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WIBu retaliating re the rude woman in the carpark

543 replies

olympicsrock · 26/08/2012 16:00

Yesterday morning I went to the supermarket. I was in a hurry as I had to finish a pavlova to take to a friends party. The supermarket was packed and traffic was standing waiting for spaces (one in one out). I was politely queueing when a driver got into her car just ahead of me obviously about to vacate a space. I waited behind the space indicating left that I was waiting . I gave her enough room and time to manoevre out. As she was doing this I saw an old woman in a bettered car behind me trying to squeeze down the inside to pass me and making it difficult for the other driver. I hooted as she almost scraped my car. To my disbelief she then swung into the space I had patiently waited for. I wound down my window to state the obvious that she was taking my space. She replied "so what" . I said you can't do that, we are all waiting". She relied I can do what I like. Two other drivers who had witnessed this also got out of cars to back me up. I was livid. In the end the parking warden came to sort it out. He pointed out another space ahead now empty and asked me to park in it. I did . I returned to speak to the other woman (aged about 80, dark glasses and very snotty). She continued to be rude when I repeated that her behaviour was unacceptable, and rude. After finishing my shopping 10 minutes later I was still very shaken up and angry. I tool a carton of cream from my bag and dribbled the word RUDE on her windscreen before driving off.

OP posts:
topknob · 26/08/2012 22:23

Bows to the knowledge of those with golf gti's just not my bag Smile

NameChangeGalore · 26/08/2012 22:24

Oohhh. I get it now. Good one.

BlackberryIce · 26/08/2012 22:26

flora sounds like you live in some sink estate.... All this keying of cars and bad parking. Sounds grim. Feel sorry for you that you live amongst all that

Come join civilisation where we can all park properly.

5madthings · 26/08/2012 22:29

putting cream on a car window spelling out rude, is FUNNY! it gets the message across and causes no damage, it will wash off and serves the woman right!

keying peoples cars is bloody disgraceful! nto funny, not cool or ok, it is vandalism and if i saw you doing it flora i would call the police.

CoolaSchmoola · 26/08/2012 22:35

LittleMoo6

"Secondly, if she was so weak that she couldn't clean cream off her car then she wasn't fit to drive in the first place!"

In this country they do let disabled people drive cars - hell they even "give" some of them cars to do it in.

My Mum is disabled, she can walk, she can drive (her automatic, power assisted steering car) very well but there is no way she would have been able to clean thick double cream off the windscreen because her shoulders and hands are totally fubar'ed from rheumatoid arthritis. She wouldn't be rude, or nick spaces, but your point was if someone couldn't clean off cream they aren't fit to drive - what an absolute crock of bollocks. Good job Motability don't agree with you.

As for the OP.... YANBU to be seriously pissed at her. YABU to chuck cream on the windscreen of a car. One of my friends used squirty cream to write on my windowscreen for a laugh, and it was. It was also an absolute fucker to get off. It smeared like a bastard and it took me a dog's age to get rid of it properly. It also greased my wiper blades which I didn't realise til I tried to use them in rain and it completely blocked my vision.....doing 60. So what you did was potentially lethal. My mate was pratting about. You weren't.

No she should not have been rude, and I would have told her so. But you did that.... TWICE, and still you felt the need to behave like a bit of an arse.

If karma is a bitch then on balance she's coming for you too.

EnjoyResponsibly · 26/08/2012 22:37

littlemoo maybe you'd like to see my £700 quote? My keyer has done 4 panels, bumper to bumper. Just cos they could, in the dark, like the cowardly scum they are. Sometimes I daydream of retaliation whilst saving up for the utterly avoidable repair, and it doesn't involve anything half as nice as cream.

MorrisZapp · 26/08/2012 22:37

This is made up.

LittleMoo6 · 26/08/2012 22:49

CoolaSchmoola You're right, it's a good job Motability don't agree with me, cos I personally don't think that someone who doesn't have the arm strength to wipe a liquid off a windscreen would be able to turn a steering wheel quickly enough, and in a controlled manner, to avoid an accident should it occur. Even if the car had power steering. We're talking cream here, not treacle.

