Haven’t read the whole thread but OP reminded me of a magnificent BMW vs Merc standoff
situation in Malvern some years ago.
About this time of year, it was dark early, rush hour on a Friday.
We were walking down Court Rd (a narrow road, but plenty of traffic from schools and local businesses). Problem with Court Road like many is that parked cars along its length effectively reduce the road to a single carriageway. Cars have routinely to pull-in behind a parked one and then flash each other through. It’s often a verrrry long process in rush hour to get from one end of this 1/4 mile road to the other.
Anyway, obviously on this night someone was impatient and decided to drive on through without assessing/giving way to oncoming traffic. So there is a big flash Beemer and a big flash Merc heading directly at each other with no passing space. They meet. They stop.
And they glare.
And they glare.
I get the feeling that no-one is going to back their precious ego car up in order to allow traffic to flow once more.
They are locked in silent combat. After just a minute a handful of other cars are queuing behind each cockmobile. . Horns from behind being politely papped. But not the Beemer-Merc owners. They are just sitting there. Silently. Tickover time-bombs. Facing-off like middle-class, middle-age bulls in a field full of onlooking school-mums..
10 mins go by people are actually coming out of their houses to watch these two silent glaring nobbers do a absolutely nothing other than be nobbers. The sound of car horns behind them are now a wail of dissent.
By this time I (and my dog) too got bored and walked on.
I know they had gone by the next day. But I’ll never know for how long that evening they continued to behave in such an utterly unyielding, humourless cock-like fashion 😆