There have been lots of issues recently with manshapes ex, and her lack of parenting their twelve year old son.
Their son has SN and several times recently has run away, whilst completely unsupervised. She wass apparently busy shagging with her new boyfriend when these incidents occoured. The last time the first we knew about it was when the police rang us to say they had DSS and could we come and get him.
We live 30 miles or so away from DSS - his mother moved there several years ago, but manshapes visits him at least three times a week, if not more, and we have him to stay often too.
Today, manshape recieved a phone call saying that DSS had soiled himself and could someone please go to the school and pick him up - they had rung manshape as they couldn't get hold of DSS's mum. We were just about to pick DD up from nursery and explained that by the time we got there it'd probably be a good hour or so, but we'd do out best.
Manshape then rang his ex and explained that the school had phoned, and what was wrong, to which she replied 'I'm busy shopping, so you'll have to go for him' The shoping centre where she was is less than ten mins walk from DSS's school. Manshape then explained that he's be about an hour and she'd be quicker, and i could hear her in the background moaning because the school would shout at her.
I'm afraid i lost my temper and said rather loudly that she needed to get her fingers out of her arse and go and parent her child, that it was unfair of her to leave him sat in his own shit and she should be ashamed of herself. Which she heard, and took the gigantic hump. Of course, she had a right go at manshape, and he's now feeling a bit like piggy in the middle.
TBH i don't regret saying this at all - it's been a long time coming. The only thing is that now she's probably going to take it out on DSS and manshape.
So, WIBU in saying what i thought?