How dare I have the audacity to overtake

[groucho]

Behind a car today doing 30 in a 50 so I overtake. Driver gives me the two finger salute. Actually it's not the first time. Am I not allowed to overtake?

Maybe I should stop and give them a cuff round the lugs.

[OldSkoolRS]

Probably the inattentive fker hadn't noticed he wasn't in a 30 limit anymore (I've had this alot lately), or felt you were too close behind him before you overtook.....or maybe he just thinks that 'he is the law' and that he doesn't want anyone doing more than 30 on that road. After all, if he isn't in a hurry how can anyone else be?

[NiceCupOfTea]

Some people view overtaking as "pushing in". Unbelieveable but true.

[V8mate]

This kind of post appears quite often on PH.

Why are you even looking at the driver you're overtaking? Shouldn't you be looking at where you're going?

It's not beyond the bounds of reason that overtaking someone and looking directly at them could be regarded as quite hostile in itself.

[groucho]

V8mate said:

This kind of post appears quite often on PH.

Why are you even looking at the driver you're overtaking? Shouldn't you be looking at where you're going?

It's not beyond the bounds of reason that overtaking someone and looking directly at them could be regarded as quite hostile in itself.

I wasn't, my daughter told me.

[colonel c]

groucho said:

V8mate said:

This kind of post appears quite often on PH.

Why are you even looking at the driver you're overtaking? Shouldn't you be looking at where you're going?

It's not beyond the bounds of reason that overtaking someone and looking directly at them could be regarded as quite hostile in itself.

I wasn't, my daughter told me.

Was she puling faces at him while you passed by?

[groucho]

colonel c said:

groucho said:

V8mate said:

This kind of post appears quite often on PH.

Why are you even looking at the driver you're overtaking? Shouldn't you be looking at where you're going?

It's not beyond the bounds of reason that overtaking someone and looking directly at them could be regarded as quite hostile in itself.

I wasn't, my daughter told me.

Was she puling faces at him while you passed by?

I don't think so.

[Mexico.]

She might of been pulling a moonie

[V8mate]

groucho said:

V8mate said:

This kind of post appears quite often on PH.

Why are you even looking at the driver you're overtaking? Shouldn't you be looking at where you're going?

It's not beyond the bounds of reason that overtaking someone and looking directly at them could be regarded as quite hostile in itself.

I wasn't, my daughter told me.

So maybe it had nothing to do with being overtaken and he was just an offensive oik who didn't appreciate your daughter's snarling smiling face

[DIW35]

I can't believe how many threads there are on this subject or similar. I'm not one for holding back and will overtake where conditions permit and the speed of the driver in front is slow enough that I don't have break the relevant speed limit in doing so. I have to say that I have never seen any of the reactions so often reported in these posts - no coffee beans, no two fingers and no flashed headlights or beeped horns.

Either I have been very lucky, or there is something else about the driving of these posters that would prompt such a reaction that they are not telling us about.

[groucho]

V8mate said:

groucho said:

V8mate said:

This kind of post appears quite often on PH.

Why are you even looking at the driver you're overtaking? Shouldn't you be looking at where you're going?

It's not beyond the bounds of reason that overtaking someone and looking directly at them could be regarded as quite hostile in itself.

I wasn't, my daughter told me.

So maybe it had nothing to do with being overtaken and he was just an offensive oik who didn't appreciate your daughter's snarling smiling face

Could have been.

[groucho]

DIW35 said:

I can't believe how many threads there are on this subject or similar. I'm not one for holding back and will overtake where conditions permit and the speed of the driver in front is slow enough that I don't have break the relevant speed limit in doing so. I have to say that I have never seen any of the reactions so often reported in these posts - no coffee beans, no two fingers and no flashed headlights or beeped horns.

Either I have been very lucky, or there is something else about the driving of these posters that would prompt such a reaction that they are not telling us about.

What's a coffee bean?

[_rubinho_]

DIW35 said:

I can't believe how many threads there are on this subject or similar. I'm not one for holding back and will overtake where conditions permit and the speed of the driver in front is slow enough that I don't have break the relevant speed limit in doing so. I have to say that I have never seen any of the reactions so often reported in these posts - no coffee beans, no two fingers and no flashed headlights or beeped horns.

Either I have been very lucky, or there is something else about the driving of these posters that would prompt such a reaction that they are not telling us about.

+1

I'm a serial overtaker and I never get flashed, beeped or flipped off. On the one or two occasions when I have, I know I've done something to deserve it i.e. an overtake where, whilst not dangerous, 99% of the time given the opportunity I'd not take on.

[Talksteer]

I overtook somebody on my motorbike last night and the car on the other side of the road flashed his lights at me and made a wker sign at me as I went past.

The thing was he was hundreds of meters away when I made the overtake, I could have probably made it in a car never mind on a bike, and the road was sufficiently wide I could of actually passed the car even if he was directly adjacent to it when I did. Some people are just sanctimonious s.

On a more serious note if a person is driving a long at a speed it is generally the one they consider safe, ergo anyone overtaking them is driving too fast, the idea that they are driving too slow is unlikely to cross their mind.

Edited by Talksteer on Sunday 12th July 12:12

[W00DY]

It's kind of small man syndrome in my case at least as being overtaken by an old beetle is just too embarrassing apparently even if i have more power and less weight than them they will speed up to try and stop me or even go over onto the other side of the road to stop me. Saw a middle aged woman in an old fiesta the other day with a christian fish and a bumper sticker with 'find out if there's an afterlife, overtake me' on it. Some people are so fking stupid it makes me want to cry.

[Deva Link]

_rubinho_ said:

DIW35 said:

I can't believe how many threads there are on this subject or similar. I'm not one for holding back and will overtake where conditions permit and the speed of the driver in front is slow enough that I don't have break the relevant speed limit in doing so. I have to say that I have never seen any of the reactions so often reported in these posts - no coffee beans, no two fingers and no flashed headlights or beeped horns.

Either I have been very lucky, or there is something else about the driving of these posters that would prompt such a reaction that they are not telling us about.

+1

I'm a serial overtaker and I never get flashed, beeped or flipped off. On the one or two occasions when I have, I know I've done something to deserve it i.e. an overtake where, whilst not dangerous, 99% of the time given the opportunity I'd not take on.

and me too. Even when I was a sales rep driving a company car, it was a rare thing.

You get threads on here from people who have 3 or 4 incidents per journey. If your driving is attracting attention more than very very occasionally then you should look to yourself for the reasons.

[groucho]

Never used to happen when I was in my Griffith. Perhaps people just don't like bimmers.

[peterguk M500]

groucho said:

What's a coffee bean?

Edited by peterguk M500 on Sunday 12th July 12:36

[Size Nine Elm]

Got one flash yesterday after overtaking - A68, little traffic, followed a car for a mile or so to a clear straight, indicated, pulled out, passed, and back in - and a quick flash of the lights.

No rationale I could see, other than it was a beautiful sunny, cool morning with clear roads and I was driving in a TVR with the roof down, and he was being nagged by his wife in a Nissan Micra?

[NiceCupOfTea]

peterguk M500 said:

groucho said:

What's a coffee bean?

Edited by peterguk M500 on Sunday 12th July 12:36

Remember the nescafe adverts with the English bloke from Buffy/PM from Little Britain? He suggested that you might practise onanism at the end of each ad.