Write on a window in chapstick?

[emskaboo]

Trying to cross the busy road near my house yesterday with DS age 2 on the buggy board and DD age 6 weeks in the pram.

The crossing, which has a drop kern and double yellows was blocked by a car. Hazard lights not on, nobody in the car, no disabled badge or note. Cars parked on either side making it very difficult to wiggle round (one of them also on double yellows).

I sort of hovered, unsure, thinking someone would come running up and jump in the car, but no. I (sleep deprived and maybe a bit irrational) wrote in chopstick on the driver's side window SELFISH PARKING.

I thought this was naughty but not terrible; no lasting damage no swearing. When I told DH he was appalled, said I had set a terrible example for DS.

I did say to DS afterwards, 'what mummy just did was naughty and you shouldn't write on windows', he thought this was v funny and kept telling me off!

So am I a terrible person, MN jury it is over to you....

Thanks for the tip. :o

I love it! I had a double buggy and board combo and couldn't cross the road one day. The owner of the offending car was having a chat. I asked him to move, he came out and offered to lift the buggy over the bonnet of the car for me. I kid you not. For the children's sake, I stayed calm (on the outside) and walked around the corner. One call to the local police station and within minutes there was an angry policemen giving hell (and a fine) to this not very helpful gent. It was worth it too see the look on his face.

love it!

Brilliant!

I should have said that the car in question was parked on the zebra crossing on a busy road.

YANBU, selfish parking is a pet hate of mine too. But I'm very glad you wrote on the side window rather than the windscreen.

I don't mean to be a killjoy but I can just see someone trying, in vain, to get that off their windscreen with limited resources and then having to drive home after dark with oncoming headlights glaring onto their greasy windscreen, possibly in the rain too, and having a very bad accident!

Your dh sounds a bit uptight tbh.

YANBU.

Love it! Will keep my lippy on me at all times from now on "just in case".

Mowiol your post made me
Clever boy your ds!

Mowiol when I was young my family had an estate car that had an extra rear-facing bench that looked out the rear window. It's quite boring watching all the landscape that has already gone by and all the billboards are faced the wrong way to read, so my brother and I used to entertain ourselves by trying to convince passing motorists via scrawled notes that we had been abducted!

It's a good thing we never succeeded. Although, in retrospect we were poor actors and the giggling probably gave us away [hgrin]

Laquitar - spread a little happiness - that's my motto!!

nightmarenmj - naughty little minx!

AIBU to think there will now be a spate of chapstick-writing-on-car-windows across Britain? [hwink]

Chapstick sales will soar

OP very very well done, 10 out of 10

I once drew a massive knob with Vaseline on the window of a chip shop because the owner was so incredibly rude to me when I went in (8 of us, spent a fair bit of ££).

In my defence I was very pissed, passing chippy on way back to train station, and thought 'what the heck'.

So I have to say YANBU.

Ooooh I might go with your plan, not unreasonable at all, people are always parking on the double yellows, at the drop curb opposite the Dr's here, yesterday one woman pulled up there whilst I was waiting to cross and parked infront of me!!! (lots of space on the double yellows either side I was rather vocal to the kids about inconsiderate parking, but she didn't move It makes me as there are quite a few people with sight problems who need to use this particular crossing.

Fab! Love it!

I love the idea that there is now an army of women with chapsticks prepared to do battle with inconsiderate parkers!

Love it! Am also loving the thought of an army of mumsnetters marching into their local chemists to buy chapsticks!

Excellent idea!

For particularly pratty parking, sprinkle some pink glitter over the chapstick.

I've done similar with vaseline and once with lipstick when people have parked stupidly and selfishly.

should have used lipstick. will chapstick even be noticed?

great idea. agree with havingkittens wrt the front windscreen not being a good idea but overall i think you did good. were you at home to see th eselfish git trying to clean it off?

Thank you so much for the idea, i regularly have to do an obsticle course of inconsiderate parked cars, with a double buggy and 2 kids.

Must admit last time i couldn't pass a car i asked the person to move, they refused thus receiving a scratch down the side of the car from the buggy (i refused to walk on main busy road so squashed buggy through gap)

yanbu