re. road rage. AIBU to call him a rude little man...

[KittyFane]

Ok, so, country lane, narrow but enough room for two passing cars. no street lights, other side of road to me still blocked by snow drift.

I'm on a straight stretch approaching a corner. I'm already on this stretch of road when a car on the other side comes round the corner approaching me. He would have seen my headlights.

I stop and he stops in front of me on my side of the road, gets out of his car and says "will you PLEASE reverse so that I can get past?" in an arsey "get out of my way woman" kind of way.

Red rag to a bull so I just sit there as he stomps back to his car. I don't move. He gets out again and repeats his 'instruction'.

I tell him that I don't like the way he's talking to me and point to the tyre marks in the snow on his side of the road where other cars in his situation have passed by.
He says he's not doing that and arsily repeats his instruction for the 3rd time.

I shout at him " You are a rude little man, don't you DARE talk to me using that tone. Who the hell do you think you are?"

A woman behind me then gets out of her car and helps me reverse back.

Pfft. Vent over. Stupid arse.

Or I do like the idea of, if you are sure you are in the right of turning your engine off, and pretend to take a sleep ;)

i once sat in an argos car park for 27 minutes as a man was trying to come in through the exit there is one way in and out (you should go around the car park as per the arrows/signs) He kept telling me to move etc... eventually i got out of the car 8 months preg with twins and told him i litrally had nothing planned for the next 2 weeks and enough snacks/water to keep me going there were cars either side of both of us 99% on them on my side .... he moved

topknob (are you the man I shouted at?) did you read the response to the 1st post you asked that? Nope, I stopped at a part of the road with tyre tracks in the snow where others in his situation had passed through the snow ( already said that too).

sposh is 'little man' really an effective insult?! I'm pleased if it is!

ATM, I feel half IANBU and half IABU but a lot less annoyed thanks to everyone who has replied :)

topknob I like your sleep idea! Or Possibly faint! :o

stubborn: Never mind, maybe his car spontaneously combusted 5 minutes after passing you. :o

He said please.

He would have to reverse round a corner on a dark, icy country road with the possibility of someone coming up behind.

Who was being unreasonable?

Coffeedog - respect!

Last year on holiday in Cornwall, dh and I met a similar knob. He drove past a passing place on a single lane road (even though he must have seen us) and expected dh to try and get last him in a gap that really wasn't wide enough. Dh indicated no fucking way!

The idiot then got out his car and came over to ours effing and blinding (2 young dd's in the back of the car!) about how he'd lived there for 40 years and had no problems. Dh told him well I'm on holiday and ain't moving, and turned the engine off.

Seemed to do the trick , he reversed so we could pass, but not before I'd got out and shouted at him how dare he swear in front of my children and that he should be ashamed of himself!

Where's panda? She's got a good story too!

yes was thinking about panda the other day.. she was the one with the woman driver who would not reverse? what happened?

The other woman definitely reversed in the end.

YANBU I would have given him the little finger wiggle too. My pet hate is those shitheads that sound their horn to hurry you up when you are on a zebra crossing. I usually go over and rap their windscreens hard and say 'And exactly what is the emergency?' I love it!

YANBU I would have given him the little finger wiggle too. My pet hate is those shitheads that sound their horn to hurry you up when you are on a zebra crossing. I usually go over and rap their windscreens hard and say 'And exactly what is the emergency?' I love it!

Oooh OOOH this is the country lane story all over again isn't it but with lovely SNOW?!

YABNU to rant, you should have sworn, you should have frightened him with your sweary wrath, and you should NOT have reversed (and you should have, if you were to reversed, shouted at the lady trying to help as YOU ARE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF REVERSING) but you choose not to.

A nicer country-lane story here. I once stopped and reversed for one of those damnable 4x4 things, while driving a wee coupe. Realised once he'd passed that I'd driven myself into a ditch. Was lucky that he was watching me in his rear-view mirror and realised what I'd done, so he towed me out. We both went on our ways feeling good!

Pendeen- He said please
when someone says

..."please" through gritted teeth, as an order. It hardly ever does the trick.

thecook do people actually do that? (beep horn on zebra crossing)!

Maybe his car was like mine and absolutely shit in snow? The only way I can drive mine in snow is on almost flat tyres.

I'm quite happy that its in the garage this week and I have a courtesy car that doesn't have a penchant for sliding like a bob sled at the slightest hint of ice or snow.

Though I would have explained and asked nicely rather than throwing a hissy fit

I would be that he had got out of the car to issue me with instructions. Cheeky bastard. He is an arse indeed.

hops mine is the same so full of understanding there :o

But what sparkling has just said indeed!

Why was his height relevant?

If it had been a fat woman, would you have said?

Sounds like Napoleon Complex to me PigletJohn.

on a diagonal

when I lived in a cottage in the middle of nowhere, the locals could tell I hadn't lived there for generations, and had a good idea that I would retreat into the hedges if they rushed at me with a tractor.

I found a good response, when one barged up the single-track lane, ignoring the passing-places, was to very slowly and cautiously reverse up the hill, pausing frequently to check in a "helpful but incompetent" way. They soon twigged it was quicker for them to move into a passing place themselves, if they were nearer.

That's brilliant PigletJohn.