Just witnessed the most bizarre argument in a Petrol Station

[volvos60s60]

Some time ago I pulled into a busy petrol station in North London, filled up & went into the kiosk to pay.

As I walked back to my car the guy queuing behind my car, waiting to use my pump, started hooting me & calling out to me to hurry up & walk faster back to my car - so I did what any reasonable man would do, got in my car, popped the bonnet & started to to check the oil - his turn of phrase was priceless as he span his wheels to go to another pump!!

[nipsips]

I had a young lad in a fiesta the other day come barrelling down behind me whilst I was in the outside lane overtaking slower traffic, sat at 65mph following the car in front (as is common for the A12 at peak time). He decided that his journey was much more important than mine, and starting flashing, indicating right behind me, and in the end undertook in the three lane section near Ingatestone on the immediate left lane, swerving across the MLM's in lane 2, into lane 3 in front of me and promptly brake checking me.

At least he gained a car length I guess.

Didn't look too impressed at the M25 junction when I applauded him and pointed at my dash cam...

[Moonpie21]

So just to add my story of driving crazies...

I was following a small Korean car, an i10 or something along a 60 mph road at a very reasonable distance. Anyway they start signalling left and slowing down for a turn I slow down as well, there are cars following me at a safe distance. The car stops dead on a main road to let a confused driver out of the turning they are about to turn in to, it takes a while as the driver is crossing our lane to go the other way. I beep my horn, at the car because stopping on a main road to let someone out is just stupid and puts me and my family at risk of being rear ended. Car moves off then stops out gets this lady must be late 60's walks down the middle of the road shouting at me. I roll down my window, poke my head out and in a loud voice ask her if she is stupid and explain she is standing in the middle of a 60 mph road on a slight bend where oncoming traffic may not see her and hit her. She carries on shouting in the middle of the road she was only doing something nice etc etc. I patiently explain it only takes the person behind me not expecting a complete stop and a moments distraction to potentially cause an accident I don't want my baby in. She totally didn't get it. Eventually gets back in and drives off, I felt like following her home and telling her significant other she was a menace, but then again I'm not a loon.

[poing]

Rich_W said:

I'll try and keep this brief.

Few years back. Driving along at arounf half nine at night and a blue BMW is driving erratically in front of me. Speeding up slowing down. I must admit I flash them. Car full on brake checks me to a stop. I'm not close. So they drive on again. I turn off at the next roundabout blue bmw goes straight.

As I'm parking in the car park of the supermarket the BMW arrives at speed and the driver (who turns out to be a woman) accuses me of dangerous driving and misogynistism she's going to call the police.

Seeing the mental unravelling I tell her "I apologise if you think that" and she f's and blinds then races off.


What concerned me is that because the Police are crap at this sort of thing they would ALWAYS believe the "poor innocent woman" over the "horrible aggressive man"

So when I got home, I ordered a dashcam.

It's exactly this that makes me want to buy a dashcam but I'm worried about becoming one of the people on that thread! I sometimes suspect it's a very strong virus that gets injected at the factory and contaminates all the owners.

[Derek Smith]

I was on the M40 in the middle lane. I was in my Chimaera, outside me was a Cerbera V8. We were having a bit of a chat via handsignals. A Renault 5 almost sat on the bumper of the Cerb, this at a bit over 70mph, and flashed headlights.

Now I not suggesting this is the correct response, but:

The Cerb driver waved goodbye to me, dropped a gear or two, revved the engine (a delightful scream from the exhaust) and dropped the clutch. Clouds of smoke streamed from the rear tyres, leaving two black lines in the outside lane. The Cerb shot off into the distance.

The Renault driver must have thought that the Cerb driver had braked as she'd stamped on hers. To her, the Cerb must have seemed like it was rocket powered.

She came past a couple of minutes later staring straight ahead.

Be careful who you tailgate.

[sebhaque]

Pulled into a petrol station today for a full tank's worth. The car takes about 65 litres to fill up if I run it down quite low (I tend to go from full to fumes).

The woman in the Fiat 500 behind me obviously didn't understand that bigger cars may be blessed with larger fuel tanks and after about a minute or so of filling up she started honking and pointing at where her watch should have been if she was wearing one (I'd just ticked over 35 litres). I just eased off the pump to make the fuel stop last even longer, took my time in inspecting the bottles of water in the shop before returning to the car after about 5 minutes. She was so mind-set on having pump 11 that she hadn't noticed the 3 or 4 empty pumps around the station.

[carreauchompeur]

sebhaque said:

Pulled into a petrol station today for a full tank's worth. The car takes about 65 litres to fill up if I run it down quite low (I tend to go from full to fumes).

The woman in the Fiat 500 behind me obviously didn't understand that bigger cars may be blessed with larger fuel tanks and after about a minute or so of filling up she started honking and pointing at where her watch should have been if she was wearing one (I'd just ticked over 35 litres). I just eased off the pump to make the fuel stop last even longer, took my time in inspecting the bottles of water in the shop before returning to the car after about 5 minutes. She was so mind-set on having pump 11 that she hadn't noticed the 3 or 4 empty pumps around the station.

What a fktard. Really, why on earth would you beep at someone filling their car?

[Mr Tidy]

Was on the A3 Southbound a couple of weeks ago at about 8.30 pm.

Doing 70 ish in the middle lane as I was overtaking at the time, then came across a white Aldi A3 Sh*tback in the outside lane (of 3) doing less than 60 mph. Moved into the 3rd lane, quick flash, no reaction so tried again, but still no reaction. By now there were 2 empty lanes to the left, so cruised past in one of those just after the junction for Oxshott/Esher.

