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A lovely day all happy and going to view some show jumps.....



Set the situation. Going to view some Polyjumps to add to my yard, had a large box trailer on the back measuring 8ft by 6 ft, My car a Terrano with wheel on the back making harder to see the trailer. Traveling up hill along a very twisty lane so narrow barely a cars width.

Traveling slowly, we cam across a bicycle so going slow, along came (now I know an old bag), who decided not to reverse but to keep coming trying to force me back, as you can see from the clips she got out and told me it was easier for me to reverse than her. ( You should give way to an upcoming car specially with a trailer ). I said I have a trailer , she said " I meet people like you all the time who cannot reverse" I said as per clip I have a trailer and it will jackknife..

She then proceeded to say " WHAT are you doing in this lane anyway, why are you coming here " in a very rude snobby accusing way!! (it is a lane not a private road) I said " I brought something and coming to pick it up!! " I asked her if she was from this next house the one I am going to in case I need to bite my tongue, she said no the one at the top of the hill. ( I wish I had said something cutting now like oh well we will do that house over first now your out of it lol ) She then carried on saying she meets people like me all the time very rudly and snobbing way. Now appart from I reverse this trailer into it's shed and reverse my caravan and horsebox and american car. I don't know where she get's this idea from I cannot reverse. ( I should have challenged her to a reversing race, I would have won as I have had emergency reversing practive before at speed. Enjoy the clips

part 2 and 3 as part one was at the beginning of the road



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJMWAaflKOM


https://youtu.be/3Qo_82ubGY0
 
I have an old Rice which only goes backwards if you put a pin in the hitch (which must be removed when towing to allow the brakes to work), so live in fear of meeting the kind of old bat who can't reverse down some of the local lanes. It's astonishing how many people can't.
 
I haven't watched the vid but she sounds ridiculous.
My uncle who is a lovely gent in his late 70s met a woman like this on a narrow lane - she would not reverse. There was little he could do as he was driving a tractor & towing a trailer full of silage. The woman told him he was a very rude man!
 
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I mean who does she think she is asking me why I was there, I wish I had not said I had bought something, but instead say "why is it your buisness why I am here as this is a public road"
 
People are idiots. On a road near the yard recently, a holiday maker blocked a road, demanding that a lorry (Bedford sized, with horses on board), reverse downhill onto a *main road* along with the three cars queued with it who were also waiting for the holiday maker to shift - all of five metres backwards into the passing point!
 
Maddening isn't it. I put some serious scratches into my car last week as I had to drive into a hawthorn hedge as the oncoming codger couldn't reverse 10 yards back into a space. Grrr. Understand your frustration.
 
so which story do you want the time i meet a jag down the lane at home he refused to reverse to the pass place behind as his car would get muddy.......................so i switched of my engine and waited reading a book, eventual he moved politely pointed out perhaps he should stick to A roads and not drive down a lane that we locals call ***** lane, 8 dairy farms in 3 miles ;)

or meeting an SUV on the hill at church stretton, in Shropshire, had to reverse about 3/4 mile as there was not passing space that was big enough due to the bends in the road and the length of their SUV, they had 10 cars behind them................but the best bit was the passenger was drinking a cup of tea with their fit on the dash board ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
I was driving along the lane that leads to the yard where I keep my horse. We were on our way out to a show so I had my horse and my friend's pony on board and it's a very narrow single track lane with passing places.

So, late middle-aged git in his 4 x 4 (not a horsey person per se but I think taking his kid to the RS for a lesson decides he isn't going to reverse. Bearing in mind I'm in a 3.5t with horses on board and no idea if there are any other vehicles/riders/ walkers or whatever behind me. He refuses to reverse so I sit there patiently.

In the end he realises I'm going nowhere and this is when the reason he didn't want to reverse became apparent. He couldn't reverse.

He was steaming. When we got the where it was wide enough to pass he expected me to pass him on the wrong side of the road, so of course I indicate to him that he needs to pull over so I can proceed on my side of the road. (Clearly he was trying to make a point here).

As I pass him he gets out of his 4 x 4 to have a rant about horse boxes and my friend and I, I'm afraid, couldn't help but laugh as he was wearing PJ bottoms and slippers.

