Just witnessed the most bizarre argument in a Petrol Station

[LankyLegoHead]

So bizarre, that I just had to share it with someone. If you're the driver of a white Polo GTI that was filling up at Shell on the A31 earlier today, I feel for you.

This chap and his other half pulled into the pump next to me whilst I was filling up. Out of nowhere some woman, must've been in her 40s or 50's comes storming over filming them on her phone. At first I thought she knew them or something? But she certainly made her intentions clear by focusing on the reg plate, and getting both their faces in. From what I remember of the whole incident, it went on a little something like this:

Her: "You're going to KILL someone driving like that! I have my child in my car!"

Him: "What are you talking about? You were tailgating me so I braked?

Her: "Well what about the roundabout you cut me up on!"

There was a little arguing, I was a bit worried as it was close to my car and a little bit awkward stood there as they're having some barmy. Trying not to listen in really, doing the British thing, and then:

Her: "Is it because I'm driving a foreign car, are you a racist? is that how you get your kicks is it?"

Okay, now I'm listening in on this.

Her: "You know what you must have a TINY TINY COCK. You're a "

At this point, there are children walking by that she's totally ignoring whilst blasting expletives about this mans genitalia and dropping the c-bomb. Bloke stood there and didn't rise to it, just told her she was embarrassing herself (Must've took all the self control in the world). Then his Mrs gets out, starts filming her and telling her to back away from him as she was pretty much in his face with a phone by this point.

Her: "You must only be with him for his money! I BET SHES ONLY WITH YOU FOR THE MONEY YOU "

Wow, two C-Bombs now. We both went and paid at the same time whilst she was having it out with his Mrs in the Forecourt. I asked him what he'd done "I have no idea mate, apparently I cut her up on a roundabout but I don't remember. She's been following me for MILES!"

At this point I look out the window and the woman's son has appeared, he cant be any more than 10, and he's dragging his Mum away. Poor bloody kid! Anyway she disappeared, and I didn't get a chance to see what her "Foreign" car was but undoubtably more foreign than a Polo?

Anyway, I don't know what to say really. It was such a bizarre experience (and quite funny in many ways) that I just had to share with you, I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it myself.

Here's hoping she uploads the footage somewhere, as she filmed the whole harassment herself. And if you are on here, I'll happily be a witness to that if anything else come of it.

[mkindy03]

Let's just share a moment for her husband...

[LankyLegoHead]

mkindy03 said:

Let's just share a moment for her husband...

Unless he's the one who put her in that mood? If he's still alive and not chopped up in her freezer that is.

[cologne2792]

I'm convinced that these people are not born and bred but must be, by laws of all probability, designed, engineered and built in a Lab.

[hman]

Thats Bizarre..can I share another bizarre occuarance that happened last week to me last week? (first person to say "cool starry bra" deduct 10 originality points)


Driving along the road I start to close on a car who is doing about 10mph less than the posted limit.. then the slow moving car puts its hazard lights on.. I think hmmm is the car in front breaking down? and so I stay hanging back ready for the car in front to expire.

Hazard lights go off and we carry on to the roundabout (slowly) ..nothing coming from the right but the car in front stops and I stop behind it, driver is gesticulating now...

Car in front pulls away...brakes hard on the roundabout for no reason and I'm stationary as I'm waiting for a car to pass from the right..

I carry on and catch back up with the car who is still doing 10mph less than the speed limit...leaving a big gap due to the car in fronts erratic driving... then the brake testing starts.. I ignore and keep my distance .... the car in front is now doing 10 mph...

I find a safe gap, overtake and carry on - car is now up my bumper...

So I stop in the middle of the road and get out.. walk over to the crazy car to be confronted with a white haired old lady in her 70's who is already head out of the window shouting "that was your fault! you were pushing me to break the speed limit"

Using as much self control as I can to remain polite I ask "are you crazy? I was nowhere near you and you are the one in control of your speed not me!"

She starts again with "that was your fault! you were pushing me to break the speed limit"

I explain to her that trying to brake test people wont end well for her , that I have the whole incident recorded on the camera if she wants to go to the police and that she should consider handing in her licence and letting a taxi do her driving for her as she's clearly un-fit to drive.

Walking back to my car i can still hear her yelling and tooting the horn I just got in my car and drove away

MENTAL!


Mandatory retest at 65 every 3 years - Yes please...

