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To have smashed an egg on his windscreen

360 replies

lollipoppi · 11/03/2014 19:48

Ok, so I know IABU and it was a spur of the moment childish thing to do but ........

Upon leaving the supermarket with a 1yo and 3yo in tow, I get to my car to find a man struggling to get out of his van because he has parked so close to my car.

I politely pointed out that if he is struggling then how am I expected to get my 3yo into his car seat when I cannot open my door.
His response was "it's not my problem"
Me : well it's now my problem because your an incompetent arse
Him: fuck off you stuck up btch, and walked off with his mate laughing

Whilst my 3yo was climbing over my 1yo to get to his car seat, I unloaded the shopping and came across the eggs.

I splatted one on his windscreen and bombed it

Very immature of me I know, but I think he deserved it!

OP posts:
copafeel · 11/03/2014 21:33

Hopefully there will be cctv and you will get a visit for criminal damage

CuttedUpPear · 11/03/2014 21:35

Toad Are you on glue?

You would ask a stranger who has just been rude and thoughtless to you to mind your kids? And they would want to go with the stranger?

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 11/03/2014 21:37

I didn't leave a note (or an egg Grin ) on the car that parked so close behind me I couldn't open my boot. (My tail gait wouldn't go past the bonnet - the other car was a 4x4 with a higher bonnet)
And I'd left 12-18" behind me to get access.

I had to park my trolley, move forward and load up (very slowly , I was hoping they'd come back)

My fantasy note would have included the heartfelt wish that the next person they did this too was not as laid back as me and would scrape their trolley down the side of their stupidly large car then push their teeth so far down that the only way to clean would involve rectal insertion of their toothbrush.

Hopefully, they will.

PrimalLass · 11/03/2014 21:38

Hopefully there will be cctv and you will get a visit for criminal damage

Hmm FFS Hmm

Toadinthehole · 11/03/2014 21:38

Criminal damage? An egg?

Yes I know it is, but I'd hope police had better things to do with their time than following up stuff like this.

It would be as much an overreaction as the OP.

CaptainTripps · 11/03/2014 21:42

I was about to have a huge go at you for ridiculous behaviour and possible criminal intent to damage.

But what a total and utter wanky git!

You go girl.

Sparklingbrook · 11/03/2014 21:42

Six of one and half a dozen of the other as my Mum would say.....

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 11/03/2014 21:43

That makes twelve Sparkling

Toadinthehole · 11/03/2014 21:43

cuttedup

I would have asked the person to keep an eye on my kids next to my car while I reversed it out. It would have been the very first thing I said.

My experience is that people will help particularly if they've been thoughtless as it allows them to make amends.

Perhaps I'm lucky.

BonzoDooDah · 11/03/2014 21:44

Only if she'd used the whole box sparkling

Sparklingbrook · 11/03/2014 21:45

Something to do with one being as bad as the other 70. Usually aimed at me and DB when we were about ten.

Chells · 11/03/2014 21:46

Well done you for only using 1 egg! I would've been tempted by the whole box....

ilovesooty · 11/03/2014 21:46

Perhaps I'm lucky

No, just polite, capable of negotiating like an adult and not given to childish confrontation.

maddy68 · 11/03/2014 21:47

It's actually criminal damage. Yabu

WottaTheOdds · 11/03/2014 21:49

BigRedBall how did you do that (at 20:27).

I'm impressed!

deakymom · 11/03/2014 21:59

okay i found that funny funnier still was one of the things my husband did right in front of the car owner he had parked far to close to the drivers side of our little fiesta (old type) husband could not get in because the passenger door was not working at the time he asked nicely for him to move only to be told to f off c*t so he had to climb in the boot he is not a small man so it must have looked pretty funny the bloke is mouthing him off the whole time when he got into the seat (the bloke is still laughing and gesturing) he opens the drivers side door very aggressively into the (approximately) £25,000 car next to him politely asking him what he said? the chap went mental he was apparently going to kick him so hard his grandchildren would feel it so husband (nicely) said hang on can't hear you reverses out the space goes nose to nose with him husband dwarfs the bloke significantly his friends have something better to do he says he will call the police the petrol station manager comes out at this point and says don't bother our cctv has suffered a malfunction and im telling our dad what a ct you have been and why his car is damaged now F*k off home

cant even send him out for chocolate can i?

HadABadDay2014 · 11/03/2014 22:08

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egging

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 11/03/2014 22:17

Sparkling it was something my mum said as well. Grin

(I say to my DC "This won't buy the baby a new bonnet" abbreviated to "Babies and Bonnets , DS, Babies and Bonnets". He's Hmm )

TwinkleSparkleBling · 11/03/2014 22:17

Inconsiderate arses deserve what they get. Maybe next time he's thinking of being a rude wanker, he'll think again.

I hate the fact that some people just don't give as toss about how their actions can make things easier or more difficult for others.

Wonder how he would have felt if it was his friend or relative who was struggling needlessly instead of OP.

YANBU.

Theoldhag · 11/03/2014 22:20
Shock

The child side of me did snigger Grin

The adult side says, two arses don't make a right Wink

Pimpf · 11/03/2014 22:20

Ok so we have learned not to use eggs. Doesn't saying anything about accident.y slipping up and spilling cream does it, could imagine that to be a bugger to clean up too

olympicsrock · 11/03/2014 22:29

OP , I'M the person who wrote RUDE on the windscreen in double cream so I know just how you feel. YANBU. I did get replies about criminal damage and cctv. For the record there was absolutely no comeback. I was amazed at the criticism of me at the time. Some selfish arses deserve a bit of retribution. I hardly think an egg or cream do any lasting damage.

CrabbySpringyBottom · 11/03/2014 22:32

What I want to know is, why are you all reversing out of parking spaces? It makes sooooooo much more sense to reverse in! Confused

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 11/03/2014 22:32

olympic I must read the RUDE thread, how long ago (and was it under this user name)

And egg is a bugger to remove, I wiped the worst up with paper towels but it gets in the rubber seals too. Even a trip to the car wash didn't shift it all.

olympicsrock · 11/03/2014 22:34

70, it was under this name August 12