AIBU to get angry with...

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AIBU to get angry with people who use the phrase "im a single mother" as an excuse for poor behaviour and being inconsiderate?

Today, a so and so used that line to me when dropping her kids off to school and blocking me in my driveway; when I told her to park further away and walk the rest of the distance.

End of the day, how is that my problem? Ffs.

Oh didn’t you know? Single mother’s have it so much harder than everyone else in the world.

She couldn’t possibly park elsewhere. Instead you should have gotten on your knees and prayed to her and wished her health and happiness

YANBU in that context.

Well that doesn't even make sense! Why on earth would being a single mother mean that she gets to be inconsiderate and rude? Maybe she meant she's got a single brain cell, do you think?
In my experience, most single mothers don't use it as an excuse for poor behaviour. Unfortunately there's still enough stereotypes attached to that phrase and I don't know any mother who happens to be doing the job of two by herself who would want the negative association.

She’s one of life’s “victims” by the sounds of it! What a cringey thing to shout out to a stranger.

Someone once screamed at me in a carpark that I should give her my space as she " has 4 kids, you only have 2"
Also I was welcome at such and such event " its ok, people with ONLY 2 children can attend"
Batshit

Her marital status was nothing to do with her inconsiderate parking! But yes, it's an excuse used a lot, even on Mumsnet for all sorts on unrelated things. I've known people married with partners who worked away so often it was like they were a 'single parent' much of the time. Or people with disabled partners who could not shoulder the strain equally as regards to childcare etc. For sure, there are countless people on here living with a hideous partner/husband who feel as if they have another child rather than a co-partner.

Someone once screamed at me in a carpark that I should give her my space as she " has 4 kids, you only have 2"
😂😂😂
That reminds me of a couple of eejit co-workers when I first started out in my career, telling me promotion should go to married men (yes men!) before single people as they had to pay more for electricity and heating at home! (They clearly thought my lightbulbs and radiators had a 'single person in the room' setting).

I've never once heard someone say anything like that.
Do you hear it often?

God some people!

I’ve never actually heard anyone use that, but it’s clearly not reasonable of her. Sounds like the sort of person who would use whatever excuses applied to them and they thought would word.

I’m a single mother and wouldn’t dream of blocking anyone’s drive way.

Yanbu. Same as someone who thought it totally fine to block our driveway (at the same time as DH needed to go to work) because it was her son's birthday. Therefore my DH was the unreasonable party here

I'm not a single mother but I don't think someone with a dp who works away a lot (unless maybe deployed for months at a time) comes close to a single mother. Presumably they have someone to share the worries, mental load and finances.
That woman today is obviously an idiot and not representative of single mothers at all.

YANBU. My ex SIL was a single mother to 3,and she was constantly trotting out the 'I've got 3 kids AND I'm a single mother' as an excuse for anything and everything. Used to piss me right off.

I am a single parent and I don't use it as an excuse. I also don't think single mums are mums with a dp who works away or overseas etc. It's not the same thing no matter how they try and spin it.