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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Nearly mowed down in Morrisons car park...

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ollieplimsoles · 01/07/2015 15:51

So I'm standing near a free parent and child space on the curb with another pedestrian lady. She hurried across the road to the shop but I carried on waiting for a time to cross as I'm pregnant and can't run atm!

While I was standing there, this huge black Nissan 4x4 decided to park in the space I was standing next to, it appeared to be full of pensioners (one man driving with a lady next to him, three ladies in the back). he did not give himself enough room to swing into the parking space, and he had to mount the curb I was standing on. He was not looking, didnt see me there and just put his foot down right towards me! I quickly jumped out of the way onto the road to avoid him. I stepped right in the way of a car coming (only room I could jump to to avoid 4x4) and the lady in that car stopped suddenly and glared at the Nissan- she had obviously seen what he had done because she was just shaking her head at him.

They all just got out of the car and went into the shop (so in a parent and child space with no children with them too, to add insult to almost injury)

On my way out of the shop I walked past their parked 4x4 and accidentally scratched it with the buckle on my handbag. AIBU to be rather proud of myself for that? from what I saw it was a visible scratch on his pristine black, polished bodywork..

Idiot. The women in the car knew I was there but none of them seemed bothered that he nearly hit me!

OP posts:

alrayyan · 01/07/2015 16:13

4x4 and a P & T in one thread. is there a prize for that?

Scratching people's cars is one thing. Crowing about it on a "good parenting" website is something else.

Klayden · 01/07/2015 16:16

I was tempted to reply but I have a feeling this is yet another thread when the OP only wanted to be told YANBU.

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ollieplimsoles · 01/07/2015 16:16

'My behaviour' well no I didn't, because it was on the way out of the shop that I caught his car.

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SlaggyIsland · 01/07/2015 16:18

Fuck him. He could have killed someone. I'd have said something - well, a lot - to him, and if he didn't respond well I'd have been tempted to key his car to pieces.

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ollieplimsoles · 01/07/2015 16:19

I can take being told I'm BU in a forum thanks, I didn't expect anything!

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mousmous · 01/07/2015 16:20

have you got his registration?
some councils /met police let you report traffic incidents like this

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ollieplimsoles · 01/07/2015 16:22

I suppose similar thoughts were going through my mind SlaggyIsland when I glanced and realised the mark on the car was likely to have been caused by my bag, and when I realised which car it was.

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SistersofPercy · 01/07/2015 16:32

I didn't do it deliberately MrsHathaway its was a genuine accident. I only realised it was his car when I looked back.

Bullshit.

Mistigri · 01/07/2015 17:11

Dangerous driving/ driving without due care and attention isn't "oversight"; it's an offence, albeit one he got away with this time.

I don't condone deliberately damaging property but I can understand the instinct to do so in this situation!

InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream · 01/07/2015 17:20

All these posters more shocked by one tiny scratch than by the OP nearly being mown down! What a sad indictment of our materialistic society. Bollocks to his poxy paintwork! OP- YANBU

Isthatwhatdemonsdo · 01/07/2015 17:27

YANBU OP. I would have caved his poxy mirrors in.

CrystalHaze · 01/07/2015 17:27

I cannot fathom the logistics of how the scratch happened accidentally.

If he was parked in a parent/child space there'd have been a lot of space at the side of the car. I can understand how squeezing between two closely parked cars could potentially cause the buckle of your bag to scrape against the door with enough pressure to create a visible scratch, but how were you forced to walk so close to a car in a P&C space that your bag accidentally caused a visible scratch? How big is your bag?

FraggleHair · 01/07/2015 17:28

Meh. MNers will fall over themselves to say that the scratch was on a par with his dangerous driving. It isn't.

penisland · 01/07/2015 17:36

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MrsHathaway · 01/07/2015 17:51

The question in the OP was whether she was U to feel proud of having scratched the car. We weren't asked whether the driver was U (although I think it's pretty obvious he was).

DawnOfTheDoggers · 01/07/2015 17:53

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vindscreenviper · 01/07/2015 17:53

Mounting the kerb and almost hitting a pedestrian is a pretty shit thing to do, but I think 'scumbag' is a bit strong penisland. Perhaps the driver didn't see the P&C sign or the op which was why he never acknowledged his mistake or apologised for his dangerous driving?

NRomanoff · 01/07/2015 17:55

I can't work out how he run her almost ran her over, she wasn't close enough to say anything, but close enough to know that no one in car said anything about it.

Also can't work out why she is proud that she accidentally scratched his car. Is this normal? To be proud of something that happened by pure accident?

Floggingmolly · 01/07/2015 18:01

Yes, I don't get how op was too far away from a crowd of pensioners to speak to them, when seconds earlier she was close enough to be nearly mown down... Major continuity error, there.

Klayden · 01/07/2015 18:07

YABU for not leaving a note to say you supposedly accidentally scratched his car.

Slowtrain2dawn · 01/07/2015 19:58

The accidental scratch was obviously karma. YANBU.

wheresthelight · 01/07/2015 21:04

His driving was reckless but did you bother to check if they had a blue badge? Legally they an park in p&c spaces and have priority over parents.

Yabvu to have deliberately damaged his car, in fact you have broken the law. They can request the cctv from the store so you could find yourself in deep water

IPlayBass · 01/07/2015 21:15

Yanbu. He mounted the curb and almost hit you but instead forced you to step into a road. And you're pregnant! If he'd done that to me when I was pregnant I would have been absolutely fuming. I think when we're pregnant we'rw thinking about the vulnerable little person inside us and something like that will drive a pregnant woman's hormones mad!

So no I don't think you're being u for not leaving a note to say you'd accidentally scratched his car (and for being a little proud).

Sconejamcream · 01/07/2015 21:20

You are as big a twat as him. You deliberately damaged his car. If he was old, you should have taken his registration and told the police/dvla. What you did was wrong, you are both idiots.

TheWitTank · 01/07/2015 21:41

YABU to be 'proud'. There's nothing to be proud of. You haven't achieved anything at all by scratching his car, accidentally or not; you could have been proud of yourself if you had confronted the man about his driving. If the scratch is tiny chances are he either won't see it or won't give a shit. He probably hasn't given you a second thought. He was absolutely unreasonable and dangerous to have mounted the kerb -telling him so would have been more constructive.

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