aibu to think postman should not be changing tyres/ talking at length with people on his rounds?

[Nomorepat]

Waiting for an important letter which is dependent on what time I receive it today. So go for a stroll to see if postie is in area. There is he is in the next street changing some girl's tyre for her-I know this is not his car and ours is his last street. He then proceeds to chat to this girl for about 10 minutes, then another woman for about 5 minutes.

I am peed off about this. AIBU?

I think this is the weirdest thread I've ever read. OP, wtaf??

I don't think YABU actually. Maybe she couldn't go to Halfords or Kwik-Fit because the tyre fitters there pop out to deliver pamphlets for a local cat charity at regular intervals.

Or perhaps they just wouldn't come and get her because that would mean leaving the premesis and they might hurt their hand towing the car mackeral

Fucking hell, this just gets more and more batshit

Somebody needs therapy, imo. And it ain't me.

How did we get from Postman Pat to Hitler, how??!

Good intentions Beeyump, and something to do with paving and a man in a red suit with horns.

Ok so I have been out for a few hours and I have come back to Hitler and an injured postie!!!!
I don't know, you leave mumsnet alone for a few hours and it all goes tits up!

Has the OP admitted she was being unreasonable yet or is she still fighting her corner?

Oh she still thinks she's not being unreasonable only now she's pretending it's out of concern

Beeyump It is Godwin's Law

It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."[2][3] In other words, Godwin said that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis.

has any one thought of the children?

Concern for her mail or the postman?

Why concern for the postie, he's a grown up. Can make decisions regarding his own personal safety. What the frick has it got to do with the OP?
Plus I do still find it really strange that she went looking for him. I think if he knew he may need to get an injunction out on her then she would never get her bloody mail

:o

More likely to injur himself running from creepy stalkers than changing a tyre.

Or falling over drunk. But that's ok cos it was in his own time and he was paying the bar staffs wages :o

The OP must have been hanging around watching him for quite a while to know that he spent so long changing a tyre and then 10 mins talking.

That's very scary behaviour and I am very concerned for the Postie, it can't be nice for him being watched so intently.

OK OP

Would you be holding the same concern if he had tripped on your ie: doorstep/doormat and knocked himself out before you got your ever so important, life changing letter through your letterbox??? From your posts I think you would have just looked through the letters the poor man is clasping in his twisted hand and ripped yours out, turned around and closed your front door.

Hitler fgs!!!!!! Please seek some therapy there must be some out there.

I don't think he was changing a tyre, I think he ducked behind the car to escape the OP.

The law is sometimes invoked, as a rule, to mark the end of a discussion when a Nazi analogy is made, with the writer who made the analogy being considered to have lost the argument.

I think the OP lost the argument in her opening post.

No, Hitler -deranged as he was- thought that he was doing the right thing. In his own mind, he was acting out of genuine goodness and good intentions.

Just because the rest of the world-correctly IMO- disagreed with him doesn't mean to say that he didn't in his own mind have good intentions.

Look up Messiah complex for goodness sake

Why in the name of creation would an employer come down hard on someone injuring himself in a break from work, carrying out a perfectly normal activity (it's hardly an extreme sport, you don't need special insurance or anything...). OP do you live in the same world as me?

And now she defends the hitler comparison.

This thread has had me in hysterics for two days now. Thank you op for the entertainment.

OP, please humour me and answer the question I asked a few times.

What difference did it make to your day, getting your post delivered later than anticipated?

No need to mention Nazism or Hitler in your answer, although it would be good if you could.

desertgirl because he wasn't on a break from work.

Don't know what world you live in, but the world where I live in a person who gets injured through carrying out a non-work -related activity during the hours they should be working usually gets a rap on the knuckles from their employer.

For example, if an office worker nips out to deliver leaflets not related to his work during his work hours and injures himself, you can bet your life that his employer will be doing their damnedest to stop his/her sick pay.

If a postman changes the tyre of another postman's post van would that cancel out the misdemeanor or would their still be a problem? :o

The postman was injured?