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?"

I got glared at by a man today because I moved my car when he wanted to cross in front of me. I found it interesting that when I told him not to glare at me and to use the crossing he had nothing to say. A lady was looking a bit shocked so I asked her if she'd like to cross, she did, she smiled, she crossed while the bloke was still walking off with nothing to say. He looked a prat using a newspaper to try and keep himself dry in the rain.

Someone mentioned women's rudeness. In my 40-odd years on this earth I have had very very few unsolicited negative comments from women about anything. I've experienced more kindness and positivity from female strangers than men.

Do women really regularly heckle people they don't know? "Help" them park?

According to the unassailable precedent set by Dish It Out vs Take It, OP's response does not, in fact, make her just as bad as, and especially not worse than, the man.

There's no way this bloke would have commented on a man driving.

There's no way any of the posters telling the OP she should have been "nicer" would say that to a man, either. Well done OP!

Similar thing happened to me, I was reverse parking into a small space, a group of men sitting outside a cafe were watching, clearly expecting to be entertained! Sadly for them I am very good at reverse parking and when I got out they started to clap and were disappointed when I simply said It's hardly rocket science, is it?

Brilliant response OP!!! 😃👏👏👏👏
And @AuntieJoyce so is yours - slippers hahaha

A bloke once tried to guide me in to MY OWN parking space... outside MY OWN house! Just a randomer walking back from the pub....

I wound the window down and asked him if he'd offer the same service to my 6ft 3 bearded husband

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

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Who knows?? ( Him, apparently)

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There's no way this bloke would have commented on a man driving

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This. I went home and said to H, has anyone every told you that you are walking on the wrong side of the street??

He was er, no

I was once reverse parking in the local high street. DH was in the passenger seat. A man stopped on the pavement to watch and then applauded when I made a good job of it as I usually do

When I was about 19 I was a passenger in a car with a relative who was in her mid 70’s and she lacked confidence in driving in general. Due to her lack of confidence she asked me to park her car after she attempted to park it unsuccessfully , I agreed.

Whilst this was happening about 5 work men stopped to watch us as I got into the drivers seat. It was a parallel park, I parked correctly and got it in the first time. This is not an exaggeration, the men started clapping and told me how well I had done. At 19 years old it just boosted my ego, but at 30 years old, I do think I would now have given a different reply. I do wonder why they cared so much to watch, and to give me a round of applause and I also wonder if I was a man would they have given a round of applause. 😂

There was a poster on here ages ago that replied "Thanks for the opinion, random man" when faced with a man desperate to give his critique. I have used it many times and can report that they really don't like it!

10/10 @user47 Perfection. No notes

I was sitting in my car, indicating before driving off, when he came up behind. Someone had double parked opposite me, and instead of letting me drive off to make room, he insisted on squeezing through, ranting at me all the way.

I saw red and followed him - only to find he lives at the top of my road. He got out of his car, so I wound my window down and asked if he had a problem?

He was apoplectic. He said I was selfish for parking outside my house, and then something about us always having builders in

I said I’d be sure to ask his permission before getting any work done on my home in future and he bellowed ‘YES DO THAT’.

So I wished him a happy bloody Christmas and drove off.

I think you did well to say that, and maybe he’ll think twice next time.

Smashed that one out of the park!

To be fair, she was being a bit dentist

I was driving into the local pub car park where there's a weekly fish van. A bit on the last minute so I nipped in pretty smartly and parked a foot away from the pub wall. Not dangerously fast at all, just fairly speedy.

An old guy called over to me "I thought you were going to crash into that wall there!"

I said "Oh no, it's my husband who does that. I'm a really good driver." I couldn't think of a better riposte at the time. But I wasn't just going to smile and laugh. That's what they expect isn't it .. a reward for having attracted our atttention.

He would never in a thousand years have thought of passing comment to a man would he. Just why??

The trick is to have a certain type of face. Mine says, “Don’t fuck with me”. I don’t try to make it say that, it just does. It’s apparently just my demeanour.

Because men tend to be intimidated by me they never really interfere with my parking, offer unsolicited advice in DIY shops or even sit next to me on the train.

As an old boyfriend said, “You’re very sexy, but God you’re scary.” 😂

TBH I would told him to fuck himself...but then I'm a nearly 60 year old who doesn't take shit anymore 😉

One day I was waiting outside the toilets in a shop. There are three cubicles inside, but as there were also people in the inner lobby, which is stuffy and smelly, waiting for the cubicles, I stayed outside. A man came up, just as I closed the door, so he knew I'd seen in the toilet lobby, and mansplained in a condescending tone that there were several cubicles.

I womansplained in my calmest voice, that he was correct and that there were three toilets inside, each occupied, and four people within waiting.

He was very huffy and said 'thank you for explaining that to me'. I told him politely that he was very welcome and I hoped he'd found the information helpful. He left. (I happened to know that the next nearby toilet was out of order.)

that's very clever 😂

OP this is hilarious, I hate it when men do that! Some of them really need some smart arse answers directed to them!

I had a similar experience on a narrow high street, where I was walking behind this old dude and his elderly mother. The idiotic male proceeded to berate me for making his mother fall! Mind you, I was a good 2m away from them, so it made zero sense.

Some men just need to feel all high and mighty to fill some void in their miserable lives

@Babbahabba this is true. Never has a woman 'helped' me with parking, except my mum, when I was 17! Men do! But that may well be because I'm driving a truck and in a male dominated farm environment much of the time but I do find saying 'be careful back there! I might run you over!' Moves them on in most cases 😂