TO BE SHOCKED BY THIS "MOTHER"

[Kimi]

So I pick DS2 up from after school club and on the walk home we see a woman and a man on one side of the main road and a man on the other... the woman is yelling her head off at the bloke on the other side, and he is yelling back.
It goes along the lines of woman "you F&%$( W%$£ you crack head hes a man" (points to bloke on her side of road,) bloke shouts back "whatever" this carries on then they cross to the blokes side of the road and she waggles her head about waves her arms and shouts and swears more as does the bloke (the one that was with her said nothing just stood looking gormless tbh)

I think she got every swear word and sexual expletive in that she could all at the tpo of her voice and the bloke she was screaming at was screaming back "whatever" "fecking whore"

Now I don't know or care what they were at each other over, and if they want a chav fest in the middle of a public high road then so be it but...........

On the corner of the side road leading on to the main road where they were screaming at each other was a car, in the car with the windows open was a child of about 18 months who was distraught... Woman goes back to the car and shouts at baby "you can shut the fuck up as well" then her and gormless bloke get in and drive off like Lewis Hamilton giving the bloke left behind the finger.

DS2 turns round and says "shes not a nice mummy is she" and all I could say was NO!

I've said almost those exact words to ds.

Not in public though.

Shouting in the street like that is horrible.

Never pass up an opportunity for a good old judgy judge though eh?

This a bit "tutty" isn't it, surely you don't expect anybody to say YABU

Oh my god!
Did you try and film it on your mobile?!?!?

I would have! Sounds awful, but probably would have snorted in laughter.

No - we're supposed to join in villifying this woman, whilst knowing nothing about her or her situation.

I mean - was the car a nice looking MW or was it a beat up old Escort? Was she wearing Primark or Boden?

All big factors in being able to judge IMO.

BMW - my B key doesn't work very well (thank you ds!)

Ok so I am judging I don't care, whatever reason for her to behave like this it is dreadful. She was in such a rage I woulnd not be surprised if she crashed the bloody car.

The poor child was hysterical, I took her Reg number and am thinking of reporting her TBH

For doing what? Shouting? Driving fast?
Did you have a speed camera on you to prove it?

I think this woman was villifying herself enough to be honest

Kimi - YANBU

I think if people are behaving like that in public we have every reason to judge.

I guess you had to see it to know how bad it was... for want of a better term she was off her frigging head, and should not have been driving a car,

but you cant prove it

Actually there is a CCTV camera there as it was just outside the high school

Also DS2 really does not need to learn the words whore, cocksucking cunt, fucking bitch, crackhead scum and so on he is 7 FFS

Fio I am sooo with you - FGS as if there can be any excuse for grown people to be screaming and bawling at each other in public!

And as for swearing at the child - absolutely unforgiveable! I just canot understand the mentality of someone who would do that! As for the 'she might have had a bad day/week/life brigade' what a load of rubbish - as if those of us who chose not to swear like a banshee in public live perfect little oh so easy lives!

I would say she was aged about 19/20.
This was by the high school and close to the jounior school, I was not the only parent walking past with a smallish child who now knows some new words

I have off days we all do but as yet I have never screamed obsceneties across the road and screamed shut the fuck up to a child.

Kimi, YANBU, I agree with Fio
I don't want my DS's (both preschool btw ) picking up language like that, or even seeing someone acting like that, it isn't right.
Gawd, what possibly could condone this sort of behaviour? In what world is it right to scream foul abuse across a busy street and speak to your child like that?

I saw a similar row between a couple at a park with their DS(about 18months).
I judged.
Especially when she said 'i'm not fecking arguing in a park full of fecking kids you a-hole, you're not making me look a cunt'
He then went on to talk in a nice calm voice to hid DS and tell him that 'mummy is a stupid whore isn't she ds if she wants to argue and shout she can cos daddy doesn't love silly mummy anymore'
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Thing is if everybody just says oh poor woman/bad day/don't judge and so on this type of thing will become the norm as no one will point out it is wrong as that would be judging

There is a family in our street that I have witnessed behaving a bit like this. I think if it is done in full view and earshot of me in a public place then I am entitled to take a view about it, at the very least.

And imho, it is not acceptable to behave like that in public or in front of young children. If there had been a police officer around, they might possibly have been done for breach of the peace, I reckon.

This is not a "might have been having a bad day" situation.