Bigger the car, bigger the ego......
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This is one of the reasons I love having a noisy, orange car - a wave, a smile and then a blast through Nissan motorsport's finest pipe organ seems to turn Mr. Irate into Mr. nuclear piss as he gets small in the rear view.
I know it's super petty, but making Mr. Angry's day just a bit worse makes mine a whole lot better
I know it's super petty, but making Mr. Angry's day just a bit worse makes mine a whole lot better
Parsnip said:
This is one of the reasons I love having a noisy, orange car - a wave, a smile and then a blast through Nissan motorsport's finest pipe organ seems to turn Mr. Irate into Mr. nuclear piss as he gets small in the rear view.
I know it's super petty, but making Mr. Angry's day just a bit worse makes mine a whole lot better
Mr Nuclear piss then takes it out on the next car that comes along. I know it's super petty, but making Mr. Angry's day just a bit worse makes mine a whole lot better
Liquid Knight said:
Parsnip said:
This is one of the reasons I love having a noisy, orange car - a wave, a smile and then a blast through Nissan motorsport's finest pipe organ seems to turn Mr. Irate into Mr. nuclear piss as he gets small in the rear view.
I know it's super petty, but making Mr. Angry's day just a bit worse makes mine a whole lot better
Mr Nuclear piss then takes it out on the next car that comes along. I know it's super petty, but making Mr. Angry's day just a bit worse makes mine a whole lot better
If Mr.angry gets so wound up by me giving him a wave and then making a bit of a racket, then he is probably so miniscule in the wedding veg department that it would get taken out on the nearest victim anyway, regardless of what I did. At least I make myself smile
Globs said:
ReaperCushions said:
Same has happened to me before, simple overtake on the way home turns into an ego trip for some knuckle dragger, got followed most of the way home (I didnt go to my house, so as not to reveal where I live... you never know). Strangely this was a Volvo XC90 driver!
Eventually after about 15 minutes of driving around with him attached to my bootlid trying to get back in front of me and waving to 'offer me out' I decided to pull into the car park of the local plod station, soon got rid of him! The look on his face was priceless as he hastily did a three point turn and waved a hand up to apologise to me!
I hope he spotted me laughing my head off
Probably thought you might be an off duty policemen - bet you turning in there gave him the shock of his life as the colour drained from his cheeks Eventually after about 15 minutes of driving around with him attached to my bootlid trying to get back in front of me and waving to 'offer me out' I decided to pull into the car park of the local plod station, soon got rid of him! The look on his face was priceless as he hastily did a three point turn and waved a hand up to apologise to me!
I hope he spotted me laughing my head off
People often speed up next to me as they don't consider a 171cc step-through scooter should be going faster than them. I just sail past them at the next queue anyway, tossers.
What was even more annoying was the number of people who see the scooter approaching from behind, realise it's a scooter, and still move left to allow me past.
I hated that...
CBR JGWRR said:
They really don't like being overtaken by scooters. Only people who ever gave any trouble when I overtook them.
What was even more annoying was the number of people who see the scooter approaching from behind, realise it's a scooter, and still move left to allow me past.
I hated that...
? Why would you hate that? They are making it easier and safer for you to overtake.What was even more annoying was the number of people who see the scooter approaching from behind, realise it's a scooter, and still move left to allow me past.
I hated that...
Dracoro said:
CBR JGWRR said:
They really don't like being overtaken by scooters. Only people who ever gave any trouble when I overtook them.
What was even more annoying was the number of people who see the scooter approaching from behind, realise it's a scooter, and still move left to allow me past.
I hated that...
? Why would you hate that? They are making it easier and safer for you to overtake.What was even more annoying was the number of people who see the scooter approaching from behind, realise it's a scooter, and still move left to allow me past.
I hated that...
When I was on my bike and following the speed limit I'd catch up to someone going a couple of miles an hour slower and they'd pull over to let me pass. I'd politely wave and hold back knowing that I couldn't realistically get past without either going over the speed limit or taking more than a mile to do it. If my polite wave isn't enough a quick blip past and back to the speed limit does the trick.
