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!)

you told your 10 year old? so every kid at school and their parents are going to know about this. that was silly of you.

I quite get the egging but you do realise that eggs can ruin a car's paint and so you could be causing criminal damage or some such?? Hope it doesn't come back and bite you. And I doubt the eggee will even make the connection between the egg and the bad parking frankly.

This is the only reasonable objection to your actions OP, and with allergies in my family I'm ashamed not to have thought of this.

Borrowing inspiration from another poster though, google seems to suggest lard is not a common allergen...

@Astariel yes, you're right! I really liked how you set out the steps / thought process.

YANU.
Person might be visiting their own elderly relative. Have lots going on.
It also encourages bad behaviour by them.
And extra stress.

I mean the eggs were in my house and I and the car were right next to my house so although I do see what you mean there wasn’t that much time to ponder before I made the impulsive decision to throw an egg.

I honestly feel like I have stumbled into Theresa Mays childhood with this thread where the naughtiest thing anyone’s ever done is run through a field of wheat

I think it’s funny. Yes, They might be visiting their own elderly relative. But I’ve found the more sick and infirm people know the more they recognise these gaps. I fume at able bodied people in handicapped spots, cars block the footpath, inaccessible buildings so much more since I’ve known people who need this access. (I always thought they were twats, now I’m enraged about their twattishness) So if they are visiting their elderly relative, more shame on them. Every one of the people struggling to get by (I think the op described the struggling passersby as elderly but happy to concede they might not all be) was someone’s elderly relative.

How childish and pathetic. Great example to set for your DC.
It didn’t get the car moved did it? And there’s nothing to say the driver would associate the egg with their parking and prevent them doing it again.

Mind boggling

😂😂😂

How petty and childish.

Meh. I use an off-road wheelchair for situations like that and the inconvenience these complete arsewipes cause is off the scale. I mean egging isn't the mature, cerebral response but it isn't disproportionate to the crime.

What? So if you have a relation with impaired mobility then in your addled brain blocking access is more forgivable, is it?

I think the opposite is true, TBH.

Oh my God. You’ve gone mad.

It’s not about being wholesome. Or ‘naughty’.

Your husband and 10 year old must be mortified. Imagine watching your mum egg a car.

Great role model for your son!!
No wonder the behaviour of children has deteriorated if this kind of stuff is what they are witnessing!!

Stupid thing to do. You could have rung 101 with the reg number. They access DVLA and if a phone number is known police call owner and tell them to move it or they’ll get a ticket.

Neither cool or funny OP.

Yobs egg cars - rational people don't.

Do you mean ‘egg-ressive’? I’m sorry, I couldnt help myself!

More seriously though, I don’t think egging the car was the best thing to do. Imagine you were on the receiving end - it’s not nice. As tempting as the egging may have felt, I think a note would have been much better and you would’ve had the moral ground.

I don’t really follow your post when you saw it may or may not have been hypothetical. This suggests you didn’t actually do it - which is for the best - but why come on here to post if you haven’t actually done anything? Plenty of us have thoughts of doing something rash, which we never actually act on, which I think is quite normal but not necessarily worth posting about.

Gosh. What part of the country are you in? That would never happen here.

One of our children has an egg allergy as well. It’s a fairly common allergy. You could make someone quite ill doing this.

You’re an adult OP, not a naughty child - there is no comparison. Get a grip, such stupidly immature behaviour.

Surely nobody who is in need of reasonable adjustments (egg free environment) themselves would be scummy enough to block access in the first place?

There were dozens of more sensible, proportionate and productive routes you could have taken to resolve the issue.

It feels more like you just wanted to rebel a bit. Mid life crisis looming maybe?

Well, I'm glad you did it. They may think twice about where they park next time. 👍

Sorry I get your intention and I know that feeling when things boil over but I think it’s a bit much. What if the driver was suddenly ill or had an emergency, as unlikely as that is but who knows, if we all went around doing this there would be chaos.

Have you done this sort of thing before? It’s almost like thinking the world is against just you, which is quite a paranoid way of thinking.