I found myself in a vulnerable situation and several men were aggressive and abusive.

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Yesterday morning, on my journey to work, I broke down. (The clutch failed and therefore I could not select any gear.)

I managed to limp my car along to the side of the road. I had my hazard lights on. I telephoned recovery who advised me to remain inside the car with the doors locked.

I had one man on a bicycle who spat at my car and swore at me. Another man jogging past who shook his head and called me a "stupid bitch." Two separate bus drivers stopped opened the bus doors to tell me what a " fucking stupid place to park. " The other bus driver dramatically shook his head and told me to move.

I am so angry that these "men" thought it was acceptable to be aggressive and abusive towards me. Not one person (male or female) asked if I was ok.

Why are people so quick to be aggressive/abusive in the first instance, without thinking about the bigger picture.

I had my car recovered and I got to work, but I spent the day feeling both upset and angry at the aggression shown to me when I found myself in a vulnerable situation.

For the poster who said they wouldn’t have done it to a big male, I had a minor accident and I can assure you when standing at the side of the dual carriageway with two very large men who I’d never met before the abuse and aggression aimed at them was something shocking.

One man even stopped his car in the middle of the lane holding all the other cars up, to inform them what absolute utter fucking “cunts” they were. He kept repeating it too and repeatedly shouting that they were cunts. When eventually we picked our jaws up off the ground , as we stood there totally shocked, and the two men went to move forward to him, he drove off.

Some People are simply abusive. Sure some will go after a woman more than a man but generally road rage abuse is something terrible man on man.

Even if you were an absolute tit who were just parking in a ridiculous place they are arseholes to be so aggressive and abusive.

This is very shit but I'm not surprised sadly.

Do report the bus drivers to the company and put it on their Twitter feed.

I'm sorry you had to go through that.

I saw something in busy traffic - I was a pedestrian waiting for the lights to change on a road with fast moving traffic.

Something happened further ahead and cars had to rapidly come to a halt.

A woman driver, did exactly as she was supposed to - stopped as gradually as she could without covering the crossing - the road on the other side of the crossing was solid with cars.

She was rear ended by some wazzock in a van and was viciously sworn at by the driver and his mate.

They rear ended her and swore at her when she called for help.

It was shocking.

When I broke down in similar sounding place I had 3 men stopped within the first five minutes to help push the car out of the way, checked the car and offered diagnoses and stayed until the breakdown truck arrived. One of them bought me a coffee from the café opposite. No one made any nasty remarks.
It isn't always like you describe.

Nothing excuses your experience but nowadays a lot of people pull over with hazards in all sorts of ridiculous places to answer the phone or whatever. They would have assumed that was what you were doing.

No Margaret, it's not always as you describe but it generally is. You were lucky.
Incidentally, there was a thread yesterday about people being more aggressive since Covid. Coupled with the general hatred against women and road rage I expect it is going to get much worse.

If it had been a man it would have been "alright mate?" For a woman "stupid bitch". And equality has supposedly been achieved...

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If it had been a man it would have been "alright mate?" For a woman "stupid bitch". And equality has supposedly been achieved...

Genuinely not, male on male road rag is a much bigger thing. As said, I’ve witnessed it. Honestly if you think men are nice to each other and don’t hurl abuse in these sort of situations then you’ve are really mistaken,

I'm so sorry this happened to you.. Not everyone is like this I can assure you. I broke down in the middle of rush hour traffic, two builders behind me got out and pushed my car to the side of the road they had to go as they had a job to get to but several passers by, predominantly men asked if I was OK. I had my bonnet popped open though, so perhaps that signified I had broken down. I'm amazed they told you to sit in your car and lock the doors. I was told to get out of vehicle, put hazards on and stand away from it.

How do you know male on male road rage is a bigger thing, @Bluntness100?

Thankfully I’ve never broken down. But DH (used to drive for his work) has. He’s never experienced anything like this. - there’s always some bloke jumping out of a car to push him to the roadside or offer him a ride.

I'd report the bus drivers that is unacceptable.

I broke down on a busy roundabout in east London a few years ago and it was gridlock. A bus driver started beeping at me as I was under the bonnet and I was so annoyed I literally bellowed at top volume ‘I’ve broken down, you twat, do you think I’m doing this for fun?’

On the plus side, I’ve broken down in other similarly awkward places and men have been immediately jumping out of their vehicles unasked to push the car to the side or try and help. It’s a shame you experienced that and I do think it’s unusual.