty sure doesn't have children) borderline accuses me of abusing my kids and being a crappy mother - that makes me mad.