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Good for you Peter,excellent response to a boorish individual. I am fortunate enough to have a Danish wife and have frequently driven in the countryside in Denmark which is so beautiful in the summer that I always compare it to driving through a garden.

The road in the Highlands o Scotland are a pleasure on which to drive. But there are rules on the narrow road with passing places that the Scots are proud to observe, and they now how to use the passing places. In 1967 SWMBO and myself were driving across Ranoch Moor on our was back to England and had passed a passing place when no cars were coming towards us. We were about 200 yards past the passing place we had driven past and about 50 yards from the next one when a Singer Gazelle came round the corner and drove past the passing place in stead of stopping. I stopped and a passenger in the offending car got out and told me I had to reverse back the 200 yards as the driver of the Gazelle was not a very good driver and even the 20 yards he had to reverse was too difficult for him. I was quite firm and told he passenger that the driver had no business on those roads if he could not reverse 15 yards. I was told that he was not going to move back and I had to. He then went back to his car -- he owned the Gazelle. I did the only thing that a sensible Lancastrian would do. I went to the boot of my humble Vauxhall Viva HB, not out my nat little meths Burner and made two cups of coffee for myself and SWMBO. As we were drinking it, and Land Rover with a large Scottish Gentleman driver drew up behind me, removed some planks from the back of his LandRover and also got out a tow chain. Then he walked up to the Singer Gazelle and told the incumbents that he was going to cross the ditch and tow them off the road onto the moor. He walked back, told me what he was going to do, and stared to manoeuvre his Land Rover onto the planks when a miracle happened. The Singer Gazelle owner got out and changed seats with the driver and quite reversed the the few yards to the passing place. He then came and told me I was the rudest man in Scotland. The Scottish Gentleman said that the Singer Gazelle owner was the stupidest man in Scotland, SWMBO said that she didn't know I could be so obstinate . We had only been married a few months!! Regards, Peter.