He ranted about the fact that I'd made him reverse, but TBH how could we take him seriously when

a) he couldn't reverse without crashing in to the hedges every few yards
b) his attire.

There really are some arrogant morons out there.

Another occasion, I was in my lorry crawling along a twisty lane when this bloke (again, late middle age) came haring the other way and then had to slam on the anchors when he saw me. I slowed down even more and moved over as much as I could so he could pass, as I would do for anyone on a narrow twisty lane, and he shouted at us as he went by something along the lines of 'that made you slow down didn't it." Huh? If I'd have been going any slower I'd have been at a stand still. he was the one going too fast. Sadly, he timed his shout so it was just as he was almost passed me so he could speed up before I could retort - coward.

Yesterday - cyclists riding two abreast on a country road refusing to go in to single file so I could pass them safely.
 
15 years ago I was in my 13 ft horsebox, going down to a show in a single track road, got to a passing space with a tree granch at an angle across the road. I pulled in but no way would you get a car pass and my box was wedged on the tree, woman inside refused to reverse. I switched engine off and she started to off load her brats. She came to me and in a german accent mumbled something to which I said what is that number 9......9... " oh ok if I reverse can you pass" to which I said yes and she did.

2 years later in my 18ft lorry the same thing, only this time an old grandad who tried to squeeze pass. After being told by other motorised he wont make it he reversed, only he reversed into the psace on my side and a car behind him was in his side but had left a space for him but he chose my side. So I hade to squeeze past both. moron. This is the spot, now who can honestly tell me they would try pass my 7.5 ton box in this space?????

come on volunteers who would pass a box here???
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I was turning left in my lorry down my own narrow lane and had to wait for a car coming out to move before I could turn of the main road. I saw the driver say to his passenger 'what's she bringing that down here for anyway?' He turned scarlet when I looked at him and mouthed clearly 'I live here'.
 
As a teenager I worked at a yard in Wales that had a huge horsebox, usually with 4-5 horses on board. We were always meeting holidaymakers who couldn't reverse, probably at least two each outing. The driver used to get out and politely offer to reverse their car for them if they weren't competent drivers. Most people would splutter a bit, say they were competent and have a go, but we did have a few people take him up on it.

The worst I had was a council minibus taking special needs kids to school that refused to reverse for two horses and tried to squeeze past on a steep narrow road, almost pushing us into a big ditch, all the while yelling abuse. I took his reg number and reported him, did get a very horrified and apologetic phone call from his boss (who had horses).
 
hollyandivy123 said:
so which story do you want the time i meet a jag down the lane at home he refused to reverse to the pass place behind as his car would get muddy.......................
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This made me laugh. I used to be involved in the Highways contact centre back in Somerset and they had a special name for a particular village because it had a row of posh houses inhabited by Londoners who were forever reporting mud, s**t etc on the roads. They even had a special script to read (basically "well you are living in rural Somerset..").
 
Sorry if I offend anyone, but round here many who have 4 x 4 or cars that loook like them but are not, buy them as a status symbol as a taxi to pick up kids. They have NO tow bar so you know they are not horsey and they buy these things and cannot drive them let alone reverse them. Is it just south bucks or other areas???

Sorry but if I was a mother ( which I am not and never will be ), and wanted something nice to drive the kids around and luxurious i would rather one of these in my experiance of them

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHEVROLET...119614?hash=item3ac1a80e7e:g:vzcAAOSwBLlU~evz
 
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HGA-12 said:
Sorry if I offend anyone, but round here many who have 4 x 4 or cars that loook like them but are not, buy them as a status symbol as a taxi to pick up kids. They have NO tow bar so you know they are not horsey and they buy these things and cannot drive them let alone reverse them. Is it just south bucks or other areas???
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No, it was the same in Somerset. Easily recognised as they were spotlessly clean. Mad too, used to make me laugh seeing them trying to manoeuvre around Ilminster town centre (NOT designed for big 4x4's). I wasn't the best reverser myself when I moved there so I went for a little Jimny, easiest thing ever to reverse and if I got stuck I could always stick it up the verge. I read a Top Gear review said they looked best splattered with mud so that was always my excuse (used to use it to take water down the fields).

