to ask for your best ever 'I told you so moment?

[AllyBee990]

I feel like we can't talk about these moments in real life without sounding smug but would love to know stories...

Mine is when a git at work left his lovely, also at work wife for a total bully, also same office. After a few months of flowers delivered to the office and rubbing it under lovely ex wife's nose, new lady chucked him hehe... I didn't say I told you so but I could tell eveeeeeryone else ( rest of the office is lovely and scandal free ) and defo his wife was thinking it.

What's yours?

@PatriotCanes

There was a moment in a meeting with some stakeholders where my boss attempted to sum up what I'd just said, more an attempt at being supportive rather than mansplaining, but he hadn't quite realised why I had been some particular in my use of language until he ended up offering them all a hand job I'd spent ages coming up with phrases that covered a task that wasn't able to be automated and he just cut to the chase and actually said the words "hand job" in a meeting.

Wasn’t really much of a fun moment, but when I was being induced for my 3rd child and kept being told I wasn’t in labour despite me knowing exactly what was happening having done it twice before and knowing that the baby was never, and then delivering a baby on my own with no encouragement or assistance with an official recorded labour time of 5 minutes. Midwife was completely shellshocked.

Oh and a neighbour
People keep pouring water over their windscreens to defrost, then the water pools, freezes and I skid on it because of the way it drains down the road
I told a neighbour as he was doing it and he was no no, it won't pool or freeze. He came back from work later as I was putting a bin bag out and fell over on the ice, that he had created

EH new girl swore he would never lie to her just me because I'm shit.. ....and now guess what :-)

Feeling pretty smug now.. LOL

@TibetanTerrah

the speed he'd been officially clocked at was only a few mph under what would have been an instant ban (100?). Considering he'd hit 110 at one point, I was VERY smug at him and declared myself psychic from that day on grin

An instant ban for going over 100mph is not a thing.

@Fluffycloudland77 it wasn't my finest moment....

I'd left one of those old Maclaren umbrella buggies in MIL's garage from when the DC's were small. By this point DD was 4 or 5 and DD stayed with them every friday night. One of the things she loved was walking to the village shop with MIL (200 yards down the road) to get a 10p bag of sweets.
One night DH and I headed to their village to collect a takeaway, and there, being wheeled down the shop in the buggy was DD. No reason at all why she couldn't walk but MIL would drop her in the pushchair.
DH had a word and asked she didn't use the buggy anymore.

A few weeks later we happened to be at the same Indian takeaway when MIL strolled past, pushing DD. This time I asked, please don't. She is 5, she can walk. I knew she was nodding and had no intention of stopping.

The third time we spotted her I was bloody fuming. When I went to collect DD the next morning I took with me some heavy duty scissors DH had, greeted MIL good morning, walked through the kitchen door into the garage, opened the buggy and swiftly cut the seat fabric in half. I think I even hung it back up on the peg. MIL was stunned, DH just looked at me with a smirk and that put an end to DD and the buggy.

I felt guilty with hindsight, I should have just taken it home and donated it, but I was so bloody annoyed at her not respecting our wishes again that I acted a bit rashly.

I use to live near a fairly big hospital, the majority of the parking was permit only, but there was 3 or 4 spaces. However it did mean the traffic wardens were pretty hot on checking down my road.
I had parked up in the garage and I clocked a guy parking in one of the permit only bays, I waited and said sorry, mate its permit only, the traffic wardens are petty hot on checking.

I got told to fuck off and mind my own business and he walked off. He went across the main road as the traffic warden was pulling up, if he hadn't been so rude, I might have called him back

@needmoreshinys

I use to live near a fairly big hospital, the majority of the parking was permit only, but there was 3 or 4 spaces. However it did mean the traffic wardens were pretty hot on checking down my road. I had parked up in the garage and I clocked a guy parking in one of the permit only bays, I waited and said sorry, mate its permit only, the traffic wardens are petty hot on checking.

