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to make a little sign for this woman?

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TandB · 15/04/2011 09:00

I have ranted on a previous occasion about the morning rat-run through our village so very quick summary:

Single track roads - short-cut to city - I am apparently only person who needs to go opposite direction during rush-hour - majority of people coming the other way clearly think I am unreasonable for driving through my own village and glare and head-shake at me - I am cross.

Obviously it is the holidays now, so the school run traffic is missing which makes life much easier. However, there is one woman who I see every single time. She drives very fast on a narrow, twisty road with several blind bends so I finish up crawling around corners in case she comes hurtling the other way. She flatly refuses to back up even a couple of feet to the nearest passing space, and she makes no attempt to move over so that both cars can pass without scraping through the hedge. So I finish up reversing to the next passing space with her driving about 6 inches off my front bumper with a face like thunder, and then as soon as the road widens at all, she squeezes past, glaring at me all the time and shaking her head.

Bearing in mind the following:

  1. I live here and have as much right to leave the village as she does to cut through it.

  2. I drive a very small car which causes minimal obstruction.

  3. I don't drive dangerously fast.

  4. I am the one reversing and getting off the road.

would I be unreasonable to make a little sign saying "The next time you shake your head at me will be the last time I reverse for you. I can sit here all day - how about you?"

Would probably be unreasonable to add "cowbag" at the end, I suppose.

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jenga079 · 21/04/2011 10:45

damn.

OTheHugeManatee · 21/04/2011 10:39

Gah! The tension is killing me.

Rude, lazy cowbag. Angry

nickelbaalamb · 21/04/2011 10:28

oooh, how dare she ruin Thursday morning by being that late??? Shock

Rude, rude woman!

ongakgak · 21/04/2011 09:43

Ohh! another whole week, its like the build up to christmas as a kid!

TrinityRhino · 21/04/2011 09:27

I'll definitely be back

and yay to magic device

live updates on huffiness of rude late woman, yay Grin

ChaoticAngelofchocolateeggs · 21/04/2011 09:21

I'll be back...next Thursday Grin

fanjolina · 21/04/2011 09:11

marking place for next Thursday's installment.....

TandB · 21/04/2011 09:07

Shodan - "make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait" you mean?

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NorfolkNChanceOfAnEgg · 21/04/2011 09:00

Ohhhh I can't wait for next Thursday! Wonder if she reads MN so had a cob on about having to be late to avoid Disney and coooooow shouting!

geraldinetheluckygoat · 21/04/2011 08:46

yeah we can wait.....

Ok I must go and get ready for the day now so it looks like I have been busy when my mum gets here! Grin

Shodan · 21/04/2011 08:44

Not an anticlimax.

Merely building tension so the final outcome is even more explosive.

All the best fillums do it, you know.

TandB · 21/04/2011 08:44

But look on the bright side.

This woman is getting worse by the minute. Not only is she a rude cowbag, but she was late this morning.

LAZY, rude cowbag.

[disapproving face]

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ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 21/04/2011 08:41

A whole week - well, I guess that gives me time to bake more biscuits :) Might even send them to you this time mwhahhhhh

KatieMiddleton · 21/04/2011 08:40

I fear all the bank hols are going to scupper our your plans Sad

TandB · 21/04/2011 08:39

It's not going to be till next Thursday now. Should be working from home on Fridays as well at the moment but two bank holidays coming up so no nursery.

We only have 2 shots over the next 2 weeks!

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geraldinetheluckygoat · 21/04/2011 08:36

BUGGER!!!

When is the next nursery run?!"?!?!?!?

TandB · 21/04/2011 08:36

Oh and thanks for the suggestion re: MNing in the car. I do in fact possess such a magic device.

If people can bear to wait until next week I might be able to oblige with live updates.

She is not reversing.

She is still not reversing.

Reversing continues to not happen.

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TandB · 21/04/2011 08:35

One thing that has come out of it though is that we have established that she lives quite a long way away - she was coming through the nursery village which suggests she comes from somewhere on the far side and there is a reasonable gap between villages out that side.

I am therefore feeling strangely justified in being even more angry with her. If she lived even vaguely locally she would (in my odd logic) have more of a moral claim to the road. However, in the circumstances she should think herself lucky she doesn't have to pay to use it.

[wonders about setting up a toll gate]

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TandB · 21/04/2011 08:32

I'm back!

Sorry people - massive anticlimax to report. The lanes were almost deserted so I assumed she had gone on holiday, but when I got to the village with the nursery there are traffic calming bollards (the ones with the "oncoming vehicles have priority" signs) and a car was coming through so I stopped - and it was her! She must have been running late. She still had her grumpy little moo-face on though.

I did mutter rude things though!

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DizzyKipper · 21/04/2011 08:09

I wouldn't recommend actually leaving your car to go home (tempting a thought as that maybe) - with your car alone she would be free to be as malicious as she liked with it, and not knowing what sort of person she is (besides a totally unreasonable one) I personally wouldn't feel safe leaving my car at her mercy.

TrinityRhino · 21/04/2011 08:07

lol

yeah she wont be back for a bit

but she will be back Grin

52Girls · 21/04/2011 08:06

Marking my place

geraldinetheluckygoat · 21/04/2011 08:04

Oh god, I have my mum arriving at half nine, gardening to do and ds's have a friend for the day who is arrivng at 11.....I'm still in my pj's pressing refresh, someone kick me!!! She wont be back till at least nine I dont rekon if she's doing a nursery run...

KaraStarbuckThrace · 21/04/2011 08:02

Kungfu - wanted to wish you good luck!

Been lurking on your thread for a while Smile

I think you may be my new personal hero Grin

Take plentyo of Brew and Biscuit with you to keep you going! Maybe a few [pombear]

TrinityRhino · 21/04/2011 07:56

wouldn't it be fab if she had a 'somehting that means you can mn in the car' and she posted WHILST there

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