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Nuisance Nanny - part 2. The Aftermath.

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Writerwannabe83 · 13/06/2017 19:37

Sorry for the delay in starting the new thread but blimey, what a nightmare this is turning out to be Sad

I went round there, Mr NDN let me in and showed me through to the living room where Mrs NDN was on the sofa. I smiled at her and went straight in to my apology about swearing at her and how I shouldn't have done it, that I was just angry and frustrated and that I had lost my temper. I said I had simply been confused about the Nanny's behaviour, her excuses, the mixed up stories etc and that I had let myself get too wound up but that I shouldn't have sworn like I did. I was sincere (because I did mean it) and I genuinely thought she would accept my apology but she went mental on me.

She basically ignored what I'd said and launched into me about how unhappy she was about the fact she'd come home to find her Nanny all upset because apparently I'd been threatening and intimidating towards her!!!!!!

Mrs NDN then said that I should be ashamed of myself for upsetting a young woman so much and that if I had any problems with their Nanny then I should be speaking to her and her DH as the employers, not being aggressive towards the Nanny herself which is a complete U-Turn from what she said to me yesterday!!

I started to try and explain about the parking but she brushed me off and said she knew I'd parked across their drive and that the Nanny had simply made an innocent mistake by parking across my drive again as she'd honestly believed I was at work and that my response to park across their drive had been a total overreaction.

I said to Mrs NDN that yesterday she told me that if I had any issues with the Nanny then I was take it up directly with the Nanny, so why now is she having a go at me for having done doing exactly that?!

It was so bizarre!! Yesterday Mrs NDN was throwing her Nanny under the Bus but during her rant at me she was acting as though the Nanny is all pure and wholesome!

Apparently the Nanny has told the NDNs that she needs some time to think about whether she can continue working with them as she no longer feels comfortable working in an environment where she feels vulnerable!!!

It's absolutely crazy!!!!!
I feel like I'm living on another planet.

Mr NDN didn't really say anything, he just sat there whilst his wife ranted at me.

I'm back home now and have been quite tearful about it to DH. I genuinely wasn't aggressive or threatening to the Nanny, I was just being firm. I feel like I'm now the Bad Guy in this situation and the Nanny is the victim. It didn't even occur to me that I might be upsetting the Nanny when I spoke to her before I moved my car.....I didn't think she was the type of person who could get upset....she's been so bloody unbelievable that I thought she'd be too brass necked to feel intimidated by anyone.

I'm just so shocked and this really wasn't what I was expecting.

My DH is furious and I've had to hold him back from going round there himself. He said the Nanny has obviously just turned on the waterworks to the NDN to save her own skin and portray me as the one being in the wrong to take the focus off what she'd done.

I want to believe him, I can imagine the Nanny probably would be that manipulative but it doesn't make me feel any less crap or upset Sad

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frozenfairy123 · 14/06/2017 06:47

I'm so annoyed for u op as u just want to get on with your day without this issue.
Nanny is pathetic and if she has an oil leak she should get it seen to.
If her back is so bad that she can't walk a bit further to the car then she shouldn't be looking after kids that need to be carried.

Just let everything settle and if she still parks there take a picture ideally with a time stamp on as proof

Babbitywabbit · 14/06/2017 06:51

What's the morning update? Has nanny parked up yet?

LavenderDoll · 14/06/2017 07:04

If this carries on ring 101
Send DH round - how bloody dare they upset you when you are 7 months preggers

Writerwannabe83 · 14/06/2017 07:21

No sign of the Nanny but I have just seen Mrs NDN leave for work alone.

So it's either a day where they aren't working the same shifts or Mr NDN has had to stay at home because the Nanny has said she's not coming in. I'm hoping it's the former!!

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Jupitar · 14/06/2017 07:24

Don't worry about it, it's not your problem, if she does come back and parks over your drive just call the council or police. Flowers

flumpybear · 14/06/2017 07:26

Perhaps brace yourself with a response if he talks to you today, but suspect either he won't or he'll be nice - but you can still say that
This wouldn't have happened if the any hadn't taken liberties with others property in the first place

BlondeB83 · 14/06/2017 07:28

What a brass neck some people have! You have done nothing wrong OP! x

Writerwannabe83 · 14/06/2017 07:35

I'd much rather be faced with Mr NDN than Mrs NDN if I'm going to be approached today....

