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Only 10mins 🙄 - drivers were out and pleading with two motorists to sort themselves out after a 40min impasse under a railway bridge in Reading 18months ago
mattsccm - Member
Sadly I know of one local lady who will not reverse for anything. She can't.
I bet she manages to reverse out of the car parking space at Waitrose.
@mattscm - I thought that being able to reverse a car was part of the driving test? From memory (my driving test was over 40 years ago) there's at least two manoeuvres that require you to be able to reverse the vehicle. If she can't do that then she falls below the standard expected of a licensed driver.
I think Range Rover drivers are in the process of replacing Audi drivers, in the same way Audi replaced BMW as the archetype of nobbish road behaviour.
[quote=mudshark ]Most of us would back down even if we think we're in the right wouldn't we? I do so whilst tutting and shaking my head which makes me feel better....
Depends how much time you have and how rude and entitled the other driver is being. The last time I had this situation the answers were plenty and very. I got out and offered to reverse their car for them if they couldn't manage it - they did eventually remember how to.
I think Range Rover drivers are in the process of replacing Audi drivers, in the same way Audi replaced BMW as the archetype of nobbish road behaviour
It will go on forever. The complete lack of self awareness of the nob means that they don't realise they are the very nobs giving the brand the bad name they want to move away from.
Ahh memories of being in someone else's car in Scotland on a tiny lane and coming head to head with a landrover and trailer. My "friend" was being a n@b and refusing to back up, yelling etc. so the farmer opposite just calming takes out the makings and begins to roll a smoke... Everyone in the car just started laughing at the driver. Almost made me wish I smoked just so I could emulate such a move.
Most of us would back down even if we think we're in the right wouldn't we? I do so whilst tutting and shaking my head which makes me feel better....
I dunno about that. I'm genetically predisposed to pushing back against bullies and have an underactive self-preservation gland. It's going to get me into trouble one day.
We joke about driver stereotypes like X5 drivers, but I think there's a definite correlation between vehicle size and driver attitude. I've noticed it when driving courtesy cars, I get a lot more folk trying to barge me off the road when I'm in a Micra or an i20 or something than I ever did in a Mondeo.
the road I live on is one of 'those' roads, cars parked down both sides leaving a single width lane up the middle.
It's also a cut-through between two bigger roads, so is used as a short cut a lot, especially since there is a school at the top of the road and at the bottom there is a school to the right about 500 yards, and another one to the left about 800 yards so you can imagine how frequently we get this.
The worst ones are those who urn into one end of the road, when there's traffic* already more than half way along, it's just bonkers, and often when they meet in the middle, someone else will have followed both of them in so now multiple cars are going to have to reverse (back out onto a bigger road) no matter who caves in.
*even more annoying when they do it to me on the bike, and rather than wait 7 seconds for me to get through they just assume because I'm on a bike they can squeeze past, I normally stay slap bang in the middle to force them to stop and then take great delight in making a big song and dance of wobbling my way past while clumsily knocking their wing mirror and scraping along their door 😈