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It was an NSL. You were doing 45. I overtook you on a piece of road with good visibility and broken hatch lines on this side of the road indicating a perfectly legal place to overtake.
So why did you feel the need to call me a w*nker?
I'd love to have stopped and asked why, not angry or threatening, just to know why.
She was
minging as well.
So why did you feel the need to call me a w*nker?
I'd love to have stopped and asked why, not angry or threatening, just to know why.
She was
minging as well.
I got road raged by some chavette whale in a barried fiesta because she pulled out from a junction nearly side swiping me on a roundabout while i was indicating to come off at the next junction. obviously my fault for using correct indicating and lane at a roundabout that seems to be done by one in ten drivers anyway, her skinny shaven headed possibly herion addict of a boyfriend in the passenger seat decided he too will show me how tough he was by shaking his scrawny little fists and mouthing every expletive under the sun at me too, all when they got to a point were i couldn't chase them (i turned off into a garage as soon as i left the round about in bewilderment). 
Ahh sheffield, what lovely people.. 
Good job i couldn't chase them they caught me in a foul mood that day, they didnt seem too eager to take up my gesture of following me into the garage to discuss their behavour either. Road raging for no apparent reason or when you almost cause an accident is par for the course these days.
Ahh sheffield, what lovely people.. Good job i couldn't chase them they caught me in a foul mood that day, they didnt seem too eager to take up my gesture of following me into the garage to discuss their behavour either. Road raging for no apparent reason or when you almost cause an accident is par for the course these days.took a new hot hatch out for a test drive on the weekend, merging onto a dual carriageway coming off a slip road, outside lane clear guy in lane one decides not to move over, big lorry on my bumper so to make things easier i put my foot down, slipped in front of guy in lane one, to allow lorry to get on behind him.
cue irate flashing of head lights and grimacing in rear view mirror, and fingers raised.
ahh what a lovely start to the test drive.
cue irate flashing of head lights and grimacing in rear view mirror, and fingers raised.
ahh what a lovely start to the test drive.
I didn't know the name so I Googled it. It being the operative word. 
Well, it's not just women who behave like this.
There's a double mini-roundabout near here where, for some unfathomable reason, people think they have priority from the left, not the right. It happens all the time, and I usually approach with caution in case I need to stop quickly.
A couple of weeks ago, a guy in a newish BMW cut me up there. His response to seeing me heading for him was to slam on his brakes in front of my car, then swerve to block my car from moving forwards at all. He opened the door and leapt out, ready to give me a pasting. This guy was in his 40s or 50s, and dressed in a suit.
He took one look at me, sitting in my car with SBaby in the back, and thought better of it. Luckily for him. Because if he'd tried to get into my car, he'd have discovered that a) Rovers go backwards as well as forwards, and b) I'd quite happily have swiped off the door he left open in an attempt to keep SBaby safe.
What motivates people to think they're inevitably in the right? The number of altercations I've had with mouthy people at this roundabout is astounding. Why are they all convinced that they, coming from the left, have priority on the roundabout? Are they all that stupid?
There's a double mini-roundabout near here where, for some unfathomable reason, people think they have priority from the left, not the right. It happens all the time, and I usually approach with caution in case I need to stop quickly.
A couple of weeks ago, a guy in a newish BMW cut me up there.
His response to seeing me heading for him was to slam on his brakes in front of my car, then swerve to block my car from moving forwards at all. He opened the door and leapt out, ready to give me a pasting. This guy was in his 40s or 50s, and dressed in a suit. He took one look at me, sitting in my car with SBaby in the back, and thought better of it. Luckily for him. Because if he'd tried to get into my car, he'd have discovered that a) Rovers go backwards as well as forwards, and b) I'd quite happily have swiped off the door he left open in an attempt to keep SBaby safe.
What motivates people to think they're inevitably in the right? The number of altercations I've had with mouthy people at this roundabout is astounding. Why are they all convinced that they, coming from the left, have priority on the roundabout? Are they all that stupid?
SGirl said:
What motivates people to think they're inevitably in the right? The number of altercations I've had with mouthy people at this roundabout is astounding. Why are they all convinced that they, coming from the left, have priority on the roundabout? Are they all that stupid?
Combination of things:
1. Stresses and pressure of modern life
2. Lack of awareness/road craft
3. Lack of understanding of the road law
4. Lack of patience
You see it repeated on here quite often. A debate descends into personal abuse because people get wound up - why? This is an internet forum, a place for entertainment, in between working
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