because I am a woman, in a car, in a petrol station?

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Cos the stupid bastard who drove round me and the car behind me to get to the empty pump in front of us certainly thought so.

I have no problem with the fact that he drove round us to get to an empty pump, that makes sense and I do it too.

But did he have to say, as I walked passed, 'If you wait a minute, love, I will pay and get out of your way'?

A bit pissed off, I did respond, 'I am perfectly capable of driving round you', adding a stern teacher's glare. Did he look embarrassed, did he feck? He said ' but it would be much easier for you if you don't have to'.

The bloke parked behind me walked past and snorted at this point. I glared at him, ready to bark and he said' don't look at me, he's the one being a prat'.

I smiled, and we both drove round the dickhead, still filling his car.

Also, AIBU because I didn't slap him, cry or fall to my knees and thank him?

I am not annoyed, not annoyed..... the hell I am not!

I squish people that tell me I'm a bad driver.
Then I tell them "oh yes your right"

evans me too, I'm short, drive a passat estate, parallel parked on a curve between dp and my neighbours cars, got a 'nice bit of parking' comment from an elderly gentleman. He was smiling so I just thanked him. It did make me

BUT there is no way he'd have remarked about a blokes ability to park.

he sounds polite & friendly rather than patronising sexist arsehole to me - I would have done the same - not presuming you were incapable, but because I was inconveniencing you & it's hood manners.

Sorry but your response makes you sound barking mad, chip on shoulder, raving loon - not surprised the other guy behind "snorted" I would have done the same if I had witnessed this too.

Sorry, but IMHO opinion, people like yourself get women & feminists a bad name

You need to chill out

Its the ones standing behind you, trying to "help" you reverse your lorry that crack me up. I can't see them because I'm looking where I'm reversing, funnily enough, not at some random waving his arms about, and in my wing mirrors. And at my reversing camera...

You have issues. Do you always look for sinister meanings in everything. You sounded bloody rude.

OK RockinHippy, hunny, I see your point. He would have said the same thing the bloke who was behind me, of we had been parked in a different order. Yes, you are probably right!

CoffeeTea103, sweetheart, you are right, I do indeed have isshues, I must get them seen to.

But as I was there and heard him and saw him, I know he was a total prat. He made an assumption based on my gender, skirt and high(ish) heels.

I don't think you have issues Op. I think you're right and he would NOT have said this to the man behind you.

but it would be easier to not have to drive around him. Sounds like he was just being polite and telling you that he was going to be quick. I think some people are bit to quick to let their back go up over things like this. Are men supposed to be rude to us now at the risk of offending us by being polite?

The lads at work all assumed I was a bad driver because I'm a woman too.

I gave two of them a lift to a job and they had the cheek to say to me when I got there 'you're actually a good drivers' with expressions of shock. When I gave them the look and said 'you sound surprised' they actually said 'i didn't expect you to be'

Because obviously the boobs are such an impediment to driving it's a miracle I didn't drop us in a ditch on the way

He sounds weird.

If he wanted to be so 'polite', why drive round you?

I can't tell about the sexism without being there but as a rule of thumb, if you felt it, it was probably there.

I was once at the junction where a side road joined a main road and about to pull out, but was prevented from doing so because White Van Man came sweeping round the corner so there wasn't room, and he sat there ostentatiously revving and drumming his fingers on the steering wheel. I just thought "Dickhead" but decided it wasn't worth getting into a standoff, so started to reverse to give him space to get by so we could both get on with our journeys. He immediately followed me with his bumper close to mine to chivvy me back up the road. At that point I saw red and decided that if he was going to treat me as a silly little woman driver, I was going to act like one. So I deliberately slowed right down and started to stop and start and dither. I got to a point when I could have pulled in but decided that, as I was a silly little woman driver, it would be much too difficult for poor little me to get in there, so continued to jerk s - l - o - w - l - y backwards. By this point DS and I were openly laughing whilst WVM's face was getting redder and redder. Eventually we reached a point when I could pull in very easily but I still made a massive production of that. As WVM finally passed me, I called out "Just think, you could have been three miles down the road if you had just let me out." Deeply satisfying.

He sounds like an arse

YANBU, he was being sexist! Love the jump leads story!