I got told to fuck off and mind my own business and he walked off. He went across the main road as the traffic warden was pulling up, if he hadn't been so rude, I might have called him back

Love it!

@GreenerWithTheScenery

What @Fluffycloudland77 said!!

DH and some friends climbed Ben Nevis. I stayed in the car reading since climbing mountains is not my jam.

Before they left I told DH not to run down the mountain, as was his wont, since I knew there was a lot of scree. DH ran down the mountain, slipped on the scree, and smashed his front teeth. He now has an implant instead of a real tooth in front.

I was so loving and kind and didn't say I told you so, but I reallllllly wanted to.

I'm genuinely shocked at how many of these posts relate to medical staff flat out dismissing the knowledge that their patients may actually know something about their own bodies more than the medical staff do. There is such a thing as family history. I am disgusted at how many are dismissive of pain - take two panadol and you'll be fine kind of thing. That is disgraceful. We don't go to the doctor for a social visit. I am genuinely shocked and disgusted by their conduct.

Years ago my boyfriend at the time and I were about to rent a flat. I had rented before so I knew we'd need what was quite a lot of money for us at the time. I haven't rented in years so I think there has been a law change about the amount of admin fees letting agents can charge, but back then letting agents would want a deposit that was about a month and a half's rent, a month's rent in advance and various exorbitant fees so I totted it all up and told him the rough amount. He just gave me a funny look and told me it would be nowhere near that amount.

He was horrified and very surprised when we got the bill that was very close to what I said it would be

I didn't tell her so, but exH's wife finally having enough of his weaselly ways and leaving him was amusing on a certain level.

My mum was an accountant in a large multinational. She was doing some related training and was set a project to improve a process in the business to save the business money. My mum noticed that there was a flaw in the systems that meant an invoice could be paid twice and this had happened in the past and no one had noticed, these were invoices that often amounted to over £1m each. She showed her report to her boss and her simple solution to stop it happening in future and he told her to hide it, that he’d lose his job if anyone else higher up found out an invoice had been paid twice.

A few years later my mum took voluntary redundancy and her redundancy payment was paid twice. She kept the additional payment in a separate account in case they ever asked her to pay it back, they never have in the 14 years since.

Yellowstone National Park. A group of cars was pulled over watching a grizzly on a kill about 25 yards away from the safety our cars. An idiot with his young daughter decides to get out of his car for them to take a closer look. I rolled my window and said "That's a grizzly, you don't want to get any closer" at which he waved his hand dismissively and rolled his eyes at me. They took a few more steps which caught the bear's attention. Luckily all the bear did was huff loudly and take a few threatening steps. The idiot put his DD behind him and backed very slowly away and got in his car. He was very lucky that the bear was more interested in its kill than in them.

A grizzly can cover 50 yards in just three seconds, running as fast as 40 miles per hour. They would both have been killed. Yellowstone isn't Disney and those aren't audio-animatronics.

@Newmum738

When the hospital tried to send me home saying the baby wouldn’t come for at least another 7 hours and I nearly had it down the toilet half an hour later. I did actually say ‘I told you I couldn’t go home’. Imagine if I had!!

Happened to me too, except I went home, went back fifteen minutes later as I needed gas and air, the midwife taking care of me went on her break as soon as I got in!

And they left me alone with DH, DH heard the senior midwife sighing about how I was not going to have baby till morning and was making a fuss about nothing (wait till she's in active labour type comments). So DH emails work telling them he'll probably be off holding my hand in labour the following day. I gave birth as soon as he hit send on that email. Apparently I had been pushing and making mooing sounds for a while and DH suddenly saw DD appear, and felt he should not be alone in the room with me.

I had a lot of midwives appearing looking worriedly at me afterwards, I was fine, as DD was fine and we were cuddled together.

Would have been entirely different had anything gone wrong and they had not noticed due to their neglect. I was also a high risk pregnancy and delivery so ended up in the labour ward despite wanting to use the midwife lead birthing unit to have a water birth.

