I need to vent my anger somewhere and see if people think I am being totally irrational.....
I live in the Crumlin area (on a small residential road which has many many access routes). I was away for the weekend and came back as I had to collect some family arriving in from New York inDublin aiport on Monday morning. I left my house in Crumlin at 9:30am yesterday and after realising that i couldnt get the airport via town, I went over the M50...everything hunky dory...
Anyway collected the arrivals at 10:30am and totted off back across the M50...came off at the red cow roundabout only to find that there was no access to Crumlin at all!! I went off towards walkinstown thinking that surely there would be some route I could get through but surely enough the marathon was literally a boundary line that i could not cross anywhere...after talking to a ban garda, she rudely told me I could walk home (with 3 large suitcases and 2 very tired older people) or just go out and come back when it was over. I overheard at that same time, another man asking when it would be over and a different guard sniggered and said well it can take up to six hours for it to go through different areas! I couldnt get over how rude they were.
anyway, it was 12:20 by now so we decided to head back to the M50 and come off at the lucan exit...drove all the way back to town and then through thomas street and made it home eventually at 1:30pm.
Now I know there are people out there who will 'well, why didn't you take that route in the first instance..?'
My point is....surely surely, if all the access roads to your house are closed off, you have the right to be notified and told this? A note through the door wouldnt hurt!!!!!!!! what if I had left the oven on, the kids at home...god knows what?? i am still angry, almost 24hours later....is this totally unjustified? I dont want to be an unreasonable person but............................................
I live in the Crumlin area (on a small residential road which has many many access routes). I was away for the weekend and came back as I had to collect some family arriving in from New York inDublin aiport on Monday morning. I left my house in Crumlin at 9:30am yesterday and after realising that i couldnt get the airport via town, I went over the M50...everything hunky dory...
Anyway collected the arrivals at 10:30am and totted off back across the M50...came off at the red cow roundabout only to find that there was no access to Crumlin at all!! I went off towards walkinstown thinking that surely there would be some route I could get through but surely enough the marathon was literally a boundary line that i could not cross anywhere...after talking to a ban garda, she rudely told me I could walk home (with 3 large suitcases and 2 very tired older people) or just go out and come back when it was over. I overheard at that same time, another man asking when it would be over and a different guard sniggered and said well it can take up to six hours for it to go through different areas! I couldnt get over how rude they were.
anyway, it was 12:20 by now so we decided to head back to the M50 and come off at the lucan exit...drove all the way back to town and then through thomas street and made it home eventually at 1:30pm.
Now I know there are people out there who will 'well, why didn't you take that route in the first instance..?'
My point is....surely surely, if all the access roads to your house are closed off, you have the right to be notified and told this? A note through the door wouldnt hurt!!!!!!!! what if I had left the oven on, the kids at home...god knows what?? i am still angry, almost 24hours later....is this totally unjustified? I dont want to be an unreasonable person but............................................