Where I am now (rural Ireland) the big 4x4's are actually used for farming and everyone can (and does) reverse. But then everyone here is a farmer (the estate agent, the solicitor, the dentist..).
 
I really felt sorry for the house I was going too, to have her as a lane neighbour. She would try me potty having to pass her on a regular basis, the ladie who I was meeting told me when I got there that she was a right old crabby cow and a real *&*%^^$^%*&( and a pain in the a$$ to eveeryone.
 
I meet same kind at least once a week.
I have met an old git who expected me to reverse around blind corner while he couldnt just roll back in a passing place right behind him. When he finally did he nearly ended up facing same way I was.

HGA-12 said:
Sorry if I offend anyone, but round here many who have 4 x 4 or cars that loook like them but are not, buy them as a status symbol as a taxi to pick up kids. They have NO tow bar so you know they are not horsey and they buy these things and cannot drive them let alone reverse them. Is it just south bucks or other areas???
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Around us it seems the smaller car the more room it needs. Shogun and large transit van pass each other quite comfortably but Shogun and something like Megane takes a lot of calculation and even mirror folding on meaganes side on the same stretch.
I had to reverse around blind corner with lorry driver watching whats going on behind me (my car was full of crap), literally lean against the bank, fold mirror, straighten front wheels so he could squeeeeeze past. If he sees on the roads what I see, no wonder he nearly kissed me. :D

laura_nash said:
The worst I had was a council minibus taking special needs kids to school that refused to reverse for two horses and tried to squeeze past on a steep narrow road, almost pushing us into a big ditch, all the while yelling abuse. I took his reg number and reported him, did get a very horrified and apologetic phone call from his boss (who had horses).
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I dont know about such minibuses but I meet of some St Something for special needs kids as well and the driver never pull in for you (I mean he would pass a gap big enough to park a coach) and never wave thanks.
 
laura_nash said:
This made me laugh. I used to be involved in the Highways contact centre back in Somerset and they had a special name for a particular village because it had a row of posh houses inhabited by Londoners who were forever reporting mud, s**t etc on the roads. They even had a special script to read (basically "well you are living in rural Somerset..").
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we had some Londoners move into the hamlet, lovely little cottage roses in the garden etc, directly beside the milking parlor of one farm, opposite the yard entrance to another dairy farm................. they wrote to the farmers to ask, if one they could milk at a more reasonable time as the early milk was waking them up and two the cow s**t on the road was ruining the BMW, ended up moving. its like people who move next to a church and complain about bells ;)
 
HGA-12 said:
Sorry if I offend anyone, but round here many who have 4 x 4 or cars that loook like them but are not, buy them as a status symbol as a taxi to pick up kids. They have NO tow bar so you know they are not horsey and they buy these things and cannot drive them let alone reverse them. Is it just south bucks or other areas???

Sorry but if I was a mother ( which I am not and never will be ), and wanted something nice to drive the kids around and luxurious i would rather one of these in my experiance of them

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHEVROLET...119614?hash=item3ac1a80e7e:g:vzcAAOSwBLlU~evz
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and don't you find that these women in there big 4 x 4s never say thank you if you let them out?

South bucks is crawling with them!
 
@HGA-12 kudos for staying calm.That wouldn't be me.I have stopped being the bigger person a long time ago.That's why people like her continue that behaviour, they have never been told to fukc off.I never drive in britain when coming over visiting my oh.I feel there is lack of courtesy .It's all mememememe.
 
I have lived in a narrow single track lane for 40 years and there is nothing you can tell me about car drivers behaviour! I have been told I have no right to drive my lorry along the lane to my own house by someone who does not even live in the lane (there are only 4 houses and we all know each other!). I have been told that someone could not take their car into a passing place as it was not tarmacced and their car would get dirty. Best of all the gas man who was adamant he would not reverse and it was urgent as there was an emergency in a house on the lane. He was a little abashed when I pointed out that the nearest gas was over 2 miles away so he was perhaps on the wrong road to his emergency?!
 
its amazing the amount of people that can't reverse. people only generally find their way to my place when they are lost but twice recently I've met older drivers 'out for a drive' that couldn't reverse to the nearest passing place (they were 50 yards from one, I was 150). One damaged the bumper on his Audi and the other reversed his jag into a drystone wall on the other side of the road to the passing place lol. And the amount of drivers that expect me to reverse the lorry for them when they are in they are in their wee run-around is funny.
 
