Your examples of bone idle laziness!

[TightPants]

School mum lives down my road. I actually live further from the school than she does and it’s a 7 minute walk for me and DC.
This mum (who is not disabled in any way btw) actually gets in her car and drives her DC to school. I see her parking up back at home on my way back so she’s not dropping DC on the way to work either. This is morning.
WTF!

I bought new bedding because I couldn't be bothered washing and drying mine.

Google Home means I can lie on the couch and tell it to broadcast or send messages for me.

I'm someone who sometimes drives very short distances, although in my case it is due to pretty extreme anxiety. I'm safe in the bubble of my car but walking outside can leave me a crying and shaking mess.

I put google minis in every room in my house so I can just broadcast at my family instead of wandering around looking for them. I know they're spying on us but I really hate repeating myself.

I have lengths and lengths of Christmas lights to decorate the front of the house, but it's too much work to put them up, so I just bought a projector as well and do that, promising myself that next year I'll do it properly.

I go to a different car servicing place each time I need to do my tire pressure and pretend I don't know how to put air in my tires because I don't like doing it myself.

I sanctimoniously tell my family that my laundry is overflowing because unlike them, I wait until I have a full load to run the machine. Because I'm frugal and eco. Really, I just can't be arsed to do it and I've got more clothes than anyone else in the house so I can get away with it.

I phone my husband from the living room to make me a cup of tea when he is in the kitchen. It is an open plan house. I can see him from my couch.

Ive called dp from the house cos he in the back shed

We drive to the shop, 2 min away.

We have uber eats a happy meal for dd, maccas was literally on the corner of our hotel block, we just didnt wanna go downstairs

When dd was a baby, i didnt soak shitty soiled clothes, i just tossed them

ive rewashed so many loads of washing, cos i forget to hang them or simply i cant be bothered so i leave for next day and rewash

If i can find a shortcut, i will

My colleague lives opposite where they work. It's about a 8-10 minute walk door to door.

She drives... not for any disability, because literally uses the car to cross the road.

She drives off her drive, crosses the road, parks the car alongside a building. Gets out and walks the rest of the way.

Just remembered a share house one
Cos i hated doing everyone elses dishes, i stopped and just bought paper plates and plastic knives and forks. No washing up for me.
Im not sure if they ever got done after i started my plate thing and left not long afer

Judging by the first few responses it looks.ime you touched a nerve here Tightpants

I agree, if you are not dropping off on your way to work then driving for less than a ten minute walk is obscene and sets a terrible example to your children.

We live about a 10/15 minute walk down the hill from dds former primary school. I’m sure some parents, who walked further judged the hell out of me. On a really really good day, I managed to walk. That happened 3 times in the 7 years she was there. I’m disabled and chronically ill but don’t publicise the fact so very few people actually know. Unless I literally collapse people are so inside their bubble that they literally don’t notice me. I’m invisible, like my disability.

I also drive dd to the bus stop now and pick her up. That’s about a 3/4 minute walk away. We have a dog. I wouldn’t be able to take the dog for a short walk and take / collect dd. Especially in the afternoon. Some days I collect her in nightwear as I’ve dragged myself out of bed.

I phone dh and dd to bring stuff to me from downstairs or phone them to come downstairs to help me. Dd is now copying me when she’s in her bedroom.

You really and honestly cannot know someone’s life. Odds on the woman is lazy. But if I were well enough to go to an exercise class, I’d walk however close simply because I’d need to.

@AllideasAndNoAction
Yes, she has and rightly so. Check your able bodied privilege ffs.

Get a life @TightPants you sound like a right judgmental bit**ch. obviously you’re a sad person who likes to get at others for just living their lives.

I knew a school mum who used her car for a 200 yard journey. When I asked her about it, she said she felt obliged to use her car because her car insurance was expensive and she wanted to get her money's worth. 😂

Enough posters have made the point about hidden disabilities. Once again what could have been a fun lighthearted thread is having all the fun flogged out of it.

sunshinepoppy
If op was looking to start a lighthearted thread not filled up with pesky people and our hidden disabilities, then she should have made it about herself or a her partner, not a relative stranger. We all have the right fo comment and maybe instead of posting a tone deaf comment, you could try appreciating how shit disabled people are made to feel by society.

