Hey guys, there was a little stand off yesterday near where I live,Ill keep it short and sweet.A van and a car were both head to head and nethier would move or back up for each other for about 5 mins.Although the van was in the right 100% he gave in and backed up It was a typically fly boy in his private plated bmw with a cocky look.
Would be interested to hear some storys of this happening and what you would do?
Get out - lock it up and go for a cuppa … lol
If I was in the right and not in a rush would stay there
Whay I always do if in doubt, put kettle on and make coffee 
Not really had it that much since I’ve been driving artics, but when I was driving 7.5tonners & class 2 in London years ago it happened a few times, if someone wanted to be a ■■■■■■ and not give way or refuse to back up then I just used to switch engine off, put my feet up and start reading the paper, it normally has the other person moving after a minute or 2.
^THIS^ Done it many times in Devon & Cornwall.
bazstan009:
Whay I always do if in doubt, put kettle on and make coffee
Whilst I never had a kettle to put on I usually found putting my feet up on the steering wheel and getting my newspaper out did the job. 
Had this happen recently while delivering to Papa johns in Milton Keynes after about 5 minutes of a Mexican standoff the car drivers wife told him to grow up and move the car at which point he got out and started walking as he passed me he gave me the finger before I could reply the guy in the car behind me let rip with a load of abuse at him for holding everyone up, she then reversed the car 10 feet to a passing place and apologised for her husbands behaviour which at a guess I would say she spends a lot of time doing
Somebody will be along shortly to say there’s no such thing as right of way
I had a standoff with a guy in a BMW with his girlfriend and kid with him. I was on my last leg home on a Sunday evening.
The guy said he was a Chef, and I had to get out of his way because he was self employed, and I was somehow inferior for being “on my way home”, in a “lower value car” and clearly living on this run-down estate, rather than him who’d been visiting his run-down relatives on same said estate presumably. 
At that, I got out of my car, locked it (still barring “his” path), and started walking away. He rushed round the back of his car and pulled out a jack handle, and said “You or the car mate - I don’t give a ■■■■.”
I folded at this point and moved. Was bloody annoyed with myself for not standing up to him though, but what can you do when it’s the crooks that have all the money, power, and the law will put ME in jail if I gave as good as I got? If I’d hit him, and won the fight, I would be dragged away by old bill because it would be deemed “I was threatening the kiddie in the car”… Duffed over at the police station, put away for anything that can be made up against me. If I’d lost the fight, I’d be at best, in hospital with a fractured skull, dead, or perhaps just lose my no claims bonus on a smashed up car I can’t afford to replace.
Who are the police gonna believe anyway? - Tory-voting scumbag with unmarried mother and ■■■■■■■ brat with him, or non-labour voting working class guy who tries to stay within the law but is on his own?
Didn’t Cameron promise we’d be able to defend ourselves before he was PM? - THAT didn’t happen did it? On the other hand, he DID provide loads of non-parent care for unmarried parents, legalised gay marriage, and oh… Gave me £550 a year back in tax cuts after I’ve had no pay rise for more than a decade as it is. Nick a my wallet and then return my proverbial bus fare out of it. Thanks old bean - You can go to your grave knowing you cocked it all up because you were daft rather than evil so that makes it alright does it?
Jeez. Sometimes I just wanna burn the sky down - this damned country as it is today… 
It’s never wrong to throw my proverbial three aces away against his straight, but by God, it turns my stomach nonetheless when I find myself doing just that… 
selby newcomer:
Not really had it that much since I’ve been driving artics, but when I was driving 7.5tonners & class 2 in London years ago it happened a few times, if someone wanted to be a ■■■■■■ and not give way or refuse to back up then I just used to switch engine off, put my feet up and start reading the paper, it normally has the other person moving after a minute or 2.
… same here
get out and kick his head in LOL 
where’s reverse?
you can’t really apply common sense or normal behaviour to someone who scrapes their knuckles as they lope along, snorting through flared nostrils and peering from under the longest lowest brow not currently behind bars in the gorilla enclosure.
If you come up against an out of time neanderthal, then the best thing is to keep out of their way, yes they win the stand off, but being confined to a wheelchair and wearing a bloody catheter for the rest of your natural, whilst knuckle dragger gets 20 hour community service then continues its worthless existance isn’t good sense either.
Not with another motorist but still a stand off.
