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?

No driving home for Christmas yet.

@InTheDrunkTank

TO be fair if everyone abandons their cars and walks home surely that will make the traffic far, far worse.

The poor police
I hope you get home soon @XmasGridlock

Nowhere to park up. If I do spot somewhere I will park up and walk. Really need a wee now.

Will you be able to run home, have a wee and get back to your car without traffic having moved in the meantime? (Obvs don't abandon the toddler!)

My sympathies OP. Can you do a Paula Radcliffe?

link to REM vid please.

There's that "Road to Hell" song we had during the petrol strike....

I think OP needs a good playlist here as she may still be there when "Hancock's Half Hour" comes on this afternoon.....

It's a shit situation for sure but tbh, I'd rather be stuck in my car for a few hours than down at the Port or up at Manston. Feel utterly terrible for the Lorry Drivers and Police right now.

Also OP you should do a ticktok....

Will run out of petrol before I get home at this rate.

XMas gridlock. It sounds awful. No help to you now but I have found Pharmacy4U to be an enormous help. They are efficient, quick and the system is easy to use. Hoping that this post will help others as well.

@perditasugarplum

That made me giggle how did that video not come into my head when I wrote that?

petrol-wise I would have thought you'd be ok OP if you're just idling.

Can you switch engine off?

@HagenDaz

My sympathies OP. Can you do a Paula Radcliffe?

OMG. Thats made me laugh. But poor OP. There's nothing that makes you want to pee more than knowing you can't go as there's no toilet.

I'm thoroughly invested. How's the little one holding up?

A relative lives in Selsey and there's basically one road in and one out. She got stuck in traffic a few miles from home once and got desperate for the loo. She tried to wee in a bottle, I think, but it didn't work. At least it was dark! OP, do you have a container, if you're really desperate?

Two year old is being brilliant. He's got a drink and is being wonderfully well behaved.

Got any nappies you could wee into as a last resort? I hear they're pretty absorbent.

Yes to the nappies. Got stuck in France at the channel tunnel a year and a half ago and used several nappies discretely placed underneath me!

@MaskingForIt you are a right little Ray of Christmas sunshine

Much sympathy OP. We once got stuck in a many hours queue waiting to cross the border from France to Spain. DS got very distressed as he thought we were going to be stuck there forever and the car had become our home.

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I hope the police do come past. Then I can ask to borrow one of their hats to pee in.