I didn't handle it very well at all .
I am anxious about driving, but for the last 3 bloody weeks the car has had things wrong with it, one thing after another it seems. When I'm driving along and something weird starts happening with the car I get REALLY anxious. I can't be doing with worrying that something weird/dangerous/bad (eg car just conking out on the way somewhere) is going to happen any minute when I'm already tense about driving when the car is ok!
I was driving it today when smoke started pouring out of it. People were looking and a couple of blokes in another car waved their arms frantically and got me to wind down the window to tell me....that smoke was coming out! Didn't they think I had noticed?!!!
Anyway, I picked up DS from nursery and DD was in the car as well and I asked them to please be quiet on the way home because I was finding it hard to concentrate anyway because I was worried about the car. DD would NOT shut up! And her going on and on was winding DS up and making him shriek and whine. I was angry with the DCs and stressed by the smoke coming out and by the time I got home I was in a foul mood and DD continued to talk rubbish non stop and demand to be listened to every second even when I was trying to talk to DS and when I was trying to talk to DH on the phone (who isn't here tonight, so no help getting the children to bed).
I didn't handle it well at all and ended up ranting at DD about how demanding she is.
I feel like a crap mother.