Made a bit of a blunder, what should I have done?

[blunder]

I fully expect some of you to have a go at me, but I just wondered how you would have handled an incident this evening.

I had just dropped my ds off at a club and I was walking back along a track. There was a group of about 10 lads, early teens, most of them walking but some on bikes. One of the lads did a wheely on his bike when he was a couple of metres from me, he swerved into my path and then came of the back and the bike came up right into my face. I thought he was going to crash into me, so I gave him a shove. He then started swearing at me and hit my arm, so I shoved him again.

I know I didn't handle it well, but I acted instinctively and didn't stop to think. What should I have done and should I be in big trouble?

Schools - ha, ha, ha!

I was walking home from dropping DD off at school when a youth from the local comp decided it would be funny to skid/slide his bike sideways through a large puddle and drench me from head to toe, then ride off v quickly. I did shout at him, very loudly as he rode off but a trip up to his school, right across the road was met with complete blankness and 'it's not our problem'.

Perhaps this is why so many parents choose to take their car to school even when they live close - so they don't get attacked by the local thugs.

you shoulc have kissed him
ha! thatwoul dhav gone down well

I would probably of done the same thing. I find it quite bizzare that when I take dd to play at the park ther is usually a group of teenagers hanging round and I feel very intimidated by them.

I often wonder if we were intimidating to others when we were that age? My conclusion is no because if I had done anything to cause someone to feel intimidated or nervous and my parents had found out all hell would of broken loose at home!!!

And my school would not have shrugged it off with a "not my problem" attitude.

If we were in school uniform, then we were representing the school and it was the school's attitude. As I understand it, it's one of the rationale for having school uniform at all isn't it?

Can't understand an attitude like that from a school. I'd be sending a letter to the governors and the local press, but then I do like to make a nuisance of myself.

I agree with everyone else, blunder. It's a shame that you were made to feel scared by these silly boys and serves the divvy wheelying bananahead right that you protected your personal space by giving him a wee push to help him on his way.

Agree with the warty one - I keep all my nephews in line by threatening to snog them.

I was convinced that someone would have a go at me and tell me that I was totally out of order. Quite pleased that no one is outraged by my behaviour. The kids weren't in school uniform so I've no idea where they go to school. Bit worried about next week but I'll worry about that later.

Had an incident not a million miles away from this a year or so back, when a group of boys threw a stone at my car while I was driving. I turned the car around and drove back, got out of the car and tore a strip off them. I took their names, asked what school they were from and then said that on this occasion I wouldn't call the police but that if I ever saw them doing anything like that again I would be calling the police immediately.
One of them was very lairy, shouting the odds and doing all that "yeah, yeah" stuff but the other three looked suitably chastened.
It was a main road with lots of people about, not sure I'd have been so confident on a track.

I think it might have been better if you shouted rather than pushed, but not fair to expect a rational reaction given the aggressive behavior by the boy.

If my DS came home & said he'd been pushed by a looney woman, I'd immediately ask, "What? You were just standing there still, giving her plenty of room to pass by you on the path, & she came over & shoved you?" He couldn't defend himself and make it sound completely innocent, could he? You know this boy said nothing to his parents because he knows he was the one who provoked the whole incident.