Neighbour issue- was I being unreasonable?

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Hi there

I just want your thoughts on this situation. Our house is on a private single road, where there are a few houses along this road. It can only accommodate one car going up or down at a time.
I had just turned off the main road (which at this time was quiet) into our private road and drove up and my neighbour was pulling out her driveway slightly (which is why I continued to drive up) then continued to drive down. We don’t get on with these neighbours due to issues in the past. So at this point both of us were blocking the road and couldn’t go either way. This childishly became a stand off with neither of us refusing to move. She was mouthing at me to reverse back onto the main road to let her out and I mouthed back asking her to reverse back into her driveway as that was the safest option without me having to move back onto the main road and potentially hitting car. She then got out of her car and stormed back home leaving her car blocking the road. The situation was getting very embarrassing so I just reversed out onto the main road then she came back 5 mins later and drove off. Normally in this situation if I am in her position, I would either wait for the car to pass or go back into my drive to let them pass as it’s easier than the other person reversing onto the main road. Am I in the wrong here and just completely embarrassed myself? What would you do in my position? This neighbour does think very highly of herself and I felt it was more of a whose more dominant situation if you get what I mean. TIA x

I follow this person on instagram and have done for a while. She posted exactly this on her stories on the same day so was surprised when it popped up on my facebook. Keyboard warrior who won’t speak to the person directly at a guess.

Crikey. This thread will now be deleted pretty quickly, I'm guessing.

Why do you follow op if you don't like them?

@Ralphie01 But the OP specifically states that it's not a main road as such, simply the main road in the estate that her private road branches off.

The point remains that it's much easier and safer to reverse slightly back into your drive than to reverse out onto a road that is used as a thoroughfare by other road users.

The OP did in fact then reverse out, she hasn't claimed peril, she hasn't claimed that she was narrowly avoiding the swell of traffic!!

The neighbour sounds like a twat and the only thing you did wrong OP was not stand your ground....as others have said, as you were coming home you surely had the upper hand.

It wasn’t actually me she had the run in with so maybe read again😂

@44PumpLane my point is they have posted on social media and now on here instead of speaking the them directly. It’s quite sad when you’re that insecure you have to make a post to get reassurance. I have a lot of friends on the same estate and it’s not a busy road at all. Causing drama as they have nothing better to do.

If that was directed at me, I didn't say it was you.

It's just you sound like you don't like her.

@Ralphie01 surely the majority of posts on AIBU stem from people having a bit of a moan or just checking that they're not a miserable got and others would have reacted in the same way.

If you've got a difficult neighbour or a neighbour you've had run ins with before it's not necessarily a good idea to pop round and have a whinge about their shitty behaviour, not all neighbours are receptive to that sort of feedback.

The OP isn't the one who flounced off out their car, there was apparently no drama, the neighbour acted like a tosser then disappeared so OP reversed and had to wait for the neighbour to come out of the house and back into their car and move.

The OP could very well be insecure, or deranged or any number of things, but from the information given, and from what you've said, it sounds like the OP is perfectly reasonable to have a moan, perfectly reasonable in her behaviour in the situation, and it's you who sounds like you have nothing better to do!!

I should preempt and confirm that currently I also have nothing better to do, having already completed my evening jobs, and I'm lying about trawling Mumsnet!