First experiance of raod rage :/

Nick307 said:
i get people sitting on my rear bumper all the time, i get quietly wound up about it but i stick to the speed limit and try to ignore them

Only time i didnt was first thing in a morning when i was heading to work and a knackered old corsa comes up behind me and is so close i cant see his headlights....i slammed on my brakes and he had to swerve....royally annoyed me but he kept his distance after that!
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You slammed on your brakes when you knew there was somebody tail gating you?

Good god this thread is really pulling them out the wood work isn't it! :/
 
A couple of weeks ago I was approaching some green traffic lights which changed to amber, so I breaked to stop. The car behind me obviously thought we had time to make it through and beeped her horn and flashed her lights at me screaming and shouting because I had stopped. I ignored her. Then as the lights went green she overtook me and was still f'in and blindin' at me.

We were then approaching another set of traffic lights, which did the exact same thing as before, changed to amber just as we got close. She decided to stop as well so when I pulled up behind her I gave her a quick flash of my lights, a friendly blip of the horn and a wave - she didnt like that very much, I got the finger lol.

She was all up for me going through the previous amber, however she was not prepared to go through it herself in the exact same situation. Nutter, and she had a wee kid in the back too.
 
Strangely i dont get road rage on the bike ;)

But thats another reason i dont own a car, they make me angry and im the one doing the road rage :/ dont know why i do it.
 
NathanE said:
You slammed on your brakes when you knew there was somebody tail gating you?

Good god this thread is really pulling them out the wood work isn't it! :/
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To try not to say something crazy:

Blimey, isn't that a bit dangerous slamming on the anchors with a tail gater? What if they'd gone into the back of you and your head fell off? I suppose you get... your repairs for free? Increased insurance premium if you tell your lot? Not sure what else you get... a vauxhall corsa courtesy car I suppose, always good to drive other cars.

What if he/she had swerved into a hat/child/bike on the other side of the road that apparently most road users can't see/your best friend who likes to walk along the kerb but is short/long-sighted?

On a less being-a-bit-silly note, the whole thing about "well it'll be their fault!" or "well it's your insurance not mine!" or "listen she was alive when we started!" all seems a bit crazy to me. In my opinion, i'd just get hassle, a car that'll 'feel' different afterwards and maybe a new squishy noise when i move my head left and up a bit. Oh also i'd be late for the interview/relative visiting/doctors/petrol station. So even though it 'was her fault!' I think i'd still feel like a horse that had won the donkey olympics.

Actually i'd feel worse, as if I were the horse, i'd be feeling guilt (at cheating) but also maybe mirth (because the idiots didn't realise I was a horse, I mean come on, we're built completely differently, and I look good, those donkeys look stupid as!) and perhaps elation (as I hadn't got caught being a stupid idiot doing stupid idiot things that are pointless and won't teach the silly donkeys anything anyway).

I think I have clearly expressed myself here! :confused:
 
Griffo said:
To try not to say something crazy:

Blimey, isn't that a bit dangerous slamming on the anchors with a tail gater? What if they'd gone into the back of you and your head fell off? I suppose you get... your repairs for free? Increased insurance premium if you tell your lot? Not sure what else you get... a vauxhall corsa courtesy car I suppose, always good to drive other cars.

What if he/she had swerved into a hat/child/bike on the other side of the road that apparently most road users can't see/your best friend who likes to walk along the kerb but is short/long-sighted?

On a less being-a-bit-silly note, the whole thing about "well it'll be their fault!" or "well it's your insurance not mine!" or "listen she was alive when we started!" all seems a bit crazy to me. In my opinion, i'd just get hassle, a car that'll 'feel' different afterwards and maybe a new squishy noise when i move my head left and up a bit. Oh also i'd be late for the interview/relative visiting/doctors/petrol station. So even though it 'was her fault!' I think i'd still feel like a horse that had won the donkey olympics.

Actually i'd feel worse, as if I were the horse, i'd be feeling guilt (at cheating) but also maybe mirth (because the idiots didn't realise I was a horse, I mean come on, we're built completely differently, and I look good, those donkeys look stupid as!) and perhaps elation (as I hadn't got caught being a stupid idiot doing stupid idiot things that are pointless and won't teach the silly donkeys anything anyway).

I think I have clearly expressed myself here! :confused:
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:confused::confused: Exactly lol! :p
 
I've not read throug all of the posts in this thread.
However as I'm sure many have said the best way of dealing with these kind of people is just to let them get on with it.
You instantly win and also be safe in the knowledge that their luck will eventually run out - just hopefully with just themselves involved and not an innocent motorist.

