Mother's fury after Sainsbury's 配達／演説／出産 driver told her four-year-old son he should 'be a superhero', not wearing a sparkly fairy dress?

  • Youngster opened the door to a 配達／演説／出産 driver from the supermarket
  • He was wearing a fairy 衣装 after playing with his youngster sister
  • 配達／演説／出産 driver told him he 'should be a superhero', not a fairy
  • Mother says 出来事/事件 has left the boy 気が進まない to get dressed up?

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Wendy Armitage is angry that a Sainsbury's delivery driver told off her son Isaac for wearing a fairy costume

Wendy Armitage is angry that a Sainsbury's 配達／演説／出産 driver told off her son Isaac for wearing a fairy 衣装

A mother was left furious after a Sainsbury's 配達／演説／出産 driver scolded her son for wearing a fairy outfit.

Isaac Armitage, four, was playing with his little sister and answered the door to the 配達／演説／出産 man wearing the 黒人／ボイコット and purple 衣装.

But, to his mother Wendy's fury, the driver then told him: 'Someone needs to take you to one 味方する and have a word with you, you can't be a fairy, you should be a superhero.'

Mrs Armitage, 36, says Isaac has been left upset by the 出来事/事件 and doesn't want to dress up anymore.

She said: 'I just couldn't believe it when I heard it. If he had said it's unusual to be a fairy, we wouldn't have have thought too much of it bu t 説 someone should take Isaac to one 味方する 暗示するs he was doing something wrong.

'I feel disappointed that there are still people in this world that ask questions like that and and think it is their 権利 to tell other people what they can and cannot wear.

The 出来事/事件 happened at the family's home in Effingham, Surrey earlier this year, when Mrs Armitage was upstairs 残り／休憩（する）ing and her husband was in the kitchen.

Mrs Armitage overheard the conversation after Isaac opened the door to the delivery driver
Mrs Armitage overheard the conversation after Isaac opened the door to the delivery driver

Mrs Armitage overheard the conversation after Isaac opened the door to the 配達／演説／出産 driver

Mrs Armitage, a former paediatric nurse, said: 'I heard the driver say to my son "where's mummy?" and Isaac said I was upstairs.

'So he asked Isaac "are you the doctor and your sister the nurse?", which I thought was a bit sexist, and he said 'why are you wearing a fairy dress?'

'Isaac said "because I am 存在 a fairy" and the driver said someone should take him to one 味方する and have a word with him.'

She 追加するd: 'He first wore a fairy dress after going to a toddler group and they had a big box of dressing up outfits and they had a dress there and he liked it.

'So we got a 捕らえる、獲得する of mixed dressing up 着せる／賦与するs and he liked those dresses 同様に, he also likes the 消防士 outfit.'

Mrs Armitage and her friends have complai ned to the company on social media

Mrs Armitage and her friends have complained to the company on social マスコミ

The company has apologised and says it had taken action against the driver. File photo

The company has apologised and says it had taken 活動／戦闘 against the driver. とじ込み／提出する photo

Mrs Armitage has since complained to the supermarket and explained to her children that what the man said was wrong.

She has called for the 配達／演説／出産 driver to be retrained.

A spokeswoman for Sainsbury's said: 'We have apologised to the 顧客 for these 不適切な 発言／述べるs and taken suitable 活動／戦闘 with the 同僚.'

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