Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : A little history first: my younger brother had a stroke when he was younger and now his legs are weaker than they should be. Because of this he has to wear leg braces for support and goes to school in a wheelchair in case his legs get to tired during the day. He is embarrassed of the leg braces and usually wears long pants to cover them. He’d rather go out without a wheelchair when we do errands or go out and only really uses it for school or times we know he will walk a long distance.

We had this new family move beside us 3 weeks ago and other then saying hi when we see them on their driveway as we enter our house we don’t interact.

But it just so happens that the timing of when my younger brother’s bus that picks him up in front of our house and brings him to school is the same time our neighbor leaves for work in the morning.  The driveways on our street aren’t the biggest and with the bus arm that is meant to stop cars from driving past the bus my neighbor’s driveway gets blocked. It’s been 3 weeks and it started with them smiling at us saying “oh don’t worry” to him being visibly upset about it, but there’s nothing the bus driver can do because there needs to be enough room to load my brother and his wheelchair onto the bus.

This morning maybe he was having a bad start to his day because as he was waiting for the bus to load my brother and leave (which takes 10 minutes at max) he starts laying into his horn and then steps out of his car and then the interaction begins:

Neighbor: Jesus Christ every morning you block my fucking driveway and I’m late for work!

Me: Sorry but there’s nothing we can do the bus only has so much room to get my brother and his wheelchair. Maybe leave earlier if this makes you late for work everyday

Neighbor: I don’t have to change my schedule for you, how bout the bus come earlier and doesn’t block me in, it’s my fucking property. Also the kid doesn’t even need the fucking bus I’ve seen him walk perfectly fine. The schools 20 minutes away my kids walk to school he should too.

Now here’s where I get pissed because he’s screaming this at a level where my brother can hear as he is getting his wheelchair secured in the bus.

Me: You’re a fucking piece of shit dude! First of all you have no idea what my brother needs and doesn’t need. Secondly it’s the fucking law for you to yield for a school bus so you can either leave earlier so you’re not late for work or fucking wait for the bus to leave and go to work.

He then starts yelling at me saying that I shouldn’t ever talk to him that way and I should respect my elders but my brother’s bus had already left so I tell him to fuck off and go inside my house. My mom heard the yelling outside and told me though I’m not wrong, I was kind of an asshole with the way I said it and now our new neighbor probably hates us. 

While I guess I could have taken a better way to saying it, the dude escalated it first but I was wondering AITA?
