So, am putting pushchair into car boot after school run this afternoon while DCs are getting in the car. Car pulls up alongside us and driver hoots the horn. I look over the car boot thinking it's someone we know but it is'nt. Car then pulls into driveway about 10 yards up the street. Woman with 3 DCs gets out and walks over to us shouting 'can you stop walking on the bushes'. I say 'sorry?' bewildered, she shouts again 'stop walking on the bushes or I'll call the police'. She is talking about the strip of land about a metre wide between the road and the path (her house is quite a way away and set away from the path) that has a few grey, dead looking roots on it about a foot high that we have stepped around while getting into the car! We were not jumping about there
. I tell her 'I don't think we hurt them, they look alright'. She glares at me and quickly goes into her house.
AIBU to think she is an absolute loon? The DCs were as shocked as I was.
We live too far away to walk as we have moved house since the DCs started at the school and we park along a wide, straight residential road along with lots of parents. This woman's DCs go to another school in the area as I could see from their uniform while they stood behind their mother looking embarrassed. Our school is literally 30 yards away from her house though. It is a public road and so the strip is land is also public but we were not doing anything to disturb anything anyway.
I was wondering what mentality a person would have to shout at a complete stranger in the street like this. She was well dressed in a suit and was about my age. Weird!