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- A Mumsnet user revealed her “disgusted” reaction at hearing drivers “shouting” at her daughter after her car broke down
- The mother’s teenage daughter had only passed her driving test two weeks prior to the incident
- The concerned mother said that her daughter was left “really shaken up” by the negative reactions
A mother is “disgusted” at the negative reactions her teenage daughter received from drivers after her car broke down.
The mother explained on the community forum Mumsnet that her 17-year-old daughter borrowed her car and decided to drive home from school when the vehicle broke down.
“My daughter passed her driving test 2 weeks ago. She’s driving my car around on the days I work from home,” she explained. “At rush hour after sixth form, she broke down on a busy roundabout in the middle of the city (the clutch had gone).”
The woman said that her daughter “put her emergency lights on” and called her immediately.
“It was very obvious she had broken down,” she said. “Honestly, I was so shocked to hear the beeping, people shouting at her and she said other were laughing as they went past too.”
The mother said that her daughter was “really shaken up” by the situation — not because of the clutch going, but “at the anger people had towards her for breaking down.”
“There are several lanes of traffic, so people could get around her,” she recalled. The woman said that eventually an older man stopped and helped her daughter get her car to the side of the road.
“I’m so grateful to this guy who had a daughter similar age,” she said, adding that she feels like “society has got worse.”
Readers sympathized with the woman’s daughter in the comment section.
“Your poor daughter,” one person wrote. “On a roundabout is an awful place for it to happen and I think many of us would feel massively stressed and upset about the beeping etc.”
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“Try and focus on the decent person who helped,” someone else said, while another agreed, “Agree that you should focus on the person who helped her and reinforcing that she did the right thing in the situation — put her hazards on etc, called for help.”
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