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Today's bizarre interaction

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  1. HankChief
    Member

    I'm baffled by this...

    Happily heading along a quiet road this morning, I see a car appearing on the right wanting to turn right into the road we are on.

    Natural reactions mean I keep an aye on them. As I get nearer, I see them looking and then start to move despite me about to occupy the same road space. I shout 'woah ' and simultaneously they stop (before really entering the road, let alone my side of it). They raise their hand as an apology and I pass and think nothing more of it and carry on my day.

    200yds down the road I hear a beep from behind and it's the same car. No one else is around so I pull in and stop. The youngish chap aggresively tells me not to be so cheeky. And that he doesn't take cheek from anyone.

    I struggle for words but eventually manage to placate him, after explaining that of course I was going to shout if I feared for our safety and that I had accepted his apology and it wasn't a big deal as he had spotted us and stopped in plenty of time.

    It turned out his bugbear was that on the back of the bike the kids were waving (no rude gestures I hope) at him and pretending to shoot him. They are going through a waving phase so it wasn't personal to him...

    Posted 5 years ago #

  2. alps
    Member

    1. Just lacks coping skills (modern epidemic)?
    2. Hungover and a bit emotional?
    3. PTSD from previous being-waved-at-by-children trauma?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  3. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @HankChief

    Could be anything. Hypomanic state induced by car use quite common. Mephedrone etc use widespread.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  4. fimm
    Member

    Lack of awareness that parents really, really, really don't have eyes in the back of their head?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  5. spytfyre
    Member

    You say beeping is illegal mate unless in an emergency, got your reg no. The danger had passed and it was them not you.

    "A horn should not be sounded when stationary on a road at any time, other than at times of danger due to another vehicle on or near the road."

    Posted 5 years ago #

  6. jdanielp
    Member

    @spytfyre it could perhaps be argued that any vehicle on or near a road presents danger enough to require that it constantly sounds a horn, but this may not be practical.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  7. spytfyre
    Member

    @jdanielp >.< lol
    if only it was always the Dukes of Hazzard horn too...

    Posted 5 years ago #

  8. crowriver
    Member

    The young guy was clearly just an arsehole.

    Lots of them around, usually revving engines at pedestrians crossing, then drag racing away as soon as they get amber (as two of this variety did yesterday while I walked my daughter back from swimming). Loud popular music blaring from bass bins in the boot an optional extra. And that sort of thing.

    In 15 years' time they'll be driving hatchbacks with diamond shaped "Baby On Board" signs obscuring their view through the rear window, and shouting at any other road user that dares to get within a metre of their precious motor.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  9. jdanielp
    Member

    @crowriver and yet the driver stopped and raised a hand in apology (asssuming that HankChief interpreted that gesture correctly?) and then proceeded to not overtake dangerously by all accounts, which is the kind of reasonable behaviour that I don't normally associate with * - obviously they could have driven rather better in the first place...

    ADMIN EDIT

    Certain word * removed after a rule 2 complaint.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  10. crowriver
    Member

    @jdanielp, so he's more a passive aggressive type of *, or a retrospectively aggressive one who gets his knickers in a twist about kids waving at him "cheekily". Or something.

    More varieties of arsehole out there than flavours of ice cream at St Luca's it would seem.

    ADMIN EDIT

    Certain word * removed after a rule 2 complaint.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  11. jdanielp
    Member

    @crowriver true. I quite fancy an ice cream now, but not chocolate.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  12. spytfyre
    Member

    I think that hand raised was a gesture of WTF not "sorry"
    Doesn't sound like the apology type

    Posted 5 years ago #

  13. HankChief
    Member

    His hand gesture at the junction was an apology. I took it as that and during our discussion he said "I made a mistake and I apologise/d for it". It really wasn't a big thing.

    And as someone mentioned above, the rest of his driving was unnoteworthy. I didn't feel threatened by him driving behind me, so much so that I didn't realise he was still there and I usually have a pretty good sense if following vehicles are up to no good from their engine noise and I wasn't concerned at all.

    Which all just made it more odd...

    Posted 5 years ago #

  14. fimm
    Member

    So basically he didn't have a problem with your road use, or your criticism of his road use, but he did have a problem with your kids messing around?

    Most odd.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  15. crowriver
    Member

    So basically he's still an <Rule 2>.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  16. Trixie
    Member

    The only thing I can think of that would tie all this together is perhaps the kids were waving in a fashion that may have been interpreted as the universal sign for merchant banking and he thought you'd instructed such?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  17. Ed1
    Member

    If the driver reacted to a child making rude gestures then driver should not be on the road as unsuitable temperament.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  18. Trixie
    Member

    Oh aye, no matter what way you twist it, driver was being a right [rule 2].

    Posted 5 years ago #

  19. jdanielp
    Member

    Apologies, although the offending word is still present in two posts on the page. I didn't consider it to be swearing which is why I repeated it, although, had it been aimed at a named person, then it would certainly have breached rule 1... I suppose that asking for a link to a definitive list of rule 2 words for future reference wouldn't be feasible?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  20. acsimpson
    Member

    Perhaps the driver was related to the woman on the Corstorphine facebook page who called me a rule 2. I had merely questioned why she had used the word entitled to describe children playing on a closed road rather than the drivers who use it the other 99%+ of the time. She also didn't like me suggesting that vehicle noise is a far greater issue then children playing on such a closed road.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  21. ARobComp
    Member

    @jdanielp - just start a separate thread which contains every single possible borderline rule 2 word and see what happens.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  22. jdanielp
    Member

    @ARobComp that idea sounds like a load of sloblock.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  23. gembo
    Member

    There is a scmaltzy show on Netflix, The Good Place where the characters are in heaven but with impostor syndrome. They cannot swear. So they try to swear but it comes out non swear words. So the word for female dog becomes bench etc. Quite inventive.

    Kids fake shoot me I fake die.

    Posted 5 years ago #

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