r/ireland • u/Dry-Can-9522 • Sep 07 '24
Abuse when you car breaks down Christ On A Bike
My car broke down, because the clutch just went in it. I broke down on a roundabout but managed to get it off at the first exit on to a busy road. I tried to get it as close to the kerb as possible. I put my hazards on, but the amount of cars beeping and gesticulating was unbelievable! When did people no longer give a shit? Two blokes stopped and asked what the problem was. I said my clutch had gone. One said, ‘ I don’t know how to fix clutches, good luck’. The other one wanted to know if I could push it to the car park behind me, which was against the flow of traffic and back around the roundabout!!!! As a woman with a child with me, all I wanted was someone to help me push it up onto the path and a little bit out of the way of traffic. After an hour waiting, one kind couple stopped to help, but the breakdown truck was seconds away. When the breakdown truck arrived, he said he could hardly hear the directions I was giving him due to the arseholes beeping at me. As he said, it will happen to them one day. Well I hope they meet nicer people than the ones I encountered.
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u/Neat_Expression_5380 Sep 07 '24
Today has been a day for beeping. I’ve never heard so much beeping in my life. I didn’t do anything wrong, nor did I see anyone else do anything wrong, and I must have heard about 20 feckin horns blaring in the 2 hours I was driving. I’m sorry about your breakdown OP, that is my worst nightmare.