Well the fact you apologised (I wouldn't have) says a lot more about you than it does about them Marelli.
The parking in our village is awful, double parking all over the place especially outside the village shop. Many years ago I was heading out of the village and there was a car coming the other way. It was my right of way and I'd already moved forward when he decided to come forward as well
. There simply wasn't enough room and how he managed to come past me with only slightly touching my wind mirror I'll never know.
I was furious and you wouldn't have needed to be a particularly good lip reader to know what I was swearing saying. Told Mr. S. about it when I got home and a couple of weeks later we were attending our local chapel and when the guest speaker came out, it was the driver of the car I'd sworn st spoken too
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have just had a fookin twat at the end of my road farting about for 20 minutes reversing a 15ft container in to a 12ft garden 
and holding up all traffic I was late picking OH up from bus stop he looked like a drowned rat.....told said person he was a fookin twat 
...am I sorry...not on your nellie
jingl and everyone - I shall do better in future (this is like when the teacher writes 'see me' at the bottom of one's homework!)
I do think that if I hadn't been a woman, then he may not have been so awkward! I wonder if his wife ties his shoelaces for him......?
Never apologise! Never explain! 
Good for you Mareli. I would have said something similar if I had been in your position. Stupid, inconsiderate people. I hate trying to squeeze my car through a small gap, and would have been just as annoyed. To make you feel better, I read yesterday that people who swear have better mental health, as you let off steam straight away. Carry on
Apologised! - don't do it again!!
- oh, I knew I could rely in 'you lot'!! What didn't help was the fact that DH wandered into the front garden and sort of 'hovered'. No use in a crisis, that one!
I wish I hadn't apologised as well, but I don't think I was apologising to him as such - more to show him that I normally wouldn't lower myself to that standard usually! I do hope I meet them again.....
A woman swearing? What century are they living in? 
I'm with jingl, I certainly wouldn't have apologised! I can just imagine the fuss they'd have made if you'd damaged their car in any way while trying to squeeze past...
Polish off the rest of the choccy cookies. 
Did the woman look as though she'd come straight from the local convent or something? 
You sure it was a car, not a time machine?
You're bonkers. Totally.
You should have done much better than that! Bleeding idiot? Total dickhead? And you certainly shouldn't have apologised!
I am a bit cross with you Marelli. 
So, because I'm all 'het-up', I'm coming to Gransnet to confess .
Our street is very narrow, and can be difficult to negotiate in a car, especially when turning in from the busy Main Street. People, therefore, park on the one side so that cars can move up and down more easily. However, when I turned into the street this afternoon, someone had parked on the opposite side as well, leaving a very narrow gap to squeeze through. As the chap was just leaving his car to go into a shop, I wound down my window and asked him if he could move the car a bit so I could get through safely. He replied, "Have you got a licence?" I responded that I most certainly did, but did he - as he had parked so inconsiderately? I kept trying to get through, then gave up as I was worried I would damage 3 cars - mine, his and the car parked on the 'normal side'. I reversed and asked him (he was progressing in a leisurely fashion to the Spar shop on the corner), if he could move his car. He again said I shouldn't have a licence if I couldn't get through that space. At this, his missus got out of the car and repeated what he'd said. Well, that did it! I'm afraid I swore (a bad word)! I think it went something like this: "All you had to do was f...ing move it a wee bit!"
They both sneered - especially his wife, who said "A woman - swearing..." By now there was a queue of cars behind me, all building up onto the main road, the one directly behind me being a large 4x4. I squeezed through, bit by bit, and parked in my usual place outside my house. Looking back down the road, I saw said 4x4 driver also having a wee discussion with this person.
I was so angry at myself for swearing. , so I went back to the man who had, by this time got back into his car. I asked him to roll his window down, which he did, reluctantly. I apologised for swearing, saying that I'd been rude. They were both horrified that, as a woman, I'd sworn.... By this time, having done my best to make whatever amends needed, I told them that they really did need to get a life, and came back into the house.
There, I feel better now. I'm still shaking, but I think that could be something to do with the sugar-rush of the chocolate cookie I had earlier this afternoon.... 
Sorry about the long post, but I needed to tell it all!
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