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muddyweb:
Thankfully, we haven't experienced it too much... our approach with their 'mobile road block' is to pull up and put the kettle on :-)      If they approach you to moan... offer them a cup of tea...     tends to be very disarming ;-)

Wanderer:
Stick with it Pazuki.
Give them a smile and a wave.

Acting the same way as them only reinforces their idea that we are all louts, hooligans etc etc.

We know that's not the case and if anything it's them that are the louts, hooligans etc etc...

When I've met with grief and smiled and been nice to them you can see them seething when you look in the mirror.

Have a nice day works quite well. :lol:

"Was he being sarcastic or did he really mean it?" It gives them something else to think about while they still have a few more miles to walk to their destination.

jnoshea:

--- Quote from: "muddyweb" ---Thankfully, we haven't experienced it too much... our approach with their 'mobile road block' is to pull up and put the kettle on :-)      If they approach you to moan... offer them a cup of tea...     tends to be very disarming ;-)
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Nice tip  :D I can feel myself getting smugly calm already just thinking about it. I do like a nice hot drink out in the countryside.

hobbit:
Pity you dont know where there car is parked, you could block it and go for a walk :wink:

Or really be mean and block a narrow section of a path, making them struggle

But seriously, dont let them grind you down, you have as much right as they do to be there

C C:
I recall going to a public Inquiry some years ago. It involved an appeal to make a RUPP into a Byway.
The inspector rejected the Byway in the end but that’s another story. I went along out of interest. One thing that struck me as the day went on was the local villagers and some opponents to the Byway gradually realising that the Land Rover club members present were just ordinary family people just like them selves. That they were not some sort yobbish madmen hell-bent of ripping the country side apart.
This is why I think it is very important to present ourselves as reasonable people enjoying the country side just as the ramblers are. Not rising the bait is essential. Muddyweb is spot on with regards to walking roadblocks. How stupid they will look ambling along with sticks akimbo and you are stopping for a brew.

Being something of a walker as well as an off-roader I sometimes meet people whom I have recently passed in the Disco while I getting the dog out of the car and preparing for a walk. It’s amazing how some people respond to a little light conversation about the weather or view etc. They no longer see the yob in the 4x4 but the pleasant man with a dog.

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