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.

I would happily provide brunch for a MN convoy...

Me too pigeon I was looking forward to doing a sit in, bit too far for me I'm afraid

So tempted, if only I didn't live in Scotland. I love the SW.

You have all made me laugh after feeling crap all day so thank you!

And now I have marked my place too... looking forward to the update..

I'd love to come and help but....

a. I live in the north west
b. I don't drive

Mind you I could have done an excellent impersonation of a zombie considering what time I'd have had to have got up

There is definitely something in the air. I had some twat following me through a narrow (park-urban) road today, beeping. I was already doing 20mph, so thought he really ought to be disciplined a bit!

Luckily, he was behind me, so I could ignore him, rather than being at a disadvantage in forcing him to do something.

Another shameless thread marker here.

Pity it's so far- am tired enough to do the Thriller dance without needing makeup.

Somerset is not a million miles from North Hampshire.... I have diesel... Just let us know?

MUMSNET ROAD TRIP!! I can see the picnic now, Waitrose yummies, nice ham, OOh, it'd be lovely!

ha ha I could probably make it actually

And I have a gammy leg so I would make a BRILLIANT zombie

This thread is fab! We have lots of tiny villages round here (Dorset) with similar incidents that make me seethe with rage. Next time, I dhal stay put. Good luck OP. I'd gladly join the Flash Mob

I live in the darkest West Country so I also sympathise and would gladly join the zombie flash mob! Us Pandas must stick together!

My mother was once overtaken by some twat in a flashy sports car on a really dangerous section of road in cornwall. We drove that road daily so we knew what he didn't - basically the temporary traffic lights round the next bend.

We pulled around it nice and slow to find flashy twat sitting at the red traffic lights while tractors and the suchlike rolled s-l-o-w-l-y out of the junction. He could see us in his rear view mirror as we absolutely pissed oursleves laughing and he knew that we could see him sat there seething!

Can you not put a call out to your local 'Hells Angel' lookey-likey biker chapter to all come and sit behind you looking menacing? They will probably all be nice chaps - if my experience of bikers is anything to go by!

I pschaw on your handwritten sign kungfu and suggest this.

Pre-program it with a hierarchy of messages to convey your increasing exasperation with SheWhoWillNotBeArsedToReverse.

YANBU

(shameless placemarking!)

Ooh! I want one of the LED things.

I reeeeeally want the flash mob/road trip to happen. I reckon we could get the local pensioners to join in as well. And maybe the sheep.

There is actually a circular route we could take - we might be able to get the front of the convoy to meet the back!

The question is this;

What would the original post be if SheWhoCannotBeArsedToReverse, were to write an AIBU post?

"I am so, soooo important. I believe every villager should recognise my wonderous importance and move their cars out of my way. AIBU? (martyred sigh)

Perhaps

Sign! Sign! Sign! But make sure you hold it up with a big encouraging smile - miles more irritating. And also zombie thriller dance, of course. :-)

Caramel - I reckon it would be one of those classic threads where everyone says YABU and the OP won't accept it and has a massive flounce:

AIBU to be annoyed that my lovely clear short-cut to work is always interrupted by a woman coming the other way who sometimes looks as though she thinks I should reverse. She is the only one wanting to drive in the opposite direction so surely she should give way to everyone else. I refuse to reverse and I always give her a pointed glare and a shake of the head. AIBU?

YABU
YABU
YABVU
YABU and rude

Oh right, so none of you lot would find it annoying. I guess you must all be perfect. I KNOW IANBU and I shall keep doing it.

YABU
YABU

Fine. I thought MN was about support. I shall delete my account and never post again.

I have wanted something like that for years. Never realised you could actually get one!

Late to this thread. I once drove over the crown of a humpback bridge (single lane) to find a man in a van carrying on straight at me. He thought I would reverse back over the bridge and let him through.

I turned the car off and sat and smiled at him. After a few minutes he gave in.

Childish I know but oh so satisfying.

Flouuuuuuunce

Marking my place OP. Too far for me to join you with biccies and flask mob, but am behind you all the way!

ROADTRIP ROADTRIP ROADTRIP!!!
grew up in a small village which due to extended roadworks when I was a teen became full of wankers like this. Wasn't driving at the time but the amount of times me and my bike ended up in a hedge to avoid been knocked down, well I still have scars [mental and physical]Please for the sake of my long gone teen self and my oor old bike teach this cow some manners....

I once had a woman stop in her Freelander and give me a mouth full of abuse because my horse was blocking the lane, my border collie was running loose "out of control" behind my horse and she was on a terribly important mission and using the lane as a rat run to cut through somewhere.

I took great delight in making her back-up for 1 1/2 miles because she was on a private farm lane and she pissed me off. She looked a bit sick when I told her that she was tresspassing on private land and could be prosecuted as she had no right of way. That'll teach her to call me a "stuck-up horsie riding cunt".

Love it QuietTiger :o

Me too, we ALL know how annoying this is.