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AIBU?

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to think that he should mind his own bloody business.....

284 replies

pregnantpopcornprincess · 11/06/2008 09:38

I rushed to nursery this morning to drop DD off and as usual there were no spaces but there was a lovely big disabled one. I nipped in there, dropped DD off and ran back out to the car (I must have only been 5 minutes tops!), jumped in, popped the car into reverse and this old man holding a toddler jumped behind my car and started banging on the window.

The stupid idiot could have got himself and the child killed. I slammed the anchors on to avoid hitting him and then the penny dropped - I was about to get an ear bashing (in front of a busy nusery, full of people).

I wound down the window and he was off 'have you got a blue badge?' to which I replied, 'no I haven't thanks but I'm in a rush - good day to you'. I did up the window and tried to drive off. He junped in front of the car again - still holding the child so I carefully manouvered around him and drove off to see him shaking his fist and shouting.

Now, I know I shouldn't have parked there as I'm not disabled but if he was actually disabled himself then how on earth was he able to find the energy/mobility to run and jump behind and in front of my car all the time holding a toddler.May be he wants a badge so badly that he was willing to be run over in order to qualify!!!! Some people make me so mad. It's hard work trying to get DD to nursery (it opens at 8) and to get to work on time (I start at 8.30 and the journey can take up to 45 minutes depending on traffic) without having to stop and deal with some idiot who thinks he's a traffic warden, is clearly retired and probably has all the time in the world!!!!

I'm sure there are some that don't agree with me but I had to vent my frustration and I'm hoping there are some other working mothers out there who are also pushed for time, who can sympathise with me.

Oh, and I will park there again if there are no spaces and it saves me loosing my job.

OP posts:
BoyzntheShire · 11/06/2008 11:00

at titally

sorry!

Oliveoil · 11/06/2008 11:00

it
is
a
wind
up

OrmIrian · 11/06/2008 11:07

Hmm....

YABU. Yes it's hard getting DCs to the places they need to be so that you can get to work on time. But so what. Deal with it. Disabled spaces are there for people whose need is greater than yours beleive it or not.

MehgaLegs · 11/06/2008 11:08

Titally is good isn't it, freudian slip methinks.

OO - I thought so to start with and even wanted to do this but who knows. Hope it is a wind up really. Can't believe a person could really be that ignorant.

Oliveoil · 11/06/2008 11:10

well it ticks all the wind up boxes

parking
nurseries
working mothers
old biddy

to name a few

Cappuccino · 11/06/2008 11:11

youtube.com/watch?v=0ehv-m3-ZCI no Mehga this is the one you need, to warn people about me

NotABanana · 11/06/2008 11:12

PPP, now I think you are being rude.

MehgaLegs · 11/06/2008 11:12

I shall bookmark that one too Capp for future threads

sorkycake · 11/06/2008 11:14

Can't we just delete the bloody AIBU topic?

Almost all the threads end up like this one ffs.

Or at least retitle it "I'm a nob come and flame me"

AND I swore I would never post in them.

Sidge · 11/06/2008 11:15

If you're not a troll then you're a prat.

Thank your lucky stars that your DD isn't disabled and you don't truly need that space.

Mine is disabled and if I can't get a disabled space then I can't get her out of the car, so we either turn around and go home or drive around looking for another space.

Get yourself a little bit of social responsibility.

mumblechum · 11/06/2008 11:16

at "I'm a knob come and flame me"

OrmIrian · 11/06/2008 11:17

Flamed knob.

Is that a little like char-grilled sweetbreads?

Oliveoil · 11/06/2008 11:18

lol at flamed knob

MehgaLegs · 11/06/2008 11:21

wince at "flamed knob"

Rosylily · 11/06/2008 11:23

well one day I was a bit late doing the school drop and all spaces were full except the disabled parking spot, so I didn't park in it (never would), instead I double parked and when I ran back out, there was a whole line of parents who couldn't get out until I moved They probably all had important jobs to get to and wished I was parked in the disabled spot
Nowadays I get up early and walk to school.

MrsXXXX · 11/06/2008 12:27

Two wrongs don't make a right though do they. The man was wrong to do what he did whilst holding a child, she was wrong for parking there.

Although if a badge holder did want to park there and couldn't because of the op, the badge holder could do what they always do round here - park in the most dangerous place possible and put other motorists lives at risk!

MrsXXXX · 11/06/2008 12:31

Their not there

MrsXXXX · 11/06/2008 12:32

Sorry wrong thread!

Twelvelegs · 11/06/2008 12:37

I have found myself in the same situation, looking at those empty disabled bays wondering who on earth is going to use them all? Then I look at myself and my children and I think about what it would be like if I were disabled and needed that space, that I would love to drive into, and there were none. Instead of being able to go shopping, drop my child somewhere or access a library we would have to go home or park in a bay where people may block me in and not give me enough room to climb in my car or so far away then I would get drenched in the rain, etc.
It's a moral judgement that you got wrong YABVU, sorry.
I am also in favour of the elderly (without blue badges) to park in parent and child bays so they can be nearer the supermarket.

MrsXXXX · 11/06/2008 12:40

"I am also in favour of the elderly (without blue badges) to park in parent and child bays so they can be nearer the supermarket."

Surely if an elderly person can walk around the supermarket, they can walk a little distance across the super market! That goes for most people who can't walk across the carpark but can walk round a shopping centre for 2 hours!

MrsXXXX · 11/06/2008 12:41

they can walk a little distance across the carpark

Twelvelegs · 11/06/2008 12:44

They have to go to the supermarket and buy food, they don't have to walk half a mile accross the car park, plus they have a shopping trolley to lean on. The elderly are sometimes quite frail just not frail enough to be considered for a blue badge.
The child bay is supposed to enable you to open your door wide enough to get a baby/toddler and many parents park there with older children who can walk safely through a car park as well as get in a car on their own.

lou33 · 11/06/2008 12:59

"My main agruement here is that he put his grandson at risk."

no

your main argument is you are pissed off at not being able to do what you like , with your " i am considerably more important than you" attitude

you are very lucky that you are able to walk from a parking space miles away

some people (like my son) will never have that privilege

MrsXXXX · 11/06/2008 13:04

It's hardly half a mile is it? P&T spaces, while not all that nessisary imo, were designed so parents can get a car seat out safely and to ensure toddlers don't get hit by other cars in the carpark because toddlers have a tendancy to run out because they don't know any better. Parents with kids over the age of 4 shouldn't be parking in P&T spaces and should know better.

Twelvelegs · 11/06/2008 13:06

Have you been to a very large supermarket??? The car parks are the size of a couple of football pitches where I live!!