A man told me how I should have reverse parked. I told him to floss and use a stain resistant toothpaste.

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I had to use DH truck today - which I rarely drive. I then has a tricky reverse park in a busy town. A man watched the whole thing with his arms cross, chuckling and came over and offered a lot of critique and unsolicited advice.
WIBU to offer him critique and unsolicited advice in return?

Yeah yeah, I know I was rude but fuck me, he was a twat of the highest order.

I may have used the phrase "Is it FREE ADVICE DAY? GREAT?"

Wicked

how did he take his advise about his flossing?

Good for you 👍 that’s the sort of thing I think about after the event and the moments passed…

@MikeRafone He stopped off calling me names.

I am thinking about it and feeling mildly ashamed. He was just such a knob but I should have been "Yeah, thanks Grandad"

A guy once told me off for once walking on the wrong side of the (quiet, suburban) street

Speechless

And I didn't tell him to go fuck himself

Such a shame

Go you 👏🏾

What does that even mean? Wrong side? What is the right side?

I have a dad and 7 brothers and have spent my life being told off by men, well, that is how I felt today.

That was neither as clever or funny as you think.
He was a Dick, you could have made your point AND been a bit more classy

Brilliant. Well done, OP!

Did everyone clap and cheer?

I recently had an elderly bloke explain parking meters to me while I was getting a ticket. I honestly couldn't be arsed pushing back and sent him off feeling like a master of the universe.

Tires you out man.

URGH *Had a tricky
I can't even do basic grammar now, a man will be along to correct me shortly 😂

Nope, it was just us, but I do feel bad. Does that help?

Calling him granddad presumes that his sex life has not always been solo.

I think you just need to internally eye roll. In my opinion, men who do this do so because they have very little else going on in their lives, and probably feel inadequate to women in other respects, career, education, etc. so driving becomes the "thing" that they want to jump on.

When they do it to me I just think, "you don't realise how little I give a sh*t about getting into a space the first time" and then smile and nod until they go away.

Don't feel bad. He won't have done and I bet you weren't the first woman he has done it to this week. Knob.

@user47 *crossED. His arms were crossed.

Oh, FUCK classy. Also, it was, in point of fact, quite witty.

At the Yorkshire Show - sorry the Great Yorkshire Show - a man stood behind me doing the 'helpful' hand thing, unrequested, I had to shamefully tell him I might knock him down if he stayed there 😂

You are sooooo right!

I can see he was really annoying, but I think what you said in return was out of order as it was about personal appearance.

We can't win though can we. If you'd not said anything in the name of dignity then you'd be kicking yourself for not saying anything. We always, always, come up with a better retort after mulling it over for ages

When we're put on the spot like that we just have to accept what our brains give us in the moment. He doesn't feel ashamed.

Nah, bollocks to him. He chose to stick his beak in where it wasn't wanted!

Haha I got told off once by a pensioner for wearing a camouflage print biker jacket on my motorbike. He said why am I so stupid wearing camo so nobody can see me.
The jacket had reflective patches all over it, my lights were full on and I wasn't riding through a fecking forest.

Its possible to be both.