givemeaspell, you are more than welcome on the bogan/feral bench with me 🙂

but flashie- what will you do if your car breaks down?

but flashie- what will you do if your car breaks down?

Leave it.:^O

my hubby got his first mobile on Saturday.

that would be 9 minutes less time on

No, what really happened is you couldn''t move your car for ................... 9 minutes.............. absolutely worst thing that could happen to anyone. Child happily eating a biscuit, not distraught.   Never mind you risking your car breaking down everyday, in the heat, with 1 or 3 children in it, and having no way to phone anyone for help.

that would mean 9 minutes less time on CS :^O

Cant believe this is still going...but you got the attention you so craved OP, good for you.

i remember, before mobiles,  mums car broke down with her, her friend and us 3 kids in the car, halfway between Dubbo and Wellington.

We walked to the nearest farm house but no one was home so mum hitch hiked to Wellington to get petrol while the rest of us waited by the car.

I asked about the elderly person scenario because I was curious, I'm guessing that ddb wouldn't have said it to a bikie type because she would have been nervous as to what he would have done/said back, especially as she had a young child.  With the older person I wonder why she wouldn't have given the same treatment as the young person. Is it because she would feel it rude?

personally I wouldn't shaped sworn at the woman, if it had all gone pear shaped it could have been a totally different story playing out here.

we can't control others actions or reactions, but we can our own. Too many nutcases out there to take the chance.

The point is mobile phones are available now, we are discussing here an event in 2013, not in our parents days.

Most parents have a mobile phone for the reason above.

Fact is the  OP does have a mobile phone, she would not have bothered pulling it our of her bag if she didn't think it would have been useful to use when she was stuck in a car park for 9 minutes... but no.. can't be bothered to charge it.

I dont know why it would make you giggle but then again I understand :^O

what if the woman, who thought she was only going to be 5 minutes, fell in the shopping centre and ended up taking 1/2 hour or an hour or more?   am- i rarely go anywhere most days apart from the shops and they are a half hour walk from my house. And if the school couldnt get in touch with me, then they would ring my hubby if it was urgent

Hey my mum kinda did that - left dad reading his paper on a bench outside a shop whilst she dashed in to pick up something they had on hold for her - told him she'd only be a few minutes..

Whilst she was waiting at the coiunter to pay - a lady in one of those motorized scooter wheelchair thingies drove over her foot and broke it! So it ended up taking ages cos they had to get centre management etc and ambos etc...Dad was furious cos he had only bought one paper to keep him occupied LOL