to make a little sign for this woman?

[TandB]

I have ranted on a previous occasion about the morning rat-run through our village so very quick summary:

Single track roads - short-cut to city - I am apparently only person who needs to go opposite direction during rush-hour - majority of people coming the other way clearly think I am unreasonable for driving through my own village and glare and head-shake at me - I am cross.

Obviously it is the holidays now, so the school run traffic is missing which makes life much easier. However, there is one woman who I see every single time. She drives very fast on a narrow, twisty road with several blind bends so I finish up crawling around corners in case she comes hurtling the other way. She flatly refuses to back up even a couple of feet to the nearest passing space, and she makes no attempt to move over so that both cars can pass without scraping through the hedge. So I finish up reversing to the next passing space with her driving about 6 inches off my front bumper with a face like thunder, and then as soon as the road widens at all, she squeezes past, glaring at me all the time and shaking her head.

Bearing in mind the following:

1. I live here and have as much right to leave the village as she does to cut through it.

2. I drive a very small car which causes minimal obstruction.

3. I don't drive dangerously fast.

4. I am the one reversing and getting off the road.

would I be unreasonable to make a little sign saying "The next time you shake your head at me will be the last time I reverse for you. I can sit here all day - how about you?"

Would probably be unreasonable to add "cowbag" at the end, I suppose.

HecateQueenOfTheNight Sat 30-Apr-11 20:13:51
The OP has been a regular poster for over a year in the current name alone, maybe a previous name before that.

Someone thinks I am a troll? Wow. I missed that. That has never happened before. Is it some kind of MN rite of passage?

Has it really been over a year, Hec? Scary stuff! I only had one name before btw - it was terribly dull and I namechanged after a couple of weeks if I remember rightly.

Nah. Your rite of passage is when we break into your house at 2 am, kidnap you, blinfold you and lead you to a softplay, where we forcefeed you greggs and fruitshoots and make you listen to james blunt.

or is that your initiation?

anyway.

We're coming for you.

RUN PANDA RUN!!

What ? What's occuring on this thread ? Did I miss some troll hunting ? Confused

Totally agree - you have to do it! I know a farmer who did it - a tourist refused to reverse, so he turned off the tractor and got out, the other driver called out to ask him what he was doing and he replied he was going home for lunch - and he did!!! how about a newspaper and a flask of coffee? Put your feet up on the dashboard and enjoy!

Hec, are you assuming that the [cbiscuit] was a suggestion of trollery? cos the poster being as new as she is might not have realised the full import of the biscuit emoticon...
Rest of her post didn't sound all that disbelieving but I agree it could be read either way [cconfused]

I thought the was a biscuit - I've obviously missed something.

Sorry if I have unwittingly offended someone - if anyone can enlighten me I'd be grateful

(in my defence I think I have been on MN for about 2 days in an attempt to find something to take my mind off raging hormones so maybe I'm being a bit dense. I think I was just proud of myself to have figured out how to make little icons appear...)

Lucy - the was originally set up to be used as a "no comment" type of thing - all down to Gordon Brown's response when asked what his favourite biscuit was in an MN webchat.
Now we tend to use it whenever there is a suggestion that things might not be all they seem - e.g. a poster will just post a if they think the OP is a troll, or that the OP is one that has been done to death a squillion times before and it always ends in a predictable ruck and will do so again, that kind of thing.

Of course sometimes some posters do actually use it as a biscuit, but normally within the context of offering someone a , otherwise it's seen as a sign of cynicism.

[csmile]

Marking place. Have cried so hard with laughter that I have just woken DD3 up

Lucy - don't worry. Mistakes happen, especially if you're new to MN.
One piece of advice, though - don't post on AIBU (Am I Being Unreasonable). Just... don't .
?

yeah? It sounded dripping with sarcasm to me.

gripping story, should be a book, can't wait for next week...

AIBU to be almost disappointed that I have not, in fact, been accused of trollery?

And Hec, you are so full of crap. No-one turned up at 2 in the morning. I sat up all ready, clutching my handbag and waiting to be spirited away for moonlight softplay fun!

don't worry about it though. it's hard to read tone on here and obviously I got it wrong. for which i apologise.

or maybe i judge others by my own sarky standards and that's my problem

that was to grumbler also btw
kungfu - well, we could hardly come last night, when you were expecting us, could we?

Do you know nothing about initiations? tsk.

Can we co-ordinate our diaries? I wouldn't want you to come on one of the days when I was working up in London.

I would feel so rude.

Nah. We can find you anywhere...

I have no doubt at all that this woman does not know how to reverse her car. She doesn't drive a massive 4 x 4 as well to inimidate other drivers does she?

I don't drive but have seen this phenomenon so many times at dropoff time at our school. In fact DS2 was once nealry run over by a woman who very clearly could not reverse her 4 x 4 and instead lurched forward across the pavement and knocked him off his feet.

How can someone not know how to reverse? [boggle]

If you can go forwards, you can go backwards. I truly don't get it.

My dad claims to be unable to reverse into parking spaces. If you can drive forward into one, you can drive backwards into one. I mean, he has to go backwards to get OUT of the bugger!

I don't know how people can claim that they cannot reverse a car. Stick it in reverse. steer.

Hecate, I cordially invite you to observe the car park used for those dropping off kids at our school. Any day you like, it's horrifying.

am I allowed to slap them? I'm not coming if I'm not allowed to slap them.

Hecate - I'm right there with you, at least on the sentiment side if not the actual slapping. I don't drive now because I am rubbish at it but I can still physically maouvre a vehicle. It is a truely shocking spectacle at 8.15 and again at 3.45 at DSs school.

Honestly, I feel like pulling open the car door, hoiking them out and giving them a short reversing lesson at times.

I bet. I would too.

I don't get it.

I can reverse a mile down a single track, winding lane.

and frequently have to, because some pathetic person can't reverse 10 yards into a passing place

And I hate to be disoyal to my gender, but why does it seem to be women more often than not? (not always - my dad being case in point)

morebeta (are you BD in a new guise?) - she has demonstrated amply that she CAN reverse her poxy 4x4 when faced with a large farm tractor - so incompetence is not an appropriate defence for the silly mare. Just sheer bloodyminded entitlement, in her case.

DH can't reverse. Bloody embaressing if you're the passenger in an obvious "we should be the ones reversing" scenario. In all fairness to him, he'll do it, but he's bloody shit at it and might take a few attempts. And also in all fairness to him it's because he has very poor eye sight with a bad astigmatism. Glasses absolutely fine for looking straight out of. If you have to twist and look over your shoulder then his glasses effectively don't work properly. So he has to do it all by mirrors - sometimes fine, sometimes not... I however am a superior reverser, and we have even been known on Hardnott Pass in the Lakes to stop and swap to me driving so I could do the reversing!

Am I the only one starting to feel slightly sorry for this woman?! Let's face it, all that angst and stress every day... KFP clearly has a happier life...