EnjoyResponsibly I did say that if it had gone through the paintwork and could cause rust then fair enough. Are you saying you would pay (or rather let your insurance policy pay) £700 just to cover up a scratch? It's cosmetic. Sure it sucks, and whoever did it was horribly wrong to do it, but do you really need to get it repaired?

EnjoyResponsibly · 26/08/2012 22:50

OP I really want to see the creaming as funny. Like the cool girls do.

But I don't. I'm the first person with their back up in this situation believe me, but after I've gone round the shop I'm calmed down unless there aren't enough checkouts open and although I might spend mental time plotting revenge life is too bloody short.

I reckon you're not feeling half so self-righteous now. I bet you'll spend a night, possibly stoked with the beer fear wondering just how good that CCTV is, and whether the parking guy is really on your side.

And Flora, let me just say, none of the above would apply to a case where I found a person keying my car. I'm betting my fuck off VW wouldn't even register the bump as I ran over that person. Shame.

bonhomiee · 26/08/2012 22:50

Op this happens all the time esp at Christmas and everyone gets v stressed out.. but do you not feel bad that she was elderly and you may have damaged her field of vision for the way home

Sounds like you completely lost your temper. It happens but nothing to be proud of.

EnjoyResponsibly · 26/08/2012 22:53

No Littlemoo, i really want a giant wiggly white line through my dark blue paint work. It was on my Christmas list.

In the nicest way possible do piss off.

MrsKeithRichards · 26/08/2012 22:54

Some keying can look fucking awful, not just a wee scratch. I can fully believe it could cost that much to fix and why should people drive a defaced car? Bumps and scraper happen but keying is totally different.

LittleMoo6 · 26/08/2012 22:58

In the nicest way possible do piss off.

Charming! Grin

EnjoyResponsibly · 26/08/2012 22:58

Well deserved.

LittleMoo6 · 26/08/2012 23:00

No need to get nasty EnjoyResponsibly. I was just pointing out that it's a lot of money to pay for a cosmetic issue. I'm obviously not as materialistic as you and can't possibly empathise.

EnjoyResponsibly · 26/08/2012 23:01

No Littlemoo, you clearly can't. But then you probably don't own much of value to enable empathy.

LittleMoo6 · 26/08/2012 23:02

No, I place a value on things, only people. Well, apart from those who get nasty on internet forums for no good reason of course...

topknob · 26/08/2012 23:03

If some prick keyed my Car it would need a whole new paint job, which would be £500 at least, wanna pay for that?

LittleMoo6 · 26/08/2012 23:03

Don't place a value on things, only people.

EnjoyResponsibly · 26/08/2012 23:04

No Top but Littlemoo could weave your car a nice cover from her lentils.

LittleMoo6 · 26/08/2012 23:05

Hahaha, how did me saying I didn't agree car keying was acceptable make me the enemy all of a sudden?? Off to bed now. Don't need this shit!

twofingerstoGideon · 26/08/2012 23:07

LittleMoo6 'Cosmetic issues' can seriously affect the resale value of a vehicle. Surely you know that. It is nothing to do with 'being materialistic'; saying that just makes you sound rather supercilious.

CoolaSchmoola · 26/08/2012 23:08

LittleMoo

Certain liquids are easy to clean off, and my Mum can manage to wash her own car, so 90% of liquids she could more than likely deal with....

But cream is predominantly FAT - which is not easy to get off. It's a bastard. Particularly on glass. Worse in warm weather. It leaves a film of grease that is NOT liquid and requires a hell of a lot of scrubbing to shift. Virtually impossible to clean off properly without really hot water and soap, which you don't tend to find in a supermarket carpark, not even Waitrose.... And it's not something they seem to stock in the cleaning aisle either. Hopefully they had a cafe.

I really hope one day you trip and chuck some nice thick double cream up one of your windows - then you can think about just how easy it is (not) to clean off. I didn't find it easy at 21, young, fit and with very toned arms from pulling pints in a cask ale pub to boost my student income. Hopefully you'll be 80....

QuintessentialShadows · 26/08/2012 23:09

She was rude and unpleasant enough to deserve having her windscreen creamed.

That will learn her!

BlackberryIce · 26/08/2012 23:11

coola I said the same way back up thread. I know. Had to deal with an ice cream that flew onto my windscreen. It's a bugger to clean!