Walking down the road this morning, 4 adults and 3 children were gathered on the pavement, chatting away, completely blocking it. There is also a large tree built into the pavement, which they were standing next to so blocking the thinnest part of the pavement. On the other side of the tree was 2 parked cars, and one of the adult's in the group's cars pulled up on the other side of the parked cars.
As I approached the group, I politely smiled and said 'excuse me' in the hope that they would bunch in slightly to allow me to pass.
Instead, the man of the group looked at me incredulously and said 'er well we have children...we can't get them to move...you can go around us...?' I didn't see why I should walk out around 3 cars into the middle of the road to pass them, so quietly and politely weaved through the gaps in their group.
I carried on down the road and could here the man bitching at me from behind me, saying in a raised voice 'oh wow....you're just going to push through....wow some people, we've got children, so rude to push through when they can just go round, etc etc, unbelievable '
Said children were I would guess between the ages of 4-7. So more than old enough to be told, 'this lady needs to get past, let's step to the side for a second to let her through'
I was :O :O
If I had had my DD with me, what would have happened? A complete stalemate as we both have children?
Because other people have children, this gives them the right to block walkways and be rude to strangers?!
AIBU to have NOT walked out into the middle of a busy road to walk around this group?!
Thank fuck I'm not married to a man like that, would be mortified if DH behaved that way!