cheeky driver!!

[E21_Ross]

picture this....driving down a narrow country lane with the odd passing places along it. come across a woman, about 30, coming the other way. as it happens, there is a passing place JUST infront of her, to her left (so...on my right hand side). she just stays where she is and beeps her horn. confused...i gestured for her to go into the passing place which is on her side. she would budge. i got out of my car, walked over and said why aren't you going in the parking place? it's on your left hand side. her reply was "no, you go in there, i live around here and that's what we do." i then said "i don't care what your used to doing...it's on your side so you drive in there". she then said "why, what's wrong with your car?" "nothing". she then said "it's only a little ditch just drive into it" to which i replied (maybe a little cheekily) "well, if it's only a little ditch, then you drive in it since it's on your side of the road" she was starting to get angry. so i then just said "it's a lovely day, i'm not pushed for time so i'm not going anywhere until you go in there"

she eventually moved

i just thought it was a bit cheeky she didn't want to get her car a little muddy. i wouldn't have minded if it was on my side!

grrrrr

note to rant mods: if this was a proper rant, i would have included a lot more swearing. so please, no marks out of 10

[soad]

Was she good looking though?

[Rotary Madness]

I'll be the first to ask.....



was she fit?


Edit: FFS too slow

Edited by Rotary Madness on Saturday 10th April 13:34

[E21_Ross]

Rotary Madness said:

I'll be the first to ask.....



was she fit?


Edit: FFS too slow

Edited by Rotary Madness on Saturday 10th April 13:34

erm, i'd give her a very mediocre 5/10.

[Pigeon]

What really gets on my tits is the divots in big shiny 4x4s who sit at least a foot from the verge and expect the ordinary car to put almost its entire width on the lumpy, soggy grass and mud to get past. Yeah, right, you're the one in the vehicle which is designed to cope with mud and big lumps, mine isn't, so I'm just going to sit here and wait until your brain starts working.

Then there was the 150-yard stretch of road narrowed to a single car width by parked cars on both sides. I was almost out the other end of it when a ttsi driver coming the other way, who had seen me coming the whole distance, and could easily have stopped before the restriction, instead drives four car lengths into it and expects me to reverse back the whole 150 yards. So I just put the handbrake on, turned the engine off, leaned back in my seat with my hands behind my head and waited for him to get bored... which took quite a long time, but I wasn't in any hurry...

[Graebob]

Hehe reminds me of a time while at work. I drive a LWB Sprinter; anyone who has driven one will know that they are crap on anything other than smooth tarmac. Single lane road this time without parking places, suited type approaching in his Subaru Outback at appreciably faster rate than me. I couldn't really tell whether he was going to yield, He certainly showed no signs of slowing. I slowed down to a crawl, but I'm not going to put any wheels off the blacktop until I have to, and if I do I'm going to do it in a controlled, smooth fashion. Matey is still barrelling towards me, now motioning for me to move over. So I decide I'm going to stay put. Matey is still about 50 yards out with enough distance to stop when I see him drop a cog and veer right off the road onto the flat grassland. Except it's not flat, it's got a bloody great divot in it. His smug look turns upside down as his sphincter does the 50p > 5p shuffle and his car launches up to the top of it's suspension travel. He had SO MUCH ROOM to not have made that decision, and he made a complete dickhat out of himself.

I didn't half titter

Edited by Graebob on Saturday 10th April 17:33

[E21_Ross]

Graebob said:

Hehe reminds me of a time while at work. I drive a LWB Sprinter; anyone who has driven one will know that they are crap on anything other than smooth tarmac. Single lane road this time without parking places, suited type approaching in his Subaru Outback at appreciably faster rate than me. I couldn't really tell whether he was going to yield, He certainly showed no signs of slowing. I slowed down a little, but I'm not going to put any wheels off the blacktop of I don't have to, and if I do I'm going to do it in a controlled, smooth fashion. Matey is still barrelling towards me, now motioning for me to move over. So I decide I'm going to stay put. Matey is still about 50 yards out with enough distance to stop when I see him drop a cog and veer right off the road onto the flat grassland. Except it's not flat, it's got a bloody great divot in it. His smug look turns upside down as his sphincter does the 50p > 5p shuffle and his car launches up to the top of it's suspension travel. He had SO MUCH ROOM to not have made that decision, and he made a complete dickhat out of himself.

I didn't half titter

just realised i said parking spaces when i meant passing places!! just couldn't believe she expected me to go on the other side of the road into a passing place and her go past me as if we drive on the right hand side of the road.

at least i got my way

[pacman1]

Pigeon said:

What really gets on my tits is the divots in big shiny 4x4s who sit at least a foot from the verge and expect the ordinary car to put almost its entire width on the lumpy, soggy grass and mud to get past. Yeah, right, you're the one in the vehicle which is designed to cope with mud and big lumps, mine isn't, so I'm just going to sit here and wait until your brain starts working.

