I made a mistake today!... Actually I made a few...stupid, silly errors! Let me be clear, I didnt hurt anyone or cause any damage to anything and yet I ended up being screamed at in the street by a complete stranger and have been upset since! I forgot to bring the party invitation with me when I went to collect my little girl (9) and didnt realise this until I was 30 minutes across the city in Friday evening traffic. Itll be okay, I thought. Ive collected her at this childs house once before. It wasnt okay! We (the 2 boys and sleeping Miss 4 were with me) sat in the cold outside this other house to no avail. No balloons, no children, no other parents. Thankfully a neighbour came out and told me that the family had moved. At this point I realised that I had no phone with me either! No way of contacting another parent or anyone else for that matter! Thankfully somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I remembered some of the address on the invitation. I turned the car around and made a left onto this other road, still very unsure of where my eldest child was or where I was going.... Stressful! I reached Morehampton Road (for those that know Dublin, you can just imagine how busy it was getting there at that hour) and somewhere along it, I spotted a parking space.. one of those two car parallel ones. I parked, left the children in the car (in my line of sight!) and stepped out to walk a few meters up and down trying to see balloons. I spotted some and let the kids know I would be right back, ran in to get my child (I hoped!) and was just leaving their house with her when a woman was in front of me at the door of the house. She was tall, much taller than me and was very angry. It was not a full parking space and I had completely accidentally blocked her friend in. An awfully annoying and frustrating thing to happen and something I would NEVER do casually, not even for a few minutes like this. I had made a mistake. I was trying to apologise but she just kept ranting and screaming loudly at me... She called me names and told me that I was ignorant and a bad mother... She didnt want to hear it when I said that it was just a mistake, made in an upsetting situation. She got back in her car after screaming more abuse at me, then left, leaving me upset, my daughter baffled and the individuals next to me at the crossing point embarrassed. The lady in the car that I had blocked, was understandably cross but was also reasonable and willing to let me explain myself and apologise, which I did profusely and unreservedly. I guess my point in telling this tale is firstly that I am very upset. I had a difficult day. I made some mistakes but I dont understand how someone feels they have the right to reduce someone else to tears for a genuine error. I am upset that I made such stupid errors and that I was abused for it. I am upset that my babies saw this. Tomorrow is my Birthday and the good has been taken out of it for now. Why do so many people seem to have lost their humanity and decency? Where are the parameters of normal behaviour? I consider myself to be a considerate person who tries to help rather than hinder if I can. I dont understand this kind of thing. Is there no understanding anymore that people have things going on, that they may be under pressures that they hide well and that being a Mama can be very challenging? Have people forgotten that sometimes, we all make mistakes?
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:51:23 +0000
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