This wrong-way driver was too scared to back up her wide Ford SUV.
Nutmegger and Redditor /u/InebriousBarman shared frustrating dashcam footage from earlier in July (July 28, 2024) from Farmington to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing a driver in a Ford Bronco heading the wrong way down a one-way avenue on private property where, after getting coerced by an aggressive partner, was forced to back down the other way to avoid possible confrontation.
Check out the humbling dashcam video below.
Wrong way driver is too scared to back up her wide car. Farmington, CT
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The incident happened in a business park off the 50 block of Melrose Dr (exact location on Google Maps linked here with a screenshot of the bird’s eye view below.)
As the video shows, /u/InebriousBarman immediately turns left, headed up a one way street in this business park, headed towards the main parking lot of Bamboo Asian Cuisine and Farmington Family Dentistry.
A driver in a new Ford Bronco is seen headed straight at him, going the wrong way.
At an impasse, /u/InebriousBarman gets out of his car to explain to the driver they’re headed the wrong way.
What looks like the driver’s partner climbs out of the passenger side of the Bronco to listen to what OP has to say.
“The fine specimen of humanity gets out to be aggressive,” OP’s caption reads.
“The driver (girlfriend?) tells me the lane she drove in is too narrow to reverse in.”
“Dude just admitted to being in the wrong, offered no solution and just waited, while she claimed to be unable to back up because it was too narrow (the same way she came?). After she spoke up, I did my best to just ignore him. My whole family was in the car, and I kind of felt sorry for her.”
Eventually, OP makes a judgment call and decides to be the bigger man and reverse the way he came.
OP says he had his family in the car and, while he admits he thought of just parking it there, as they were within walking distance of the restaurant they wanted to go to, he decided it was in their best interest to get this parking lot incident over with ASAP.
“Figuratively, being the bigger person often feels like being the smaller person,” /u/herecomesatrain comments.
“if you take it as a situation where there is a winner and a loser, by choosing the high road you have to make yourself “the loser.” In this confrontation for example, the aggressive boyfriend “won” the interaction because OP chose to be a good person. The other couple probably drove away with smugness thinking that OP had to fold to them,” /u/-Zayah- replied.
“In reality, we’ve all seen the interaction and know they were just assholes. But it still doesn’t feel very good because they’ll still be assholes after this. They’ll do something like this again. So it doesn’t feel good in the moment AND there’s ultimately no justice. The only consolation for OP is everyone here telling him good job, so uh, good job OP lol”
“I would have laid into my horn until they moved.”
While I don’t know what I’d do in that situation, I can admittedly see myself getting back into my car and just sitting there out of principle.
With his family in tow, what OP does is probably the right thing to do in this situation.
It’s rarely as satisfying as you think, one-upping a driver, exacting your justice or revenge when you have the ability and time to.
After all, this was more a case of a driver being ignorant and incompetent than being a road-raging bully where some kind of justice and karma would be appreciated.
