Was I wrong to egg the car?!

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I stand by my convictions and don’t think I was wrong but interested to hear what other people think.
my husband thinks a note would’ve sufficed.

so we live right next to a public footpath which leads up to accommodation for lots of elderly people.

yesterday I noticed a car had blocked the entrance to this footpath which is clearly marked as to be kept clear at all times.
asked around neighbours, no one knew the cars owner.
waited a good couple of hours, person still hasn’t returned to car.
Many elderly people with walking aides struggling to get past. Anyone with a wheelchair wouldn’t be able to.

i had already left a note on the car but realised the owner would return, rumple up the note and not be slightly inconvenienced. . . . Sooo I egged the car windscreen. (Yes I know I’m clearly 12 years old/it’s a very minor criminal offence etc)
But my logic is that this person was therefore also mildly inconvenienced as retribution for their blasé attitude to others.

YABU to egg the car
YANBU to egg the car

(disclaimer this may be completely hypothetical and there’s no proof I am the neighbour who egged the car!)

This is one of those threads where I could answer before reading anything more than the headline.

YABU but it made me smile as I imagined it being said by some kind of earnest, but overzealous, posh upstander in a book set during the war. Like Zach in Goodnight Mister Tom or something. Add an 'I say - ' in front and you'll see more what I'm getting at 🤔😂

I think it was fine, OP. You’re right, dickwads who do this (always men in my experience) just throw the note on the floor, which they want you to find so you know they have contempt for you.

Having to clean egg or pay for it to be cleaned is a lasting message they eon’t soon forget.

How unfortunate that an egg flew out of your hands and onto their windscreen.

Unfortunately you are being unreasonable but I also absolutely hate cars that do this! One of my massive pet hates I think because 99% of the time I’m a pedestrian.

The car driver was in the wrong. You were in the wrong. Nothing gained.

I’m trying to imagine catching sight of a grown adult doing this. I’d think they were absolutely off their chops and give them a wide berth,

Totally OTT and dangerous.

Hopefully, the driver sees it before they drive off and doesn't use their wipers to try and clear it once they're actually driving.

Washer fluid on the egg white will cause it to smear across the screen and block their view - do you want to be responsible for causing an accident?

Grow up and clean it up.

I don't know how to word this, but chickens exist in battery 'cages' to produce eggs (it's disgusting) & then you totally disrespect them by wasting their eggs. I know it's the same for the chickens whether you eat it or waste it, but it feels so disrespectful

I feel this very strongly too. Just to say that no-one should be buying eggs from caged hens - free range are generally available everywhere now. Or even better get them from someone like me who sells them locally.

They were definitely free range eggs!!

Well that's good to know. Maybe don't waste them next time?

Try dog poo on the door handle next time. Only joking, it was a juvenile act, but when people continue to park how they want without a second thought sometimes frustation gets the better of you.

I do wish there was a system where obstructing vehicles can be towed with the owner charged a fine. Would eliminate the obstruction and provide extra funds for the council. Drivers would then be far more conscious of their inconsiderate parking.

Massively unreasonable. Car owner may have just not noticed the sign. You assumed they would have just scrunched a note when they very well could have read the note and thought "oh shit I didn't see the sign". If it was just a one off they may have had their reasons and it is a massive inconvenience but you behaved like a child in response. Such an over reaction to an annoying car.

I think you were stupid to egg the car.

I would have left a note. Or, if I wanted to make my point more strongly, would have written something in lipstick on the drivers side window. It's a pain to get rid of lipstick from glass but no damage as such. They can still move the car/drive if they wind the window down

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5046270-to-show-you-what-your-free-range-egg-providers-really-look-like?page=1

Good to know 😂

oh well, it’s done now. It’s not the worse thing you could have done. It will get blamed on kids anyway!

YANBU

I'm utterly fed up of inconsiderate arrogant arseholes who do what they hell they want and don't give a toss about others.

I'd never have done anything like that say 20 years ago, quite simply because arrogant arseholes were pretty rare. Nowadays, they're everywhere, so I'm definitely on the way to egging cars and will probably do it pretty soon as I'm getting to the end of my tether with it. I already leave notes but people just ignore them. I had to get one of those retractable parking bollards to stop people parking on my drive but now they just park on the road across it instead!

Same when walking on pavements and footpaths, people coming 2 or 3 abreast just carry on and expect me to jump into the road or hedge so they can pass (rambling groups and cyclists are the worst for this), so these days I just stand my ground and force them to go into narrower formation. They look absolutely shocked that I wasn't going to leap out of their way. Arrogant arseholes!

I'm rapidly becoming "that" belligerent old woman, but I just don't care anymore. No one else cares about inconveniencing me, so why should I care about them??

Egg on the windscreen is a huuuge ball ache. If you try to use your washers to get it off it turns into a huge frothy sticky mess!! It’s terrible to get off. I should know as one of my batshit neighbours did it to me because I had the audacity to leave my car outside his house overnight. The muppet doesn’t even have a car!!!

I hear your frustration op.
All these people saying leave a note, what’s the point? Selfish unreasonable people won’t take any notice whatsoever of a polite note. They will simply screw it up and chuck it on the floor.
I know this because I have spent years being polite and reasonable with people and it’s got me absolutely nowhere.

I agree, but first we need to get police and councils to actually issue "normal" parking fines for illegal parking/obstruction. As it stands, you report a car and the police say it's the council's responsibility and then council say it's the police, and neither bother to do anything!!

Added to that, we need a kind of "totting up" process in the same was as speeding offences, to catch the people who just regard parking fines as a cost of motoring and happily continue to park illegally because they can afford to. Something like 5 parking tickets and your car gets towed away, or 10 tickets and it gets crushed would stop the arrogant arseholes!

We also left a note.
someone spotted the parking culprit leaving and they DID scrumple the note up and throw it in a bush!
although tbf at this stage they will have been pissed about the eggs

They might retrieve it for handwriting analysis

Yep, my thoughts exactly. If they were the kind of people to read a note and not do it again, fair enough, but the vast majority won't give a shit and will carry on doing it. "Normal" people wouldn't have parked like a cunt in the first place!

Not if it goes in my bin they won’t!

YABU op, any moral high ground you did have disappeared when you egged the car.
Do you have a local FB page, if so I'd be expecting to see yourself on it pretty soon with the amount of Ring Doorbells around now

I doubt that very much.

It's heartbreaking isn't it? I keep a few ex 'free range' girls in my flock and they are always in a state when I pick them up. The whole egg business is a disgrace tbf but it's a step up from caged hens, just.