If I am going to react I honestly find the smiling or waving does the trick.
A few times I've had the gestures etc (and I know I haven't been in the wrong at all).
As they have gone by I've simply mouthed "Allright", smiled and waved.
It's something my dad did and I just picked it up.
 
My dad has always remained calm with them and as a younger child I could never understand it. I always wanted him to have a rant back but he always remained calm and just laughed at them.

As a mature adult I now see why.

Also LOL at this thread, one more excuse for fatty bashing :D
 
i used to have great headlamp washers on my 200sx a few years back which were loads of fun for tail-gaters, any thing over 20mph would send the spray right over the car and into the windscreen of the car right behind me :-) after a few squirts people tended to back off :D
 
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Some fatty in a MPV with her family in the vehicle once Stopped behind me at a set of lights on my road – I stopped at the red lights and she kept ushering me to edge forward more RIGHT ON THE LINE and making hand gestures and I could see her shouting through my rearview.

I just calmly stayed where I was until the lights turned green.

Some people are just stupid behind the wheel, have faith in the fact that their stupidity will one day get the better f them and they will suffer a consequence.

I think you did the right thing of not doing anything: p
 
some one pulls up behind me and gets up close... i dont laugh or anything... i just continue at my nice little speed limit speed but i start to sing more... sway about like im having a good wee time in my world... basically act to completely ignore the bugger behind me :D
 
only lost my temper once when sat at a traffic light for a bridge. 6am, nice and light, im stationary with my lights on (dusk). i see a cyclist in my rear view mirror coming up behind me as i'm sitting there, think nothing of it. then BANG. cyclist appears from the bottom of the rear windscreen in my mirror and my first thought was disbelief and something along the lines of 'you have got to be kidding me!?'.

guy comes up to passenger window and i have my mum in the car too so she winds the window down, he apologises... i ask him if he's ok... he says yes...

then i go a bit mad... 'how the ****** hell dont you see a ******* car in the ******* road you ******* blind ******. you better hope you aint bust my taillight you ******.' the guy was a bit freaked out by now and i just finished up by telling the dozy blind ignorant ****** to **** off and not to kill himself.

my mum all the time at this point just looked at me and didnt say a word until i finished.

then she turned around to me and said 'anyone would think you were driving a BMW'.

i was in a £50 205 1.0l. :o
 
helpimcrap said:
only lost my temper once when sat at a traffic light for a bridge. 6am, nice and light, im stationary with my lights on (dusk). i see a cyclist in my rear view mirror coming up behind me as i'm sitting there, think nothing of it. then BANG. cyclist appears from the bottom of the rear windscreen in my mirror and my first thought was disbelief and something along the lines of 'you have got to be kidding me!?'.

guy comes up to passenger window and i have my mum in the car too so she winds the window down, he apologises... i ask him if he's ok... he says yes...

then i go a bit mad... 'how the ****** hell dont you see a ******* car in the ******* road you ******* blind ******. you better hope you aint bust my taillight you ******.' the guy was a bit freaked out by now and i just finished up by telling the dozy blind ignorant ****** to **** off and not to kill himself.

my mum all the time at this point just looked at me and didnt say a word until i finished.

then she turned around to me and said 'anyone would think you were driving a BMW'.

i was in a £50 205 1.0l. :o
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Wow over reaction of the century there, I'd be annoyed but I'm sure if there was any damage the guy would have covered it. I would have got annoyed had I got out and there was damage and the guy didn't offer to pay for it. :p
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Wow over reaction of the century there, I'd be annoyed but I'm sure if there was any damage the guy would have covered it. I would have got annoyed had I got out and there was damage and the guy didn't offer to pay for it. :p
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i know. :o instant red mist.... dunno why.

i think it was the fact i seen it happen and the disbelief at it all.
 
I don't know about you but over the last month or so I've seen a huge increase in people pulling over in the most inconvenient places?!

Yesterday I saw someone park up almost practically on top of a traffic controlled pedestrian crossing, leaving hardly any space for people to get through. Then this morning, whilst coming up a slip road (single carriageway) after a roundabout, someone parked up in a Corsa obstructing the road :(

What's worse is they seem to think that if they have their left indicator flashing, it's all OK!:cool:
 
Cybershot said:
I don't know about you but over the last month or so I've seen a huge increase in people pulling over in the most inconvenient places?!

Yesterday I saw someone park up almost practically on top of a traffic controlled pedestrian crossing, leaving hardly any space for people to get through. Then this morning, whilst coming up a slip road (single carriageway) after a roundabout, someone parked up in a Corsa obstructing the road :(

What's worse is they seem to think that if they have their left indicator flashing, it's all OK!:cool:
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Noticed the same thing myself.

As long as they stick their hazards on they can park anywhere. :confused:
 
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