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It might be painful to apologize, but they're coming at you all wound up intending to get into a shouting match, and in my experience most people just completely deflate and feel silly when they get an apology instead

I was pulling into a restaurant a few years ago, and was following a guy through the parking lot. He turned right, and there was an empty space to the left, so I pulled into that one. When I was almost to the door I heard him shout at me, turned around and he had backed up and was yelling about how I'd stolen his parking space (apparently he intended to back into it).

I snatched my keys out of my pocket, apologized, and started walking back to my car to move it. He mumbled something about not worrying about it and drove off in a hurry