Made a fool of my self tonight and now I feel so low

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Oh I need to just write this down to calm down. I love on a fairly long street and it's a quiet area all people are lovely.

We have this one guy who lives on the road who is a pain I've had run ins with past. He drives up and down it at 60 miles per hour on a 20 mph road. (School on the road)

My kids I darent let them out on the front to play just incase he's bombing it down the street. He's always got police at his door or arguing.

Last night 3 am and then at 4.30am he's fighting in the front with his dad. I had no sleep because of this.

Then around 8pm tonight he's arguing driving recklessly way above the limit. My little girl got upset because the cars are so loud.

Any way he pulled back up got out of his car and I went over lost my shit. Said it was unbearablle.

He threatened to batter me and I had half the street watching.
My husband is mr nice guy and didn't get involved much. My next door neighbour was sticking up and saying she has young. Children and it's unbearable.

It was resolved in the end he said sorry but I feel so ashamed that I was so hot headed and got angry and all the street were watching,

Some of the ladies on the street said good on me for doing it.

But I just feel like a complete nutter now.

Why did I react like that 😔😔

No you're not a nutter, you're now the street hero. I would probably have done the same tbh or at least loudly backed you up when you and started rowing. Hopefully you got through to the twat

Maybe.
It was a volatile and unexpected situation, some people dont cope well🤷🏼
And the bloke did back down, maybe the husbands meek & subservient approach was a good tactic at the time?

If you are normally quiet your rage will have been even more effective
I agree with this from @Delphiniumandlupins

Would you feel happier if your husband was lying in a hospital or a police cell tonight? What was he supposed to do when you start picking fights with violent idiots? One of you needs an ounce of self-preservation for your kids' sake.

Well done you.. I would and have been the same.. One time one of the binmen outside mine was telling his colleague he was "f.. ng useless and I went out and squared him up, recently some men outside mine were fing and blinding and I went out and said I didn't want to hear it and neither did the children on our road either.
A few years ago I was on the underground with ds2 who is deaf and autistic. He was being a little noisy as he was excited. The man opposite him leant forward and kicked him (not very hard but enough to annoy me).. By the time I finished with the man who I realised was drunk he and the rest of the carriage were silent!!

I did similar with a dickhead a few years ago. No-one stood up for me either - just watched from behind their curtains as I confronted him about midnight when he was still noisily working on his car.

He called me a f-ing C word and all sorts.

Am still proud of myself for doing it, though in hindsight he may well have attacked me with his spanners - other people on the street were fed up with him but didnt have the backbone to say anything.

He started the revving up too a couple of years later and I reported him to the council. As luck would have it, I was on the phone outside onto them when he was revving his car up. The council guy said (shouted actually, as I could hardly hear him over the noise) "IS THAT HIM?" "YES! HE IS LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME" I shouted back. Well he must have got the letter that week from the noise dept with a warning, as he never did it again

Well done OP. If more people stood up to these selfish dickheads, they wouldnt dare keep being so vile.

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I mean whether it's normal or not is by the by really (although in this rough part of London, it's far from normal).

The point is, we're a team and a family, and we'll always have each other's backs no matter how scary the situation.

Well he must have got the letter that week from the noise dept with a warning, as he never did it again
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Interesting that he backed down so easily in the face of an official letter. This makes me wonder if was on thin ice in some way (LL about to evict him?) such that one wrong move could bring about disaster?

Men who get into fights are thugs
@shuggles, yes and they tend to be pretty messed up by the time they get to 57, IF they do.

Good for you. Speeders ruin things for everyone

Is this one of those threads?

I'm really glad you rallied up the confidence to challenge the offender - but, you must have known that all of Mumsnet would have your back, and tell you that you did exactly the right thing?

I don't think I understand why you're "feeling so low"?

I agree men and women who fight are thugs.

But I don't include self defence, and if the OP's DH got a punch on the nose for sticking up for his wife, because this man threatened to batter her, self defence is what it would be when he fought back.

Are you joking!
He sounds awful. I am so sad for you that you have to tolerate a neighbour like that.
You have not made a fool of yourself at all??? Who cares if you exploded?
I would've done much worse, believe me.
I mean, you've probably not gained anything through it, but whatever. He is despicable.

Definitely not on you. Hope you're ok.

I should think everyone admired your balls and were relieved that someone had the nerve to confront him. I think they will be delighted if things get resolved without them getting involved.

I know I would be.

Report EVERY time you see the man driving like an idiot.
You can make a statement to the police (he doesn't need to know who it was) and they should serve a Section 59 notice on him.
If anyone seems him driving in that manner again his car will be taken off him.

I also don’t see why you need to feel bad, you did the right thing to stand up to him.

Yoir husband comes across as a wimp tbh. I get trying to be nice but sometimes you need to stand up for yourself. would he have continued to stay out of it if the guy actually hit you?

You brave mama bear! I bet your neighbours will have a new-found respect for you now (and be secretly envious they don't have your bottle). You should be super proud of yourself.

Sounds like a classy area

You were right to intervene OP. Your neighbours were relieved that you have the courage to stand up to him, as they were feeling the same as you, hence the positive feedback they gave you as you had the balls to confront him.

Your young child was being negatively affected by the reckless actions of this selfish, out of control feral, vagabond whose shameful actions have brought the police to his door.

If I was you, if you log the noise nuisance, and ask your neighbours if they will do the same, it is a list including dates and times of when these incidents occured(d) to the council who will have to intervene.

If your neighbours do the same, it will add more weight to your complaint so it may speed up their action.

Also include the threats he made against you as well as the fact he is stopping your 3 year old from sleeping.

You have every reason to hold your head up high, the weak one here is the lunatic neighbour.

Hang in there, your doing great.

Sorry, some of us have to live in rougher places because we don't earn whopping mumsnet office pen-pushing salaries of £50k, £100k, or even more.

Shame is a normal feeling after losing one’s temper, especially if it doesn’t happen often. But also: we women were taught to be the “good girl” and never make scenes- even if someone is harming us.
I imagine it’s this training that’s coming up to bite you.

what you did was fine. Try to be proud of yourself for standing up for yourself, your child, the neighborhood.

what you said was true.

you also spoke the only language he could possibly hear, as it sounds like he spends a good portion of his life in noisy rows.

I am glad he apologized. I hope this means he will be more respectful.

Your husband was nowhere to be found when a man was threatening to "batter" you, his wife? Because he's a "nice guy"

Sheesh. Well done you but I'd say you have a big red flag there at home!

And you sound like a stuck up prick.