An angry van driver has just called me a Fucking P*** C***

[Nobumsonthetable]

How’s your morning going?
for context I’m white irish 😂
Poor love was upset that I wasn’t driving through the oncoming traffic at one of those width restrictors where we did not have priority. Thoughts and prayers for his blood pressure.

You’ve just reminded me of a face off in the supermarket car park where everyone was queuing to get out so someone thought they would drive the wrong way round the one way system to skip the queue. Someone started to drive the correct way round the system and stalemate ensued. The only person who could have reversed was wrong way Wendy but she refused to and everyone else was just stuck with traffic building up more and more.

The funniest bit was when wrong way Wendy, yelled at right way Rebecca, calling her the worst driver in the world. It was farcical 🤣🤣

i once was on my way to work and a car behind me was tailgating me really badly on a single carriageway so he could not get past me.

I assume he wanted me to break the speed limit.

I stopped at the traffic lights where a right slide lane appears as the other side of the lights was a dual carriage way.

h was revving his engine and hurling abuse, i said calm down mate you will give yourself a heart attack.

he then said what fucking driving school did you go to

i replied evidently a different one to you.

i thought he was going to go up in a puff of smoke.

The lights changed he stalled his car and I sped off.

shook me up a bit

To all saying to report him,I did

All I got (after going through the maze that is their system) was 'and?what do you want us to do?it wasnt one of OUR drivers'

They couldn't have been less interested

I really doubted myself for weeks-i was in the zebra crossing and he was on the corner (it's a bit of an odd set up-there are two zebra crossings either side of that corner as traffic can go either direction)

He should have stopped there and checked (the cars manage it) but he didnt

He came swinging round and slammed on his brakes when he saw me (and he saw me just in time,i could have put my arm out and touched his bus,he was that close)

Silly me-just a woman walking to work to do my silly little job (that i dont deserve to do and should stay at home-more to the point,i shouldnt leave the kitchen) and getting in the way of a big important man doing his big important job

I should have known my place and stopped for him,(or even better not being there at all) after all,if he'd done the right thing and been driving carefully,I would have held him up for a full 3 seconds

How dare I?!

Dickhead,he should stay at home himself-where he lives in his mums basement,with the peeling celing,under his postman pat duvet cover and Andrew Tate's videos for company

There were road works in the village where I keep my horse. Single lane with traffic lights but there were a few houses between the lights. Early one morning the lights changed to green for me but there was someone who had just pulled out of their drive and was coming towards me so I couldn't go. Car behind me was blaring away on their horn and gesticulating at me. Presumably he expected me to leapfrog over the other car. I doubt the residents were too pleased as it was 6.45am.

My worst one was as a young woman I’d done a big sporting event involving my bike and was tootling home from the train station on my bike. Was waiting at some traffic lights and a youngish man in an open top car just yelled the worst misogynistic abuse at me. I was literally stationary so wasn’t even doing anything aggravating. His girlfriend in the passenger seat just stared right ahead. The misogyny in some men is very strong. Remember it 30 odd years on.

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@TheaBrandt1 you know, it does stick with you sometimes. It was at least 10 years ago that I was abused by the bell end shouty man, and I still remember it.

I am tailgated and bullied daily in my little car.

There are some awful younger women drivers too but I've not had abuse shouted at me by women.

Absolute sponge was tailgating me up the a1 recently I couldn’t move over because there was an oversized lorry in the left lane and it was hanging over into lane 2. I was going at 90 mph and he was still beeping and flashing his lights. When I could I moved left and watched the most incredible moment. Twatty driver gives me a wanker hand sign and then speeds up to catch up to the next victim in the right lane. Except it was an undercover police car who moved over let him through , then blew up the lights and sirens and pulled him over.

to make it all just chefs kiss though 45 mins later I’m driving back the other way and saw his car being loaded onto a tow truck so clearly had no license or insurance. Made my absolute day!

Lovely 🍹

Thank you @PutAPinInIt your post made me feel very happy. 😁. So satisfying when cockwombles get their just desserts!

Poor guy was probably racing to the chemist's to pick up his Viagra.

I had such a van driver shout expletives at me at 5:45 done while ago because I had stopped at the station lay by to drop off a family member. He then proceeded to tailgate me for the next mile and a half. I was able to discern the name of the company on their van so on checking it was not just a one man band I emailed them to explain what had happened and that this driver was bringing their company into disrepute. He was disciplined and then sacked.

And that was 5;45am, not pm.

There really is an epidemic of angry, usually middle aged men.

It reminds me of that saying, “men are worried that women will laugh at them and women are worried that men will kill them”

I once got this for refusing to reverse. There were parked cars either side of the street, I knew there were no gaps behind me as I'd just driven down looking for one. There was one only a couple of cars behind him, but he was upset because he'd been stuck there for a while letting others through.

When a big van with two big men in pulled up behind me he decided he would reverse afterall, and got back in his car very quickly!

I got a big apology from a (male) colleague in my car when he complained for me not going as the traffic lights turned green, a fraction of a second later a coach screamed past in front of me jumping the lights, he did say, you saved my life there. I had seen it coming and obviously it was not going to, or even able to stop.

Right that’s my new insult for anyone getting on my nerves! 😂

Not driving but walking, got called a stupid woman for walking along a footpath that was at least wide enough for 3 abreast. He ran past me then in through his front gate, it was obviously one of those awkward moments where he was approaching his house and it was either speed up and go past or slow to my pace and wait.

I was obviously doing it just to irritate him, existing I mean. I just ignored him and carried on walking

I would not use the word angry.

I would call the man unfit to hold a licence, though he is not alone. You will find many unfit drivers collecting children from school for example.

I can't work out why it happens so often, just yesterday I was driving along a windy country road on the way back from the school run. I was behind a chap on a push bike doing a sterling job of going up hill but obviously rather slow. Due to the windy nature of the road I decided to just stay behind him, the man behind me in a Tesla was furious at my decision and was shouting and sitting on my back bumper, he kept pulling out like he was going to go past me but pulling back in and hit the horn. As he hit the horn a white range rover came speeding in the other direction which nicely proved my point about why I wasn't overtaking the cyclist - clearly not safe to do so!

Once it was safe I overtook and carried on only to have the Tesla twat roaring past the cyclist immediately and driving so close behind me it was ridiculously dangerous.

If he called you a P C and you are white Irish… should he even be driving? He must have severe sight issues!

Seriously, OP, sorry you had this at the start of your day, some men people are vile. Hope your day got better 💐

This brings me so much joy

Was driving down a narrow road, cars parked either side and only enough room for one car. A male cyclist came barrelling towards me, no hope in passing safely, and got angry with me. One of those with a camera on his helmet so I’m sure I’m online somewhere calmly saying No when he ranted at me for not giving him space. He couldn’t possibly have stopped and waited for me to pass. Oh no. If cyclists put their feet down, the scary tarmac sharks will bite them off. They have to ALWAYS be in motion.

I think I met Wendy last week. She was putting her few bits of shopping into a bag in the back of her car with the door open and blocking the vacant space next to her. It was a very small car park (one of those tiny Tesco local ones) and there wasn't a single other free space other than the one she was blocking with her open car door.

I wasn't in a rush so I just sat and waited for her to finish. I didn't, rev, honk or do anything to antagonist her but when she registered me sitting there she stopped, glared at me and then went back to putting her shopping away verrrryyy slowly. When she eventually finished, she shuts her car door, glared at me again and then gave me the finger. I had done absolutely nothing to annoy her. I didn't even want her space but the one next to it.

Weird woman.

Nice piece of instant karma for you there!