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.

Surely the driver who does not have someone else behind them should reverse. What did the other lady do? Did she then have to reverse too???

lizzie yes she reversed back too she stopped a bit back, I reversed, she gotback in her car and we both reversed some more.

piglet he wasn't short, he was about 6ft. Small minded - hence 'little man'

Piglet :o Your second post, brilliant.!!

Just be pleased you don't live in my bit of the Cotswolds - I encounter these arseholes on an almost daily basis, and half the population are incapable of turning their aged creaky necks round to reverse anyway.

Pendeen - the man would NOT have had to reverse round a corner - that's already been said and answered earlier on the thread. All he had to do was to do what other cars had already done, and drive through the snow at his side of the road.

These people drive me nuts. I was once going down a very narrow lane that has a rather deep ditch to one side and lovely big hedges on the other. It is the sort of lane where you race from stopping point to stopping point and hope that you don't meet another car. Well I Was just coming to one of the biggest stopping points when I came across another car. She stopped and waited for me to reverse. I didn't move. You see to go back to the previous passing point I would have had to reverse about one hundred feet and round two rather sharp bends. She on the other hand had to reverse about three feet.
I looked and waited. She looked at me and waved for me to reverse. I shook my head and got out some work to mark. She then twigged I would not be doing stupid reversing and moved back. Mind you the woman clearly couldn't reverse and just about ended up in the hedge. No wonder she wanted me to go back!

:o @ getting out marking siilk !

"You're taking the fuckwittery to a new level.

What a Twat you are."

Well thanks for that.

I live near a football ground and I regularly see road rage stand-offs outside my house. The level of vitriol is incredible. Grown men SCREAMING at each other. Lots and lots of effing and blinding and stupid, inconsiderate, stubborn behaviour. I think it doesn't hurt the children to see that adults can behave like this, and it's a good way of shaming people about having public tantrums.

shag I didn't think your post earlier was twattish at all.
(just for the record!)

shagmund I think we need a 'Well that's me told' emoticon. I could have used it a lot lately when being put straight on MN

KittyFane - people do it all the time in my area of West London.

Pendeen stands corrected.