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To Think Stupid Woman Lovely Man

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Mitmoo · 16/08/2011 21:40

Driving home this evening son ASD/OCD, mum heart disease disabled, and the tyre goes as flat as a pancake. I was on a country road so I pull into a village and park up in a safe place. Village idiot (woman) says "your car smells like it is burning"

"I have a flat" I reply.

"So you do" she says. Then says "can you move your car it's on the road outside my house". No drive, just a road, no yellow lines, nothing, but my car had the audacity to come to a halt outside her house.

I asked not in a nasty tone but more one of bewilderment if she is joking, she then looks embarrassed.

Another man from the same village came out and me being a dumb ass woman and ashamed to admit I can't change a tyre on MN, changed it for me then didn't want the £20 I was trying to give him for helping. He did take it as we were so grateful. Having him helping helped keep my son calm, and made sure we all got home in one piece.

He was absolutely lovely, happy to help, a true gent. I haven't had help with my car since I was a size 10 and wearing skirts that my Mum called pelmets.

Son is very shaken, doesn''t cope well with things out of the norm but if it wasn't for the lovely man he'd be in a terrible state now.

But we're home (obviously) am I being unreasonable to think the woman was a silly moo to ask me to move my broken down gilloppy when it had a flat and the man was a true gent and happy to help me, my Mum and son on our way?

OP posts:
ShirleyKnot · 18/08/2011 10:47

kungfu. Honestly? I think the time for that kind of turnaround was about 2 weeks ago. Wink

joric · 18/08/2011 11:01
glitterkitten · 18/08/2011 11:07

i knew OP would bugger off when asked for an apology.

ostrich.

She's clearly not worth bothering with.

TandB · 18/08/2011 11:15

Shirley, I am an eternal optimist. Grin

[skips through thread scattering rose petals of hope]

IKnowItsNotFridayYet · 18/08/2011 11:23

wow!!!

arrogance personified if ever it was.

had only seen one of mitmoo's threads prior to this and thought she was just a bit defensive in that but this astounds me. i didn't think the human survival instinct allowed people to set themselves up for such a massive kicking, and then to continue to goad people you have already offended. truly shocking.

mitmoo you should be ashamed of your behaviour on this thread.

2shoes · 18/08/2011 11:30

OP I SAID I WAS SAD AND ANGRY THAT THE OPENING POST WAS STILL HERE, THE ONE WITH THE DISABLIST TERM IN IT, NOT YOU FFS
wow some people

Salmotrutta · 18/08/2011 11:31

Hmm - I actually think the OP has bandied terms like that around before. I seem to remember her referring to others as morons on another thread.
Unpleasant.

MotherMucca · 18/08/2011 11:38

I've lurked and I have to say that there have been some fab posts, challenging the OP.

Have resisted urge to post, as I don't believe OP is all she appears.
I think any further argument is futile.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 18/08/2011 11:40

"It's like shooting fish in a barrel"
"Job done"
I think those phrases by the OP speak eloquently about what this thread was always all about.

GypsyMoth · 18/08/2011 11:42

Hmm... Kind of agree mucca! This behaviour just isn't normal

LineRunner · 18/08/2011 11:57

I have been lurking too, like Mucca.

Could someone just verify for me that in an OP asks for the original post to be removed, then MNHQ does that? Just wondering why, if the OP has requested that this be done, as she says she has, MNHQ hasn't obliged.

GypsyMoth · 18/08/2011 12:05

Op deliberately posted this as bait is my feeling, as hob says,it's what this thread was always about

AbbyAbsinthe · 18/08/2011 12:18

I agree entirely with ShirleyKnot. Really, it's not worth your effort, any of this, I'm afraid to say that the OP continues to prove herself to be a knob. Nothing you say will make any difference to her or her ridiculous made up opinions, as proved by all her other threads!

ChristinedePizan · 18/08/2011 12:33

LineRunner - they won't delete OPs because the rest of the thread is a nonsense without it. And they won't delete a thread just because the OP has made a bit of a tit of themselves.

2shoes · 18/08/2011 12:55

but this op is the bit that cases the offence, so mn hq leaving it will just make it seem aceptable

ChristinedePizan · 18/08/2011 12:58

Has anyone else reported the post apart from the OP tho?

LadyFlumpalot · 18/08/2011 13:02

OK, I suggest that we all just hit the hide button and let this thread die?

It's going round in ever smaller circles now.

2shoes · 18/08/2011 13:04

yes people have, me included mn hq have posted on thread as well.

ShirleyKnot · 18/08/2011 13:29

2shoes. I guess the only good thing about this staying here is that people will be able to make their own minds up about the OP in the future.

Cold comfort I know.

2shoes · 18/08/2011 13:30

true very true

ShirleyKnot · 18/08/2011 13:31

Let's go somewhere else now - let's hide the thread and go and play..

Grin
SarahStratton · 18/08/2011 13:36

Mitmoo, a few weeks ago I used the term 'Japs' on a thread. I didn't give it 2 seconds thought that it might be racist, as I hear 'Brits' used a lot. I was, quite rightly, pulled up on it and firmly told it was wrong to use it.

I apologised, explained I didn't realise, and will never use that term again. I learnt something, I dealt with it and moved on.

That is how you deal with being told you are BU, or wrong, or racist etc. Not by playing the victim card and shouting 'bully' at everyone.

LineRunner · 18/08/2011 13:41

Actually, looking back, the OP says that she asked MNHQ to delete the whole thread.

So either that's not true; or MNHQ said 'No'.

I'm not especially happy about either scenario tbh.

SarahStratton · 18/08/2011 13:51

Mitmoo seems to be very good at hitting nerves on here. Hmm

If it's unintentional then being ignored will show her very quickly that she has to readjust some of her thought patterns. God knows, it's been pointed out kindly to her quite often enough. And if it's intentional, then being ignored will render the objective useless.

Mittmoo · 15/08/2017 09:12

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