Just had the school run. There’s a tight gap that is created daily purely by crowds who stand there blocking the path. We were walking through when it was briefly clear and a woman suddenly peels off the crowd of people standing there, walks at us and walks into dd. There’s clearly no room to walk, we fill the gap and there’s a massive bloke behind me following through with his kids too so I can’t turn back. There’s no way for her to get through without trampling us. I’ve had to put my hand out to protect dds face from this woman’s bag about to whack her and in the process it’s pushed the bag of the woman’s shoulder. Then this woman kicks off at me for the situation.
I just feel so drained because I try so hard to keep myself to myself and not piss anyone off on the school run because generally we have a lot of people round here who talk with fists rather than words. I don’t know what she expected us to do. We were so visible but she still decided to walk into us. It happened so fast and I didn’t want dd to get hurt. We couldn’t stop because of the big bloke and she would have still walked into us even if we had stopped dead in the path because there was literally nowhere to go.
I just feel invisible and a doormat and like I’m training dd up to be invisible and a doormat too.
This is one big ramble but I suppose I’m just hoping for advice on dealing with people like this when they kick off for something that was caused by them in the first place without getting my head kicked in or harassed forever afterwards by them and their mates. Or maybe advice on how to stop giving off the air of invisibility 😂