Why are some people so confrontational??

Whilst driving on the motorway on Sunday i saw the reason why BMW drivers are known as w*****s. I was in the fast lane overtaking something in a temporary 50mph limit (the ones where the SPECs cameras are all over), and out of no where an estate M5 comes up behind me. I couldn't even see his numberplate, he was so close, and i was doing 60mph at this point. He starts flashing me repeatedly (bare in mind he has been behind me for around 5 seconds or so). So i just pull into the middle lane and he canes it past me shaking his head, and reaches around 120mph.

Then later that journey, i'm in a 30mph limit (doing around 35) and i get another frickin' BMW behind me, only this time it's a **** in an M3. Again, sits about a metre from my bumper, then overtakes me doing some speed, and carries on accelerating.

Seriously, these 35-40yr old men driving BMW's do my nut in.
 
Just last night I was overtaking two lorries on an A road, as I was passing the lorry behind he pulled out to overtake the lorry in front, I JUST had enough power to pull in front but he was still inches away from clipping me. He then started beeping his horn and flashing his lights at me, for not checking his mirrors first.
 
I hate confrontational drivers, most of them are idiots too like the one I came accross yesterday. I was walking across the road, with this idiot driving 100/120M down the road coming up towards me, I crossed the narrow road and didn't she sit her fat ass on top of the horn. I got across the road onto the path, stopped to look to see what her problem was while she was still a mile and a half away approaching me! Didn't she go by me giving me the eyes staring at me WHILE DRIVING STRAIGHT THROUGH A RED LIGHT AT A MAJOR JUNCTION, Causing other cars crossing the junction having to jam on their breaks as they crossed the junction. I tell you, idiots driving on roads these days that just think they own the roads.

Hj
 
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Gaygle, firstly you were not in the fast lane you must have been in lane 3 on a motorway and you were doing 60? Your not one of these people who sit in the outside lane thinking I'm going this speed and no faster and bugger anyone else are you?
 
Dead and Gone said:
Gaygle, firstly you were not in the fast lane you must have been in lane 3 on a motorway
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oooook sorry. Slow day in the office?

Dead and Gone said:
and you were doing 60?
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Yep. If you read, it was in a 50mph temp. speed limit with spec's cameras all around.

Dead and Gone said:
Your not one of these people who sit in the outside lane thinking I'm going this speed and no faster and bugger anyone else are you?
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Hell no. I hate those drivers. i always drive to the left if i can.


Are you done? Did i past your little test?
 
Women on my route. Lack of foresight, lack of awareness of the bigger picture. Result: the o/p's situation.
 
Gayle ye slow day in the office and ye I hate it when people stay in the 3rd lane doing 60 not overtaking people. Which I think you were :p oh and I'm a 29 year old in a m3 guess I fall in your bad beemer bracket!
 
what rules don't apply to me? being able to do 70 on a motorway? Or driving up someone's arse? 1. I do drive at 70 sometimes more haho 2. I NEVER drive up someone's arse! yet I get alsorts of people driving up my arse but they arent put in the beemer bracket!
 
Had one of these a while ago on the M4.

Was in the outside lane overtaking someone (who was in the 2nd lane) and I had a car in front of me who I was following at a safe distance. A car came up behind me and sat inches away from my bumper, flashing his lights but there was nothing I could do until I had passed the car inside me.

When the car in front of me had moved over I accelerated and the car that had been so keen to get past me didn't seem to want to keep up :confused:

edit: when accelerating away I didn't go crazy or drive at an excessive speed.
 
Dead and Gone said:
what rules don't apply to me? being able to do 70 on a motorway? Or driving up someone's arse? 1. I do drive at 70 sometimes more haho 2. I NEVER drive up someone's arse! yet I get alsorts of people driving up my arse but they arent put in the beemer bracket!
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The fact that you are complaining about Gaygle going too slow when he's doing 10 mph over the speed limit leads me to believe that you think you are special or something. Hopefully you will get knicked in the not too distant future.
 
but why hold someone up? I've done stupid speeds in germany on the way to the nurburgring only to have someone come flying up behind me but I get out of the way, simple it's there car there licence stop moaning and move over :p

It's for that reason that it's so nice to drive in europe compared to the UK people are aware of others and move out of the way.
 
excaliborg said:
Just last night I was overtaking two lorries on an A road, as I was passing the lorry behind he pulled out to overtake the lorry in front, I JUST had enough power to pull in front but he was still inches away from clipping me. He then started beeping his horn and flashing his lights at me, for not checking his mirrors first.
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I've had an analogous situation which ended worse. On an A road, I was third in line behind an OAP up front and a middle aged guy between us in a new RX8. We are doing OAP speeds. I start a maneouver to overtake both cars and, when alongside the RX8, he pulls out to overtake the OAP. RX8 driver doesn't see me at all (it's night time and I've followed them for a minute or two with dipped headlights on, surely he noticed them disappear from his rearview without seeing me pull into a side road) but I see him coming and brake while moving slighty to my right. He keeps on coming and puts me into the offside kerb, wrecking two OZs and a tie or track rod (forgot which). We pull over to discuss (no witnesses) and he's adamant the collision is my fault, obviously, because he's an off duty police officer :rolleyes:
 
ncjok said:
when alongside the RX8, he pulls out to overtake the OAP. RX8 driver doesn't see me at all ...
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The rest is detail - thats his fault right there, the highway code tells you to check your mirrors and blindspot for a reason - even off duty cops.
 
Yeah you may have been better off hitting him really and claiming off insurance, althought that is a lot of hassle.
 
romperstomper said:
I find most women can't drive ,certainly not if it involves reversing. The worse ones seem to have the biggest cars ,4 WD ,mercs,bmws.
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I never understand why women will try for 10 minuets in a morning to fit their Corsa into a space, yet never seem to improve. Logic would dictate to go on some sort of driving improvement course or even just a lesson with an instructor for £20 to help park into tight spaces.
 
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