I live in a private square with six houses of which my husband and I own the driveway connecting us to the main road. Since lockdown I’ve had socially distanced coffee with two of the women on a couple of occasions (they meet most days) but one I find a bit of a bore as she just boasts constantly about her OH, her son, her holidays, her cake making abilities, how rich they are, etc. Anyway as we own the drive our son plays with a basketball hoop we’ve erected on our drive along with another neighbours son. We also own a wooded area opposite her house. We were speaking to our neighbours about joining forces to have a limited company in order for us all to contribute to the upkeep for wooded area and drive but It all got a bit complicated as some of the houses wanted to use the wooded area for extra parking or to use it for a entertaining space. We didn’t really want anything completed so will carry on sweeping the drive and maintaining it. Anyway to cut a long story short we’ve let the neighbours use the drive for get togethers or car washing as their house is on a very small plot with no front garden. They’ve complained about the teenagers using it and said the wooded area is an eyesore. (We’ve been waiting for 4 months to get area landscaped due to covid). So she then sees my son out with a friend last week using the hoop and she walks round to the other neighbours house and then the other neighbour texted me to say the boys weren’t socially distancing. If another child uses it she never complains. Now I’ve said her son can use it anytime but he chooses not to. She always superficially friendly but her husband literally ignores our whole family when we say hello. I normally wouldn’t give one but she said to me out on the drive at the weekend at the end of a lengthy boast about her son that even though her son is a year younger than my son, her son is a man and my son is a boy compared to him! Then got another text this morning complaining about the basketball playing. All our children are at the same school and my son tells me her son really struggles socially and my son has lots of friends and quite sociable with his peers, though he’s not very tall! Big deal. So AIBU or is she a real cow?! Why would you insult another persons child to their face about a physical attribute? I’m fuming cause I didn’t say back anything to her. I feel I let my son down. He’s a lovely looking young man who works hard at school. My OH thinks I need to chill and not have coffee with them again.
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Boasting neighbour rude to my face about my son
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fluffy71 · 01/06/2020 20:13
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