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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.

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 26/08/2012 16:20

Smells like bullshit if you ask me.

BlackberryIce · 26/08/2012 16:20

Being 80 and having less time left?? What, so let the her go ahead, she might drop dead next week?
Heard it all now!

You could argue that she has been on this planet longer, lived through wars so therefore should know about rudeness/society and how to behave.

fiftyval · 26/08/2012 16:20

I wish I had had the chutzpah to do something like this when in a similar situation the other week.
I have to ask though - are you Miranda ??

Binkybix · 26/08/2012 16:20

I would have been very pissed off but prob not have done the cream! Quite funny though. Why do people think its more ok to be rude because you're old?

PorkyandBess · 26/08/2012 16:20

I couldn't have put it better, Northernlurker.

Sickening behaviour imo. Rise above petty car park wars.

pictish · 26/08/2012 16:21

Vanalise their car? With cream??!!

Dinnae be daft!! Grin

imperialstateknickers · 26/08/2012 16:21

Nice one. No permanent damage and got the point over effectively. The time she will have had to spend clearing it with the washers etc should be just about the extra she'd have had to wait to park if she'd acted like a civilised human being in the first place. Ignore the sense of humour failure brigade op!

wannabedomesticgoddess · 26/08/2012 16:22

richperson if my granny was a queue jumper I would have told her to suck it up.

Why is it that everyone goes on about how old people should be respected even when they refuse to respect anyone else?

Respect has to be earned. And in this case age really has nothing to do with it. The woman was rude. The OP informed her of this. Thats all.

pictish · 26/08/2012 16:22

Yes OP - ignore them all.

Grin
BlackberryIce · 26/08/2012 16:23

Vandalise! Grin

Doha · 26/08/2012 16:24

Well done.
.l would have used lipstick and added--people like you should take the bus..

mega respect--age is no excuse for rudeness

Northernlurkerisonholiday · 26/08/2012 16:25

Vandalism doesn't have to be permanent to be vandalism. Cream, paint, manure - whatever - it's all an attack on somebody else's property and decent adults don't do that.

Op - did you teach your kids to hit back by any chance?

tittytittyhanghang · 26/08/2012 16:25

well she might think twice in future about being rude. Perhaps she has had 80 years of being rude and getting away with it. Being old does not excuse bad behaviour, if anything you should know better.

It was only cream and it will wash off. Tbh if you are going to act as selfishly as that, then count yourself lucky that the worst you get is rude in cream on your windscreen.

olympicsrock · 26/08/2012 16:26

Well, she could have stopped when I tooted ther horn to stop her pranging my car as she squeezed down past me. When I wound down the window to let her know that I was waiting for the space I was polite initially due to her age in case she just had poor eye sight but there was no ambiguity about it and when I called her on it, she didn't say "oh sorry" and move she just said I don't care. Being old doesn"t make someone a sweet old person.

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fiftyval · 26/08/2012 16:26

Excellent point imperial.
Cream is not going to damage the car and would certainly bee nowhere near as difficult to remove as bird poo for example.
Mind you - training the local birds to splatter 'rude' on the offending car would be a skill worth having....

valiumredhead · 26/08/2012 16:26

I think you wanted to do the cream thing but it didn't really happen Wink

tittytittyhanghang · 26/08/2012 16:26

YANBU btw

MrsRobertDuvallHasRosacea · 26/08/2012 16:27

Would a note left on her windscreen have been a bit more...adult?

At least you didn't spit at her, which is what happened to me recently in Waitrose.

MirandaGoshawk · 26/08/2012 16:27

fiftyval do you mean me? Confused

I have to agree with Northern - her behaviour was foul but two wrongs don't make a right. And this:

BulldogDrummond · 26/08/2012 16:28

The OP stooped to a lower level (with her creamy attitude) than the woman who took the car park place she had her eye on. Age is immaterial in this case because it could have been anyone who nipped into the place. Would you have been so reactive and spiteful if it had been a young man?

pictish · 26/08/2012 16:28

Vandalism doesn't have to be permanent to be vandalism. Cream, paint blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blaaaahhh zzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

Hehehe! Warrevah! Grin

olympicsrock · 26/08/2012 16:28

No I'm not Miranda

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PorkyandBess · 26/08/2012 16:29

I just read the OP to my 14 year old son who said, 'Oh my God! That is so childish!'

pictish · 26/08/2012 16:30

Your son is so uncool Porky.

Northernlurkerisonholiday · 26/08/2012 16:31

OP - she 'almost' scraped your car - which means she didn't. You didn't almost pour cream on her car though did you?

Mind you I see you're not the only poster revisiting childhood tantrums today.

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