Neither driver willing to give way.

I drive for a living. If I meet an old person, or a woman from her late thirties upwards in a big or expensive car, on a narrow road I will always end up in reverse; even if I have to go back 100m versus their 10. Neither of the two of them can, or will, get out of the way.

Old people are allowed to keep their licenses for far too long. It's not yer mans fault though. He's allowed to keep driving, so he does. I'll probably be the same in thirty odd years if I'm still alive.
Her though! Christ! She only had to go back 7 or 8 meters, or even throw two wheels up on the footpath on her side of the road (it looks wide enough in the video), and everyone can be on their way. Imaging the poor fukker married to that stubborn, spiteful kunt.

Muahahaha wrote: »

yeah they defintely ganged up on her. But it was perhaps made easier by her top being down whereas the old boy seemed to have windows and doors locked and wasn't listening to anybody.

I think in these situations someone has to be the bigger person and back down. The old lad didn't seem all there tbh but yer one knew exactly what she was at. Several drivers complained directly to her about how selfish she was being but she didnt even flinch.

Anyway the whole thing was truly absurd, makes me glad I ride a motorbike so I can just ride around this kind of stuff and be on my way. I can only imagine the length of the traffic jam they created in both directions and the several hundred people they delayed.

I think the key thing is she was actually in the right. She had right of way. But rather than backing her, most of the fellahs were rounding on her trying to bully her into backing off. Right is right, and wrong is wrong. The ould lad is the one who should have backed off, and he is the one who the bystanders should have been bullying (if anyone at all).

But the natural assumption is the woman should back down. You can see even from some of the posts on here the outrage that she didn't back down, even though everyone accept she had right of way. The ould fellah gets off with a nudge and a wink. Ould fellahs, what are you going to do right?

Like I said, I'm not a feminist, but I do have an allergy to bull****.

Sand wrote: »

I think the key thing is she was actually in the right. She had right of way. But rather than backing her, most of the fellahs were rounding on her trying to bully her into backing off. Right is right, and wrong is wrong. The ould lad is the one who should have backed off, and he is the one who the bystanders should have been bullying (if anyone at all).

But the natural assumption is the woman should back down. You can see even from some of the posts on here the outrage that she didn't back down, even though everyone accept she had right of way. The ould fellah gets off with a nudge and a wink. Ould fellahs, what are you going to do right?

Like I said, I'm not a feminist, but I do have an allergy to bull****.

It's not obvious at all that she is in the right. The position of the cars suggests that he was in the tunnel first, meaning she should have waited. The road narrows on her side, which also suggests that she should have waited. There's also a low footpath on her side, which gives her more space to get out of the way. We'll never know without seeing the start of the video.

Also, the auld fella did not get of lightly. The guy in the hi-vis-vest gave him a bollocking, telling him he'd lose his license if the cops arrived.

As I said in a previous post - I drive for a living. If two people meet on a narrow road, then the person who has to put in the least effort generally gets out of the way. In this case, it's yer wan.

It was clear that the reason people "picked" on the woman is that her top was down and she was being a grade A Kunt. Nothing to do with her being of the weaker sex or of the band of the worst drivers since the wheel hit the ground spinning. While she may have been in the right initially.. 35 minutes later she is so far from the right she might as well have flown a plane of disabled schoolkids into Buckingham palace! There is no excuse for holding people up for 35 minutes to prove a point or to have your right of way! That is inexcusably kuntish behavior and she knew it!

By the looks of it the old man clearly wasn't just taking the pish to be a kunt and therefore he ended up inadvertently being in the right! And as you saw he got a good bolockin too!

I am a feminist by the way!

Thats not a tunnel. Any thing where you can see light at the other end before you enter it is just a bridge or underpass.

Happened me once- I had right of way, nearly at the end of a long tight road which opens up onto a much wider road - axhole in a BMW turns onto the road and instead of waiting until I got past him he drove into the tight road and then stopped dead, blocking me. He actually expected me to reverse the whole road (a road lined both sides with parked cars)

I sat there and refused to move - no way was I going to even attempt to reverse, one wrong move and I'd have scraped cars. All he had to do was reverse like a tiny bit, nothing in his way, no cars where he was.

People on the street actually had to tell him to cop on and move, he was that stupid. He wasn't an old or infirm fella either just a dick. Eventually he moved and I carried on my journey.

Caught him at it again the next week with some poor young fella in a micra and an L plate (I know, I know, he should have had someone in the car with him). Poor guy was actually trying to reverse back and was struggling badly. A random stranger came to his rescue but still, what a dick move on BMW drivers part!:mad:


Looking at that video though - the lady should have moved back, she had loads of room. That was just silly carry on!

I'm afraid given the two individuals concerned, this was the inevitable outcome. Mouthy middle-aged bint in soft top Merc and mouthy middle-aged dope in Merc saloon with carpet-dealer personal plate, 'SL55 LEN'. I mean does Len not even realise the SL55 is a sports car??

Commonality? Two Mercs. They shouldve just brought in the army engineers, detonated the bridge down on top of them and left them there as a memorial to w@nkerdom.

Feed Up wrote: »

On the law of averages there must be people driving every day with undiagnosed conditions.

Yes, in motor racing they call it 'Cockpit Thrombosis' - a clot behind the wheel.