To have pomped my horn?

[Friedmushroom]

Will try and keep this quick but I’m so annoyed by the car park stand off I’ve just had that I need to know AIBU?

So, I’ve just been parked up in a dark car park, in a dark coloured car, no lights on. Another car pulls up and starts to reverse into the space right next to me, which is a disabled spot so huuuuge, and with plenty of other spaces around. Car reverses at a funny angle, at speed, and VERY close to my car, so close both passenger and me think it’s going to make contact.

I pomp my horn, car keeps coming so I lean on horn. Driver peers round at me shouting and gesticulating. She finishes parking (with me and passenger both wincing), winds window down and starts having a go.

Apparently I’m BU to have pomped as she has reversing cameras so knew I was there. My stand point is; you were literally an inch away from my car (when there’s two whole empty spaces to play with), I don’t know you have cameras, I was warning you that I was there. Car accidents happen every single day so I was making sure you didn’t hit me. She thought this was a ridiculous point and can obviously drive properly as she has passed her test , “people wouldn’t pass their test if they didn’t know how to park”.

I’m so annoyed by her attitude, but she clearly thought I was completely ridiculous. I think it would have been ridiculous for me to have sat in my car and just allowed her to reverse into it. So Mumsnet, AIBU?

I’d have beeped my horn, or else parp-parped it, like Mr Toad.

Pomping is a new one to me. Makes me think of French firemen - les pompiers, IIRC.

Why use such a little used, regional word, when you could say honk, peep, peep, blow or sound the horn??? Surely this is joke?

The vast majority of us on this thread had never heard the word (in that context) before - but every single one of us realised exactly what OP meant by it and will be forever grateful to her for introducing us to this wonderful new verb.

What else would you do with a car horn - take it out for dinner or read it a bedtime story?!

I blow the horn - only realising now how filthy that sounds 😆😆

I think Anoisagusaris should take it out to dinner first

Definitely thought this was going to be a thread about performative farting.

That made me LOL 😂 Pomped 😂 it's pipped, papped or honked 😂
I can't wait to show this thread to DD she'll find it hilarious.
I hope your altercation has been lessened by the fact that you've given us all a good laugh, well done you 😉💐

@Umbongoumbongo999

Surely you parped?

That is farting in our house (“fart” sounds grim from a preschooler).

OP and dp in the car waiting for a big Mac - got to be a euphemism?
I love the pomping. Sounds vaguely familiar from my S Wales childhood. Now if you had bibbed or bipped that would have been a big yabu from me. Bet she overreacted like that because you scared the bejabers out of her!

What else would you do with a car horn - take it out for dinner or read it a bedtime story?!

🎶 "Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight"^^ 🎶

This thread really made me smile, thank you OP. 😆 Of course YANBU for honking if they were about to reverse into your car. But pomped 😂

Lol at pomped! That’s so cute. The people correcting you are just as funny though, peeped and parped!? Honked or beeped here I guess!

Hello

this also crossed my mind when posting but I thought surely the good sensible women of Mumsnet won’t go down that rabbit hole? I clearly underestimated you!

I better come clean.....picked my partner up from the pub, he hadn’t had any tea, one thing led to another and the next thing you know we’re sat in a McDonalds drive thru parking bay waiting for a Big Mac

Come on Friedmushroom You've had long enough to come up with a better cover story tale than that

I have never heard it before this thread, but I really LOVE the word 'pomped' it sounds so much more like the sound a car horn would make then 'beeped' that I would use (or is it "bibbed" ?) or 'honk' that I've seen used before.
Is definitely now going to be adopted chez Good

Never heard of pomped.

Yabu in that it’s illegal to beep your car when stationary unless you’re on a road and in danger. Can see why you did it though.

I'm Lancashire born and bred and I've never pomped.....

I’m just here for the pomps.

@Pomped

All this "using cameras", or "visualising the space" stuff.. it's great..

...but what about mirrors? For me they're all you need to get into a space. They're all we had for years. Correctly adjusted and used, they're literally all that's needed to effectively reverse.

The weird thing is I've seen people before who reverse only looking at the rear view, and then nervously slam on the breaks the minute they see from another window/over shoulder glance, that oops.. it's time to straighten up.

Mirrors are our friends!

I honk but have never pomped.

I'm a bibber but I'm going to become a pomper instead. Sounds so much better

I've heard of pumping your horn but never pomping.

I passed my test. Still can’t park!

Pomped is a weird word though

@Friedmushroom
So, I’ve just been parked up in a dark car park, in a dark coloured car, no lights on.

For a spot of "rumpy pumpy"? Or should that be, "rompy pompy"?

I admit, I prefer the sound of the second one, rumpy pumpy sets my teeth on edge!

Pomped Made me looool

rumpy pumpy sets my teeth on edge!

Try biting down on the edge of the pillow.