Whoa hang on a minute have I read this wrong?  You were already in your own street yes? You know it's going to be bedlam?   You're verbal abuse of a woman (who had her child with her) is totally inexcuseable. Really shocked at some of the comments from some of the posters here condoning what you did and some even going as far to call HER stupid!  <boggled>  

Hobbes, she started with the shouting first.  I asked if there was a problem and she went off on one. Granted I shouldn't have mentioned the child but it was a passing comment that could have been a lot worse, not that i would have said anything worse.

Just wondring if you'd been such a big man if it was a Daddy driving!!!  

I would actually.  I'm not one of those people, honestly Hobbes.  It was a heat of the moment thing that I've learnt not to react like that again....thats why i have a stress ball with me now

Someone brought one of them to school and it burst all over the pavement

The daddies driving cars are usually as poorly exercised and overweight as the women. It's never stopped us politely and firmly pointing out their driving faults.

Yeah I called her stupid, cos she nearly caused an accident! I'd call anyone stupid who does things like that. If she wants to play Russian Roulette with her own safety then that's up to her, but she had her daughter in the car and another driver could have smashed into her. Just cos it's school time doesn't mean the roads are not open to the general public, I can understand the women defending her right to collect her daughter if she wants to, but if she hadn't had acted with negligence in the first place this wouldn't have happened.

The same used to happen at my son's school when he was in Primary. The parents would just drive off without checking and there were loads of accidents, one which resulted in one of the women's cars being shunted into a railing, the passenger side taking the brunt of the crash and injuring her daughter. My feeling is if you're gonna drive then you have a responsibility for not only yourself but other drivers around you. Seen too many accidents where other people have been hurt because of someone's stupidity.

Not saying I agree with what he said to her, I think I would have more reminded her that she could injure other people, but then an incident like that would have made me rage too so I can understand it.

I have'nt lived there for 12 years now Ditty and the parking permits were just coming in, I'll take a look down there on Google maps see what its like now....

They give residents fine pads?....

Oiy!!!!!   

I resent that remark 

one chosen resident!

Honest Stonks...  I lived in a road that has residents parking scheme in place...   and the chosen one gave me a ticket once... cos my front wheel was an inch over the line of the parking box!

They move like ninjas they do...     you turn your back for 30 secs & wham... ticket!

The only clue as to which resident is the chosen one.. is if you can detect which house has the twitching curtain when you pull up in a parking bay

Mister GJ, ever thought of becoming a football pundit?

I am a football pundit. Besides my attitudes to drivers are the same whichever sex the obese polluters belong to.

You're quite right if she was in the wrong then provoked you into an argument. I'd be the same and "in the heat of the moment" I'd probably argue even if I was the one in the wrong....adrenaline. Make a nasty comment about any of my kids though and I'd knock you out 

Rawky, I think that you know that you were wrong to speak to her as you did.....especially in front of her child?....Here's an idea: how about, instead of insisting that you drive down your road to your house during the school run time that you park up further back and walk

Damn good idea soops! Perhaps you could test it out for us by parking at the bottom of the hill and walking. Let us know how you get on. Tee-Hee! Etc.

I'm totally with Rawky on this one I have to say. it drives me absolutely mad to see the amount of kids ferried to and from school in cars when they could easily walk or get the bus.
And issy - I remember your Happy Clappy road hogs well. I still smile every time I think of you telling one of them not to stroke your cat as it was an atheist cat
I told my DIL aboout it ages ago when we encountered a cat on a walk with my grandson and it's become a saying now whenever she or I see a strange cat

I can see Rawky's POV but ............personally I'd be mortified if I made anyone cry - there are ways of saying things.

LOL GJ, I don't get stressed out by the parking/traffic situ' here 'though......it is what it is, a small price to pay for living in such a nice part of the world  ....Mind you, I did have a little 'moment' with a woman on the High St. at HQ the other day, who clearly saw me waiting/indicating to go into a parking space and tried to nick it from me....I won

I went there on Google street view and there's still no permits there, I could'nt get over how narrow the lane is though....
My friends a curtain twitcher, I call her choccy nets to shame her into stopping but she just got blinds instead......she told me the Police had asked her to set up a neighbourhood watch, I told her its cos your the nosiest fecker in the road....

That's one of my bug bears....i always understood that you indicated to show other drivers your intentions to make a manouvre (sp)...not during or afterwards.....

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Really shocked at some of the comments from some of the posters here condoning what you did and some even going as far to call HER stupid!  

she pulled out into traffic without looking, causing someone to brake sharply... with her child in the car. Thats pretty damn stupid

Croc, DiD worse than those peeps are the ones that move THEN indicate