Stuck in Dover

[XmasGridlock]

No AIBU. Just stuck in my car in gridlocked Dover with a two year old. Only about two minutes from home. Been here half an hour now. Lots of traffic building up behind me. Plenty of people turning around. Anyone fancy keeping me company?

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I’m giving my opinion on the current situation. I’m not blaming leavers.

“May we ride through these shit times”

Agree OP

💐 for you

Here’s hoping for a better next year not just for all of us but for this whole crazy world we find ourselves in

Hooray for getting home! I have been in similar situations, I now carry puppy pads, potty and a modesty blanket in my car like a total piss-phobe.

A friend told me she was once stuck for 8 hours and the hunger wasnt the worst thing, it was the thirst. So now I keep drinks in the boot.

I hope the person who was refused entry to a mean man's toilet starts a thread soon. I feel invested. Maybe they kept knocking, like Mary and Joseph...

[quote Winterlight]Hope you made it back okay. We’re 3 miles outside of Dover and DH got stuck earlier but managed to turn around and come home.

One heartening story to come out of this; ‘Gravesend Gurdwara and Khalsa Aid delivers hundreds of curries to lorries stranded in Kent’

www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/hundreds-of-curries-delivered-roadside-to-stranded-truckers-239717/[/quote]
That's the nicest thing I've read today

I’m not blaming leavers.

You appear to be blaming the French (for reasonably wanting to keep their population safe). That’s quite divisive.

Im not blaming the French either. If I’m blaming anyone for this mess it’s the Government.

Whenever there’s blame for something it’s generally not Northerners, Londoners, teenagers, remainers, immigrants, the French and etc it’s governments who like us to blame each other as it’s deflects from their utter incompetence.

Glad you're home safe - how long before this thread makes the daily mail!!!

Sara Millican has a tale about getting stuck in gridlock with her bladder getting fuller and fuller. And the solution she resorted to. Well worth seeking it out.

apple.news/A-Rj40x-YRZiJooK_EDjY6A

Fucking hell. Least they left out the part about my pissy pants!

Love the way they say you “claim” you were stuck in traffic

@XmasGridlock

Fucking hell. Least they left out the part about my pissy pants!

Daily Mail next....

@HagenDaz yes I noticed that too

"Woman pisses on self in traffic jam"

A woman in Dover has claimed to have pissed herself while sitting in traffic.

Mums on the popular forum leapt in to debate whether she was going out or coming back.

Nooooo!!!! Already! It really will be the DM soon, journalists are so lazy.

they missed it out-oh thats a shame

can u prove you were in a traffic jam op it seems they dont believe you

Damn cheek.

Mumsnet ought to chase the Mirror for a payment, and then give OP a cut of the fee!

That's so rude! But least they left out about your pants

"a woman claims" is code for "we have not contacted her, we just read it on the Internet".
Lazy lazy lazy.

Trains from Surrey..? I might be stuck at yours for Christmas 😄😁

Giggling at thought of now messy creme egg 2-year-old but stuck in a jam so close to home must be highly frustrating - hope little 'un not whinging yet!

Feel bad for the lorry drivers that have already been stuck for days and are likely to be there for a while yet - I've travelled a fair few times in a lorry so not hard to imagine all the problems this will cause when you have dozens/hundreds/thousands of drivers with no access to basic things like a loo, food & drink or washing facilities for themselves or their laundry. My better half has heard the Sikh community have (yet again) come to the rescue and been out providing meals for some drivers - must say they are always generous but during this pandemic they have been outstanding and helped feed so many hungry people.

Hop you make it home before much longer - happy Xmas

Little trick....open both front and back door and sit on car door frame with your knickers down....and have a wee......alao helps if you gave a coffee in your hand and pretend you are dri nking and spilling it...hahaha....

Giggling at thought of now messy creme egg 2-year-old but stuck in a jam so close to home must be highly frustrating - hope little 'un not whinging yet!

I suspect she'd be doing more than whinging if she were still stuck in the car, 32 hours after OP started this thread.

@XmasGridlock

Well, fucking great. Turns out four size 5 nappies weren't quite absorbent enough for the amount of pee I had. So, now I'm stuck in traffic, going on for almost two hours now, sat in my own fucking urine.

Oh lord, I feel for you! Been there, it's so humiliating even if you know that nobody else knows. (And the thought of how long it'll take to clean the seat and for it to get dry REALLY doesn't add to the joy.) I hope you have a fabulous Christmas Day to make up for this! xx

Think of the poor lorry drivers they have been stuck for 4 days with no food or drinks no toilets no showers. They are now running out of fuel which means a Christmas Day cold miserable and alone!!