@BeeFarseer that's ingenious.

I've been known to ring my DH (downstairs) from my bed to ask him to adjust the thermostat.

I did this.

It was to avoid the mums at the school gates.

I wonder why...

She, or one of the children may have a disability or some other issue.

If one of the children is a bolter it would be safer to use the car. If a child is deaf / has glue ear it might safer.

She might be lazy. She might have been up half the night talking to a suicidal friend / relative.

As for examples of lazyness, my mum used to 'keep' the milk and tea bags next to the cooker. The milk would be in the fridge over night but first thing on a morning it would be put next to the kettle.

Oh and she would call me down from my bedroom to make her a tea.

Mummy should it really be necessary to have to qualify EVERY.FUCKING.UTTERANCE with ‘obviously this doesn’t apply to people with disabilities’?

I remember when mumsnet used to be a sane place with free speech and people who were capable of understanding hidden subtext.

I was having a similar conversation recently when I saw three raw peeled potatoes vacuum packed in plastic. I Said people are lazy, extravagant and don’t think of the planet when buying over packed fresh items (totally unnecessary) and ready prepped plastic-wrapped vegetables when someone indignantly pointed out that their mother used them because she had arthritis.

Well yes of course they are valuable and useful in a minority of circumstances. It really shouldn’t need to be said.

But most people buy them because they are lazy and extravagant. And then probably complain they are poor too.

Allidea
Were you on the other side of this, it would be obvious. Mumsnet can be pretty disablist actually. There is yet another buggy vs wheelchair thread running atm. So excuse me for not liking the comments. It has nothing to do with free speech. If you’ve been around long enough, you’d know capitalisation is shouting.

Sometimes you need to shout.

Dd 17 once took in the Asda delivery and just piled it up by the door. Bad enough but when we got home and started to bring it through we noticed that she had also helped herself to some snacks from some multi packs but left the open packs in the shopping pile.
I also had a go at them for not putting a new loo roll on so they just forced one onto the holder next to the empty tube
She also once loaded the dishwasher with a load of bowls upside down

The WiFi used to go off a lot here

My neighbour does the same - few mins walk from the school yet she drives the kid to school who is old enough to walk alone anyway.
She's also too lazy to walk her giant dogs so they go crazy in the house - great for me to listen to them throwing themselves against the wall .
She was also too lazy to get up and put the bins out (it was 3wk since previous collection due to Xmas) so the garden is heaving with rubbish and she's just started throwing it out of the door instead now, the dirty lazy cow.
Also no disabilities etc.

I am disabled. It isn't visible and nor is it common knowledge. I suffer through walking my DD to and from school every day in order to appear 'normal' to people like you OP and feel ashamed and embarrassed to drive the five minutes to school. Wind your neck in.

Because she is busy doing something else
Because her child wouldn't walk
Because she likes listening to the radio
Because her child is the sort who runs into the road
Because there is something on the telly she wants to watch at 9,02
Because she doesn't want to have to talk to some of the other mothers on the way
Because she is getting ready to go to the gym for that intense class
Because she is desperate to get rid of the kids so she can have a bit of peace
Because she enjoys driving
Because she has a lot to carry
Because she pops to the shop on her way home

There are lots of reasons she might want to use her car. You have jumped right to bone-idle-laziness.

Why is that

Don’t you have a disabled sticker Mr? obviously the only people who might judge driving very short distances to school are other parents or people in the neighbourhood who know you are driving to school. No one else will know where you’ve come from or where you are going.

If parents/residents see you leaving/arriving at the same place each day them I’m sure they also see your blue badge and don’t think anything at all.

Allideas
Why should s/he have a disabled sticker? I definitely don’t have nor want one. SOME PEOPLE DISABLED PEOPLE DON’T WANT OTHERS TO KNOW THEY’RE DISABLED. MrOnions says it isn’t common knowledge. And you don’t even know if s/he has a blue badge. They are not easy to get.