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.

Oh, misreading now..

Oh damn, a bit far away.... with you in spirit OP, blocking the damned way and willing her to reverse her car up her arse.

I LOVE these threads that become a mission and an ongoing event, you could not write this stuff!!

I still want everyone to come and help. When I stop you could all leap out from behind the hedge carrying flasks and biscuits and squeeze into the car. It is a very small car but I reckon we could all fit if we got really cosy and some people sat in the boot.

lurking on this thread

Haven't read all the thread, just responding to the OP.

Some years ago I was driving in town, down a narrow back road. I was about a car's length from the end of the road, when an old gent came round the corner into the road and stopped. This blocked the road, so I couldn't move. He signalled he expected me to back up (road parked on both sides, I'd have had to back up some considerable distance), so I signalled back that it was more appropriate that he reverse (about five feet would have done it, he wasn't actually in the road yet) and he refused, obviously expecting my capitulation. I didn't have to be anywhere for an hour or so, so turned the engine off, got the newspaper out of my bag and spread it over my steering wheel. He stayed there for about five minutes, then gave up and reversed. I took another minute to finish the article I was on, then set off again. Amused the window cleaner a few yards up the road no end!

Don't make a sign, just refuse to reverse. Have a magazine in the glove compartment or some such visible aid to passing the time pleasantly. Enjoy! (I did )

I have been desperately wracking my brains to work out if I know her

So far sadly I've drawn a blank.

So encouraged by all these stories of bolshy reverse-refusers!

I am wondering if I will see her going the other way tonight. I always see her in the morning, but I don't always collect DS at the same time at the end of the day, so I am not sure what time she goes home.

[ponders hiding in hedge waiting for her]

And MNers with flasks.

Perhaps I did mean Dune after all Madam

A flask mob.

[snort]

We used to live in a village like that too - it drove me insane.

If it made sense I'd reverse to where we could pass each other - I'm a good driver (so reversing isn't some mystery skill to me ) and knew the road well, so would happily reverse a good distance to a 'passing place' if I knew they weren't near one, but if I knew they had one right behind then I wouldn't. I'd just wait with a bored look, raised eyebrow and slight shake of my head. Mind you, it helps if you're driving a fuckoffsized 4x4 when you do this

I have 2 flasks, and can do either tea or coffee. I've got a blanket and can make Ginger nuts. If I have enough time I may even do custard tarts.

PM us all your postcode and let us know when and there will be HEDGEFULS of us.

We are the Hedgefiends! Defenders of the Right NOT to Reverse!

Oh and I do have a freelander.... It takes up quite a lot of room....

I'm volunteering my services to dress up as a zombie and jump out of the bushes if you like. You could sit there with a horrified look on your face and pointing behind her car while hundreds of zombified MNer's pop out of the bushes covered in gore to chase her down the lane.

I could bring my big Toyota with my horse trailer behind. No bloody chance of me reversing then

Shameless lurker here marking place. Good luck Panda!

nijinsky - In GB, the person going up hill has the right of way.

at MN zombies

There are LOADS of single track roads round here. I always take them really slowly after I saw the following:

In my mums car years ago, mum driving slowly down a lane. An executive car speeds up behind us and starts bullying. Mum pulled over in a passing place to let him past and he drives past and picks up speed.

A few miles further on we came across an accident. The executive car had driven round a corner and headfirst into the spikes of a hay-baler tractor. The bonnet was crumpled and a spike had gone straight through his chest...

I was on a single track road once, and met a woman coming the other way.
I didn't know where the passing places were, but I knew there must be one, so I started to reverse.
I found a grass bit I thought might be big enough, so I moved into it, but it wasn't quite wide enough. I was about to pull out and try again, when the other woman (who had been basically on my bumper as I moved, which makes me nervous at the best of times!) made a face like thunder and reveresed herself - quite a long way, of course, cos the passing places were few and far between.
I refused to be upset, so wound down my window and tried to explain that I didn't know where the passing places were and that one hadn't been wide enough.
I got as far as "oo, sorry about that, i didn't know where the pas---- " when she yelled at me, that I shouldn't be driving up the road then!
I was that close to getting out and screaming abuse at her, but she pulled off so quickly she made lots of dust.
Fucking Bitch.
Still mad about it now.

I am loving this thread too, but just want to add that size ISN"T everything. Lots of posters here saying that have stood their ground in 4x4. Well, I am here to tell you that you CAN do it in a little car too. I have.

(NB I WILL move if the other car has nowhere to go / is towing something / looks nervous / has L-plates etc). But I won't automatically assume that as I am the smaller car I don't have the right of way. (is that I known thing? I am 100% bumpkin and have never known that!). For me it is common sense and common courtesy that lead the way.

The one thing that will ensure my brakes are slammed on is the other car being rude to me. I have never thought of making a sign (although feel that maybe I should, for next time!), but I WILL NT MOVE AND WILL STARE YOU OUT IF YOU PISS ME OFF. I am like a slightly angrier Paddington Bear.