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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To think people should take a bit more care then to let a pram roll away

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KIMItheThreadSlayer · 17/09/2009 15:42

I have just grabbed a run away pram and I feel quite

Finished work and now have hour before picking up DS2 from after school football, so headed to costa got out my lap top and caught up with MN.
2 women 3 small children and a pram come i8n and while deciding where to sit the pram with a small child in rolls away and they do not notice, it rolls down the slop by the door and is almost on the fecking pavement by the time I am out of my chair and grabbing it, and they still do not notice, then she turns to me as I drag the pram back in and says "oh sorry" ????

FFS wake up you doppy cow

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booyhoo · 17/09/2009 21:14

why ask AIBU if you dont want to hear that you are?

i dont get that

colditz · 17/09/2009 21:17

Oh, well, if you're gong to be upset then of course yANBU...

scottishmummy · 17/09/2009 21:21

it sounds wholly unintentional,ease up a bit

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KIMItheThreadSlayer · 17/09/2009 21:21

Ok I am being unreasonable for thinking someone should take more care with a child. I can accept that, it is the way people who were not there think they have a better take on what actually happened then the person who was there that I find pissy.

I also think it would not have killed her to say thank you.

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scottishmummy · 17/09/2009 21:27

look you are just fishing for a well done kimi you heroine! gawd you single handedly saved that weans life- with scant regard for your own latte or laptop

well you might wait loooooooooooong time

booyhoo · 17/09/2009 21:27

this is a bit by stealth you know.

if i'm honest id say you are just in a bad mood/tired/hormonal and lady with the pram(or without in this case) is getting the blame.

but thats just the impression i'm getting, could be totally wrong (and wont get annoyed if you say i am)

colditz · 17/09/2009 21:28

if you KNOW you're right - why are you asking US if you're being unreasonable?

Cos we think you are!

Northernlurker · 17/09/2009 21:28

So the pram was rolling slowly down a slope in an emporium of some sort? On realising she hadn't noticed said catastrophe the mother concerned failed to kiss your hem in gratitude whilst beating herself with several birch twigs tied together?

The bitch! Burn her at once - and take her away her credit cards, mothers like her should be allowed to drink coffee, it'll just make her more feckless than she already is.

Northernlurker · 17/09/2009 21:29

That should should be shouldn't - iyswim. Carried away with my own sarcasm there

booyhoo · 17/09/2009 21:31

but northern she needs the coffee to keep her awake otherwise she might put the children in serious danger, like by giving them a fruitshoot.

TheFallenMadonna · 17/09/2009 21:33

Well of course people should take more care. But we all have moments of inattention surely? Or maybe you don't...

DD rolled across a supermarket car park in a trolley once. A very nice man caught hold of her and brought her back saying "I think you've left something in your trolley"

Northernlurker · 17/09/2009 21:34

Oooh good point - ok - burn her, then let her have coffee, then stand over her with a stick to make sure she is feeding those children proper food - not freshly made supermarket pasta or any such crap. If she attempts to sit on a comfy seat at any time please call social services and the Royal Marines. THIS MUST BE STOPPED!

golgi · 17/09/2009 21:35

My pram rolled into a reservoir.

It had dodgy brakes.

Luckily small boy was not in it at the time, we were feeding ducks and saw it splash.

I sent husband in to retrieve it, the water wasn't too deep.

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KIMItheThreadSlayer · 17/09/2009 21:38

By scottishmummy on Thu 17-Sep-09 21:27:04
look you are just fishing for a well done kimi you heroine! gawd you single handedly saved that weans life- with scant regard for your own latte or laptop

well you might wait loooooooooooong time

LOL

No I just think it was careless, I did what any one would do, TBH I was sat right there so no reason not to, I think it was careless, her whole attitude was careless and if she is a CH I feel sorry for the parents who trust her with their kids.

I don't drink latte by the way, and if I had had to move too far to get the pram I would have rather stayed to keep an eye on my lap top

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booyhoo · 17/09/2009 21:39

@ northern- "royal marines"

RussianDolls · 17/09/2009 21:40

YANBU

I understand. She should have been more careful.

Well done for watching.

scottishmummy · 17/09/2009 21:42

my laptop or some wean in a shooglie buggy and it is the apple mac everything....

BitOfFun · 17/09/2009 21:46

Northernlurker · 17/09/2009 21:46

Come on scottishmummy - laptops are very nice and hard to come by and there will be yet another escaping baby accidentally released by a sofa hungry excuse for a parent rolling by any minute. Especially if you live in a hilly place like Edinburgh. Heavens preserve us, you can't get a coffee in that town without hurling yourself 'neath the wheels of some hugely expensive runaway chariot containing son of ned.

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KIMItheThreadSlayer · 17/09/2009 21:48

As I said the coffee shop is on a main road, the pram was OUT of the door by the time I grabbed it, two other people had jumped up, but I had the arm chair nearest the door.

If not putting the break on then hold the handle if you are going to stand looking for a seat, and there were loads of seats,
So if most of you think I am being unreasonable for thinking she should have been a little more careful then fine I except that.

I don't think it makes me a hero, I was not expecting her to kiss my feet, although saying thank you is some thing my children have been able to do since they could first speak and rude people are a bug bare of mine.
And yes I am tired so maybe that is it.

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Northernlurker · 17/09/2009 21:51

I would translate her 'oh sorry' as 'aaargh I forgot the brake and this scary woman has rescued my child so I better say something quick and my default position as the mother of small child is to say sorry so that's what I'll do and oh arse she looks even more peeved I should have said thank you, now I'll be all over mumsnet and will have to bury myself in Boden to get over the shame' but I accept not everybody sees things as I do.

scottishmummy · 17/09/2009 21:51

kimi you are a fuckin heroine! you leapt like a giselle ready to perform heimleich maneouvre to get the sausage roll oot the choking weans yap as buggy careered to oncoming traffic

as her doppy cow mum chewed the daily mail cud

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KIMItheThreadSlayer · 17/09/2009 21:52

And thinking about it I would save my lap top over a random run away child any day

Also I can be smug as I had a lovely soft are chair

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Northernlurker · 17/09/2009 21:53

Oh AIBU by stealth - that's why the pram rolled away!!!! She did it on purpose to nick your seat. You should have mentioned this at the start. It was all a cunning plot - burn her, burn her, burn her!!

scottishmummy · 17/09/2009 21:54

exactly!why sacrifice your seat and pc for a feckless wean in a careering shooglie buggy

few would

its a jungle out there

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