I do think one of the advantages of learning to drive on narrow country lanes is that you have to be able to reverse from the get go! We have a couple of very sharp bends on the way up to the farm and I am getting fed up of meeting people who come flying round in the opposite direction, then sit there waiting for me to reverse up to 30 or 40 metres when we all know there is a passing space just 2 or 3 metres behind them! But they won't/ can't reverse! I also quite like it when I meet some bloke in a van and I have to reverse, and you can see the look on his face like "oh god women drivers" until I whizz back into a space quick as you like :p
 
HGA-12 said:
They have NO tow bar so you know they are not horsey
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Is this an accepted measurement of how horsey someone is?! We are farmers, two out of the three 4x4s we have do not have tow bars - we have a lorry and four horses (although being recognised as unhorsey is only ever a good thing from my POV!)
 
I'm glad it's not just me that has these issues!

My yard is at the end of a single track lane. Half way down there is a footpath alongside a canal with a layby for parking... This of course, attracts dog walkers. THE worst drivers ever!! They see you coming, but pull out of the layby and drive at you anyway. I keep going, knowing they are far closer to a passing point (the layby) than i am!

And what is it with people, when they reverse then turn the steering wheel manically left to right, right to left, meaning they snake backwards all over the place. Jeeeeez, you don't do that going forwards, why do they think it'll work going backwards?!?!
 
A while ago I was going down the narrow lane to the yard and met an Audi. The driver did not stop at the passing place, then stopped in the middle of the road and expected me to reverse 150m to a turning on a blind bend. So I just turned my engine off and waited. He eventually got out of his car, came over to me and told me I needed to back up. I refused and said he could back up the 5m to the passing place he had driven past. He did, but was not happy about it!

I have a little Peugoet 106 and I hate taking the country lanes round here as people think that because their car is bigger/ posher, they have right of way.
 
Slightly off topic...a couple of months ago I saw a trailer with its hazards on. This is on a back country lane. I stuck my hazards on, got out and when to see if I could help. Turned out the lady lived there and was waiting to be able to reverse her trailer into her yard..!doh
 
Meeting a car on a single lane track when you are in charge of a largish motorbike with double adult sidecar attached and the woman coming the other way with a gateway just behind her asks you to reverse! Then explain that a) there is no reverse gear on a motorbike and b) small woman (me) does not have the strength to push the whole outfit back uphill! It turned out she was petrified of going into reverse. Comical in hindsight really.
 
Can't get the first vid to work HGA?

The ones that annoy me, on our narrow roads are those with the 4x4s that will not put them anywhere near the verge or heaven forbid off the tarmac while I shove my little kia rio in a hedge for them :p
 
Had one a few weeks ago. Was in my friends car, a Mini Cooper, on our way to our trainer's yard, which is down a single track road with passing places. We meet 2 cars coming the other way, there is a passing place about 5 feet behind them. Car behind, an older gent, happily reverses back into the passing place.

Young driver in front, he can't have been any older than 20, in his red Seat sits staring at us waiting for us to do something. So we point at the passing place behind him, he starts shaking his head and gestures for US to reverse. This carries on for a minute or two until friend relents and slowly pulls forward and gets as close to the side of the road as possible (because, she admits to me, she can't reverse for toffee!). Boy then proceeds forwards and just squeezes past. Friend rolls down the window to tell him how rude he is, the coward just mouths at us but doesn't dare roll his window down! Hid behind the safety of the glass lol.

He managed to get by, then sped off (of course) all the while with older gent waiting patiently in the passing place, who we duly thanked. He smiled and shrugged his shoulders. Who knows what that kid's problem was.
 
I do occasionally meet people who expect my horse and carriage to be able to reverse for them... those who have ever tried to keep a straight line in a horse drawn carriage when backing up (without a 5th wheel lock) will know just how likely it is that is!
 
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