to be pissed off with this woman

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DD (16) and I walk to school/work. I work in an adjacent school to hers so walk together until we get nearer when she walks on ahead.

This morning I was walking behind her and she was on her phone to her friends. Two women were approaching in the other direction so DD stepped into the road to let them get past. One of the women said to DD that she should get off her phone and not be on it because sh could have walked into them. DD explained that she hadn't nearly walked into them and that she hadn't bumped into them because she was in the road. She then got a lecture about how she had zero respect for adults and how her behaviour was appalling and how would her parents feel if they knew. DD replied "You can ask my Mum, she's there" and pointed back to me. They didn't, they just crossed the road and hurried past - clearly knowing that they were in the wrong.

I am sick and tired of the lack of respect some adults show towards young people who have done nothing wrong.

So your daughter walked into the road to let this pair of bitches past?
If this was me and my daughter I’ve had upbraided them for making another person step into the road to accommodate their arses

No YANBU
I see a dislike and general nastiness towards decent young people a lot and they don’t deserve it

Really poor of them
Hope they stood in some dog shit after this

I feel very sorry for kids today who all seem to be labelled hooligans or some shit. It’s very annoying for the decent ones!

Awful behaviour from them...they basically stereotyped her based on her age. Whatever she had done, they'd have criticized her. Nasty

I feel sorry for teenagers. Vast majority are perfectly pleasant and polite. I was in a shop paying at the self service till, I was taking ages. Two moody looking teenage boys were waiting behind me. I turned round and apologized to them politely for taking so long...and guess what, they were polite in return.

Yanbu at all! How rude and your daughter did the right gnu go.

But why do you walk behind her? Is she embarrassed to be seen with you? That’s pretty disrespectful.

"But why do you walk behind her? Is she embarrassed to be seen with you? That’s pretty disrespectful."

I think it's lovely that she walks partway with her mum, and entirely understandable that nearer school she separates off. Would you have wanted to be seen walking as far as the school gates with mummy at 16?

@Strangedayindeed

Yanbu at all! How rude and your daughter did the right gnu go.

But why do you walk behind her? Is she embarrassed to be seen with you? That’s pretty disrespectful.

Because she likes to chat to her friends and meet up with them, she doesn't need me tagging along and I like the time to myself. She's 16 not 6.