Who have you p***ed off today?

[limpsfield]

Shakermaker said:

I know what you are saying, and the implications of "right of way" vs "priority" and really, good road manners. Not about losing face at all.

However, in the situation from this morning, at the point where she moved across the white lines, I was already well beyond the point at which "easing off" would have let her slip past, and it required a full on stop from both of us to avoid a collision.

You have a predictable garage.

[anonymous-user]

I think I pissed a few people off today, driving a 911 seems to do that to some people..

[tdm34]

Yesterday evening I had my 9-5 mapped resulting in nearly 300bhp, fast forward to this mornings commute, i'm trundling up the thirdlane at a steady 80 leptons overtaking the other two lanes, when behind me a Merc (subsequently identified as a C250 CDi) decided to see if his MB would get in the load area of the car, the traffic clears so I drop it into forth and plant my right foot resulting in the MB getting very small very quickly in my rear view mirror after about 10 seconds I lift and cut into the middle lane ready to get into position for my exit that was coming up.
anyway the Merc owner did a crazy undertake and gave me the coffee bean sign to which I just laughed as we were alongside each other, he looked properly pissed off that this old SAAB had handed him his arse in his Teutonic masterpiece...

[Johnnytheboy]

tdm34 said:

Yesterday evening I had my 9-5 mapped resulting in nearly 300bhp, fast forward to this mornings commute, i'm trundling up the thirdlane at a steady 80 leptons overtaking the other two lanes, when behind me a Merc (subsequently identified as a C250 CDi) decided to see if his MB would get in the load area of the car, the traffic clears so I drop it into forth and plant my right foot resulting in the MB getting very small very quickly in my rear view mirror after about 10 seconds I lift and cut into the middle lane ready to get into position for my exit that was coming up.
anyway the Merc owner did a crazy undertake and gave me the coffee bean sign to which I just laughed as we were alongside each other, he looked properly pissed off that this old SAAB had handed him his arse in his Teutonic masterpiece...

Almost every word of that made you sound like an enormous knobber.

[limpsfield]

Johnnytheboy said:

Almost every word of that made you sound like an enormous knobber.

He spanked that Swedish bh and with a dab of oppo he was gone.

But, yes.

[tdm34]

Johnnytheboy said:

tdm34 said:

Yesterday evening I had my 9-5 mapped resulting in nearly 300bhp, fast forward to this mornings commute, i'm trundling up the thirdlane at a steady 80 leptons overtaking the other two lanes, when behind me a Merc (subsequently identified as a C250 CDi) decided to see if his MB would get in the load area of the car, the traffic clears so I drop it into forth and plant my right foot resulting in the MB getting very small very quickly in my rear view mirror after about 10 seconds I lift and cut into the middle lane ready to get into position for my exit that was coming up.
anyway the Merc owner did a crazy undertake and gave me the coffee bean sign to which I just laughed as we were alongside each other, he looked properly pissed off that this old SAAB had handed him his arse in his Teutonic masterpiece...

Almost every word of that made you sound like an enormous knobber.

Why? all I did was make sure there was a proper gap between this MB and my Car, I had a bit of fun at the expense of someone who quite frankly wasn't driving particularly well, I'm fairly certain that most PHers have done something similar... and all I did when he pulled alongside was laugh

[Trabi601]

Just absolutely ripped apart a friend of a friend on Facebook... he seems to run some kind of food charity and has quoted some bloody ridiculous facts surrounding food waste percentages at an upmarket food store. Figures that, if he'd done any kind of research, or just had a think about it, would have very obviously been out by an order of magnitude.

Sadly, the BBC's journalistic standards mean they've fallen for it and published a story on their website which is getting all the liberal hand-wringers up in arms about it all.

[anonymous-user]

Upset a previous customer as I don't want to do any more jobs for him. Last time I did some work for him he was a total pain in the arse, tried to haggle over price, then tried to pick fault when it was done to get money knocked off even though he eventually had to admit it was flawless.

He phoned up today to try to book a job in, and I just fobbed him off and told him it would be 'weeks and weeks' before I could get to him. He knew I was just trying to get rid of him and got quite upset about it.


The other person I upset today was some woman in a BMW 1 series who was behind me at some traffic lights. Just as the lights were about to change to green I saw an ambulance coming down the road about to pass across in front of us, so I stayed stationary on the green light to let it go past. The lady got really angry and started beeping the horn repeatedly because I hadn't set off. I leaned out of the window, pointed at the ambulance as it went past, and then gave her the finger. She looked totally confused as though she still didn't understand why I hadn't pulled out on the green light.

