Abuse when you car breaks down

[u/Dry-Can-9522]

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.

[u/Minor_Major_888]

People just become entitled assholes when they get into a car.

Today I got beeped at because I was waiting for somebody to cross before turning into a side road. I guess they were expecting for me to run them over 🤷🏻

[u/MambyPamby8 → u/Minor_Major_888]

I've been beeped at RIGHT after the lights turned green. Like what the fuck. Not even 3 seconds, we're talking a millisecond after it's turned green. Calm yer fucking tits mate. The amount of impatience I've seen on the roads since Covid is noticeably bad.

[u/Stubber_NK → u/MambyPamby8]

Happend to me once the very microsecond the light turned green. One of my coworkers was in the car beside me and was looking around trying to see if there was some other reason for the beep but couldn't find anything.

[u/MambyPamby8 → u/Stubber_NK]

This is the more annoying part, you genuinely get a jump and think fuck is something wrong? Did I miss something? Nope - just an impatient wanker who thinks I should burn out my clutch edging my car forward every traffic light. What's worse is the ones that don't even wait for green now. I've lost count of how many people I've seen go around myself and others and through a red light. Saw someone do it into oncoming traffic a few months back.

[u/Dry-Can-9522 → u/MambyPamby8]

Jesus wept!