Bizarre behaviour

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matchmaker

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8,463 posts

199 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Travelling along the M876 today at an indicated 73-74mph. The road was very quiet (due to an accident on the M80 earlier where a loaded cattle float overturned at Castlecary - that caused some traffic chaos!) and I pulled out into lane 2 to overtake a Peugeot who was doing maybe 60-65 mph. I passed safely and pulled gradually into lane 1.

A few moments later said Peugeot caught up with me and the male driver started flashing his headlights. I thought he was trying to warn me of something so looked about for trafpol or speed cameras. Nothing to be seen and I wasn't speeding anyway. He kept flashing so I decided to pull into the hard shoulder to check the car. As I started to move over he speeded up and took off at speed.

I was a bit baffled so pulled back onto the road and continued. Mr Peugeot was disappearing rapidly into the distance, but I caught up with him (a few cars back) when he hit traffic on the Clackmannanshire Bridge. He was tailgating the car in front, and pulled out and passed it as soon as the road widened to 2 lanes.

I saw him in the distance, heading into Alloa, overtaking at any opportunity.

What on earth could have been going on?

illmonkey

18,112 posts

197 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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He's a dhead?

snoopy25

1,858 posts

119 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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matchmaker said:
What on earth could have been going on?
Needed a poo?

FraMac

785 posts

216 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Finished texting, so he could return to concentrating on being a tool? Odd behaviour.

luckystrike

536 posts

180 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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I wish I drove on roads where this kind of behaviour was exceptional enough to be surprised by it.

Swanny87

1,265 posts

118 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Sounds like that TopGear segment on Peugeots wasn't quite as puerile as I originally thought hehe

Or...

He saw that Peugeot bit and thought "I drive a Peugeot and must behave like that because I saw it on Top Gear!!!"

Edited by Swanny87 on Wednesday 4th March 14:14

Busso GTA

178 posts

125 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Probably from the same gene pool as the imbecile in a red 14 plate Passat that decided even though there was no room ahead of me he would still overtake even though the two lanes were clearly indicated and joining into one his being the lane that was ending and effectively give me the option of crashing into him or basically stopping dead so he could continue forward and make up one whole car length progress in heavy traffic proceeding to laugh when I indicated he may be just a slight shade of w@nker at the roundabout up ahead .

I don't often feel like violence but I could have quite happily bounced his face of the frame off his door with great attention to rhythm and power had my lack of wanting to not spend time the wrong side of a prison door weighing heavily on my mind frown

Edited by Busso GTA on Wednesday 4th March 14:28

Swanny87

1,265 posts

118 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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I saw something equally bizzare a few weeks back. I was waiting at lights and was in L3 (other two lanes were occupied) to go straight on as it was empty when coming up to the lights. (L3 went into a merge) To the left of me was a Vauxhall SUV thing. I admit, I set off quite quickly. (For a 1.2 Punto, at least) As I got ahead about 30 metres and as I'm looking to move over to L1, as it was clear, this Vauxhall thing is driving at me on the red line (mmmmmmm that lovely straining diesel engine sound) and overtakes me on the inside but stays in L2 after the merge. The road goes back into 3 lanes and he's straight out into L3, on a completely empty stretch, and then hogs the middle lane, all whilst slowing down for the speed camera up ahead. I keep at the same speed and go past him on the inside, he then slams on the brakes next to me and comes off at the junction we were both passing behind me. Utterly bizzare.

Edited by Swanny87 on Wednesday 4th March 14:30

conkerman

3,298 posts

134 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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This is what happens when you emasculate someone without permission.

Or something.

matrignano

4,345 posts

209 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Maybe he received a call with some bad news that meant he had to up his progress?

Swanny87

1,265 posts

118 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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conkerman said:
This is what happens when you emasculate someone without permission.

Or something.
Yes, the OP had the bare cheek to be going faster than him!

mgtony

4,014 posts

189 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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matrignano said:
Maybe he received a call with some bad news that meant he had to up his progress?
Then why wouldn't he just pull out into lane 2 and overtake the OP??

Hasbeen

2,073 posts

220 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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I have a 25 kilometre trip to town, along a good country main road, with a 100Km/H limit.

I regularly find people driving at 75 to 85, & pass them courteously & safely. Fairly regularly one of these will immediately speed up to my speed, & follow moderately closely, not tail gating, all the way to town. Some will follow me passing any other slow traffic.