[Jimmy Recard]

tdm34 said:

Why? all I did was make sure there was a proper gap between this MB and my Car, I had a bit of fun at the expense of someone who quite frankly wasn't driving particularly well, I'm fairly certain that most PHers have done something similar... and all I did when he pulled alongside was laugh

I think it was the manner of writing. It wasn't Hemingway, simply

[anonymous-user]

tdm34 said:

Yesterday evening I had my 9-5 mapped resulting in nearly 300bhp, fast forward to this mornings commute, i'm trundling up the thirdlane at a steady 80 leptons overtaking the other two lanes, when behind me a Merc (subsequently identified as a C250 CDi) decided to see if his MB would get in the load area of the car, the traffic clears so I drop it into forth and plant my right foot resulting in the MB getting very small very quickly in my rear view mirror after about 10 seconds I lift and cut into the middle lane ready to get into position for my exit that was coming up.
anyway the Merc owner did a crazy undertake and gave me the coffee bean sign to which I just laughed as we were alongside each other, he looked properly pissed off that this old SAAB had handed him his arse in his Teutonic masterpiece...

It annoys me when people use the term 'leptons'.

It's not funny. I have no idea why anyone uses it.

[Skyrat]

Shakermaker said:

Dr Murdoch said:

Only my 4 year old.

I committed the heinous crime of putting one of his socks on inside out, resulting in absolute bedlam.

My sister-in-law has a book called "Why is my toddler crying?" which is full of such tales, someone gave it to her soon after the birth of my nephew. Rather entertaining to me (as a non-parent) but also SiL is glad she is not the only one putting up with such outbursts

Yes, as stated in a meme I saw recently
"Until I became a parent, I didn't know you could ruin someone's day just by giving them the wrong colour of cup"

[CubanPete]

Chaps on the way into work this morning. He was none right of way, but decided he would pull into the box junction regardless. Then got the nerves and decided to stop there blocking all directions of traffic.

A friendly 'toot' to suggest he possibly might consider moving on, clearing the many carriageways he was blocking resulted in the bird.

Quite funny as he was a junior I then followed into work...

[carlove]

A man in a mini.

Pulled out close in front of me on a NSL road and instead of slamming the brakes I overtook him, this offended him greatly, he flashed like a maniac came right up my arse and put his full beams on for 10+ seconds and left his front fog lights on for the entire time he was behind me. He had a modified Cooper S, I was in a basic Corsa work car, maybe that's why it upset him so much.

[X5TUU]

My 2yr old daughter

Who knew linking together bath toys that are supposed to be linked together and not separate would upset her so much ... and that was on top of Plex being a little slow (like 5-6 seconds rather than 2-3!) in starting to play Good Dinosaur for her ... I think she may be calling child line as we speak! Oh the humanity!!

[antspants]

carlove said:

he flashed like a maniac came right up my arse... maybe that's why it upset him so much.

Couldn't resist a bit of selective quoting

[KAgantua]

V8A*ndy said:

opieoilman said:

For some reason this morning, my driving onto a dual carriageway upset a couple in a Yeti.

I have no idea what I have done to upset the guy to drive like that.

Probably nothing personal just Abominable behaviour.

Its not fair using puns mate, that snow joke.

[PSRG]

KAgantua said:

Its not fair using puns mate, that snow joke.

I fear we're drifting off topic...

[caziques]

A couple of days ago....

A semi trained chimp had a van I had hired partially hooked up to his tow truck (extortion is still allowed here in the colonies) - when I fortunately returned.

My crime was to park in an empty area next to a shop, that had closed hours before.

I got in the van, started the engine and called the police.

When it became obvious I wasn't going to be paying any extortion fees, and I wasn't getting out, the police persuaded the aforementioned chimp to bugger off, (plus his mate who had turned up in another truck).

Apparently I am going to be sued. I suspect I'm in for a long wait as they don't have my name.

Happy days

[jogger1976]

Nik da Greek said:

I appear to have miraculously managed to ps off the wife without actually doing anything including interact with her or even spend more than ten mintues in her company ... although it's possible that merely continuing to breathe in and out would have been sufficient to achieve this Must check if it's the full moon already

[carlove]

antspants said:

carlove said:

he flashed like a maniac came right up my arse... maybe that's why it upset him so much.

Couldn't resist a bit of selective quoting