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Wireless:
Ok, dropping the Disco off at the Garage for an MoT this morning, I'm driving at 15mph through a tight, narrow, and twisty hamlet on a country road generally less than 4 metres wide, with variable width, you know the type, the verges / hedges aren't straight, with the road frequently narrowing to single track.

Anyway, this woman in her fifty's is driving some bleedin great MPV, and is more intent on turning right at the T-junction than realising that a Disco and MPV won't fit side by side on the road when she's finished the turn.

So we brake to a standstill, with our off-side mirrors four inches from striking each other.  Now I have a line of traffic behind me, so I can't go anywhere, and I'm already with one door mirror buried in the hedge on the nearside, but she has nothing behind her except a reverse around a blind bend.  So what do you think she does?

Yes, thats right, she drives forward, breaking her mirror against mine, which folds flat, and she reverses back, and then starts shouting at me for the damage I've done while sitting there with the handbrake applied...

Luckily, the stream of cars behind us is full of witnesses, and I gets out and take the details of everyone, comes back to her and says, 'I'm willing to exchange Insurance details, but everyone saw what you did and is willing to back me up if you make a claim', she declined to exchange details, but I wrote down her registration anyway, my car is undamaged.

What a bleedin numbnut!

Rich_P:
Make the insurance company know of the incident.  She deserves to pay the penalty.  :twisted:

Disco Matt:
I never cease to be amazed by these people - there are a few back roads near me which aren't quite wide enough for two cars to pass and the number of times I've had some stubborn <edit> keep ploughing on regardless is astonishing. I've even had complete nitwits overtake me while waiting at a wider bit for a truck to negotiate the next narrow section.

At least with a Disco you won't be damaged when they hit you! :lol:

piggysteve:
The fun season is about to begin when we start moving the combine.  The number of people who ignore me in the landy festooned with flashing lights, only to have to dive for the verges when they meet the big red monster, is amazing.
 :D
Steve

Wireless:
It passed the MoT without needing any work done to it, woo hoo!

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