[LankyLegoHead]

hman said:

Thats Bizarre..can I share another bizarre occuarance that happened last week to me last week? (first person to say "cool starry bra" deduct 10 originality points)


Driving along the road I start to close on a car who is doing about 10mph less than the posted limit.. then the slow moving car puts its hazard lights on.. I think hmmm is the car in front breaking down? and so I stay hanging back ready for the car in front to expire.

Hazard lights go off and we carry on to the roundabout (slowly) ..nothing coming from the right but the car in front stops and I stop behind it, driver is gesticulating now...

Car in front pulls away...brakes hard on the roundabout for no reason and I'm stationary as I'm waiting for a car to pass from the right..

I carry on and catch back up with the car who is still doing 10mph less than the speed limit...leaving a big gap due to the car in fronts erratic driving... then the brake testing starts.. I ignore and keep my distance .... the car in front is now doing 10 mph...

I find a safe gap, overtake and carry on - car is now up my bumper...

So I stop in the middle of the road and get out.. walk over to the crazy car to be confronted with a white haired old lady in her 70's who is already head out of the window shouting "that was your fault! you were pushing me to break the speed limit"

Using as much self control as I can to remain polite I ask "are you crazy? I was nowhere near you and you are the one in control of your speed not me!"

She starts again with "that was your fault! you were pushing me to break the speed limit"

I explain to her that trying to brake test people wont end well for her , that I have the whole incident recorded on the camera if she wants to go to the police and that she should consider handing in her licence and letting a taxi do her driving for her as she's clearly un-fit to drive.

Walking back to my car i can still hear her yelling and tooting the horn I just got in my car and drove away

MENTAL!


Mandatory retest at 65 every 3 years - Yes please...

I had a girl hold her middle finger up at me as I overtook her on a dual carriageway last week. I still am completely clueless as to what I did! It's an odd odd world.

[itcaptainslow]

This is why I try my utmost not to engage with people on the road. You just don't know how angry/mad/unhinged/stupid the person you're dealing with is. Life is far less stressful now I've concluded that 90% of the drivers and mostly population are utter aholes

[LankyLegoHead]

itcaptainslow said:

This is why I try my utmost not to engage with people on the road. You just don't know how angry/mad/unhinged/stupid the person you're dealing with is. Life is far less stressful now I've concluded that 90% of the drivers and mostly population are utter aholes

She's lucky she didn't come across some equally deranged bloke! The guy had the patience of a saint.

[jjr1]

This happened years ago at a petrol station on the M1.

I was driving down the BMW lane in my BMW when some in a POLO doing 70 and with nothing on his left just stayed in the wrong lane. After a little while I had the arse (these days I just undertake and don't even bother waiting behind) and flashed my lights. Despite nothing in the other two lanes to his left he just stayed there and I continued flashing. Eventually he moved left and I continued on but left the BMW lane and went to the inside as any good driver would do.

Sometime later I pulled in for petrol and whilst I was filling up a POLO came in at full pelt and did a big skid up behind me. Out jumped a little lad a bit younger than me and in the car sat his girlfriend just looking bemused. Whilst i still continued filling up with fuel the little lad came storming up to me and was basically going mental. He was verbally slagging me off and going nuts. I told him in a relatively calm way to ps off and had he not been blocking the lane i wouldn't have been flashing him.

After a couple of minutes my car was full but the little tt was still screaming at me. I wasn't bothered but suddenly he went to swing a punch. Completely random as he had just spent 2 minutes spouting ste and you would think he would be tired by now..

Without hesitation I just ttted the fker and he fell on his back.

I went to pay for my petrol and by now the little st had scurried back into his car but the girlfriend had come chasing me into the petrol station. She was now going nuts saying I had hit her boyfriend for no reason.

It was then the cashier piped up with 'we have it all on film love and you should basically walk away now with your boyfriend in tow'.........

Petrol stations -just a scream a minute !

[Sheepshanks]

LankyLegoHead said:

I still am completely clueless as to what I did!

You looked at her.

[anonymous-user]

Welcome to dorset, this is a daily thing nowadays, no one knows how to drive and when they do it's poor at best...ohhh and it's everyone elses fault that they're a st driver

[itcaptainslow]

LankyLegoHead said:

itcaptainslow said:

This is why I try my utmost not to engage with people on the road. You just don't know how angry/mad/unhinged/stupid the person you're dealing with is. Life is far less stressful now I've concluded that 90% of the drivers and mostly population are utter aholes

She's lucky she didn't come across some equally deranged bloke! The guy had the patience of a saint.