The thing about scooters. When I was riding at the speed limit people would pass because I'm on a scooter and they assume I'm going slowly. It's the same when I cycle. 20mph in a twenty or 30mph in a thirty zone and cars will overtake because you're on a bike. With total disregard for other road users, the speed limit or the Road Traffic Act. A couple of weeks ago a chap driving a Merc' was so determined to overtake me he nearly ran into the back of a cue of traffic waiting at a junction ahead. If you can't see more than six feet ahead, you shouldn't drive at all.
The thing about scooters. When I was riding at the speed limit people would pass because I'm on a scooter and they assume I'm going slowly. It's the same when I cycle. 20mph in a twenty or 30mph in a thirty zone and cars will overtake because you're on a bike. With total disregard for other road users, the speed limit or the Road Traffic Act. A couple of weeks ago a chap driving a Merc' was so determined to overtake me he nearly ran into the back of a cue of traffic waiting at a junction ahead. If you can't see more than six feet ahead, you shouldn't drive at all.
AndyWoodall said:
If Danny Dyer owns a car, you can bet its a 'Warrior', 'Animal' or 'Smack my Girlfriend Up'.
While I've no doubt that most owners of these very useful looking double cab pick ups are perfectly sane, pleasant and law abiding profressional work men (or women), I have had roughly similar unpleasant experiences from these sorts of vehicles also sadly.
Oh yesWhile I've no doubt that most owners of these very useful looking double cab pick ups are perfectly sane, pleasant and law abiding profressional work men (or women), I have had roughly similar unpleasant experiences from these sorts of vehicles also sadly.
Danny "I am in no way a repressed homosexual honest guv" Dyer
Come on Danny, be true to yourself and get yourself a pink Ka with 'powered by fairydust' decals on the back window.
...and another thing. In my Panda yesterday morning. I caught up to a cyclist on the approach of a bend in a 30 zone. He was doing okay 17-18-ish mph, I pulled out wide in case he needed to brake whilst waiting for a safe opportunity to overtake. A van caught up (my guess he was doing at least 40) sat on my back bumper for three seconds, blasted his horn (at ten past six in the morning) and moved out on to the wrong side of the road to overtake both myself and the cyclist. He had to lock up his brakes and pull back behind me in because there was a truck coming the other way.
When it was safe I passed the cyclist and in a cloud of black smoke the van passed us both before jumping a red light further ahead.
What a div'.
When it was safe I passed the cyclist and in a cloud of black smoke the van passed us both before jumping a red light further ahead.
What a div'.
Dracoro said:
CBR JGWRR said:
I didn't want to overtake! It took too long, and because they've moved over, you wind up feeling bad about it. It had a top speed of 77 on the speedometer...
LOL Fair enough but they are just trying to be considerate unlike the subjects of this thread.Hmm, not had many experiences of late like this but recently I had a bit of a confrontation with a 'Warrior' type truck thing. Where there were some traffic calming / road narrowing give way sections and I had right of way, matey boy decides he's not stopping for anyone! I have to slam the anchors on, matey boy in his Warrior just drives around me with middle finger gesture (he's obviously quite used to doing it close enough to the windscreen so others can see...)
What a tit.
In fact, 'traffic calming' measures (as I think they're called in the Highway code) often do the opposite and encourage the kind of 'run the gauntlet' behaviour which will one day surely cause an accident...
What a tit.
In fact, 'traffic calming' measures (as I think they're called in the Highway code) often do the opposite and encourage the kind of 'run the gauntlet' behaviour which will one day surely cause an accident...
TrueI have had a few, one that springs to mind was me pulling onto a motorway with plenty of room and I had accelerated so I was quicker than the car I pulled in front of (at least 50 metres gap), I eased off, he changed lanes and (with his family in car) leant out window and told me to pull over so he could rip my (insert obscenities) head off. I said 'sure, this layby over here ok?'
I pulled in, he pulls in. I get out of car (all 6'5 and in police uniform). He turns white and pulls away really fast. I get back in, follow him and laugh lots as he tries to evade me.
small man syndrome can be fairly amusing.
