I'll set the scene.
Macdonalds drive though. (I know, I know).
Two places to order at the microphone/speaker place then you filter into one lane to pay at one window & then collect at another.
Car filtering in front of us contains female driver on mobile phone. Child on front seat unrestrained (aged about 3 but not great with ages, child had a dummy still) There was a car seat in back but was empty obviously. Child is hanging out of the open window, mother trying to manoeuvre the car around the bendy lanes and filter in. Still nattering on phone, just kept dragging child away from window if they leant too far out and pushing them into passenger footwell.
She filters into our lane, then keeps rolling backwards seemingly accidentally as she'd then hit the brake hard, still on phone, still trying to keep child from falling out window. She was rolling almost into us so me and DH shouted at her to get off her phone and control her car and restrain the child.
Still on the phone she shouted back to us what's it gotta do with you? Which is true. We just said for god sake sort the kid out and stop breaking all these laws.
She then said its fine she's only using the drive through she's not actually driving.
And then she put phone down, shouted at the kid to keep still, drove forward, got her food and then drove out of macdonalds and out of the retail park completely. Child still not restrained.
Now I really try not to judge, I always think they might be really stressed/ I don't know what's going on in their lives etc but in this case no, I am judging. There's no excuse. Child should have been in car seat. If child got them selves out and climbed through the seats and got in front seat, pull over. Or at least use normal seatbelt across their lap to stop them hanging out of window, then pull over and put child in car seat. No need to be on phone either. Just no.
I know it's none of my business, and I could have kept out of it but hopefully next time she thinks about being on the phone in car or not putting the child in a car seat she might remember this situation and might do the right thing and that poor kid might not be killed in a RTC. I hope so anyway. 
So AIBU to have judged her and told her so?
AIBU?
To have judged this woman and told her so?
RattleAndRoll · 26/06/2015 17:54
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I would and have had my say in situations involving a similar calibre of idiot OP. Like a few weeks back when some tool of a woman was walking in the middle of a busy-ish road (as in not pavement), pushing a double buggy with her kids in, and had her earphones plugged in during rush hour. And got offended that I sounded my horn, because I stupidly thought she'd become oblivious to the traffic. Nope. Just fancied putting her kids in danger to obstruct traffic
. Some people are just fucking thick.
Fatmomma because that's the important thing about the OP's post
TaliZorah I was once almost run off the road by a high speed overtaker whom I then saw again down the road stopped by a police car - outside the Hendon Police Training College . . . I think the driver was hurrying to keep an appointment to get a brain transplant 
Andrew That must have been a sight to be hold. Karma at it's finest
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