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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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emmyrose2000 · 12/07/2017 01:39

You have nothing to apologise for. Mr and Mrs NDN, on the other hand, owe you a huge one.

Any problems or discomfort they're experiencing are totally of their own making.

Writerwannabe83 · 12/07/2017 08:47

I saw what I assume to be the new Nanny leave the house with the oldest child not long ago to do the school run and her car was parked on NDN's drive. I assume one of the NDN's has gone to work whilst the other is at home to manage the 'settling in sessions'. This Nanny clearly doesn't have an oil leaking car Grin

I'm thinking I might try and befriend the Nanny as when my baby arrives it might be nice to have someone to go to groups with or take pushchair walks with etc It may even help get my relationship back on track with Mrs NDN if she sees I'm not holding a grudge of any kind.

I've accepted I'm not going to get an apology off Mrs NDN but I'm hoping that now she has the childcare problem sorted and so the stress of that lifts she may start to mellow and realise life is too short for hostilities and see that although what's happened was unfortunate it's something we should just leave in the past.

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Pigflewpast · 23/08/2017 17:03

How's things OP? All settled down?

Writerwannabe83 · 20/10/2017 12:16

pigflewpast

I have only just seen that you asked how things were now - life has been pretty chaotic since the baby arrived.

The good news is that things between me and Mrs NDN have pretty much been resolved. As the weeks passed after the incident the dust settled, our pleasantries became more genuine when we passed each other on the driveway and somehow it naturally just got put behind us.

We didn't have a deep conversation about what happened and neither of us have mentioned it really, the peace just seems to have evolved of its own accord.

When the baby arrived the NDN's even popped round with a card and gift so that was really nice.

Admittedly our relationship isn't completely as it was before but it's pretty close.

Mrs NDN has seemed to be her normal self over the last month so maybe she had been struggling after the birth of her own baby which was why she was being so irrational and unpleasant. The main thing though is that she seems happier.

Their new nanny has remained in post and she and I get on well and have over the last few weeks started going on walks together and it's all been rather amicable. She had on a few occasions tried to subtlety ask me if I knew why the previous nanny had resigned but I kept quiet. I'm pretty sure that the NDNs had already her warned her about the "crazy neighbour" when she came into post and so she was fishing for details or my side of the story but I just kept quiet because I didn't want to rake it all back up again seeing as neighbourly relationships are now back on track.

So yes, things are definitely better and most importantly the nanny has never parked across my drive!

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RandomMess · 20/10/2017 12:29

That's such a positive update Smile

Greystar · 26/10/2017 21:50

Ah lovely update, glad to hear things have all been resolved now Op Smile

Santawontbelong · 26/10/2017 22:49

Ah who doesn't love a happy ending?
Not as juicy tho!!

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