We had an instance this morning of someone with absolutely no patience on the road.
My dad and I had to retrieve his focus this morning after it broke down (surprise surprise, a broken ford ). On the way back from the garage, down our road (a small country lane) we met someone coming the other way. No problem usually but this time we were towing a trailer.
Normally down my roads there is an unwritten rule that is whoever is closest to the gate way backs up to let the other one past (to be honest this tends to occur on all small roads). The exceptions to this rule is if you meet a articulated lorry, bus, farm vehicle with trailer or anything else that might be towing something making it more difficult to reverse, if you are the smaller of the two vehicles you back up.
Neither of us could believe it when some woman in a discovery pulled out of the turning for the riding school near us, headed towards and then preceded to drive up onto the grass verge to try and get past us. My dad even said as she was coming towards us "Is she going to stop?". From the turning she should have seen us coming down the road so could should have waited.
The woman driving did eventually stop, right when she got along side us and then realised she couldn't get any further as the trailer we were towing was wider than the car so was blocking her way. Considering it had a ford focus on it, it was kind of obvious that it was there. She then put her window down and asked if my dad could back up. Needless to say both my dad and I were stunned.
My dad said "Pardon" I'm guessing because he couldn't quite believe that she had just asked him to back up, and after she repeated herself my dad turned round and said "You're kidding right?"
After a small argument between my dad (who really doesn't like confrontation) and this woman by now two other vehicles had come up the road behind her. I had to get out, lock the brakes on the trailer off and help my dad reverse back about 400 yards into a gate way to let the stupid woman past. We let the other two vehicles past and then set off again.
I can't believe that there are people that stupid on the roads.