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?"

😆 Nice one @user47 What an utter mansplaining bellnob!

Reminds me of this time when I had just reversed out of a space in a car park, and a van nearly hit me head on. I did nothing wrong but he went off on one - all purple faced. I had the window down and heard him say 'I thought it would be a woman somehow! Only a cloth-headed, dopey fucking woman would drive that badly ...' 🙄 (He was about 50. I was about 35.) I literally had done nothing wrong, and was baffled by his tirade.

The very sharp and sassy young car park attendant (male, around 30,) appeared, and said 'well at least the cloth-headed, dopey fucking woman in this car appears to be driving around the car park in the right direction. It's a one way system, and YOU are going in the wrong direction.'

HAHAHA white van man. 😆 Now go fuck yourself you cunt! (That is what I was thinking, as I smiled sweetly at him as I drove off!) He had to turn around as he was facing the wrong way. Cloth-headed, dopey fucking MAN.

I am an ‘always politeness’ person but I have complete sympathy with the poster. Why do women always expect other women to take the high ground? We always have to be the perfect victim.

Your comment was brutal enough possibly to cut through his thick skin and make him think twice in future.

Reminds me of a particularly annoying encounter on my doorstep. After looking me up and down, Random man asked if I was the householder. I said why - he glared but wouldn’t answer except to bark ‘ do you have garden furniture?’ repeatedly refusing to answer me when I asked what he was selling. I was amused at the randomness of this and retorted ‘do you have a unicycle?’ He gawped and stormed off.

It's in these very situations where you put your hand gently on their arm, head tilt and sweetly say 'Oh bless you. I think you've confused me with someone who gives a fuck about your opinion.' Pat their arm sympathetically and walk away.

If I were you I’d feel very ashamed. He thought he was helping you and you insulted him in a very mean way. How would you feel if someone said that to your father or grandfather?

@EvelynBeatrice yours reminds me of how many times I open the front door to be greeted by a man who then says - don't look so worried. I now say I'm not worried. Last month I had two young men there, bearing in mind I have a sign that says no cold callers or sales people, and he wants to chat. I say I'm busy, I'm not buying anything, why are you here? He won't answer, keeps giving me what he thinks is the cute, sexy, funny chat, in the end I just say no not interested and shut the door. If they won't tell me straight why they are there then they aren't getting any more time.

ohyesido · Today 16:26

If I were you I’d feel very ashamed. He thought he was helping you and you insulted him in a very mean way.

That's a bit daft, he was a patronising tosser, who gave unsolicited and entirely unnecessary advice, in order to give his ego a boost. Probably so he could brag about how he had to direct some dozy bint into a parking space.

It's like the strange men who tell you to smile!!
Fuck off, my natural resting face isn't smiling and now a stranger is harassing me!!

Are we meant to just walk around looking like this?

I'd feel like they were wasting their breath because they're both dead.

You don’t need to feel shame- as you say it was free advice day!!! 😂

@ohyesido he chuckled and was generally a patronising sod. "Helpful" should be replaced with "superior". And presumably if he is a dad/grandad he acts in a similar way with his female relatives. Just because someone is old doesn't make them "nice".

Hahahaha!!!

If my father or grandfather spoke this way to a woman they would absolutely deserve it and I would be ashamed for them.

Old people can be arseholes, too - young arseholes do not miraculously become sweet old men/women.

I like this - very disarming

STEALING THIS! 😂

😂

Can't work out of this is serious or not. 😆

This is true!

Exactky. My dad would be 92 if he were still alive now- and he used to absolutely hate twats like this. Then again, his big sister was a mechanic and driver in the army during WW2 before running an anti-submarine unit in the Navy, so there was no chance he was going to grow up patronising women.

Yes op, whatever you do don't make them feel bad or offer them a chance for some self reflection. Good grief.

I had a man tell me off for something very trivial while I was on my bike. Told me off not the man in front of me, on account of my vagina.

I shouted after him “Get help for your anger problems you angry man” (best I could think off on the moment).

He properly stopped his bike and started circling round as if to follow up but skulked off. I felt empowered but then vulnerable because that’s the reality of speaking back right. Threat of violence.

I just told DH about the situation and OP's riposte. He laughed and said the prat deserved it.

I had to move my car at a relative's house because of a contractor arriving who needed access to the bit of the pavement I was parked next to. I only had to move to the other side of the road being careful not to overlap the end of some double yellow lines.

Said relative insisted on pratting around trying to help me. I had to point out that 1. He was standing on my blind spot so I couldn't see him and 2. My car has cameras providing a clear view of where the double yellows finished.

We had just half an hour before been talking about how useful it was that modern cars had such cameras.

I think the yoof say FAFO - serves him right, being “classy” is overrated.

I was once reversing out of a space at the supermarket. When I looked in my mirrors, I could see a man and a woman giving me ‘helpful’ hand signals. I opened the car door and let them know I had mirrors, a camera and reversing sensors. 🙄

I'm not one to condone violence, but I once allowed myself a small nod of satisfaction when I watched a guy's reaction to a lengthy stream of 'advice' from a pedestrian, as he was trying (and succeeding, eventually) to park in small space. After the advice-giver stopped shouting instructions - which were full of expletives, sometimes contradictory - and topped it off with openly laughing at the the driver, the driver calmly exited his car and aimed an expert karate kick at his abuser's chest. Which put the numpty on his arse, with an astonished look on his face. Driver strolled off with not so much as a backward glance.

Fucking hell! Safe to say that person didn't give unsolicited advice again!