Then there was the 150-yard stretch of road narrowed to a single car width by parked cars on both sides. I was almost out the other end of it when a ttsi driver coming the other way, who had seen me coming the whole distance, and could easily have stopped before the restriction, instead drives four car lengths into it and expects me to reverse back the whole 150 yards. So I just put the handbrake on, turned the engine off, leaned back in my seat with my hands behind my head and waited for him to get bored... which took quite a long time, but I wasn't in any hurry...

Similar happened to a chap I know meeting 'a school run 4 x 4 mum' on her way back from dropping the kids off.
But he went one further. It was outside the trading estate where he worked, so after the initial verbal exchange, he was having none of it. So he got out, locked the car up and fecked off!
He came back 10 minutes later to find the road jammed and a copper there!
After explaining the situation, and the local copper just wanting the traffic jam to disappear, she reversed up, he hopped back in and went to work!

[E21_Ross]

pacman1 said:

Pigeon said:

What really gets on my tits is the divots in big shiny 4x4s who sit at least a foot from the verge and expect the ordinary car to put almost its entire width on the lumpy, soggy grass and mud to get past. Yeah, right, you're the one in the vehicle which is designed to cope with mud and big lumps, mine isn't, so I'm just going to sit here and wait until your brain starts working.

Then there was the 150-yard stretch of road narrowed to a single car width by parked cars on both sides. I was almost out the other end of it when a ttsi driver coming the other way, who had seen me coming the whole distance, and could easily have stopped before the restriction, instead drives four car lengths into it and expects me to reverse back the whole 150 yards. So I just put the handbrake on, turned the engine off, leaned back in my seat with my hands behind my head and waited for him to get bored... which took quite a long time, but I wasn't in any hurry...

Similar happened to a chap I know meeting 'a school run 4 x 4 mum' on her way back from dropping the kids off.
But he went one further. It was outside the trading estate where he worked, so after the initial verbal exchange, he was having none of it. So he got out, locked the car up and fecked off!
He came back 10 minutes later to find the road jammed and a copper there!
After explaining the situation, and the local copper just wanting the traffic jam to disappear, she reversed up, he hopped back in and went to work!

i bet he got a little telling off from the copper though
fair play to him though.

[Jasandjules]

Pigeon said:

What really gets on my tits is the divots in big shiny 4x4s who sit at least a foot from the verge and expect the ordinary car to put almost its entire width on the lumpy, soggy grass and mud to get past. Yeah, right, you're the one in the vehicle which is designed to cope with mud and big lumps, mine isn't, so I'm just going to sit here and wait until your brain starts working.

Funnily enough I had this the other day, down one of the country lanes near my house. She steadfastly refused to move, just kept shaking her head at me. I don't think she actually knew that her car was built for worse than this (brand new (well, 09 plate) Range Rover). I was in a hurry so I drove the passat along the muddy bit.

[nads1978]

Pigeon said:

What really gets on my tits is the divots in big shiny 4x4s who sit at least a foot from the verge and expect .......

I live on the Moor, with narrow lanes. When I had my Range Rover Classic, I'd use ANY excuse to mount the verge and get muddy.

Edited by nads1978 on Saturday 10th April 18:03

[seismic22]

Jasandjules said:

Pigeon said:

What really gets on my tits is the divots in big shiny 4x4s who sit at least a foot from the verge and expect the ordinary car to put almost its entire width on the lumpy, soggy grass and mud to get past. Yeah, right, you're the one in the vehicle which is designed to cope with mud and big lumps, mine isn't, so I'm just going to sit here and wait until your brain starts working.

Funnily enough I had this the other day, down one of the country lanes near my house. She steadfastly refused to move, just kept shaking her head at me. I don't think she actually knew that her car was built for worse than this (brand new (well, 09 plate) Range Rover). I was in a hurry so I drove the passat along the muddy bit.

Used to live on a farm down in devon, used to get this all the time with people from the city driving down the country roads not wanting to get theyre rangie dirty, hilarious how angry they get when you dont get out their way. Worst of all is when city people with 4x4s move to the country and STILL dont want to use the verges. jesus! one moved in up the road and did it to my mum expecting her to reverse round a blind bend rather than him mount his dry and wide verge! luckily i wasnt there when he told me my mum to "F$%&ing reverse back". If you own a 4x4 bloody use it.

[Adz The Rat]

I have this quite often when we go down the single track lane to where we keep our horses.
My Golf struggles on anything but perfectly smooth tarmac and Im always coming head to head with people in Land Rovers and the like that wont go on the grass.