I pulled in, he pulls in. I get out of car (all 6'5 and in police uniform). He turns white and pulls away really fast. I get back in, follow him and laugh lots as he tries to evade me.
small man syndrome can be fairly amusing.
I've posted this before, some years ago.
I don't think it is the actual car, but often if there is a size difference between the vehicles, with those in the larger feeling some way superior.
In my incident I was riding my motorbike with my wife pillion through some villages on the Luxembourg/Belgium border (this is not a uk only phenomenon)
I was on the speed limit, knowing a uk plated bike was an easy touch for the local flics.
A Ford Fiesta caught me at a fair rate and proceeded to sit inches from my rear wheel (and I mean inches, not feet) lights flashing and the driver gesticulating for me to pull over, giving me the finger.
We left the village and I left him. Quickly.
Next village he comes steaming in and again attached himself to the back wheel. He then tries to overtake me up the inside! I swear he was almost touching the wife's leg. (who is oblivious to what is happening.)
As he goes up the inside the car I am following swings to the near side, blocking his progress. My shouting Anglo-Saxon greetings may have drawn his attention.
The Fiesta stops and I pull across the front of him. I was fuming.
I jump off the bike leaving the oh perched on he pillion. He driver of the Fiesta is already out of the car, armed with a riding crop.
He is in his 50's and an ageing tattooed f
kwit, Neanderthal.
But short. Really short.
He proceeds to start whipping me with the crop. I can't feel this. A couple of mm of armoured leathers proving more than adequate protection.
I took the whip off him and snapped it into three. He then made a bigger mistake and swung for me.
I'm wearing motorcycle race gloves with carbon reinforced knuckles. I jabbed him straight on the nose.
Nothing more. But he dropped his fists.
He starts shouting at me to take of my hat (?) so he can hit me. (at this point the wife admits to thinking 'please don't take off your helmet, you'll only batter him with it')
I shrugged, walked to his car and removed his keys.
He jumped on my back as I walked, his keys in hand and threw them over a 8 foot high fence into some very long grass.
He went all quiet.
The occupants of the car in front of me that stopped are cheering!
I go back to my bike and ride off. Small excitable guy last seen going over the fence to search for his keys.
Knobbers - they are everywhere.
I don't think it is the actual car, but often if there is a size difference between the vehicles, with those in the larger feeling some way superior.
In my incident I was riding my motorbike with my wife pillion through some villages on the Luxembourg/Belgium border (this is not a uk only phenomenon)
I was on the speed limit, knowing a uk plated bike was an easy touch for the local flics.
A Ford Fiesta caught me at a fair rate and proceeded to sit inches from my rear wheel (and I mean inches, not feet) lights flashing and the driver gesticulating for me to pull over, giving me the finger.
We left the village and I left him. Quickly.
Next village he comes steaming in and again attached himself to the back wheel. He then tries to overtake me up the inside! I swear he was almost touching the wife's leg. (who is oblivious to what is happening.)
As he goes up the inside the car I am following swings to the near side, blocking his progress. My shouting Anglo-Saxon greetings may have drawn his attention.
The Fiesta stops and I pull across the front of him. I was fuming.
I jump off the bike leaving the oh perched on he pillion. He driver of the Fiesta is already out of the car, armed with a riding crop.
He is in his 50's and an ageing tattooed f
kwit, Neanderthal. But short. Really short.
He proceeds to start whipping me with the crop. I can't feel this. A couple of mm of armoured leathers proving more than adequate protection.
I took the whip off him and snapped it into three. He then made a bigger mistake and swung for me.
I'm wearing motorcycle race gloves with carbon reinforced knuckles. I jabbed him straight on the nose.
Nothing more. But he dropped his fists.
He starts shouting at me to take of my hat (?) so he can hit me. (at this point the wife admits to thinking 'please don't take off your helmet, you'll only batter him with it')
I shrugged, walked to his car and removed his keys.
He jumped on my back as I walked, his keys in hand and threw them over a 8 foot high fence into some very long grass.
He went all quiet.
The occupants of the car in front of me that stopped are cheering!
I go back to my bike and ride off. Small excitable guy last seen going over the fence to search for his keys.
Knobbers - they are everywhere.
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