...and refused to reverse back (onto a roundabout) when someone tried to force their way up the road when I was coming down and the obstruction was on their side?
The roads near me are shit. They are main roads but they are not big enough for cars to be parked on one side and for traffic to flow both ways easily.
One particular road leads up to a mini-roundabout. The mini roundabout has three exits: Mine which I took today, another which connects to a road that least to the High Street, and schools, and the other to the station.
One side of this road that I have to go down is always full of parked cars and the only gaps are where people's driveways are. It causes absolute chaos in rush hour.
This particular bit of the road is about 0.2 miles long and in rush hour it can take 30 minutes to get down it. Cars regularly try and force their way up the hill (which is the side the parked cars are on). The road is not wide enough for them to do this and for oncoming traffic to be able to get down the road. This often means the queues go back over the roundabout because people cannot get down the road because it is also on a bend (so you cannot see these wankers are obstructing until you are on the roundabout) and it brings everything to a halt.
Today, I turned onto the road and there was nothing there so I started driving down😯A car drove out of a driveway and began to drive up the hill. There were several spaces they should have pulled into (given the obstruction was on their side as were the passing spaces) or they even could have pulled back into their driveway, but they kept coming up. There was nowhere for me to go. The curb on the left hand side does not exist. Instead, it is a metal barrier behind which is a sharp drop. Another car had already come around the roundabout behind me.
They ground to a halt - close enough it set off my front-parking sensors (I had already stopped). And then gesticulated and swore at me. I just shook my head and made it clear I would not be reversing back onto a roundabout which would have been my only option given how close the parked cars go to the roundabout. They swore and gesticulated a bit more. I just shrugged, turned my engine off and waited them out.
In the end they admitted defeat and reversed back, as did the cars behind them that had tried to force their way up, and I drove past.
DSis (cringing in the front seat the whole time) thinks I was unreasonable and should have reversed onto the roundabout. I think not. Only an idiot reverses onto a roundabout, surely?!
Diagram attached. Needless to say, I am more Picasso than Monet.