I nearly did a road rage.

[Tetsuo]

I was driving down an essentially one car road today, a car in front was trying to get into an impossible space, they weren't getting in, but I held back to give them time because there was fuck all else I could do. I had to give them to realise it wasn't happening. There was no maneuvering out of it.

Whilst I did so, there was a car that had turned into the road and aggressively drove towards me, he just sped the fuck up and came at me, I signalled for him just to go back a bit because I was waiting for the other car, but he just came at me, he drove at me. I did stop for a minute and strated to unbuckle my seat belt to get out to tell him to back the fuck off.

And then I realised it wouldn't end well and reversed 300m.

WANKER.

I'm very annoyed.

OP, you did the right thing. I would be really annoyed in that situation & would likely have challenged him - which possibly wouldn't have ended well. You were sensible, but it's enraging!

Reversed 300 metres? I can't really think of a situation where you'd need to reverse that far to make room for someone to get past. 30, yes. 300 might be a bit stretching it.

It wasn't a one-way street, I never said it was, it's a regular road in a small country town that was built before two-way large traffic was a thing, with cars parked along one side it's a defacto one car street, which is navigated by correct road usage and behaviour. Not aggressively and with speed, driving at someone who has right of way and motioning them to get out of your way.

I'm a very calm person but he made me angry!!

He essentially blocked the road, on my side, and forced me to reverse, he made flicky hand motions at me. I had my hand on my seat belt to get out and tell him to fuck the fuck off, but I realised it probably wasn't going to go well, so I reversed and gave him a very pass-agg thumbs up.

I hope that clears up any confusion!

And 300 was a typo as I said, t'was 30!

I have clarified this already. It did feel like 300 though...

How some people get or keep their licenses is beyond me, the trouble is there is not enough police anymore, they are so busy with people stabbing each other they haven't got enough time for us.

Diagram please! Sorry you had that experience, OP.

But you said the car that was trying to park "wasn't going to happen". So surely they were either blocking the road so aggressive man couldn't get to you, or they had managed to park, or they had already given up and moved on, in which they'd still ne between you and tje aggressive one.

Or had the parking one managed to get into the space sufficiently that someone could pass them even if they.were subsequently not in well enough they were going to give up?

Because there was nowhere really to reverse into, I had to go back to where there was a dropped kerb and get on the pavement.

Which is not cool.

Reminds of this tunnel stand-off in Maidenhead. The woman had right of way and held firm for 40 minutes!

Eh, yes you did:

It was a mid-size 4x4 trying to get into a tiny space. On what was essentially a one way street

So, man forced me back, car that wasn't ever going to park drove off in front of us, after man forced me back.

The correct thing would have been, car that's never going to park realised that and drove off past man who had plenty of space, but just didn't want to wait for a minute.

Essentially a one-way street means a street that means only one direction can travel at any one time due to width/double parking. Not a legal one-way street. It means one way at a time, not one way.

That bit is clear. I still don't understand if it was so narrow how the failed parking car could get past the aggressive man in order for him to come at you.

Unless you were so far back that aggressive man drive past parking car and at and then parking car drove off. Is that it?

I get it op, similar happened to me/on coming cars a few days ago. Going down a narrow road outside of a school, cars parked along ‘my’ side essentially making it a singular road. Cars approching down had right of way, I passed one gap and got into the next to make way as there was one car behind me. Car behind decided they were far too busy and important to pull in for 20 seconds to let oncoming cars by, drove past me and straight towards them causing a full block. Then refused to move, full stand off, making 2/3 cars have to reverse. It’s an awful road, I’m shocked no child has been hurt from angry drivers arguing right of way, driving on to pavement to make space, reversing up to a junction…

*Eh, yes you did:

It was a mid-size 4x4 trying to get into a tiny space. On what was essentially a one way street*

She said in her OP its a one car street. Why are people trying to pick the OP apart rather than telling her the car driving at her was being a prick. Obviously the car had driven at her and not from behind otherwise there wouldn't have been an issue

You did the right thing really. I would have turned my car off and made him wait a bit but getting out and giving him a piece of your mind could have ended up with you getting attacked.

I think by ‘one-way’ you really mean ‘one-lane’? Traffic can drive both ways, but only one car can go in either direction at a time and other cars have to pull in? Calling a two-way street one-way is confusing and not really the right terminology for what you mean!

Some people sprinkled extra pedantic on their weetabix this morning…

I understand why you backed up and why you were mad about it. I would like to think in this situation I'd lock the doors and put netflix on the screen until the prick got the message I wasn't backing up but in reality I'd probably reverse too out of fear the situation would escalate and the bloke was a psycho.

I was very close to doing that, but realised he was an aggressive nobber.

I sometimes wish I was a big bloke. Not to do violence, but just so men like that would think twice about behaving like that.

Drip feed, we were both driving Mercedes he was in a C class and mine is an E class, so his aggression may have been triggered by that..

Obviously untrue because his behaviour was not predicated by the car or who was driving it. (But I did think as I gave him the thumbs up, 'I've got a better car than you dickhead').

Well i don't know. My first two cars were both a ford ka. I used to get aggressive male drivers very frequently trying to bully me. When i drove my dads vectra i had no such problems. Ive never had any problems with female drivers.

I'm fact, I borrowed my sister's fiat 500 for a couple of weeks recently - it was like a bloody time machine going back to those days of men thinking they could push me around.

My current car is a mid size 7 seater. I get A LOT less bullying on the road than i ever used to. I think the car you're driving probably did have something to do with it. He was jealous.

It still makes no sense. I get one car track, I live in the countryside and we have lots. But I don’t get where this second car could have come from if the one trying to park was blocking the lane.

OP was waiting patiently so she didn't get in the manoeuvring cars way while it was trying to park. Twat driver clearly didn't give a shit and came past anyway which is where he's come head to head with the OP

The link doesn't work for me but I found it here. What a palaver. The old bloke seems to be a bit demented.