Daftest / most surprising thing a driver has said to you?

Eighteen year old female after driving straight at me, “I pay tax” .

A few years ago my mate and i were walking through a motorway services car park when an idiot in a BMW flew into a car parking space we were walking across. My mate timed a perfect starsky and hutch roll over his bonnet got up and said “sorry pal, didn’t see you there”. 😆
Idiot was not happy….

Eighteen year old female after driving straight at me, “I pay tax” .

This seems to be a common refrain amongst very young drivers (or at least its a twitter thing) and I wonder why? The sense of extreme self righteousness & entitlement in this age group is quite startling.

“What the hell did you think you were doing?!” This is what the man who reversed his car into my PARKED van said to me.

When riding along the seafront I once had some grockle shout at me that “I shouldn’t be riding here” and that it was a footpath. I then pointed out the sign next to him that showed it was also a cycle route to which they bellowed “well how was I supposed to know that?”.
Nobber.

I think my most surprising was a woman who almost wiped me out on a roundabout. I was already on it turning right and she didn’t stop, came onto the roundabout and I’ve no idea how I wasn’t hit. She was making gestures as she did so.

I carried on, she went around the roundabout and followed me. At a set of lights she pulled up, got out and then proceeded to apologise and ask if I was OK. She had mis-judged my speed and was actually quite upset about the whole thing. The gestures were her trying to say sorry.

I doubt she’ll make that mistake again.

a weird one last night. Cycling through a twenty area towards a roundabout, about 20 metres of 30 zone to the line. I get literally 5m from the line and stop waiting for the car in front to move off when a young woman in a fiesta ST overtakes and pulls right in front of me, stopping before the line but at an angle. I was basically about 6 inches from her central door pillars.

With the other thread still ringing in my ears i chapped her passenger window (she was so close i didn’t have to stretch) and her response made me think she hadn’t seen me at all. she stared at me blankly for a moment, then put the window down. I suggested that i was in a line of queuing traffic and wondered why the hell she had cut me up. Her response? “well, i was going to let you go first, so off you go then” picture the scenario of a car sitting at near 45 degree angle inches away from my bars and she thought i’d take right of way against that?

I was utterly speechless. I insisted that she went first to get her the hell out of my way and left shaking my head.

DaveRambo – Member

I doubt she’ll make that mistake again.
You killed her? 😯