countryside road etiquette

[Crystyclear]

oh dear... it's the holidays.

yes, i know you enjoy driving your pretty little sportscar/hulking great caravan/ posh saloon (delete as appropriate) around the countryside lanes, but please, please learn some basic fecking etiquette:

if you're on a single track road and you meet a car coming the other way and there's a pull in space just behind you, do reverse into it and let them by

or if there's no pull in but the road is wide enough for two, then pull over - so no one has to scratch their car squeezing though.

don't honk and fuss at the farmers and their vehicles - they are working and live here and will usually pull over when they can to let you by.

i don't care what the sat nav is telling you - if the road sign says no vehicles over X height or X width, it's not a joke and having the only road to your house closed due to a jack-knifed car with caravan is certainly not funny.

or AIBU?

I like tolalola's attitude - I've lived in the country for 21 years but I grew up in Croydon and I'll never get bored with the sight of a sheepdog doing its job, or a herd of cows being moved down the road.

Driving dd to pre school, there's a single track road. There is one point where if you meet you both have to go a fair way back to let the other through. The side I was on meant going back, uphill and round a blind corner so I sat for the other lady to reverse. She pulled over a bit and told me I could get through. I knew I couldn't but edged forward to prove it to her. My car was 2 inches too wide to fit. She told me to go back and was not happy when I pointed out that to do so I'd have to go uphill and round the blind corner where as her reverse was straight. I had terrible morning sickness pg with twins so was not in the mood.

The only thing I can add to the above is - don't drive on single-track roads if you can't reverse your car!