to be furious with DD's friends parents?

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Tonight is the end of term school disco and as I have woman flu I arranged lifts for DD to get her there abd home again. The disco ended at 9.30pm and at 9.43pm DD rang me to say that the parents thought the disco ended at 10pm!! We live 30mins drive from school.

I am furious and feel like just shutting the door in their faces once DD is home (and safely in the house). She is 11ys. AIBU??

I think the OP got that you all thought she was being unreasonable.

She said she felt ill, yet you all decided to give nasty, personal, sartastic comments along with telling her she was BU.

I think its the sarcastic personal comments which may have upset the OP, therefore ending in her telling you all to F Off.

To then excuse yourselves by saying "this is AIBU" is ridiculous. Its like a 5 year old saying "she hit me first.."

I just wonder how the OP is feeling today, after reading all your personal, nasty comments.

Ya know what? I am so over the 'MN is full of bitches attitude.'

If you hate us all so much, the door is over there and Netmums is down the hall. Go get hunned.

no - i still think her responses were irrational and angry, dont think many of us were personal and nasty - just saying YABU, but are we not allowed to say that anymore?

yep - YA still BU

I don't think MN is full of bitches. I think some people make uncalled for comments. FWIW I think she was BU. But I didn't feel the need to be unsympathetic to her circumstances-she felt ill, DD was upset, she was worried DD hadn't been picked up. Just don't understand why people have such a go.

YABU

Quick - because OP wasnt really THAT ill, her DD had rang to explain and the other parents had made a small mistake that most of us will probably make if we havent already.

Thats what annoyed me anyway, the thought that some snippity woman would possibly have this reaction if I ever dare to make a mistake like this when DS is older....

I know it's bad but this is the sort of AIBU I love. I had a friend that was on a constant boil about one small thing after another and in RL you are usually forced into nodding in agreement when friends are going nuts about ridiculous stuff but on here people get to be delightfully honest.

Fucking hilarious, from start to finish

"I think the OP got that you all thought she was being unreasonable."

Really? Yet she continued to insist that she wasn't unreasonable and we were a bunch of lax parents who didn't care about our children.

If she was a good parent, she wouldn't have got flu .....

OP, what exactly did you worry would happen to the 2 11 year olds waiting in the foyer of the school?
Were there adults there clearing up etc?

coz i have no life this thread has made me chuckle all day, and was just jumping on to say exactly what soupdragon just said!

Oh, I read the OP and naturally assumed it was a windup.
You mean, she was being serious?

It is a shame the OP has taken the hump so badly - but hopefully she was nice to her friends when they dropped dd back.

OP: AIBU?

Chorus: YES YABU!

OP: No I am not

Chorus: YES YOU ARE!

OP: No I'm not. And you're all shit mums for thinking that I am. I pity your children.

Chorus: YABU and rude

OP: Oh fuck off

Chorus: point proved

MN seems to be populated with many many people like the OP, and yet in real life I don't think I know anyone like this. Are they all waiting for me at the school gate when DS starts next September? If so he will be going on the minibus!

"Are they all waiting for me at the school gate when DS starts next September?"

Probably not. Shame really, would make the school run so much more entertaining

Better check out the times of the minibus, Georgi. Wouldn't do to get it wrong and have him kept waiting for a few minutes!

Well just wanted to add to the general consensus that YABVVU in my opinion.

I would understand your annoyance if they were late because they knew the correct time but just couldn't be bothered to get there on time - but they made a genuine mistake!!!

I wonder how you would feel if that was you -you would be mortified already without someone shutting the door in your face!!!

You really need to rethink this. Why post on AIBU if you are not willing to reconsider, when everyone is saying the same thing??

Why is anyone bothering to post to the OP any more? She's long gone and hidden the thread, I'm sure.

If you can't handle the U, stay out of the AIBU.

I don't think you can hide a thread you've posted on.

If this had happened to me when I was 11, I would have been freaked out, not because I was scared of waiting with my friend and teachers in a safe place for 30 minutes, but because my hysterical father would have reacted as badly as OP seems to have. I would have been in for it when I got home and my mother and siblings would have been bearing the brunt in my absence, even if the lateness was totally out of my control. They (and I ) would have been told to fuck off and worse if they'd dare to suggest he was overreacting. This is how he showed us he "cared". Other parents/teachers were all bad parents/people, in his opinion. I stopped doing extra-curricular things, it just wasn't worth the worry if plans went wrong. He thinks he was a fantastic parent. I beg to differ and so does my therapist.

yes!!!! get over it, half an hour?? what gives???