Page 4 | Road incident

Eatmycake3333 · 2022-10-21T20:56:19+00:00

Hi. I know I let my anger run over me tonight, but I’m sick of this one ignorant rude young driver, who has done this a few times, not only to me but others. driving up to my house, which is at the top of a very large hill. There is two give way stops halfway up the hill. I have the right away as I’m coming up the hill. This girl, coming down the hill sees me, sits for a second, then decides to go. I’m driving around 20mph. she knew I would need to stop and let her past, even though I had the right away. I think she expected me to stop, but I just kept going. I just thought, she will need to reverse as I’m not moving. She stated beeping! She pulled down the window and started screaming at me! Wtf! Saying I speed up. I just said, I had the right away and you saw me driving up the hill. I know I have pmt and crabit, but this really annoyed me!

BaggyAndWrinkled · 22/10/2022 13:30

I'm also with you OP.
I live on a similar single track but I've the added obstacle of a very blind steep bend to navigate. I drive a T6 do I manually inch up the road, aware of my elderly neighbours potentially walking (no pavements) and never ever exceed 10mph. We have a resident on this small road (yes, looking at YOU, irritating youngster in the white Audi) who belts it up and down the road and gets irate if anyone is in her way.

I've tended to carefully roll into a wide space for her to glare her way through simply because I've seen her trying to reverse and she's incapable.

She screamed and yelled at my 83 yr Dad in his little car the other week because he was coming up the hill and really shook him up. I'm really hoping to see her again in the road soon for me to remind her of her manners Highway Code.

XanaduKira · 22/10/2022 13:31

Spareline · 22/10/2022 12:24

This scenario happens a lot where I live. People just refuse to give way, even when they don’t have right of way, then all the other fuckwits try and follow them. It pisses me off so I keep driving and either make them back up or stop just forward enough to make it difficult for them to get past.

It’s one thing when someone pulls around an obstruction on their side because it’s genuinely hard to see, in that situation I would let them through. It’s quite another when they do it having seen you already and expect you to give way instead. They can get fucked.

I think we're kindred spirits

You were definitely not unreasonable Op - hope it makes her reconsider her driving behaviour in future!

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Eatmycake3333 · 22/10/2022 13:31

ok Let’s get this sorted.
Right of way is the CORRECT saying
I used I had the “right away”. Which in my part of the woods is what we say.
fecks sake you know what I meant.

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BaggyAndWrinkled · 22/10/2022 13:32

red4321 · 22/10/2022 13:26

Fuck me, they have time to do shit like this one-upmanship but you can wait forever if you've been attacked or burgled

I spent so long deflecting about what a dreadful day I was having and how terribly sorry i was to have misused my horn that the policeman ended up asking me if there was anything he could do to help...

He very proudly told me that I'd saved the driver of the van from getting three points for using his phone while driving. As he'd had to prioritise my incorrect horn use over that. Hmmm.

Dear God. What an absolutely tosser!

You should more restraint than me - with that comment, I'm afraid I would have well and truly bitten.

Candymay · 22/10/2022 13:33

Tothepoint99 · 21/10/2022 23:19

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Haha
right away hee hee

Sally090807 · 22/10/2022 13:35

Eatmycake3333 · 21/10/2022 23:07

LaPerduta · Today 23:02
i had the “right away”. What do you not understand from that? You must go into some weird restaurants!!

Don’t you mean right of way, not right away?

woodhill · 22/10/2022 13:36

Right O😂

DeannaFromHumanResources · 22/10/2022 13:37

Just because someone has priority it doesn’t mean that they have to take it. I prefer to avoid confrontation on the roads.
You are aware of the manner of driving of the other person but chose to proceed despite this as a matter of principle. If this had resulted in a collision would being right have made the aftermath less inconvenient or costly?

woodhill · 22/10/2022 13:40

DeannaFromHumanResources · 22/10/2022 13:37

Just because someone has priority it doesn’t mean that they have to take it. I prefer to avoid confrontation on the roads.
You are aware of the manner of driving of the other person but chose to proceed despite this as a matter of principle. If this had resulted in a collision would being right have made the aftermath less inconvenient or costly?

True but some people are pretty selfish and usually it's a bit of give and take

DeannaFromHumanResources · 22/10/2022 13:47

I’m not saying that they’re not bloody annoying but the more years I’ve driven the more I think let them have their little win, get on their way and out of mine.

SofiaSoFar · 22/10/2022 13:48

Eatmycake3333 · 22/10/2022 13:31

ok Let’s get this sorted.
Right of way is the CORRECT saying
I used I had the “right away”. Which in my part of the woods is what we say.
fecks sake you know what I meant.

