To be fuming at her for this!

Doesn’t matter if you see both fully comp. Unless she is a named driver on your policy she isn’t insured to drive your car. Driving other cars extension ( which is the bit in your policy that allows someone to drive your car is for emergencies only, you could argue that this is an emergency but I’m not sure your insurance company would agree) and even if they do, it literally will only cover Third party damage so if she causes an accident and writes off your car then you wouldn’t be covered.

never let someone else drive your car unless named driver. It’s madness!

also it’s your car, I’d have told her to fuck right off if she wanted to drive my car home in the middle of the night. Not sure why you didn’t.

Exactly. Imagine hearing in real life someone tell you such a poor me Easter holiday tale?????

Expect people to back away and strike your name mentally off their list because you would tolerate such a farce that ruined your childs holiday.

You should have said. I'm going back to bed. Get your DH to collect you on the morning.

I know this shouldn't have made me laugh but the idea of you raging in the back of your own car between vomiting kids did make me chuckle. Were you clasping your bag in front of you?

There was no need for you to be in that situation but you chose to be. There is passive and then there is this. Hopefully you found your backbone during the 3 hour journey home

No, no and no would have been my response to her demanding i drive them home, especially as I'm emetophobic of other people's sick. I'd be joining your ds in crying and screaming at the sick

Is she insured to drive your car?

She's subjecting your poor son to his phobia, in close contact

Its probably a sick bug, so is all but guaranteeing you and/or son will be infected

The fact she just helped herself to your keys? I'd go absolutely bat s**t crazy.

I'd absolutely hate being in a caravan with them as well, but at least there's a loo they could use, i think if everyone had stayed put, If I was you I'd have taken my son and slept in the car least it would be sick free, especially as you say it doesn't have individual rooms. Stuck in a caravan with people throwing up sounds my idea of hell as an emetophobe

I needed a trigger warning at 7 people in a touring caravan! 🤣

Seven people in a caravan would be my idea of hell, even before they all started being unwell. Wouldn't have invited them in the first place, just a recipe for conflict, tension and grief.
Nothing can be done about it now and cannot see how your friendship can survive unless you both want it too.

Two adults and five kids, seven seater car.

I think she sounds horrible tbh, and a bit of a brat. The fact she’s there enjoying a free holiday with 4 children, and then has the nerve to complain about your child and tell your child off, the friendship would be over. Sorry you’ve been treated this way.

I wouldn't have let her drive my car for 3 hours during the night unless it was a matter of life and death.
She sounds awful, you know that's the end of the friendship - and a great story to tell for evermore!

Another nonsensical MN admin plant story. Does anybody believe this happened. How did they travel with 2 adults and 7 kids to begin with. If your gonna bullshit get your narrative right. Bore off

Oh OP, you have nobody to blame but yourself here.

You're an adult...you didn't have to leave, didn't have to get in your car, didn't have to let her drive.

Please start standing up for yourself!

This!!

If you are so triggered why are you continuing to click on this thread and reply to others comments? Surely you would have stopped reading the OP post and moved on… by your logic anyone posting on Mumsnet needs to preface any post with a trigger warning for absolutely anything! Please do not compare a fear of sick to more serious issues as previous posters have also said, very offensive.

She probably arrived at the station (or back home) at least a week ago.

Thought it was longer ago than that. It feels like a couple if weeks at least. But I wasn’t imagining it then was I, this thread has been here before!

Why are you posting this again you already have a thread about this during the week.

woke my DS up who was shaking and crying

He must be a Mumsnetter

Even though I agree that that was an unreasonable thing for her to do, she's just trying to protect her kids and the ones she loves. I think there must be an additional stress added to her so I would take some time away and then communicate your feelings and ask her why she reacted in this way.

Emetophobe here - don’t tar us all with the same brush please. It’s a common phobia, and can be debilitating but many of us are managing it with counselling, etc and not demanding control over anyone.

I definitely wouldn't have anything to do with her ever again except to tell her about the text you saw on her phone and tell her a few home truths about her and her kids like they are a nightmare and tell her not to ever call your child again and all you were doing was being nice giving her a bit of a holiday with her kids and all you got in return was to be woken up by some mad bitch wanting to go home in the middle of the night because her kids were throwing up that is so selfish making you take her home and having the cheek to make you sit with her sick kids why she drove your car without bloody asking I think she sounds like a nasty bitch who doesn't deserve your friendship.

I'd just take her to the nearest station.

The only part I agree with your friend is your son screaming over sick, if I had a friends child screaming because my child was being sick it would annoy me too. You need to speak to your child.

Other than that, she's a CF and you shouldn't be bossed around. Wouldn't surprise me if you were sick in the next few hours. In fact I'd pretend to of been sick so you didn't have to cut the holiday short.

I agree with Tryinghardtobefair. If you don’t like it don’t read it. You can’t be spoon fed your whole life Jumpingthruhoops.

I have emetophobia and I read very tentatively. If Jumpingthruhoops was THAT bad they would have come off the thread in the first couple of sentences of the OP. I even noticed the username first and was cautious about reading the thread.

Hope you didn’t get poorly OP.

She's only insured if she's named on the policy. Fully comp covers you to drive other cars if the policy says so, not other people to drive your car.