Nice relaxing drive to work - not

[DumfriesDik]

We passed them in the next layby about 2miles ahead with a smile on my face and a rather relieved wife sat next to me, sometimes, Karma just does it's stuff.

How very satisfying.

 

[Marlon]

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We passed them in the next layby about 2miles ahead with a smile on my face and a rather relieved wife sat next to me, sometimes, Karma just does it's stuff.

Marvellous that gives me a nice warm feeling inside

 

[Roundozo]

Not that I condone this behaviour now but when I was younger I used to have a mk3 Capri. This came with a rear wiper and screen wash nozzle. I redirected the jet so that it would fire water at any tailgating numpty sat on my backside. Tee hee.

 

[stevo///m3]

Not that I condone this behaviour now but when I was younger I used to have a mk3 Capri. This came with a rear wiper and screen wash nozzle. I redirected the jet so that it would fire water at any tailgating numpty sat on my backside. Tee hee.

 

[dr_john]

Must be the day for it. I've just been out around Loughborough (my local area) for a couple of hours and had 2 instances of bad driving.

First some knobhead on a supermarket carpark decides it's his right of way over me (it wasn't) and pulls out in front of me while I'm queueing to to get out. Then a lorry decides to take me on pulling way from the lights, fat chance.

I swear its the zed that makes people react like this, seen it times.

 

[MACK]

Must be the day for it. I've just been out around Loughborough (my local area) for a couple of hours and had 2 instances of bad driving.

First some knobhead on a supermarket carpark decides it's his right of way over me (it wasn't) and pulls out in front of me while I'm queueing to to get out. Then a lorry decides to take me on pulling way from the lights, fat chance.

I swear its the zed that makes people react like this, seen it times.

Unfortunately for most of us its an everyday occurrence. Sometimes I wish I was a traffic cop in an unmarked car just so I could ruin their day and get a few of them off the road!

What we used to call Sunday drivers 20 years ago are now everyday tw@ts unfortunately!!!

 

[nb67]

We passed them in the next layby about 2miles ahead with a smile on my face and a rather relieved wife sat next to me, sometimes, Karma just does it's stuff.

How very satisfying.

Do you know how tempted I was to slow down, hanging out the window, laughing my tits off??

 

[nb67]

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We passed them in the next layby about 2miles ahead with a smile on my face and a rather relieved wife sat next to me, sometimes, Karma just does it's stuff.

Marvellous that gives me a nice warm feeling inside

 

[TR4man]

I wonder if this would happen less if we were driving more "normal" cars?

My wife has a Volvo estate and when she or I am driving very rarely get tailgated. In my Coupe it seems as though it attracts people wanting to race or intimidate by tailgating. As soon as they see that I'm grey haired old fart and don't want to play, they move on.

 

[stuartC]

I wonder if this would happen less if we were driving more "normal" cars?

My wife has a Volvo estate and when she or I am driving very rarely get tailgated. In my Coupe it seems as though it attracts people wanting to race or intimidate by tailgating. As soon as they see that I'm grey haired old fart and don't want to play, they move on.

There's your solution OP - a grey wig and false moustache

 

[Marlon]

I wonder if this would happen less if we were driving more "normal" cars?

My wife has a Volvo estate and when she or I am driving very rarely get tailgated. In my Coupe it seems as though it attracts people wanting to race or intimidate by tailgating. As soon as they see that I'm grey haired old fart and don't want to play, they move on.

There's your solution OP - a grey wig and false moustache

:lol: Why not go the whole hog and trade the Zed in for a Volvo while you're at it.

 

[RickRob]

I agree with those that slow down and increase the space to the car in front of you.

My record was to slow from 60mph to 15mph on a dead straight road with nothing coming the other way, and still the muppet behind didn't overtake. Eventually I got slowly back to c50mph and the car behind stayed well back. Very odd behaviour - but it was an Audi!

 

[firebobby]

Hit the mad button and accelerate away from the knob, do a J turn and head back down the road towards Mr knob, playing chicken :evil:

Being grey and bald helps, wind your window down and wave your driving gloved hand to let the prick overtake

These cars do seem to attract idiots though :roll:

 

[ronk]

It's hard not to do as the OP as it does get very frustrating to be tailgated, however two wrongs don't make it right. When being tailgated I tend to slow down, not brake, just let speed fall gradually and most tailgaters take the hint without it being dangerous. On the motorway I tend to accelerate until I pass the slower traffic until I can pull in letting them pass, I would much rather them be in front of me than behind me

+1

 

[nfbr]

I wouldn't recommend brake testing anyone...

I was called up in court as a witness to this RTC where the two people at the front of the collision had been acting like total idiots for several miles in reasonably fast moving congestion.

The two at the front got pretty heavily sentenced as a passenger in one of the cars in the middle ended up as a fatality.

Think carefully before reacting to a***holes on the road.

 

[ronk]

They seem to tailgate very badly in Germany !
I was stuck in the outside lane in heavy traffic in a de restricted section and knowing following a little too closely for my comfort at 90 95 mph - a fella in a Porsche wasn't happy with me leaving the gap and was about 2m off my rear bumper with headlights on:thumbs down:
The queue ahead was bumper to bumper as were the inside lanes so in effect nowhere to go!

 

[sars]

The queue ahead was bumper to bumper as were the inside lanes so in effect nowhere to go!

That really gets my goat, I've often thought about a voice activated neon sign in the rear window that could say the following things: -

Don't hog the middle lane you fat lazy prick/old fart (delete as appropriate)
Don't use your rear intensity lights when its raining you fuckwit as we all think you're braking
Hey moron, don't crawl up my arse until I know your first name

 

[nfbr]

I've often thought about a voice activated neon sign in the rear window that could say the following things: -

Don't hog the middle lane you fat lazy prick/old fart (delete as appropriate)
Don't use your rear intensity lights when its raining you fuckwit as we all think you're braking
Hey moron, don't crawl up my arse until I know your first name

Maybe one about the people carrier doing 65mph in the outside lane when there's nobody in the first two lanes?

 

[Roundozo]

I wouldn't recommend brake testing anyone...

I was called up in court as a witness to this RTC where the two people at the front of the collision had been acting like total idiots for several miles in reasonably fast moving congestion.

The two at the front got pretty heavily sentenced as a passenger in one of the cars in the middle ended up as a fatality.

Think carefully before reacting to a***holes on the road.

Holy sh*t! That looks bad. Brake testing is up there with the worst. I just put my thumb on my nose, wiggle my fingers and stick my tongue out and blow them a raspberry. Amuses me, pisses them off even more but less chance of death.

 

[aquazi]

You live and learn....

He managed to undertake... So there must have been somewhere for you to pull in.

Eitherway... The one thing i hate more than tailgaters are braketesters... So you got a special one there!