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To feel smug about all the idiots stuck in the snow...

332 replies

MayDayChild · 18/12/2010 14:20

It's my birthday tomo. Wanted to pop to shops alone (luxury!)to buy a new dress to wear for my meal out tonight.
But as I'm breastfeeding, I decided early this morning to forgoe the dress, incase I got stuck.
Have now decided to cancel meal as roads impassable
I'm hearing on news about gridlock all over London, car parks at bluewater, lakeside etc all jammed no one is going anywhere!
I feel smug for being home, warm, safe with my children!!!!

OP posts:
fiveisanawfullybignumber · 18/12/2010 14:59

If I was you I'd ask for this to be deleted now. Everyone does think YABU. I'd end it before you end up a total pariah with that attitude.

SummerRain · 18/12/2010 15:02

We had to go food shopping yesterdsay in deep snow and with it still coming down. We have no money til friday so no food in the house and no way of getting it before friday. dp had to come in case i got stuck and needed pushing which meant we had to bring the kids. It wasn't a fun trip and we're not idiots, life just has to go on sometimes....

saggarmakersbottomknocker · 18/12/2010 15:03

Blimey.

Yes my ds is an idiot because he battled to work at 6am so you might get your food delivery.

dh because he battled home after a night shift for the emergency services.

Me because I have to go help my mum who can't even lift the bloody kettle at the moment.

jellybeans · 18/12/2010 15:05

YABVU Why are people so selfish these days? As has been said what about those who have small DC and are scared and freezing. Just read another thread where someone said they would do anything for their own DC even if that meant others loosing their lives!! Ugh society is so selfish, thank goodness there are still some decent people!

3littlefrogs · 18/12/2010 15:10

Haven't read the whole thread, but, as a community nurse I am worried sick about my own safety, and my elderly, housebound patients in this weather. I have to try and get out to them if I possibly can.

I hope that some of the people stuck in this are not doctors and nurses trying to do their jobs.

So - YANBU to be glad you are indoors safe and warm, but YABVU to be smug.

DeidreBarlow · 18/12/2010 15:13

OP your a right charmer aren't youHmm

YABU...DH had to go to work this morning to relieve the night shift...an idiot for going out knowing he would most likely have to abandon the car and walk? You might think so love but I don't.

Jeez what a dumb ass thread....

TyraG · 18/12/2010 15:19

What a miserable person you must be.

My DH is one of those "idiots" you spoke of, he was to return home today after a work trip to Marseille, but unfortunately he is stuck in Paris as the Birmingham airport is closed.

So kind of you to take pleasure in my DC's sadness that their father will not be able to return home tonight as expected. Would you like to give them a kick up the arse for good measure?

WynkenBlynkenandNod · 18/12/2010 15:21

Think yourself very lucky. My friend is stuck indoors with sick children and no power.

I am hugely grateful for the emergency services staff who are out there, including the emergency doctor who has just called to give me advice on my sick DS. And I feel hugely grateful for the Sainsbury delivery drivers who managed to get my elderly mother's shopping to her and the list goes on.

expatinscotland · 18/12/2010 15:23

You feel smug for being a complete and utter cow?

How mean-spirited and horrid, to even think such a thing!

Those 'idiots' are someone child, father, mother, sister, etc.

I'd namechange if I were you, because otherwise everyone's going to remember what a nasty attitude you have.

Smuggery of any sort is despicable.

Sassybeast · 18/12/2010 15:24

You nasty bitch. I rarely swear at anyone but your post is vile. One of the people who is stuck in snow is one of my former colleagues who has just completeed a '24' hour shift as a nurse to cover other colleagues who didn't even make it to work. Yes - '24 hours' - you read it right. shame on you. Perhaps your power going off overnight will serve to teach you a valuable lesson.

coraltoes · 18/12/2010 15:31

I hope your roof falls in with snow. Then you'd wish you;d bloody gone out.

Habbibu · 18/12/2010 15:33

This thread will haunt you the next time you make a decision that turns out to be mistake. But that'll never happen, eh?

joydivisionovengloves · 18/12/2010 15:36

YABU and downright nasty

HowsTheSerenity · 18/12/2010 15:38

I do think that the people who went out for non urgent trips or just out and about in the car are somewhat silly and should know better. Snow was forecast. No one to blame but yourself really if you are stuck.

HowsTheSerenity · 18/12/2010 15:39

Stupid thing posted early.
But if you are out and stuck because you had urgent work, visits, needed food etc then you deserve all the help you can get.

ISNT · 18/12/2010 15:40

DH went to work this morning, the weather was OK, and he has to go to work, obv.

Now he is 3 hours late home and no idea when he will be back.

Stupid fucking idiot eh Hmm

LadyintheRadiator · 18/12/2010 15:41

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

expatinscotland · 18/12/2010 15:42

:o, Lady. Oh, there's a lot of influenza about as well. Hope it doesn't pay you a Christmas visit, OP.

GregoryPeck · 18/12/2010 15:48

YABU. My boyfriends sister and her husband, their two DDs (2 and 4) flew into Heathrow yesterday lunchtime after a long flight from Where they live in the Far East. they should have been flying into Manchester airport at 16.30 yesterday. They had to wait all night to be told that their flight was cancelled and they are now stuck on the M25 and have been for about six hours. They are merely trying to get home for Christmas.

Can you imagine the nightmare of that journey (oh and of course the DDS body clocks will be all fucked up too)? Good times.

kingazanzi · 18/12/2010 15:50

OP sounds like an arse. Writing that crap feeling all jolly and expecting people to pat her on the back. What an arse.

oldraver · 18/12/2010 15:54

I'm gratefull I dont have to go out but its tempered by the fact I know my B/F will soon have to to go to work

HecTheHallsWithBoughsOfHolly · 18/12/2010 16:00

A couple of weeks ago, snow was forecast to arrive on the Thursday. The monday (before the thursday) the snow arrived. Then they forecast scattered snow showers. It snowed non stop for 3 days.

Then they forecast fog.

Nope. Sun.

Then they forecast sun and it snowed again.

Yesterday they forecast heavy snow overnight. This morning, got up, looked like someone had lightly dusted with icing sugar.

They forecast heavy snow all day today.

I have just got back from town. Did my christmas food shopping.

It's still not started snowing.

My point?

Weather forecasts are shit. If you rely on them to make your decisions you will be wrong at least 80% of the time.

You look outside and you see what the weather's like right then, and what the sky looks like and you take a guess if it's going to be ok for a few hours.

That's how I do it and I am right more often than the met office.

So YABU. Forecasts are unreliable.

pagwatch · 18/12/2010 16:04

Well the op got a big bucket of shit for Christmas didn't she?

Op was mean. Big bucket of shit still quite harsh.....

pigletmania · 18/12/2010 16:08

YANBU to feel that you made the right decision to stay at home, and all cosy and warm, but vvvU to feel smug about it. As others have said there are those who have to go out, like key workers. BTW surely you could express some milk so that the person looking after him when you are out can give to them, or in the event of a crisis that you are stuck than formula will have to suffice, he wont starve. Just because you are breastfeeding does not mean you are chained to the house.

Muira · 18/12/2010 16:09

And what about people who might get stuck in the snow for good reasons? My uncle was stuck for 9hrs trying to get from a city to a very rural part of Scotland - normally a 1 hour drive - to provide my granny with food and to 'rescue' her from a horrible, isolated, snowed-in area. To you, he might appear to be an 'idiot' at the shops. To my granny, he was saving the day and going through a lot of discomfort and stress to do so.

Fuck off, you nasty judgemental smug person!