Third trimester with DS1. I told midwife that I thought he was big. I’d recently done my obs & gynae placement and he just felt, well, big. She dismissed me saying that all first time mums thought their babies were big. Went so far as to guarantee he would be 6-7 lbs max.

So when she visited for the baby checks and to see to my infected tears from a near 10lb baby assisted delivery, she at least apologised.

Ddog is 6 now and very chilled but we did have some resource guarding issues
When he was about 18 months he was recovering from an OP and not 100%. We took him into the front garden and he picked up a ball one of the kids threw. DH asked him to drop it but he didn’t and his whole posture was very tense. Ddog then growled and I said I would go and get a treat to swap for it but DH said that he had trained him out of his resource guarding (sort of true) and there was no way he would bite him. He went to grab Ddog and wrestle the ball out of his mouth, at which point I said “he’s going to bite you”
DH replied that I was being ridiculous- guess what happened?
Luckily it wasn’t a bad bite and poor Ddog ended up in doggy A&E later as he had an infection from his op we didn’t know about.
Nothing like that has happened since (in over 4 years) but I can still read Ddog much better than DH can

As a junior in my job I was working on a project and a senior employee was overseeing.

I kept making the same comment - the clients had said they wanted something done in a particular way and I did too.

The senior employee ignored me the first time, the second rolled her eyes and said what I was saying made no sense and it was fine. The others working on the project were similarly dismissive and just listened to her.

Got on a call to share our progress with client and they said word-for-word what I'd been saying.

We went back and redid it and she backed off after that!

Had identical twins and from about 3 weeks old, one of them started vomiting EVERY time he fed. Doctors diagnosed reflux and prescribed baby Gaviscon but that just made it harder for him to vomit and he used to stop breathing. He screamed all the time, was constantly hungry but I was repeatedly fobbed off by midwife/health visitor as an over anxious mum. After noticing a hernia from all the vomiting, I said “fuck this” and drove up to A&E. Told by the RUDEST consultant he would need surgery for the hernia but that he wasn’t concerned by the vomiting as he believed it was my fault for over feeding him! He then made me feed him in front of him and then asked me if I had ever been shown how to wind a baby properly!!! 😡 I explained that his brother was thriving so unlikely it was down to me. He left and sent in his registrar to check….”oh he hasn’t been sick yet. We really do think it’s an over feeding issue but we’re going to do a heel prick test/check his bloods to double check. I’m sure they’ll be fine.” Cut to 30 mins later and they rush in saying his blood gas levels were off the scale and he needed to go to radiology for an urgent scan. 30 mins later, he was diagnosed with pyloric stenosis and had to go onto IV fluids and have a massive aspiration tube shoved up his nose to empty his stomach of the milk he has forced me to feed him. He was so unwell, it took 5 days of nil by mouth and IV fluids for him to be well enough for surgery. He could have died. Never did get an apology. WANKER

Sorry, not very light hearted there! It was just my biggest told you so moment. I made sure everyone I spoke to knew that the consultant had got it spectacularly wrong! (& that he was a dick)

@GreenerWithTheScenery Bravo!

Honestly she didn’t want that kid growing up did she?

To the doctor who refused to listen to concerns that DDs sudden & huge disability was a another hereditary illness that could be easily treat & wrote to our GP & GOS accusing me of munchausens by proxy & wrote DD to a life in a wheelchair by refusing to listen & treat her with B12 injections you wasted so much time & you were spectacularly wrong when those same injections that were my "inflicting unnecessary painful treatment on her" got her up & walking again in under 2 weeks. I hope your arrogant dismissive ass learnt something bitch

Mine is very short:

I said to DS1, "Don't touch the lightbulb, it's very hot and will hurt you." DS1 immediately touched the lightbulb. Cue a good 5 minutes of heartfelt crying.

This was before the days of LED lightbulbs.

While pregnant for the second time (after a late miscarriage), I was referred to peri mental health team as I was anxious about having another premature birth. I was seen at 16 weeks and then booked in to be seen again at 32 weeks - by which time I had an 8 week old baby in NICU.