Aggressive response & jealousy; how do you deal with it?

[easty027]

I've only had mine a few months and have already been driven at, shouted at, glared at etc. Manchester is full of very angry 'want to get home' drivers and having a flash car makes them explode in rage.

I find a big smile when they're at their angriest makes me feel very good when I see them go almost purple

totally agree! Manchester is full of wankers behind the wheel. since moving here some 4.5 years ago i have never experienced a place quite like it, ive had all sorts, from people cutting me up to a gypsy looking twat in a white transit trying to literally touch my rear bumper with his front bumper.

 

[iwatchlive]

Wow some great comments there folks, keep em coming,

 

[Taz]

I wonder if this is just a bloke thing, the "worst" I have had is some guy in a white van, in his early twenties, wave me down to a stop so he could ask me if I was single

and your reply was?

 

[pvr]

Wow some great comments there folks, keep em coming,

Did I see you today near Eastbourne by the way? Top down, had to be a hard core forum member. I took the X5 today so you would not have recognised me.

 

[JimmyPop]

I had one guy on Gordon Street in Glasgow stop and shout "ZED!" at the top of his voice which has been the only heckling I've had.

Well that and an idiot of a van driver trying to run me off the road a couple of weeks ago for no reason at all that I can think of except for me having a Z4.

 

[aquazi]

Soon after i bought my car i was washing it on my drive and some school boys who live up the road said they preffered my old S2000

 

[lacroupade]

Like a lot of things in life, not worth the aggro that could result from responding. Ignore it and blank them.

As my wife is wont to say..."Its when they stop talking about you that its time to worry"

 

[Anonymous]

I've had people spit at my RRS and Bentley when I had them, mainly at petrol stations when filling up....Z4, have had people shout from cars from time to time....

 

[Lucy]

I think you all need to have sex change surgery 'cos you don't get abuse when you're a woman in one, quite the opposite really! It actually makes us attractive :lol:

 

[shambolic]

I think you all need to have sex change surgery 'cos you don't get abuse when you're a woman in one, quite the opposite really! It actually makes us attractive :lol:

I agree my missus gets no hassle I get called "w***er" etc

Stupidest cretin was getting into a banged up people carrier with his wife(I think or sister or both judging by the sprogs the parents had to be related) and was parked in the space behind me. They were getting shopping and weans (4 of them) into their car as I was putting roof doon. Seriously they looked like a complete episode of Jeremy Kyle!
Guy to wife/sister "Look at that w***er" All I had done was put roof doon to drive aff. I turned round and said " you do know I can hear you as the roof is down ya stupid muppet".
He turned red and mumbled something under his breath as I then gave a wee wave and drove off into the lovely sunshine with the wind in my hair and no worry about 4 sprogs and a fat ugly wife/sister

 

[cj_eds]

I think you all need to have sex change surgery 'cos you don't get abuse when you're a woman in one, quite the opposite really! It actually makes us attractive :lol:

Last year one of my mates let his girlfriend takes his Elise to Tesco. She came back with a note that was put under the wiper asking for a date and a had a number to call. She was quite chuffed, he wasn't

 

[iwatchlive]

 

[iwatchlive]

Wow some great comments there folks, keep em coming,

Did I see you today near Eastbourne by the way? Top down, had to be a hard core forum member. I took the X5 today so you would not have recognised me.

Could've been me bwana, only ever seen one other deep sea blue E89 locally, mine has http://www.Z4-forum.com in the rear left window and if its above 1 degree I would possibly have had the roof down :wink:

Did I have my Fozzy Bear suit on??



regards

Fozzie IWL

 

[pvr]

It was your colour, but could not see the driver as I was going the other way and the distance was too far to see details.

 

[jwa1]

I think you all need to have sex change surgery 'cos you don't get abuse when you're a woman in one, quite the opposite really! It actually makes us attractive :lol:

Last year one of my mates let his girlfriend takes his Elise to Tesco. She came back with a note that was put under the wiper asking for a date and a had a number to call. She was quite chuffed, he wasn't

My friends gf once had a similar encounter. She unfortunately gave the number to us and she wasn't very happy once she found we had pretended to be her via text message on a night out. The top it off, we sent him some pictures he probably wouldn't have appreciated - we didn't do this until he had invited us back to his flat though. Lol harsh but funny to a group of guys. To be honest I think putting a note on a girls window is a bit pathetic, wierd, creepy and demeaning!

 

[jwa1]

Oh an in response to the actual topic of this thread. I once turned into this car park where it was my right of way. I had the roof down so I heard a guy say 'BMWs don't need to indicate then', I replied to him with 'I didn't take the optional extra so no'.

I did notice some people have a negative attitude towards me when I had my roof down, I think many people instantly just think you're a poser and a show off. It's not true though. I've had people ask me if I'm a poser and I say no, I just like driving high quality convertible sports cars.

If I get people trying funny business with me on the road I will make sure they can see that I am not at all bothered by them (usually by smiling or laughing while they call me a w*nker or equivalent), I usually find people stop being an idiot straight away if I do that as it humiliates them. I do like to get my own back a little though by inconveniencing them too. E.g. if they get stuck behind me at a junction and there are no other cars around, take ages to pull away from the lights. Quite childish really but it entertains me and probably leaves them feeling upset and frustrated which will hopefully discourage them from being an idiot on the road again.

I once had a guy undertake me and then pull in front of me in the fast lane as he felt i undertook him which I hadn't. I think he mainly did that as I had a better car than him. He literally would have pushed me into the central reservation if I would not have braked, he was literally a nutter. I got my own back by pulling the same trick back but I waited until he wasn't expecting it and there was plenty of room. I don't want to cause a crash!

 

[iwatchlive]

It was your colour, but could not see the driver as I was going the other way and the distance was too far to see details.

AHOY- next time try a flash and a beep and a wave my friend (NOTE FLASH means the lights big-boy)

One wouldn't normally respond to an X5, but if its you then OK

 

[pvr]

Next time if I know it is top down weather I would take the M. Was horrible when I left, but sunny down south.