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OnTheRise · 14/06/2017 07:40

It's awful how they have treated you, WW83. To ask you to speak to the nanny, then to invite you in and attack you like they did? It's abusive. I hope you're ok.

From now on take photos of the car if it's parked across your drive again, and then phone the police straight away. And try not to worry, it's not good for you. You poor thing.

Nikephorus · 14/06/2017 07:48

If anyone comes round then just tell them they need to speak to DH and shut the door on them.
Flowers

FluffyWhiteTowels · 14/06/2017 07:51

Sounds like Mrs NDN needs some police de-escalation training. What a terrible example for the force. Her behaviour is shocking. Firstly both NDN ignored your requests for RN not to block your drive.

Then Mrs NDN said not her problem where their employee parked and take it up with RN directly.

Then says don't speak to their employee and take any issues up with them directly as RN employer.

She spoke aggressively to you both times

RN 'made a mistake in parking across your drive again' .... bollocks. She shouldn't have done it. She could have immediately apologised to you and moved her car when you returned. He should you have to park round the corner when you have a drive and are very pregnant.

WTF .... and she is a member of the police force ...

OP. You have been very patient

Writerwannabe83 · 14/06/2017 08:00

The Nanny has just arrived Confused

She's obviously parked around the corner though as her car is nowhere in sight.

I guess she's come to talk about what happened and her job and would rather deal with him in Mrs NDNs absence.

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diddl · 14/06/2017 08:04

It wouldn't heve been so bad yesterday if she had been there to move her car when necessary.

It's all become too "he said/she said", hasn't it?

All you want is to be able to get on & off your drive!

Nikephorus · 14/06/2017 08:09

It just amazes me that people are actually like this. If I'd been so thoughtless to park in a way that inconvenienced someone in their own home and they'd asked me politely to move, then it wouldn't occur to me to ever park there again. The fact that the person wasn't there would be irrelevant. I'd be embarrassed. Why are some people so remarkably thoughtless?
(I'd be making friends with someone with a tow truck or who owned a scrap yard and could drive a battered up pile of crap into her car when it was blocking me in!)

diddl · 14/06/2017 08:09

Would there be any point in going there whilst husband & nanny are there?

PoorYorick · 14/06/2017 08:10

It's quite possible that rather than the Nanny playing you off each other, Mrs NDN is.

MintyChops · 14/06/2017 08:10

Writer hope you slept ok and are feeling better about yesterday. Mrs NDN is a lunatic, a nasty one too and the nanny is a lazy, lying shitweasel. You have done nothing wrong (well, maybe the swearing for which you have apologised!). Interesting the Nanny is there now, bet you are right that she would rather deal with Mr NDN that's Mrs Batshit NDN 🦇 🦇 🦇....

Nikephorus · 14/06/2017 08:10

It wouldn't heve been so bad yesterday if she had been there to move her car when necessary
It wouldn't have happened at all yesterday if NannyFromHell hadn't been such a selfish thoughtless tosser in the first (and second, and third) place.

ShotsFired · 14/06/2017 08:11

The awkward thing for nanny and Mrs NDN (and Mr NDN with his complicit silence) with this situation is that you have the advantage of being right.

It's not a grey area, it's not 6 of 1/half a dozen of the other. You are just reasonably, objectively, man on the clapham omnibus right.

That's put them right in the shit.

acornsandnuts · 14/06/2017 08:12

Honestly, if the nanny is re thinking her position because she has been asked to stop being a parking nuisance she's not going to go far as a nanny or any other profession for that matter.

You asked her and her employer for it to stop. She didn't. You followed with consequence. I can't see you have done anything wrong.

Writerwannabe83 · 14/06/2017 08:12

Maybe they're having an affair Grin

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Pigflewpast · 14/06/2017 08:13

RECORD ANY CONVERSATION WITH HIM OR NANNY

Ceto · 14/06/2017 08:15

If nanny carries on parking across a neighbour's drive after she's been asked to stop several times, she really needs to grow up and learn to deal with the inevitable consequence that said neighbour is liable to get angry. If she isn't able to do that, she's not mature enough to look after children anyway.

WoofWoofMooWoof · 14/06/2017 08:15

Whoops DoJo - I didn't think of that ShockBlush.

Redsippycup · 14/06/2017 08:16

I can't get my head around the mentality that parks across your drive while you're out, having been told not to, then sees you have come home and thinks the right thing to do is go for a fucking walk!!