BMW X5 vs Citroen C1 - What would you have done?

What would you do?

  • Pull on to pavement as requested

    Votes: 2 5.0%
  • Reverse along road

    Votes: 2 5.0%
  • Stand your ground, wait for him to reverse

    Votes: 36 90.0%

  • Total voters
    40
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swee'pea99

Squire
I don't drive the car much these days, I don't get many stand offs when I'm in my lorry :tongue:
Reminds me of when we had the Leylandii removed from our back garden. I wasn't there when they finished, but my wife told me that she was embarrassed to discover inadequate funds when it came to settle up. The bloke said no worries, he was in the area and would pop in tomorrow. She complimented him on being so trusting. He, 6'4", 18 stone and gently swinging a chain-saw, said: "We don't have a lot of trouble with non-payment."
 
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Guest
Do want my wife's Auntie used to do when faced with the same type of situation, get the newspaper out & start to read, she lived on Anglesey down a very narrow lane which holidaymakers invariably thought they had right of way on.

Alan...
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
I've stood down a land rover - he'd pulled out into my lane to pass a row of cars after I'd already entered the 'congested area'. I held my line, he had to stop, I whizzed down the tiny gap between his car and "my" curb just at the last minute :evil:
 

Bollo

Failed Tech Bro
Location
Winch
In Commuting you'd wouldn't have gone two CPU ticks before someone pointed out that you don't have right of way, you have priority. I don't look at Commuting any more but, like Vietnam, it stays with you man.

That aside, I'd have invited him to indulge in some self-love.
 

swee'pea99

Squire
Do want my wife's Auntie used to do when faced with the same type of situation, get the newspaper out & start to read, she lived on Anglesey down a very narrow lane which holidaymakers invariably thought they had right of way on.

Alan...
Love that. Thinking about this as I was driving back from walking the hound, I thought, it's at times like that that you miss smoking. Just...settle down in your seat, skin up, light up, turn the music up....
 
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PpPete

PpPete

Legendary Member
Location
Chandler's Ford
OK - I wasn't on two wheels because for once I'd had to drop youngest sprog close to his school ( not the private one!) as he had PE kit and a heavy musical instrument to carry as well as all his school books. He normally walks and gets very short thrift if he asks for a lift " 'cos its raining" or "because I'm late".

Stubborn sod I am ....

and yes I did get to witness the less than exemplary reversing skills of the nobber in the X5 (after all the other drivers behind him had given up, found a place to park, or gone round a different way)
 
Lots of this sort of fun in Penistone.
The majority are residents and know the rules, and be polite about it, lots of waves and thankyous. The 'might is right' drivers tend to get put in their place quite rapidly.
I get intimidation attempts in my little Suzuki, but they have the problem that I don't give a stuff.
In this situation I'd have told him what I thought of him, and to go round on the grass himself - and having owned a BMW, I'd have asked him if he enjoyed his last garage bill!
 

DiddlyDodds

Random Resident
Location
Littleborough
[alert - not bike related]
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So what would YOU do.

As soon as you said BMW I had a milk bottle of petrol and a match ready,,, nooooo way would I move


I was driving a truck down a steep road once, cars parked both sides with no options for a car to get past, the road was dead straight and a lady (loose term) decided she would not wait and came shooting up the hill until we came nose to nose.
She started waving for me to back up ,,,,, so I just sat and looked at her getting more and more annoyed waving her arms and swearing ,,

This went on for a Cpl of mins until she realised I was not going to move, so she started backing down the road and straight into a parked car ,, oh how I laughed
As I eventually got passed she was screaming abuse at her steering wheel and looked about to explode ...

It cheered me up for weeks
 

asterix

Comrade Member
Location
Limoges or York
Can't remember that happening to me TBH altho' people do tend to give way to my white van when I don't expect them to.

Once we blocked a car into one of our car park spaces cos he wasn't authorised. Then we stood at our window to watch what happened. This very large guy appeared, looked at our small van for a few moments. Aha, we thought, that'll teach him:evil:

He next bent down behind it, picked up the back, trundled it forward like a wheel barrow, got into his car and drove off.:blink:
 

Kiwiavenger

im a little tea pot
i voted stand your ground.

ive had it before going through here http://goo.gl/maps/sNJws, i ended up sat with my keys on the dash against a taxi driver. i had right of way and the road is open and clear when your through.a tiny bit of patience is all it takes to save a lot of agro!!! does help if you have a beat up car vs a shiny new one though. lol
 

subaqua

What’s the point
Location
Leytonstone
I have sat there for 10 minutes without anybody moving when eejits have tried that on the road we live on. I gave up then got out locked car and went for a cup of tea.
 

slowwww

Veteran
Location
Surrey
In a similar vein, a pal of mine used to work in an office overlooking London Bridge at the height of the 1980's
One day they heard much hooting of horns and so went to the window to see what was going on. They saw that some Yuppie in his Porsche Cabriolet had overtaken (on the wrong side of the road) the queuing traffic on the bridge but hadn't pulled over in time before the traffic island ahead, and he was trying to force his way into the traffic such that the cars were 'locked' together. Rather than reverse and wait for the cars to move-on before pulling in, he was gesticulating for about 6 or 7 cars to all reverse to let him in.

After this had been going on for 2-3 minutes, a middle-aged man got out of one of the cars that was being held up, walked calmly up to the yuppies' car, leaned in, pulled out the keys, and hurled them over the side of the bridge and into the Thames!
 
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