Breakdown - Co Wicklow stylee
My sis was down in Co. Wicklow yesterday visiting friends in the town of Arklow. While there her tires were slashed, although they weren’t cut right through so she didn’t notice until the evening when she was on the N11 somewhere between the Beehive pub and the Rathnew exit. Her phone was flat, which meant when the tire burst she had no way of contacting anyone. (Stupid I know, we’ve told her she needs to get herself a charger for the car.)
She limped along the hard shoulder to the Rathnew exit and made it up to the petrol station to look for help. In the station she asked the man behind the counter if there was a pay phone.
He grunted at her. She took it for a ‘No.’
Then she asked if there was a phone on the premises that she could use, she was alone and broken down and needed help? He told her to go away (fluttered a magazine at her like he was swatting a fly) and motioned the woman in the queue to step forward and then completely ignored my sis. N said there were a few people in the shop and no one offered any help whatsoever.
Back out into the rain and the dark, she trudged into EVERY SINGLE business on that stretch of road in Rathnew including the Indian and the pub. No one offered any help. Eventually by this time she was soaking wet from the rain and very upset. She crossed the road into the shop beside the tanning salon and asked if there was a pay phone. The woman behind the counter said no, there were a couple back down the road.
N said ‘No, they are out of order.’
‘Here’ said the woman ‘Use mine’ and gave N her mobile to make the calls she needed.
Anyway eventually N sorted it out and arranged help. She went back to the car and sat for a while drying out and calming down somewhat. And then as so often happens she started to get angry so she went back to where she was treated worst - the petrol station - and asked to see the manager.
‘No manager here’ said another guy behind the counter. However N was angry now and she was going to have her say… it went along the lines of
‘A woman on her own… looking for help… you told me to go away…’ etc.
She’s ringing the station this morning to complain about the staff. But she couldn’t BELIEVE the amount of people who wouldn’t help her at all. She walked around Rathnew for over half an hour in the rain looking for help and nobody wanted to know. Thing that pisses her off is that she knows what to do to change a car tire, but she wouldn’t be physically able to do it herself. She is blessed that she didn’t have the kids with her.
It’s Rathnew that is a kip not Wicklow town!!
Comment by Conor — July 4, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
yes, thats why the title of this post is ‘Rathnew, Co Wicklow is a kip’. Wicklow town is fine.
Comment by elimare — July 5, 2007 @ 9:35 am
i think wat happened was awful but u cant tar all people with the same brush the garage is run by foreigners and are rude to the people of rathnew day in day out. the majority of people that cum to this area find the people very friendly and as i said that is slander it can happen anywhere! not just in a “small village like rathnew” and the pple of ww town of course will slag it off thats always been the way considering they have so much opinions on it they are never seen in the area! its ignorance so not all of the rathnew pple are the same and wudnt like to see anybody in trouble! its sad that they get a kick out of it as soon as rathnew is mentioned! pathetic
Comment by joanne — November 22, 2007 @ 11:37 am
whoo hoo come on the village
Comment by jo — November 22, 2007 @ 11:40 am
Your opinion joanne, that is fair enough. However I used to live in Rathdrum and found the people there to be very friendly. Rathnew not so much.
‘Slander’? No, I don’t think so. An opinion, yes?
Comment by elimare — November 25, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
Is it slander to relate a true experience? Umm… no - that’d just be sharing your experience. If the people in Rathnew want a better reputation, perhaps they should be … decent?
Comment by DaviMack — November 26, 2007 @ 3:02 pm