[E21_Ross]

trust me, my E21 doesn't like anything short of nice tarmac -60mm and quite a firm ride....doesn't bode well for many giant pot holes! i found the road and passing place on google maps...this is what she didn't want to drive into:

clicky

the reason i was on that road....just fancy going exploring
although it was a st road so wish i hadn't now

Edited by E21_Ross on Saturday 10th April 18:36

[Majicthise]

Living at the end of a 18 mile strech of single track road, I have had to put up with alot. My dad's favourite technique is to just stop in the middle of the road until the other driver either reverses into a passing place or tries his luck in squeezing past. Of course, if my dad is cloasest to a passing place he will reverse. being younger I think I am more likely to be polite and reverse regardless, I can at least do it quickly so probably saves time overall.

It's when you get stuck behind folk that the fun really starts.

[cambiker71]

Pigeon said:

Then there was the 150-yard stretch of road narrowed to a single car width by parked cars on both sides. I was almost out the other end of it when a ttsi driver coming the other way, who had seen me coming the whole distance, and could easily have stopped before the restriction, instead drives four car lengths into it and expects me to reverse back the whole 150 yards. So I just put the handbrake on, turned the engine off, leaned back in my seat with my hands behind my head and waited for him to get bored... which took quite a long time, but I wasn't in any hurry...

Had a simlar thing, parked cars on the right hand side, i was driving through, got about 5 cars from the end and a young lady in a rover 400 decided she'd had enough of waiting and drove straight at me whist waving her fat arms at me to move over. I stopped and she drove right up to my bumper whilst waving and opened her window to yell at me to drive up the kerb so she could get past, so I removed the ignition keys and dangled them inside the windscreen and motioned that I was going nowhere, after mouthing something rude she reversed back while I followed really close, then she attempted to squeeze into the gap between the last two cars which were around a half car length apart. This was still leaving me no room to get past and she started yelling profanities at me again and to drive up on to the path which prompted me to dangle the keys a second time. I let her have enough room to pull forwards out of the half car length gap and then to carry on reversing, this time she did it at high speed swerved around the last car and bounced up the kerb, I drove past the last car at around walking speed slowing even more to say thankyou, again she yelled something unintelligible at me all red faced and then stalled the car.

[pacman1]

Just an observation, but I find that quite often 'size rules' in many a situation.
But if you are used to driving larger vehicles, you'll soon realise that it can be a double edged sword.
Get it wrong and you're the one having to take the flak by having to squeeze past or to reverse up when the other person is in the right. You soon learn to give way more, because it is easier to do so in the long run because it always means you are in control, and there will always be a situation when you meet someone bigger than you.
I find this particularly with the 4 x 4 mums. They are so used to having it their own way with the smaller vehicles on the road that it's really great to see 'em come unstuck when they meet a 7.5 tonner or large van.
You can actually see them think, 'oh bugger' I got that wrong, and then their reversing skills really show up their lack of roadcraft. But hey, life's one big learning curve anyway..

Edited by pacman1 on Saturday 10th April 19:37

[chris1roll]

Pigeon said:

What really gets on my tits is the divots in big shiny 4x4s who sit at least a foot from the verge and expect the ordinary car to put almost its entire width on the lumpy, soggy grass and mud to get past. Yeah, right, you're the one in the vehicle which is designed to cope with mud and big lumps, mine isn't, so I'm just going to sit here and wait until your brain starts working.

I had only had the skoda a couple of weeks when I met a 4x4 in the dark on a single track road. I could see a gateway just behind him but would he go back into it, would he fk. He kept pushing forwards until he was about 2mm away from my bumper. . I should have stood my ground but couldn't be arsed getting wound up so reversed about 100 yard to the next gateway, all the way with this nob-jockey literally sat on my front bumper. . I got the back end in, swung the front over to the left, he squeezed through the gap with mm to spare at the same time as the left side of my car dropped several inches accompanied by a heavy metallic "clunk". He just fked off into the distance. . Turned out the edge of the road simply dropped away, and the car was sat with the front tyre just touching the mud, supported on the wishbone mounting bolts on the road.
Luckily with the wheel at full lock it was on enough of the edge of the tarmac for the diff to not just spin one wheel, so I did get it out without having to call out the cavalry.
I Won't be putting myself out like that again.
Oh, did I mention I think he was a ?

Edited by chris1roll on Saturday 10th April 20:17

[pacman1]

^ They are about!

[E21_Ross]

i'm glad i stood my ground on this one. she seemed right hacked off but i couldn't care less. she took long enough after i got back into my car too. i was about to turn the engine off but she finally moved. i cheekily said "thanks, wasn't that hard was it" as i drove past and nailed it