Why are some people so confrontational??

[The Edge]

Picture the situation: It's pitch black, precipitating it down with rain and generally horrible. You've come off a mini roundabout onto a long narrow road with a sweeping bend and cars parked all down one side - impossible to get two cars down they are parked my side so it my problem.

I come off the roundabout, and i'm keen to get through. I've just got about half a car width overlap on the first parked car when i see headlights coming round the bend. I can't see any gap to pull into, i look behind and there is nobody there so i start to reverse out of the way of the now visible oncoming car. Whereupon the stupid cow (It turns out) floors it towards me (from a good 60 yards away) arriving just as my front is swinging out, blares the horn and her significant other in the front starts gesticulating at me.

Why?? Where else was i going to go and was she going to mount the pavement to get round me? If she'd kept going at 20mph or whatever she was doing i'd have been out of the way and she'd have been through, but no we have to make a drama.

Rant over

 

[SB118]

Beemer?

 

[Psycrow]

Should have stopped the read the paper

 

[The Edge]

Beemer?

VW something. Last model Golf maybe, i didn't look and quite frankly i was still struggling to believe what i'd just seen.

As it happened there was a gap that i could have pulled into, but i couldn't/didn't see it due to dark and snotty weather.

 

[Scania]

Should have stopped the read the paper

Some people are idiots (a reference to the OP's rant, not the above quote)

 

[Demon]

I know it's stereotypical, but Women in a Golf.. asking for trouble..

 

[Jon Frost]

I've had the same mate when i have been driving.

Been known to block the car which is causing me hassle, get out and lock the car .

 

[insane200]

if you had already comited yourself before the lights were visable id have carried on going.

some people are just ****s and thnk they own the road.

 

[NathanE]

I was doing a 3 point turn a couple months ago in a narrow village street opposite a petrol station with 2 cars parked on the road. I started the turn whilst the road was completely clear. Unfortunately half way through the turn 2 cars were coming from the right. Meh, I continued with the maneouvre as it was almost complete and there was no where else for me to go anyway. Little did I know that these 2 cars were totally intent on just ignoring me and barged their way through. Even mounted the pavement to get past me. They could have literally just waited 5 seconds and I would have been on my way and they wouldn't have had to wreck their balljoints.

Idiots.

 

[Finchowned]

Lol I remember when some guy was raging at me because he had to wait like 2 seconds for me to come through a narrow bit.

Was like some angry gold fish just opening and closing his mouth at me. His wife was sat next time probably waiting for him to have a heart attack or something.

Anyway, I flicked him the bird and carried on. Best thing to do in cars; use sign language!

 

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Was in Tescos the other day using the tyre compressor, when some bloke parked up behind me, got out and immediately started moaning at me because he wanted to use it . I then decided to check all four tyres....slowly. Just about to get back in my car and he started his car up to move into position, I then decided to check the spare....he got quite annoyed at this point

I appear to have a gift for annoying people without really trying

Fog

 

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Was in Tescos the other day using the tyre compressor, when some bloke parked up behind me, got out and immediately started moaning at me because he wanted to use it . I then decided to check all four tyres....slowly. Just about to get back in my car and he started his car up to move into position, I then decided to check the spare....he got quite annoyed at this point

I appear to have a gift for annoying people without really trying

Fog

Classic, and the best thing to do

 

[Foghorn Leghorn]

I try never to get angry with other people, I find a cheery wave or a smile winds people up far more than ranting and swearing at them. Amazed I've not been battered yet

Fog

 

[Ben M]

Why didn't you keep going? If you were already part-way past the obstruction before she was in sight of you, then it's your right of way.

 

[The Edge]

Why didn't you keep going? If you were already part-way past the obstruction before she was in sight of you, then it's your right of way.

Becasue i was being helpful and i know the road. There is no gurantee that there is somewhere to pull into, and it would probably still have been me that would have ended up going back becasue A) i had less far to go and B) i didn't have a bee in my bonnet). She was more committed than me as she was half way down the road, BUT you can't see round the bend to see them coming until they are well on their way.

It's a rubbish road really needs to be wider, one way or no parking.

 

[jamief]

Ive seen similar things happen a lot; if you pull out of a junction (and someone is coming along the road you've pulled into), sometimes they will actually speed up just so they can beep their horn and get angry... some idiots just love getting angry and having a bit of a confrontation I think!

 

[volospian]

I've had a similar thing, going past a long line of parked cars and some numpty's in a van coming the other way. Nowhere for me to pull in to. I could stop, reverse back about 100 yards or so, or continue the next 50 or so. I reckon it's my right of way by then, and don't really think much more of it.

However, when I get past the cars and pull back onto my side of the road, the woman in the passenger seat is going absolutely ballistic, the guy driving is mouthing obscenities at me, but the woman is absolutely raging, leaning over the driver, shouting her head off, red in the face, waving her arms about, giving me the "o" sign (you know the one, suggesting that I spend time engaging in solo pleasures) and everything.

For a moment I think she may be pregnant, but they seem to be more intent on raging at me than proceding anywhere, so I assume she must just be cranially challenged.

Then, ater a few moments, they set off down the street in a leisurly fashion, obviously my 5 seconds of holdup was a total shock to their system and they had to drive slowly for fear of raging themselves off the road or something. Sensible, really. The van was an old one and so almost certainly RWD. We all know the dangers of screaming beetroot faced rage and RWD vehicles.

 

[chesterstu]

TBH people think there car gives them some kind of magically protection and they have behave in ways they would dream of if walking down the street.

I tend to ignore people now there are far too many angry people out there and you never know who is drugged and carrying some form of weapon to attack you at the next set of lights. So when the young blonde in a car by herself carves me then has the nerve to give the Vs i just smile in the knowledge she will do it to the wrong person some day and he will hack her head off.

 

[Simon]

I tend to ignore people now there are far too many angry people out there and you never know who is drugged and carrying some form of weapon to attack you at the next set of lights. So when the young blonde in a car by herself carves me then has the nerve to give the Vs i just smile in the knowledge she will do it to the wrong person some day and he will hack her head off.

LOL!

 

[Muffin`]

I've had a similar thing, going past a long line of parked cars and some numpty's in a van coming the other way. Nowhere for me to pull in to. I could stop, reverse back about 100 yards or so, or continue the next 50 or so. I reckon it's my right of way by then, and don't really think much more of it.

However, when I get past the cars and pull back onto my side of the road, the woman in the passenger seat is going absolutely ballistic, the guy driving is mouthing obscenities at me, but the woman is absolutely raging, leaning over the driver, shouting her head off, red in the face, waving her arms about, giving me the "o" sign (you know the one, suggesting that I spend time engaging in solo pleasures) and everything.

For a moment I think she may be pregnant, but they seem to be more intent on raging at me than proceding anywhere, so I assume she must just be cranially challenged.

Then, ater a few moments, they set off down the street in a leisurly fashion, obviously my 5 seconds of holdup was a total shock to their system and they had to drive slowly for fear of raging themselves off the road or something. Sensible, really. The van was an old one and so almost certainly RWD. We all know the dangers of screaming beetroot faced rage and RWD vehicles.