Well to be fair neither is correct.

You had "priority".

"Right of way" is something completely different.

PurplePixies · 22/10/2022 14:41

red4321 · 22/10/2022 13:26

Fuck me, they have time to do shit like this one-upmanship but you can wait forever if you've been attacked or burgled

I spent so long deflecting about what a dreadful day I was having and how terribly sorry i was to have misused my horn that the policeman ended up asking me if there was anything he could do to help...

He very proudly told me that I'd saved the driver of the van from getting three points for using his phone while driving. As he'd had to prioritise my incorrect horn use over that. Hmmm.

I’d have been raging and would have reported him for not using common sense and letting someone get away with driving dangerously.

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Eatmycake3333 · 22/10/2022 15:00

SofiaSoFar · Today 13:48
Dear god, give it a break! It’s getting boring now. You know what I meant. I had the feckin priority

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BaggyAndWrinkled · 22/10/2022 15:18

Eatmycake3333 · 22/10/2022 15:00

SofiaSoFar · Today 13:48
Dear god, give it a break! It’s getting boring now. You know what I meant. I had the feckin priority

Ignore. There are a couple of dickheads on this thread.

Norriscolesbag · 22/10/2022 15:24

Oh ffs. This site is so pathetic when it comes to spelling/ punctuation… literally the whole thread has become about one SPaG error on repeat. Really tedious.

Some people aren’t shit hot at spelling- as long as you can infer what they mean then get over it. I’m crap at rotating shapes and DIY- if anyone went on and on about it then I’d find it upsetting.

AdobeWanKenobi · 22/10/2022 15:28

Norriscolesbag · 22/10/2022 15:24

Oh ffs. This site is so pathetic when it comes to spelling/ punctuation… literally the whole thread has become about one SPaG error on repeat. Really tedious.

Some people aren’t shit hot at spelling- as long as you can infer what they mean then get over it. I’m crap at rotating shapes and DIY- if anyone went on and on about it then I’d find it upsetting.

Look on the bright side, it's much easier to play 'Spot the twat' isn't it?

Dotjones · 22/10/2022 15:30

You didn't have the "right" of way because the Highway Code states you must ALWAYS give way to avoid a collision. You knew this stupid driver would try to blast through yet didn't give way.

ChaosDemon · 22/10/2022 15:32

Norriscolesbag · 22/10/2022 15:24

Oh ffs. This site is so pathetic when it comes to spelling/ punctuation… literally the whole thread has become about one SPaG error on repeat. Really tedious.

Some people aren’t shit hot at spelling- as long as you can infer what they mean then get over it. I’m crap at rotating shapes and DIY- if anyone went on and on about it then I’d find it upsetting.

I can see how it happens. If the OPs accent is something like Essex you would speak right of way as right-ah-way

AdobeWanKenobi · 22/10/2022 15:36

ChaosDemon · 22/10/2022 15:32

I can see how it happens. If the OPs accent is something like Essex you would speak right of way as right-ah-way

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Part of the problem is some users don't have the mental capacity to realise that language evolves regionally, and for the OP and people in her area that term is perfectly normal.
If I typed in my regional dialect some on here would implode.

Joystir59 · 22/10/2022 15:36

Right of way, not right away ffs

AdobeWanKenobi · 22/10/2022 15:40

Joystir59 · 22/10/2022 15:36

Right of way, not right away ffs

Shame your comprehension isn't as good as your grammar eh?

Pumpkintopf · 22/10/2022 15:42

'He very proudly told me that I'd saved the driver of the van from getting three points for using his phone while driving. As he'd had to prioritise my incorrect horn use over that. Hmmm.'

What an arse.

woodhill · 22/10/2022 16:22

DeannaFromHumanResources · 22/10/2022 13:47

I’m not saying that they’re not bloody annoying but the more years I’ve driven the more I think let them have their little win, get on their way and out of mine.

Yes I think you are right

malmi · 22/10/2022 16:29

The regional version is probably "Right o' way" but sounds like "Right away"

ElegantlyTouched · 22/10/2022 16:38

We have two of those priority sections near me on a main road where it narrows. I remember when I was on a driving lesson last year I'd entered the one I had priority on (empty before I started moving) and the idiot coming the other way decided to keep going regardless. It was a tight squeeze! I was stressed, my instructor unimpressed.

I now get nervous every time I approach them. The number of times the road signs are ignored there is incredible.