To Think Stupid Woman Lovely Man

[Mitmoo]

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?

"Lunatic" comes from the idea that phrases of the moon Luna affected peoples mental health. We still have this idea around today - even on Mumsnet.

glitterkitten Bus driver gate? I must have missed that one?

I knew

Angry Pensioner
Alcoholic telly buying buying neighbour

Mitmoo

Stop talking shit, the only comments were wandering why you would use an offensive term about SN when you have a child with SN.

Stop having a tantrum

I hope you get banned Mitmoo, I really do.

Mitmoo you are avin a larf.

Mitmoo- you haven't listened :(

happy - i think the pensioner was angry due to the bus driver? same thread perhaps?

I'd totally forgotten about the neighbor with the TV.

OP- in all honesty, why do you post on here as you never accept YABU even if that is the general consensus?

MNHQ please don't remove this thread as I think it shows the OP exactly for what she is.

You just made me Primaface

I feel for you mitmoo- people do care but your threads show that you are not very empathetic towards other people.
Going back to your original OP- this woman had every right not to want you parking up outside her house, it may have been unavoidable but she still has a right to be irritated.
As for not helping you- she may not have been in the position to help either physically or mentally.
You seem so antagonistic in the threads you start, as if everyone should follow your needs and desires and you use your DS as a reason for this.
The response you are getting reflects that.
Other people have needs and opinions and they have rights too.

reflect that

OP, this is getting worse by the minute. I second the very sensible suggestion by a previous poster that you namechange and take a serious look at your use of the AIBU section and at your attitudes towards the various situations you have posted about over the last few weeks.

Not everyone is in the right all the time. Everyone gets things wrong sometimes. You really need to get your head round this and start giving some thought to why so many people are telling you that you are being unreasonable. Simple common sense would suggest that it is highly unlikely that you are consistently the one person who is getting it right and that everyone who responds to your posts is missing the point or is just picking on you.

In terms of this thread, it doesn't matter how many times you shout "sick" at the people who have criticised you, or how many times you try to turn things around, or for that matter how many exclamation marks you add to your tantrum. The true situation will remain clear for all to see. For your own sake, if you can't bring yourself to accept your mistake gracefully and apologise, then for goodness sake stop making things worse. Let the thread die and have a bit of a re-think about the way you deal with situations - on here and in real life.

wow op talk about pot calling the kettle back, you must be a troll

I am almost admiring of your attempts at self-delusion and the wild twisting of facts in order to justify your unreasonable behaviour, Mitmoo.

Absolutely nowhere, in the (currently 5) saga that is "PotsandKettlesGate" do I see any evidence of anyone using your child's SN to get at you. Instead, I see the deepest of holes which, despite much advice to the contrary, you insist on continuing to dig.

In summary - here's the gist. In your first sentence (6 words in, to be pedantic) you set the scene by telling us that your son has ASD/OCD. Given this fact, one might assume you would be extra-careful to use appropriate, non-discriminatory language about people with disabilities. But no, in the very same paragraph, you describe someone as a "village idiot".

Not a sensitive or compassionate expression, to put it mildly, but all the more astonishing to find it used by someone who has every good reason to be aware of the discrimination that people with disabilities can suffer.

But surely only one person needs to point that out to the OP, not a whole host of people getting increasingly more bullying through the thread in a rather vile display of group mentality? What an unpleasant thread - and not just from the OP.

no sayitloud It takes as many people who are offended by her languge to challenge and champion a better society or people like ops child will continue to come up aginst such deplorable and antiquated attitudes and language through out his life.

But are people actually offended, or just jumping on the bandwagon?

There are some very considerate people in the world. Today I could not park outside my house because an elderly gentleman had parked in the only available space to eat an ice cream. I did not mind and started to struggle along the road with about 107 carrier bags. As soon as he observed me he drove away, dripping ice cream as he went.
What a kind man.

well I am and I asuume most others are if they say they are.

I'm not offended as such but this is once too many that this particular OP has thrown a mahusive, insult throwing, flouncey strop because someone has pulled her up on something.

Blimey! It seems that mitmoo was getting a lot of unecessary flak here but it now transpires she didn't even know (and still doesn't) what a "village idiot" means or refers to, so I don't know if that excuses her or damns her!

Mitmoo, what do YOU think it means then? (genuinely curious).