Was I out of order?

[Crankarm]

I'd just climbed the main hill on my way home from work and was pootling slowly along waiting for my heart rate to return to triple figures when a car drew up along side me and and pulled across into a parking space. One emergency skid stop later I asked the driver, a middle aged woman whether she always tries to knock people off their bikes or if she made an exception for me. After I'd explained (quite calmly) the error of her ways she sat and stared blankly at me, I prompted her with "go on, apologise then". This was met with "I'm deaf". Once I'd realised this wasn't supposed to excuse her poor driving I repeated myself in British sign language, to which she sat and looked equally blankly at me.

Now either she's deaf and hasn't learned to communicate or she was being incredibly disrespectful trying to make up an excuse for not saying sorry for trying to kill me.

My question to the floor is, am I out of order trying to call her bluff on her bullshirt excuse.

Did she know this international sign?

 

[Arjimlad]

So what is the German translation for this?

"Mein Frau, Es gibt ein schlange, wir haben ein halb-stunde gewarten, ihr musst auch warten bitte"... or something like that..

 

[Matthew_T]

"Mein Frau, Es gibt ein schlange, wir haben ein halb-stunde gewarten, ihr musst auch warten bitte"... or something like that..

You probably thought in your head that you had said "Excuse me madam, please can you wait in the queue" when what you actually said was "Oi, cow, sling your fecking hook before I belt you one".

 

[Matthew_T]

Mein Frau, Es gibt ein schlange, wir haben ein halb-stunde gewarten, ihr musst auch warten bitte

Direct translation: "My wife, there's a snake, we have a half-hour gewarten, you have to please wait"

 

[Arjimlad]

Perhaps that's why she legged it ?!!

The germans call a queue a snake...and in this case treated it with equal disdain.

Nice to catch someone out though, linguistically.