Just been shouted out by funeral party...

[Pinklady1982]

Aibu to be feeling really upset by this? I was just driving along and a funeral car pulled out slowly from a turning. They had about 10 cars behind it which were possibly all part of the party, so I slowed down and let a load of cars through. Now this was a residential road and I could see some other cars had joined the back of the queue. I started easing forward a bit as if I kept waiting there letting all the cars out I would be there ages and needed to get home, also I wasn't to know if they were all part of the funeral. I had right of way as they were in a side turning, but sat there patiently for a while. Well this lady then rolls down her window and starts shouting at me! Saying they are part of the funeral party and could I not see that. I explained that I had let about 10 cars go and wasn't to know who was part of the party and who wasn't. She just shouted at me to get out of the way very loudly and rudely and pulled out. I just put my window up and pulled over as I felt a bit shaken. I'm feeling a bit vulnerable anyway at the moment and I hate confrontation. I know that at these times emotions will be heightened, but was I really in the wrong here? They were going to then be pulling out onto a main road where I'm sure they would be seperated by other cars, so you can't all expect to stay together surely?

Seriously math, please just let this go now, it's gone on long enough. Of course I had sympathy for everyone in the procession, I felt so sad seeing the hearse and the coffin, it brought back awful memories for me after losing my dad last year. No one is saying they had no right to be on the road ok. Can this just be an end to it now....?

OP, hide the thread for the sake of your sanity. Some people could argue in an empty room.

Let’s start another thread pointing out it should be “maths” not “math”. Just for shits and giggles.
That should run and run.

It is hidden and trying to ignore it, but get email notifications whenever a new post is added, so I keep going back on to look. I really hoped that by providing some clarification that it would work to finally shut this down, but nope... it's just ridiculous now. I really don't have the energy for it!

There is a good deal of irony in people returning to the thread time and time again to tell me to stop returning to the thread after contradicting points I have made in my posts.

I respond to posts that take issue with mine. I am not sure why that is considered a faux pas. The only explanation I can come up with is that there are posters out there who don't like being argued with.

DappledThings
You do a nice line in hair splitting.
Also editing.

Dead people and their relatives and friends have a cheek occupying roads that are meant for the living, and people with far more important business to attend to, to paraphrase is what I posted.

Wow, what a life to have the time to argue the toss about the minutiae to this pedantic level.
TheFantasticFixit
There was a point where this thread lay fallow for five days. Please note it wasn't me who resurrected it:
Durgasarrow Wed 11-Sep-19 03:18:39
Well said, mathanxiety

. . . . . . . five days . . . . . . .

Mothership4two Mon 16-Sep-19 01:44:53
Really?

And while you're at it, please also note that 99% of posters still posting are including their strange interpretation of the OP's posts in their contributions. Who, what, where, etc.

You do a nice line in hair splitting
Also editing

I have a nice line in hair splitting? That's hilarious. And it makes no odds to quote your whole post. You have said that others have said dead people have no business occupying the roads. Nobody has said that at all and you're being ridiculous to suggest they have.

Just under 300 posts to go now till it's finished. Such fun.

And while you're at it, please also note that 99% of posters still posting are including their strange interpretation of the OP's posts in their contributions. Who, what, where, etc.

Pot. Kettle.

You have said that others have said dead people have no business occupying the roads. Nobody has said that at all and you're being ridiculous to suggest they have.

Maybe you don't know what the phrase 'to paraphrase' means, DappledThings?

Asserting that it makes no odds to post the whole quote doesn't make misquoting ok.
Not posting the whole quote = making stuff up.

Iklboo, you can carry on interpreting what the OP posted and I'll follow suit

It's a discussion forum. That is called discussion.

Maths

You're just making things up! Even if you claim to be paraphrasing what others have said nobody has said anything that could be interpreted as dead people not being allowed to be on the road or to stop people going about their business.

Math, perhaps you should read the british highway code? Then perhaps you will have an inkling that things are very different over here

You're interpreting it to suit your agenda - 'barging into moving traffic', 'could see people getting into cars'. Neither of which happened.

I suggest you read the thread then, DappledThings.

Slippery not sure why you think moving vehicles operate under different laws of physics in the US and UK. Highway codes in both places frown on using anything other than actual conditions involving other vehicles in decision making when driving. In neither place does any code say 'Claim your right of way regardless of traffic conditions'.

Iklboo the only use of the word 'barging' in this thread is yours. 'Barge' has been used but not by me.

Oh I've read the whole thread mate don't you worry