I assume they were off with the fairies, listening to their music, or day dreaming about some bird, with no idea of how slowly they were traveling, until woken up by my passing.

luckystrike

536 posts

180 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Hasbeen said:
I have a 25 kilometre trip to town, along a good country main road, with a 100Km/H limit.

I regularly find people driving at 75 to 85, & pass them courteously & safely. Fairly regularly one of these will immediately speed up to my speed, & follow moderately closely, not tail gating, all the way to town. Some will follow me passing any other slow traffic.

I assume they were off with the fairies, listening to their music, or day dreaming about some bird, with no idea of how slowly they were traveling, until woken up by my passing.
Yup. You've also got the 'lost and afraid' brigade who sit trembling at 2/3rds the speed limit until someone else appears that they can tag along behind for some misguided sense of comfort. Probably the same people who park next to you in an otherwise empty car park.

Bennet

2,119 posts

130 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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I know in the past I've reacted to people who, as far as they were concerned, had done nothing to piss me off at all. He was probably having a bad day, then felt stupid for chasing you so decided to get as far away as possible.


C.A.R.

3,967 posts

187 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Never question the actions of a Peugeot driver. He was probably distracted by another rattle / vibration coming from somewhere in the cabin. Or that sound like something has come loose underneath the car again. Or perhaps one of the dials in the instrument cluster had stopped working again.

I should know.

Triumph Man

8,670 posts

167 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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I had a weird one the other day... Coming out of Wilton I find myself behind an Astra being driven at 45 in the 60. No problem, there is a good spot coming up to pass. I note a tractor some way in the distance, and overtake anyway as I'd rather take the opportunity to overtake the Astra rather than wait and potentially overtake the two at once. I caught up with the Tractor just as I entered Barford St. Martin, and the Astra driver (a middle aged man) started pointing at me and the tractor and doing the "WTF hand" (I could see all this in my rear view mirror). The tractor indicates to go off towards Dinton rather than carry on to the left on the A30. There is also a junction which is an immediate right turn that he wanted to take. Rather than block a lane of the A30 as I did not have the room to clear the main road, I hung back with my indicator on at which point the Astra driver started blasting his horn at me.

If you are reading this, you are a cock. Not only that, but a slow one. You think I didn't see the tractor ahead? Or were you just pissed off that somebody overtook you?

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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I keep the wind deflector installed in my convertible most of the time and it's quite funny how enraged these cocks get when you just pull it up (with the roof up) so you quite obviously can no longer see their flashing and hand waving in your mirror.

As others have said he was probably off with the fairies, being overtaken seems to wake up even the doziest of dheads for a while but you'll often catch up with them in a few miles when they've dozed back off and slowed down to their natural speed.

croyde

22,704 posts

229 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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I was working at Weston Supermare and had to get back home to London one lovely Summer's evening on a Sunday. Didn't fancy the M5/M4 so traveled the small roads past Cheddar Gorge and onto Shepton Mallet to eventually pick up the A303.

The small roads were empty until I came across a small car being driven resolutely at 40 on a 60mph road and staying at 40 when he got to the 30mph limit of the villages. Due to all the bends and high hedgerows it took ages until I could find a safe place to overtake and start enjoying the roads again.

A couple of miles later sticking at the NSL wink I looked up at my rear view mirror only to see the puce with anger face of the guy that I had overtaken. He was so close that I thought he was in my back seat. I increased my speed and he stayed right on my tail. He looked even angrier and was waving his arms. I started to find this all quite alarming especially as he had two young lads in the back of his car who were looking quite concerned.

Only once I approached 1.0 lepton did I start to lose him.

Very bizarre behaviour.

iggletiggle

1,380 posts

184 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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I wish this surprised me ..

I have had (on two occasions now) had cars driving at around 55 in the middle lane, l1 and l3 clear. I overtake in l3 and once enough space is present, pull back across to L1 and carry on my journey only to be met with hand shakes, lights flashing and angry men at the wheel.. so much so the last gent in a 1 series proceeded to overtake, brake hard to 40/45 then nudge towards me when i attempted to pass again and then after he managed to get himself boxed in L1 and i thought he was long left behind, he appeared and under took me and the car in front of me at a roundabout shaking his fist. tt.

The joys of modern drivers.