Used to have stand offs all the time when I was a bus driver, usually when passengers started getting off the bus and taking picture, occasionally giving abuse to the other drivers. Or I’d say “Yes I’ll reverse… but I’d like you to get out your car and guide me back” they would say “Get a passenger to do it”…“No, if they are injured they have a ticket to claim, you won’t have any claim”… they start reversing
Another good one was towing my dads caravan, met some “high flyer” in a 7 series BMW, he was gibbering away on a bluetooth headset, I says to my dad and brother “Watch this” I started reversing… purposely made a mess of it… a few times. Big shot realised, he isn’t getting to the meeting faster and reversed.
Juddian:
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.
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 ■■■■.”
It’s a nice feeling knowing that my Scania still has the cab tilt bar under the front grill… “I take your diddy handle and raise it with this 3’ bad-boy…still up for it?”
I have got in the bunk before now, told them I am going to bed…Wait for the noise of their vehicle moving and then got on with it.
I have also done silence, this is a very good method, it unnerves your opponent
I have also done singing badly until they have moved…I look upon these situations as a time to be weird…Violence is so predictable and boring at my age
My brother dealt with this situation by getting his coffee machine out, rolling his window down and saying to the car driver “do you want some coffee? I’m having one”.
From what I’ve seen some of these people can’t reverse, when they do give in you realise it would have been quicker and safer for you to reverse your truck than them to reverse their car.
As I’m whats considered a gentile and flacid or is that placid (always get them two mixed up) type of person I happened across this situation one day. Unfortunately I met someone of an equally soft demeanor and we both reversed out of each others way and then spent the next five minutes saying no after you, no after you, really i insist after you.
Anyway to cut a long story short another 10 minutes later my fellow motorist gave in and drove past whilst we simultanously thanked each other for thanking each other.
That showed him not to mess with me.
I also have problems when holding the door open for people as I’m not sure what distance my fellow homo sapien needs to be away from the door in order for me to release it without causing offence- but thats another story…
eddie snax: Not with another motorist but still a stand off.
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.
Yeah I did reflect a later, and thought that maybe I was harsh on Him. This was the mid 90’s so pre NMW so he might have only been on a couple off quid an hour. But in the heat off the moment victory was mine
I had another once who reversed out of the way, then kept on reversing as I came through and steered the front of her car out into the wheel of my lorry.
It didn’t do much damage, until I moved the lorry off it…
I had this happen 300 yds from my home, narrow bit of road and those past a certain point keep going and others pull up to let them through, I was confronted by a car that drove 5 yards past a pull in and sat in the road, then the bloke got out after 5 minutes and came towards my astra van, I watched his expression change when 6’'5 and 20 stone of scruffy contractor got out, his opening words were ‘I was in the special forces’ and he fumbled at a bunch of keys to produce some dog tag, I replied ‘I couldn’t give a ■■■■ what you were in pal’, he then went back to his car and reversed up, one of the strangest incidences I have ever had on the road.
puntabrava:
I had this happen 300 yds from my home, narrow bit of road and those past a certain point keep going and others pull up to let them through, I was confronted by a car that drove 5 yards past a pull in and sat in the road, then the bloke got out after 5 minutes and came towards my astra van, I watched his expression change when 6’'5 and 20 stone of scruffy contractor got out, his opening words were ‘I was in the special forces’ and he fumbled at a bunch of keys to produce some dog tag, I replied ‘I couldn’t give a [zb] what you were in pal’, he then went back to his car and reversed up, one of the strangest incidences I have ever had on the road.
puntabrava:
I had this happen 300 yds from my home, narrow bit of road and those past a certain point keep going and others pull up to let them through, I was confronted by a car that drove 5 yards past a pull in and sat in the road, then the bloke got out after 5 minutes and came towards my astra van, I watched his expression change when 6’'5 and 20 stone of scruffy contractor got out, his opening words were ‘I was in the special forces’ and he fumbled at a bunch of keys to produce some dog tag, I replied ‘I couldn’t give a [zb] what you were in pal’, he then went back to his car and reversed up, one of the strangest incidences I have ever had on the road.
Two shiny cars with tinted windows. After a bit of hooting and shouting one of them jumps out and grabs a length of wood from a skip and starts towards the other car. The other guy jumps out and starts towards the bloke.
Both women jump out and grab at their fellas. One shouting “Stooop, you gonna mek 'im sleep!”
I was stood out side my brothers place who wanted to go and calm the situation!
Not with another motorist but still a stand off.
