Would I have BU to splash the teenager?

[Katey1010]

Just to clarify, I didn't splash him. I was on a side road. Sulky Teenager walks into the road in front of me. I had DD (3 months) in the back of the car asleep and try to drive carefully for safety and to not wake her. I had to brake hard to avoid splatting the miserable teen across the road. No thank you for slowing, no oops face, no wave. Just a cat's bum face.

He turns onto the pavement and karma places an enormous puddle right next to him for me to drive through if I wanted. I could have sped up, gone through the puddle and taught him an important life lesson. I decided, in the split second, to avoid the puddle and hope he got a lesson in manners from that [deluded].

So, WWYD, take karma's lead and drench the rude person or take the high (dry) road? WIBU to splash someone?

yes, you would have been unreasonable

what is the important life lesson you would have taught him?

maybe he has a lot on his mind

maybe he failed his a-level modules last week??

Grow up ffs

Fuck him.

what is the important life lesson you would have taught him? Um, not to walk in front of cars...

but why would drenching him have taught him that?!

i think it makes you sound petty TBH

am sure he would have enjoyed being in soaking wet clothes all day

Be grateful, your kind act has no doubt ensured that I will not squash your toddler when she runs into the road in a few years time, as you avoided killing or drenching my teenager.
Karma is like that.
He hasn't got a very expressive face, he finds traffic scary and challenging and he wasn't grumpy, he was thinking about his Art GCSE project.

I agree it would have been petty and ironic as I was an absolutely horrible teenager.

How fast were you going to have to brake that hard and to cause a (imaginary) puddle splash??? Speed limit was what on this side road?

He stepped RIGHT in front of the car so I had to brake hard. I was not speeding. As I say, I would have had to speed up to splash him. And, I had to avoid the puddle. Doing nothing would have put me through the puddle.

He was probably worried because he isn't getting any and all his friends are (because he is a teenager he hasn't figures out they are lying yet), he has had some but the condom burst and he is worried sick he might have got some girl up the duff, he didn't use a condom and is worried he has an STI,he is worried about his acne, his puny build, his lack of body hair, his small dick, how to keep his jeans up while wearing them as low as possible, his hair, if X fancies him or fancies his best mate, if his best mate is shagging Y, how to get some money without actually having to work for it, where to hide his porn stash, what his mum is going to say when she sees the phone bill/mobile bill/online gaming bill, can he reach the next level of whatever game he is obsessed with, does he have enough facebook friends, has he failed his exams, will he get a college/uni place/job, is he gay,how can he admit he doesn't want to travel the world in a gap year because he's too scared to go, will his voice EVER break........car, wot fucking car??????

Note to self, empathise!

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