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Original poster

to want to kill the taxi driver that said to me....

29 replies

page62 · 05/12/2007 08:24

...."you should be at home with your children, what are you doing here having meetings. When my wife had our child she wanted to go back to work and i said to her, no you are not, you are going to look after our child yourself. And now, 28 years on, she tells me how grateful she is that i forced her to stay at home. You will regret all this time you are spending away from them"

I was in Edinburgh Monday doing 7 back to back meetings for a day. This was the answer i got after taxi driver said - long day? and i said yes, looking forward to flying back to london to see my kids (i flew the night before at 10pm so i was with the kids all sunday)

I am normally pretty thick skinned FT working mum about any remarks made about the quality (or lack of )of my parenting by sole fact i am working FT. but it did take all my self discipline not to tell him to f*cking mind his own business.

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mistletoepeaks · 05/12/2007 08:29

cheeky git!! I hope you didn't give him a tip!!

Bouncingturtle · 05/12/2007 08:29

I would have told him to mind his own f*ing business. What a twat. But you'll never have to see him again.
Perhaps she was grateful he made her stay at hom because if she hadn't she wouldn't have knoen how shaggable the postman/window cleaner/milkman was

NotQuiteCockney · 05/12/2007 08:31

What an asshole!

ABudafulSightWereHappyTonight · 05/12/2007 08:32

What an idiot!

Original poster
page62 · 05/12/2007 08:33

it was so patronising it was unreal.
i don't normally beat myself up for working ft as i am quite practical and know that this is what is best for my family. and i am normally so used to all the snide comments i get from other people. but for some reason, this really pissed me off.
unfortunately, he took me to the airport so i had this going on for about 40 minutes.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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GooseyLoosey · 05/12/2007 08:34

Not unreasonable at all. Who knows, his wife may even want to join in. I can't imagine anyone being grateful for too long for being forced to do anything.

Nice to know that there are still such chauvanist morons in the world.

moondog · 05/12/2007 08:35

I would have asked him why he was wasting his life driving a cab instead of getting some proper qualifications.

Or else i would have just laughed and opened the paper.

needmorecoffee · 05/12/2007 08:36

I thought neanderthals were extint. Did you tell him this is the 21st century?

SantaBeClausImWorthIt · 05/12/2007 08:38

Why do people think they have the right to comment on other people's lives?

I would have been gobsmacked!

ScottishMummy · 05/12/2007 08:47

He's an eejit but understandably it was tactless and unnecessary for him to stick his oar in,thing is people cannnot help themselves but comment on FT Mums (i work FT too also in London)

ScottishMummy · 05/12/2007 08:48

I mean you were understandably upset at his tactless unnecessary comments, eejit

Swedes2Turnips1 · 05/12/2007 08:57

London Cabbies are the best, they don't seem to be able to resist telling me how immigration is ruining this coutry and how they have had to leave Plaistow and take up residence in Maidstone. Black cab is a bit of a misnomer - they should be called white supramacist cabs. Ignore.

yaddayule · 05/12/2007 09:13

page62 The driver was an idiot (but then you know that)

Shall parp myself on the London Cabbies white supramacist (sic) comment though.

ninedragons · 05/12/2007 09:17

When you got to the airport you should have said I'm sorry, I don't have any groats or
shillings on me. Do you take decimal currency?

Bloody dinosaur.

Original poster
page62 · 05/12/2007 09:34

when i was getting out, he said jokingly "let me have a quick word with your husband and tell him what's he doing letting you work"....

letting me work? , didn't realise my husband "let me" do anything...

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NotQuiteCockney · 05/12/2007 10:52

If he went on for that long about it, I'd be inclined to complain to his taxi firm, tbh. He sounds like an arse.

(I think I would have nodded and then put my ipod on. Or been more obviously rude.)

CarmenerryChristmas · 05/12/2007 10:54

Why on earth didn't you tell him to mind his own business??

CarmenerryChristmas · 05/12/2007 10:55

Or in the wise words of Rhianna 'shut up and drive'

Those words have possibly never appeared in the same sentance before

kittylouise · 05/12/2007 10:58

Christ your blood must have been boiling. What a prize arse. I bet his wife bloody hates him.

Where's Xenia? She will have something to say

oliveoil · 05/12/2007 10:59

I would have given him a death stare and said "Yes. You are quite right. At this exact moment I wish I was with them instead of here."

and then left a big pause, another death stare then ruffled my paper and Become Silent and Deadly in the back

tosser

ManchesterMummy · 05/12/2007 11:05

Oh my how did you not completely go bonkers at him! How dare he say those things to you! And as for your DH "letting" you go back to work...

You should complain. Oooh mad on your behalf!

duchesse · 05/12/2007 11:05

Typical taxi driver mirror reader patter.

Water-duck-back.

Tell him to shut his gob and just drive you to destination.

nametaken · 05/12/2007 11:39

Tosser, he probably only declares half his incomes and pays tax on the other half only. If we all did that we'd all be able to afford for one parent to stay at home.

Louandben · 05/12/2007 11:51

Unbelievable. You should just try and laugh it off, he sounds like some kind of Little Britain character. What makes people like that think they are entitled or qualified to comment on how anyone lives their life?

Its difficult, but you know deep down that you really shouldnt let such an opinionated, chauvanistic idiot get to you.

Blu · 05/12/2007 12:06

And to think that YOUR farre - incurred because of your job - was funding his lifestyle!

Bloody cheek!

You should have said 'well my job is paying your wages today, so perhaps you should think twice before criticising my life'