to make a little sign for this woman?

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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.

bloody hell flump

no, Hazel, I think in Germany, it's one of those "assumed" ROWs

here, it's whoever is nearest the passing place. full stop.

Hazel - I have a tiny car and tend to back automatically as I know I can, but I don't assume having a small car means I have to give way - never heard that before! Very silly round where I learned to drive, too - it's all single-track country lanes with high hedges, and often the person who backs is the one who's highest up and can see best.

Quennelle- are you thinking of 'Duel'? I love that movie,scares the crap out of me everytime and I ddon't even drive!

Bugger the sign, just take a flask and a blanket and books/radio/audiobooks and camp out there .

She sounds like a mare.

I LOVE the zombies idea!

I don't think I will be meeting her tonight somehow. I just went out to speak to a neighbour and the road was nose to tail with cars, including a police car. Apparently there was an accident on the main road which is about 2 miles away so the police had the spectacularly good idea of diverting all traffic through the village without closing the road in the opposite direction. The result was predictable - 2 miles of traffic queuing one way, 1/2 mile of traffic queuing the other way - meeting in the middle of the village entirely unable to move or reverse. Me standing in the middle wailing "but I've got to get to nuuuuuuuursery" surrounded by elderly neighbours thoroughly enjoying the excitement. One even had tea and biscuits.

We had just decided that I would dig out my bike and bike seat and cycle to nursery with the car-seat strapped to my back and find somewhere to hang around with DS ,and that neighbour would come and get us later, when fortunately someone closed another road and got all the cars to start reversing back so that the bulk of the traffic could move.

Think I am going to set off now though, just in case.

Hope she is sitting in the traffic with a face like this..

Blatant place marking - can't wait to hear how this goes

I can't bear inconsiderate drivers. We have a lot of horses on the roads where I live and it's amazing the number of people who drive inconsiderately. Fecking eejits.

Can I ask how to mark your place in a thread, please? Can't find any help on it on the site itself but am probably just thick

Just by posting you've marked it!

I got beeped up the other day. For stopping when a chap on an ipod crossed the road without looking. Assume the driver behind meant me to drive over the pedestrian admittedly the crossee was being rather dim but didnt quite deserve that!

and now so have I :o

I want to be in a flash mob!!!

If you don't post next week what happens when you see her again I will have a face like that too

Pet hate of mine. I am always much slower manouvering if someone is annoying me whilst I do it.

Sod the sign, I'd just sit there and make her back up :o

I suggest you stop, wait 5 minutes then switch off engine and tell women your terribly sorry but the car over heats if it stands for more than 5 min and it will be 10 min until it cools enough to restart. Suggest she pushes you back to next passing place since she is unable to reverse. I am sure after a few times she will back up.

YANBU I look forward to the footage! (I am a bit childish)

Oh, this makes me seethe with rage for you.

I have had a similar run in with the horrible laird who owns everything here.
Narrow, one car road and I only had about 200 yards to go. Arse of a laird in a Range Rover decides because it was his road that I should back up.
Well, I am hopeless at reversing and refuse to reverse for riff raff like him so I sat while he inched past me.

It took him ages and the staff in the vehicle behind were shaking their heads.

OP, please live near me so I can join the protest with the big tractor and plough or even better, the combine. Everyone backs up for a combine.
I will bring some cows instead of a flask and biscuits.

Ha the zombie idea is good.

I quite fancy the idea of a flaskh mob!

headfairy, thanks, I see now!!

A flask mob - love it!!!

I can't believe that people are aggressive to folk on horses.
But help please, I'm a relatively inexperienced driver but have been told to slow down, pass slowly, and do not acceletrate until you are well past them. Any other advice from our equestrian loving folk?

I shook my fist the other day at some boy racer twat. I had let cars coming in the other direction pass, was just about to pull out, had the indicators on, and he tried to overtake me.

Kiss my Audi I yelled, as I left his Peugot 10wank for dust. ( I am not normally a snob, but sometimes...)

Hi Nigella - Most drivers are lovely around horses. Yes pass wide and slow, but do pass, some drivers dither behind you which only makes it worse.

Also, I tend to look out for things that might make the horse shy - someone mentioned silage bales earlier, but I once had a nasty near miss when riding my horse down a road and a load of discarded newspapers suddenly started billowing up the pavement towards her. She leapt about 8ft upwards and 6ft sideways, very narrowly missing a car. No ones fault (except the litter lout's) but as a driver and rider I would probably have anticpated the horse's reaction.

Too big an ask?

Should you be riding a horse that spooks like that on a road with cars?