Was going to a delivery in Greenford last drop about 5 or 6 pallets. I turn left at the top off this road into what turned out to be a dead end, the firm I wanted I could see was directly in front off Me at the end off this road, to the right off their frontage was the entrance to a business park, a plan forms in my head, go into the business park turn around come out and then reverse upto the roller shutter off this company, and pallet truck the stuff out the back, bingo me done
As I start to bear right into the Business park down comes the barrier, so I stop get out and go and see the security guy, explain what I have in mind, too which I’m given a firm refusal. Oh well, so I walk over to my customer and ask him to tip me there, blocking the road, it was about 3.30pm. These guys where I’m tippng are telling me that you wont get in there to turn round driver, wait and see says I, I’m paid by the hour I can wait and at 5pm when they all want to go home, that rule will mysteriously be forgotten, and I’ll turn round.
In the mean time a suited bloke in a Merc sprinter pulls up behind me, I’m still tipping at this piont, so I inform him off whats going on, too which He says ok, I’ll sort this. Next thing the sprinter guy and the security guy are having a full scale row, then another bloke in a suit turns up from inside the business park, rienforcment I suspect. Anyway the long and the short was that I did go in and turn around, with instruction not to uturn, but to follow a perimeter road, which was fair enough. and its not as if the place didnt have large vehicles in and out because I drove past a bus garage at the rear of the park
And as parting shot, when I got back to the security hut. I stopped went over to the security guy and bid him good evening in a very Jovial manner, laughing all the way
reminds me of an incident involving my mother and her sister , the old girl (they are both well into their 70.s ) went to visit her sister in coleshill where there is a narrow bridge to get in/out of the town. they meet a van coming the other way and a stand off begins ,after a few minutes aunty hangs her head out of the window and whilst gesturing with the coffee shake yells [zb] at wvm . a small group of pedestrians that had arrived clapped and cheered . a rather embarrassed wvm backed up. my mam says she was quite proud if a little embarrassed of her kid sis 
eddie snax:
And as parting shot, when I got back to the security hut. I stopped went over to the security guy and bid him good evening in a very Jovial manner, laughing all the way
I would probably have done the same. You should remember though, that the security guy was probably more concerned to keep his job, than being a jobsworth. Someone a long way up from his payscale made the rule - he got stuck with enforcing it.
I’ve got out and stood on the pavement with a ■■■ before now
NOVE:
I’ve got out and stood on the pavement with a ■■■ before now
It’s free country
Winseer:
I had a standoff with a guy in a BMW with his girlfriend and kid with him. I was on my last leg home on a Sunday evening.
The guy said he was a Chef, and I had to get out of his way because he was self employed, and I was somehow inferior for being “on my way home”, in a “lower value car” and clearly living on this run-down estate, rather than him who’d been visiting his run-down relatives on same said estate presumably.At that, I got out of my car, locked it (still barring “his” path), and started walking away. He rushed round the back of his car and pulled out a jack handle, and said “You or the car mate - I don’t give a ■■■■.”
I folded at this point and moved. Was bloody annoyed with myself for not standing up to him though, but what can you do when it’s the crooks that have all the money, power, and the law will put ME in jail if I gave as good as I got? If I’d hit him, and won the fight, I would be dragged away by old bill because it would be deemed “I was threatening the kiddie in the car”… Duffed over at the police station, put away for anything that can be made up against me. If I’d lost the fight, I’d be at best, in hospital with a fractured skull, dead, or perhaps just lose my no claims bonus on a smashed up car I can’t afford to replace.
Who are the police gonna believe anyway? - Tory-voting scumbag with unmarried mother and [zb] brat with him, or non-labour voting working class guy who tries to stay within the law but is on his own?
Didn’t Cameron promise we’d be able to defend ourselves before he was PM? - THAT didn’t happen did it? On the other hand, he DID provide loads of non-parent care for unmarried parents, legalised gay marriage, and oh… Gave me £550 a year back in tax cuts after I’ve had no pay rise for more than a decade as it is. Nick a my wallet and then return my proverbial bus fare out of it. Thanks old bean - You can go to your grave knowing you cocked it all up because you were daft rather than evil so that makes it alright does it?Jeez. Sometimes I just wanna burn the sky down - this damned country as it is today…
It’s never wrong to throw my proverbial three aces away against his straight, but by God, it turns my stomach nonetheless when I find myself doing just that…
I’d have loved that to have been me, I’ve got an old Jalopy to get me to and from work, I’d have got back in the car, banged it in first rather than reverse and ■■■■■■■ rammed him, then told him “car”, when he rings the rozzers “I was that scared when he threatened me with his jack handle I got the wrong gear and hit his car” sorry.