Exactly-two angry people typically just wind each other up. It's damn hard not to react when someone is in your face and I used to be terrible for it, got better, got worse again before realising now it's so much better not to make the situation worse by rising to it. Not only that, remaining calm usually annoys an angry person even more

[LankyLegoHead]

The most telling thing about it all - first thing she did was get her phone out and film the whole encounter.

World is feeling more and more like an episode of Black Mirror.

[Crafty_]

LankyLegoHead said:

I had a girl hold her middle finger up at me as I overtook her on a dual carriageway last week. I still am completely clueless as to what I did! It's an odd odd world.

Had a chap do something very similar as he took to a slip road. I was in the inside lane, its not going very fast, about 50 or so, its also dark. In my offisde mirror I catch a pair of headlights swerve and disappear, he's moved behind me but is so close I can't see anything of his headlights or bonnet, he had to be that close because he's pretty much cut up the guy behind me. He then veers on to the slip road, I look left, he sticks his finger up, accelerates up the slip road, as I pass I see brake lights as he slows for traffic. Bizarre. Presumably I dared use "his" bit of road. Like you say, odd world.

[lucido grigio]

Everybody is just SO angry ,some of them are angry online too.

[SirSquidalot]

Just the way society is going to be honest. The vast majority of people have little to no respect for others and think they are the most important person to walk the earth. Ignore them and carry on.

[LankyLegoHead]

lucido grigio said:

Everybody is just SO angry ,some of them are angry online too.

She went full 8 year old keyboard warrior to his face though, it was a sight to behold. The fact her child was the adult in the situation though, madness.

[Rich_W]

I'll try and keep this brief.

Few years back. Driving along at arounf half nine at night and a blue BMW is driving erratically in front of me. Speeding up slowing down. I must admit I flash them. Car full on brake checks me to a stop. I'm not close. So they drive on again. I turn off at the next roundabout blue bmw goes straight.

As I'm parking in the car park of the supermarket the BMW arrives at speed and the driver (who turns out to be a woman) accuses me of dangerous driving and misogynistism she's going to call the police.

Seeing the mental unravelling I tell her "I apologise if you think that" and she f's and blinds then races off.


What concerned me is that because the Police are crap at this sort of thing they would ALWAYS believe the "poor innocent woman" over the "horrible aggressive man"

So when I got home, I ordered a dashcam.

[ecsrobin]

So whilst we're on the story of crazy driver stories:

I was driving through a village at the speed limit of 30mph ( I may have been slightly over but sat on cruise control) when a car comes flying up behind, I had an FN civic with the split rear window and my basic rule of thumb was if a number plate was blocked by the spoiler but that was a good distance if I could see the number plate in the lower window it was too close and if I couldn't see it after that I was towing. This car was close enough to be towed. So no brake Testing just knocked the cruise control down a bit.

Expecting the car to get the hint (most drivers did) he started going crazy shouting (windows up) and gesturing. So I went back up to 30 and still no difference. I then started doubting myself is it a 40 perhaps? Checked with my passenger who also agreed it's a 30mph we then approached a 40mph zone and as I started accelerating the fiesta came flying past again gesturing like made and clearly an embarrassed Mrs in the passenger seat. So I slowed down and sure enough as soon as he was past he brake tested me. And continued gesturing.

So I blew a kiss to him! I really wish I had a dash cam for the next bit he went even more crazy he took his seat belt off whilst still driving, continued brake testing and then suddenly my panic, traffic lights approaching and red. Clearly he was going to get out so whilst planning weather to lock doors, or try my luck getting out the car the lights turned green.

So we then joined the M3, he took the Slip way at 50mph and no more proceeded to cut across the 3 lanes nearly causing a pile up before realising he was off at the next junction and cutting everyone up again to get off.

Certainly in my time on the road one of the craziest things I've seen.

[InitialDave]

itcaptainslow said:

Exactly-two angry people typically just wind each other up. It's damn hard not to react when someone is in your face and I used to be terrible for it, got better, got worse again before realising now it's so much better not to make the situation worse by rising to it. Not only that, remaining calm usually annoys an angry person even more

Yes, exactly this.

LankyLegoHead said:

World is feeling more and more like an episode of Black Mirror.

True, and unfortunately not the San Junipero one.