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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To think this guy was a twat?

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puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 05/03/2014 18:33

I was driving today, stopped in traffic on a round about and accidentally stalled. I re started the car straight away and carried on.

The guy behind me peeped me, then over took me whilst throwing a cigarette butt at my windscreen!

AIBU to think he's a fucking dick?

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Wishfulmakeupping · 05/03/2014 18:34

Yanbu he sounds like a total knobber

TwittyMcTwitterson · 05/03/2014 18:37

Meh, he's probably stressed. and has a small penis

In all likelihood, he didn't realise you stalled and just thought you were slow and dawdling. Don't sweat the small stuff

chicaguapa · 05/03/2014 18:39

YANBU.

Tomorrow you probably won't stall your car, but he'll still be a twat. Enjoy that knowledge.

Bumbershoot · 05/03/2014 18:40

Yup. Twat.

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puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 05/03/2014 18:40

Haha chic

I know I shouldn't care, but I've only recently passed, so get a bit stress when this happens.

He is a twat

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SauvignonBlanche · 05/03/2014 18:40

YANBU

cls77 · 05/03/2014 18:45

Puss - DD and I on school run today, T junction on steep country lane and the poor girl in front stalls her car 8 times! So many people letting her out of the junction, I really felt for the girl, my dd was getting stressed and I took the chance to explain we all have to be new at something, and we need to be patient. In the end, the poor girls mum/passenger swapped with her!! Mortifying!

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puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 05/03/2014 18:47

Oh no! cls that's awful, poor lass!

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TwittyMcTwitterson · 05/03/2014 19:01

Puds I've been driving 9 years and still get very stressed with this sort of thing myself. Your driving will improve with experience, his attitude won't

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puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 05/03/2014 19:06

How was I Darling? I stalled. It happens. That doesn't make me a dick

And no, I don't have an L on my car.

Thanks Evees

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rpitchfo · 05/03/2014 19:09

Road rage...i just don't get it. Chill out and be nice. Everyone is trying to get somewhere.

i know a few people who have anger issues when in the car..pleasant as can be soon as he steps foot outside his car.

EduCated · 05/03/2014 19:11

DP stalled yesterday. He's been driving 10 years. I must inform him he's a fucking dick

YANBU, OP.

maddening · 05/03/2014 19:12

he wasn't by to peep, long blare of the horn would have been but a peep is fine imo - today a woman ahead of me was obviously busy on her phone and not looking up at lights this morning and didn't notice the lights changing and traffic driving off so I peeled but not impatiently just to draw her attention to the fact the lights had changed (I don't think it was a stall - you can generally tell).

he was v unreasonable to intimidate and throw the cigarette - for that he is a prick.

TulipOHare · 05/03/2014 19:16

Yeah he's a twat.

I got honked at in fury for taking longer than a split-second to move at some traffic lights when I was having a lesson in what is obviously a driving instructor's car .

Some people are just twattish.

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puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 05/03/2014 19:17

The peep I wasn't too bothered about, it was the driving past glaring at me and flicking a butt at me that bothered me.

Edu it's nice to know its not just me that does it This is one of the first times I've done it since I passed. Damn old car

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puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 05/03/2014 19:20

Tulip I have vowed to always be nice to learners

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JesusInTheCabbageVan · 05/03/2014 19:25

Yup! Twat. (Which my laptop tried twice to correct to 'twit'. Think it has been possessed by spirit of Enid Blyton)

Once soon after I passed, I was at a tricky junction for a while - partly overcautious, but mainly just because it was rush hour and there was a lot of traffic. Eventually the person behind me got so passed off he drove ROUND me and straight out in the road whilst leaning on his horn.

Straight in front of a bus

Don't get me wrong, the bus stopped in time, but it was immensely satisfying.

nostress · 05/03/2014 19:27

On my school run theres a narrow bridge. One direction has the right of way. Once i was driving from the right of way direction when the approaching car, who should of stopped, floored it and raced to the bridge. With me center of the road we met head on. I refused to reverse, it being my right of way. Anyhow the man put his car part on the pavement, wound down the window shouted abuse and spat on my window. Twat...

chateauferret · 05/03/2014 19:28

I think people convicted of Driving Like a Twat should be obliged to display T-plates front and rear for two years. See when the revolution comes...

BMW6 · 05/03/2014 19:29

Stalling.... oh dear, memory resurface for me. Back in my youth, when I was taking lessons, my Dsis took me out in her car for a practice.....

All was OK till I stalled at traffic lights - and kept on stalling. Lights changed colour 3 or 4 times, I couldn;t stop stalling and started to get terrible hysterical giggles. I remember there was another learner pulled up to the lights alongside me, then SHE started stalling and uncontrollable laughing.....

Don't recall anyone beeping at us though (but was too busy to notice probably).

I never did pass my test (tried once). Was a whizz at reversing though!!

He was just a smeghead. Forget him.

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puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 05/03/2014 19:32

nostress that is awful! I can't believe he spat at you!

BMW that is hilarious

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SackAndCrack · 05/03/2014 19:39

Complete prick.

I was directly behind a learner driver at a round about yesterday and he kept panic stalling. Every time he had the chance to go he was stalling.

I passed just under 2 years ago so I still really remember that utter feeling of panic in your chest when it happens and the pressure of the cars behind you, both of which make you make more mistakes.

I really, really felt for him.

wowfudge · 05/03/2014 19:40

Loving the T plates idea chateau. I can think of others too - on my commute there's a short stretch of dual carriageway where the speed limit goes up to 40 for about half a mile. There is always a total idiot an impatient person who overtakes even when you are doing 40. Further up the road they end up being the car in front waiting to turn left at the lights or alongside waiting to go straight on after all that effort. Every time.ON - Overtaking Numpty.

TwittyMcTwitterson · 05/03/2014 19:45

I drive approx 20k per year and you wouldn't believe the shit I see. I promise you, someone stalling which I do more than I should is minimal on the scale of it. I've had people spit at me from their car and it land in mine when I pulled out left of a t junction when the road was wide enough for me and him to be parallel when he was turning right but he thought I was impatient.

I've had three grown men get out of their car to threaten me.

One pulled out on me at a junction and after a slanging match, I stopped to parallel park into a bay at the side of the road and he sped up into the back of me and said I'd slammed my brakes on to be vindictive. It was on camera and clear he was a cunt at fault.

Countless tailgaters, people overtaking and brake slamming as they felt I wasn't going fast enough. One woman chased me down the motorway for miles after is flashed her for almost knocking off my front wing when pulling in after overtaking.

I can't think of more off the top of my head.

My point is, some people are shit drivers and/or twats. Everyone stalls.

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