Carried on past the Cobham/Weybridge junction heading for the M25 and suddenly the Aldi came storming past to dive in front of me onto the slip-road for the M25 - presumably the operator (can't bring myself to say driver) had finished their text?!

Aldi picked the wrong lane on the roundabout and got blocked in by a truck so I got onto the M25 ahead of it, so it came storming past me again but on the nearside this time!

WTF is wrong with people?

[thelawnet1]

nipsips said:

I had a young lad in a fiesta the other day come barrelling down behind me whilst I was in the outside lane overtaking slower traffic, sat at 65mph following the car in front (as is common for the A12 at peak time). He decided that his journey was much more important than mine, and starting flashing, indicating right behind me, and in the end undertook in the three lane section near Ingatestone on the immediate left lane, swerving across the MLM's in lane 2, into lane 3 in front of me and promptly brake checking me.

At least he gained a car length I guess.

Didn't look too impressed at the M25 junction when I applauded him and pointed at my dash cam...

where's the youtube link??

[thelawnet1]

sebhaque said:

Pulled into a petrol station today for a full tank's worth. The car takes about 65 litres to fill up if I run it down quite low (I tend to go from full to fumes).

that's not even a particularly big tank.

some cars take over 100 litres.

[danllama]

If someone beeped at me while I was filling my car I would genuinely stop and have a word through their window.

[Mr Tidy]

thelawnet1 said:

that's not even a particularly big tank.

some cars take over 100 litres.

Thanks for pointing that out - you powerfully-built PH Company director with a tractor..!

Not many cars can take 100 litres, but I'm sure many tractors may have consumption that requires such prodigiousness!

[so called]

cologne2792 said:

I'm convinced that these people are not born and bred but must be, by laws of all probability, designed, engineered and built in a Lab.

I'd just like to say, speaking as a Design Engineer, that we don't generally design stuff with loose screws as part of the new assembly.
They can, of course, come loose over time and so I would expect this is the case here.

[Pints]

LankyLegoHead said:

Him: "What are you talking about? You were tailgating me so I braked?

Someone was too close behind you so you braked? I'm going to have a guess here that it wasn't just a gentle touch of the pedal to bring the lights on.

I've yet to decide whether tailgating or brake-testing is the more dangerous thing to do while driving.

[HTP99]

I work opposite a Shell garage, if I ever have a quiet moment or I want a break from what I'm doing, I'll wander over to the window and watch the goings on over the road, it never ceases to amaze me the level of stupidity and/or anger that I see on a daily basis.

Yes people are idiots out on the road, however it seems to be elevated to a whole different level of stupid once on a petrol forecourt.

Edited by HTP99 on Monday 27th February 07:06

[Speed addicted]

Mr Tidy said:

thelawnet1 said:

that's not even a particularly big tank.

some cars take over 100 litres.

Thanks for pointing that out - you powerfully-built PH Company director with a tractor..!

Not many cars can take 100 litres, but I'm sure many tractors may have consumption that requires such prodigiousness!

My X5 and X6 were 90 litres, my Q7 100 litres. Most of the bigger 4x4s have around that.
The current 6 series has a 70 litre tank and to be honest I wish it was a bit bigger so I didn't spend so much time in petrol stations.

[HannsG]

The fact that I potentially will have to fill my car up twice a week at petrol stations due to a new commute just makes me want to vomit.

Hate the places

[0000]

LankyLegoHead said:

Her: "Is it because I'm driving a foreign car, are you a racist? is that how you get your kicks is it?"

Sounds like it was ///ajd and that'll be another one on the hate crime stats.

[V88Dicky]

hman said:

Thats Bizarre..can I share another bizarre occuarance that happened last week to me last week? (first person to say "cool starry bra" deduct 10 originality points)


Driving along the road I start to close on a car who is doing about 10mph less than the posted limit.. then the slow moving car puts its hazard lights on.. I think hmmm is the car in front breaking down? and so I stay hanging back ready for the car in front to expire.

Hazard lights go off and we carry on to the roundabout (slowly) ..nothing coming from the right but the car in front stops and I stop behind it, driver is gesticulating now...

Car in front pulls away...brakes hard on the roundabout for no reason and I'm stationary as I'm waiting for a car to pass from the right..

I carry on and catch back up with the car who is still doing 10mph less than the speed limit...leaving a big gap due to the car in fronts erratic driving... then the brake testing starts.. I ignore and keep my distance .... the car in front is now doing 10 mph...

I find a safe gap, overtake and carry on - car is now up my bumper...

So I stop in the middle of the road and get out.. walk over to the crazy car to be confronted with a white haired old lady in her 70's who is already head out of the window shouting "that was your fault! you were pushing me to break the speed limit"

Using as much self control as I can to remain polite I ask "are you crazy? I was nowhere near you and you are the one in control of your speed not me!"

She starts again with "that was your fault! you were pushing me to break the speed limit"

I explain to her that trying to brake test people wont end well for her , that I have the whole incident recorded on the camera if she wants to go to the police and that she should consider handing in her licence and letting a taxi do her driving for her as she's clearly un-fit to drive.

Walking back to my car i can still hear her yelling and tooting the horn I just got in my car and drove away

MENTAL!


Mandatory retest at 65 every 3 years - Yes please...

If it was a white Yaris, it was my aunty Pat.

She's as mad as a box of frogs and a terrible driver

[FiF]

Not as mad as some of the other stories but I got some verbals in a Shell station for not pulling forward to the front pump.

Pointing out that I was filling with V power and this was the only pump which dispensed that grade was pointless.

The little man went berserk ranting diesel is diesel, it's all the same.

My reply was that was maybe true but I'm buying petrol, V power petrol.

Even his missus laughed and told him he was being a tt.

Suspect some people just go out looking for an argument, bit like PH.