by "Katsumoto" (katsumoto)
Published 06/28/2017 at 08:34
by "Katsumoto" (katsumoto)
Published 06/28/2017 at 08:34
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Its inspired by the similar posts on the main page.
Whats yours, whether receiving or giving?
Mine
I was at a light. Its one of those turn lanes that has a lane at the light before the actual turn. I was in the lane to make my turn at the next light. A guy in a BMW, surprise surprise, cuts me off merging into my lane. I honk. At the light, the guy gets out and starts running his mouth about whatever the fuck.
I ignore him. It pisses him off more. He grabs a tire iron and swings at the car I was in. I get out and start going off. He attempts to swing it at me, I duck and go to my car saying Im getting my gun(didnt even have one in the car). He takes off. And slams into a truck making a turn.
I take off and leave. Only to realize, on the news later that day, he was arrested for murder.
All over me honking at him for his shitting driving.
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
06/28/2017 at 08:41, STARS: 4
So, he was so enraged he went out an murdered someone? Or he already murdered someone and got caught because he ran into another car making that u-turn?
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/28/2017 at 08:52, STARS: 0
I was driving a tiny bit faster than speed limit. Guy in front of me was going a bit slower. I flashed my brights. He “brake checked me” I got angry. Went around him and tapped my brakes in front of him. Before you know it, he’s swinging his car my way and im doing same to him. I pull off into a toll collecting station while calling cops. He waits for me ways away.
He eventually drives off. I eventually drive off. Cops never show. No one hurt. No car damage. Just two idiots.
Later on I was analyzing the whole thing in my head... He might have tapped his brakes to get off his cruise control... it seemed a bit of a long tap tho... but I was an idiot for going around him and tapping my brakes and angering him
"Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction" (rustholes-are-weight-reduction)
06/28/2017 at 08:55, STARS: 1
My thought exactly, I hope it’s the latter
"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
06/28/2017 at 09:00, STARS: 1
I once laid on the horn for a solid 30 seconds at two trucks sitting at a green light, then blew past them still on the horn, because I thought they were blocking traffic to road rage each other. Turns out they’d been in a minor fender bender and were trying to figure out where to pull over.
Other than that, I think I’ve flipped people off a grand total of 3 times since I’ve been driving and that’s about it.
EDIT: OHWAITNO. While I was in Detroit, driving our old X3, I watched some guy in an ATS try to bully and block the little compact in front of me from merging correctly a zipper merge. I thought to myself, “time to try my hand as a dickhead BMW driver.” I then proceeded to pull up just slightly in front of him and slowly (we were in stop and go traffic) cut him off in a way that mostly forced him out of his lane. I was completely in the wrong, but it made that asshole furious and felt very good.
Yes, I’m well aware that’s how you get shot.
"McMike" (mcmike)
06/28/2017 at 09:02, STARS: 1
I was in a turn lane for an on-ramp. It’s very common for people to wait, wait, wait, and then dive a lane or two into this turn lane because it can back up a bit.
I was on the motorcycle.
As traffic was moving slowly, I looked our of the corner of my eye and a car was slowly moving into my lane. He didn’t just want to be in my lane, he but the spot I was in. I’m not exactly sure what he expected me to do, but he was coming. Maybe it was because he thought there was room because the motorcycle was so small? There was a car in front/back of me, but he was still inching in, squeezing me into the curb. I think I was able to get one hand gesture and one honk of the horn.
With nowhere else to go, I did it. I lifted my left leg and stomped his fender.
As the ramp opened, I sped ahead to get around the car in front of me. He followed. He passed me on the shoulder then almost side-swiped me as he reentered the road.
Triggered.
When we stopped at the first red light, I stopped behind him, walked up to his closed window and.... at that point realized that I was letting it get the best of me. I also knew I had witnesses. Some had seen the incident, but most hadn’t.
I continued marching, took a deep breath, punched the window it to get his attention, and screamed “What the fuck is wrong with you?!?!??!?!”
He was an older guy, and started yelling back through the 1" opening in his driver’s window, but his accent was too thick to understand. So I just continued screaming at him while making a bunch of hand gestures about our encounter for the next minute until the light turned green.
"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
06/28/2017 at 09:10, STARS: 5
My biggest pet peeve while driving is people blocking the left lane, particularly when there is no traffic in the middle of the night. Even with the “Stay right, pass left” law, I dont get mad if I can just pass someone on the right. I just move on. The issue is when there are cars on the right and someone is going the same speed in the left lane, effectively creating a road block.
Anyways, this always gives me incurable road rage. And the instant I have an opportunity to finally pass the ahole creating a road block, I drop 2-3 gears and aggressively pass them. Well my mind always wants me to cut them off and brake check them or drive them off the road in some way. Usually I just move on but occassionally I have been mad enough to cut them off a bit and speed off. Yesterday, I had this happen and lo and behold the guy got pissed apparently because he stopped poking along 68 in the left lane and was now tailgating me at about 90. So to avoid that in the future, I will just ignore them and not cut them off while passing aggressively.
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
06/28/2017 at 09:21, STARS: 3
ugh... Middle and right lane full of trucks. Left lane full of cars... one car... way ahead on the horizon has no one in front of it for miles.... That’s the guy that pisses me off. Of course by the time I get up to him, I cannot be sure if he was the block or got around the block and was speeding up when I saw him while back...
Makes me mad too.
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
06/28/2017 at 09:27, STARS: 0
Years ago I went for a long weekend to San Antonio with some friends of mine. We were in all piled in a Grand Caravan driven by one of my friends parents. (For those of you unfamiliar with i10 westbound out of Houston; this is the widest freeway in the world and yet still can be backed up to a stand still with traffic.)
So we’re sitting in heavy traffic that starts to clear a little, and I look up and see my friends dad with a overly-friendly smile on his face waving at the driver of the car to the right of us. He was not doing this because he knew the driver, rather it was his passive-aggressive way of letting that guy know he had been driving like an idiot. (The other driver had been speeding up and slowing down at random, like he wasn’t paying attention to the road, until my friends dad saw an opening, got out from behind him and pulled alongside)
So I look over at the other driver, and this was the angriest looking person I had probably seen in real life at this point. He had his entire head out the window, screaming some kind of abuse, accompanied by his left middle finger. Finally the angry man slows and ducks back inside his car. I see him reaching over into the seat next to him and I honestly thought he was gonna pull a gun. I was actually really scared. Angry Man zooms past and a projectile hits the minivan.
No, not a bullet. The man had thrown a water bottle so hard it exploded on impact. Angry Man immediately exited the freeway and we went on our way.
"Party-vi" (party-vi)
06/28/2017 at 09:35, STARS: 2
Me, asshole high school senior just turned 18 leaving the school on a Saturday (red). I see a large slow conversion van heading out of the parking lot to the light, and I wanted to be first. So, being an asshole in high school I drove across the raised sidewalk extension and cut in front of the van at the light. Seconds later the sun is blocked from my window as a very large very angry man shouts “DO YOU LIKE EATING SOUP!?” at me. I ask him what he means, and he shouts through my open window “IF YOU DON’T MOVE THIS PIECE OF SHIT AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY I WILL MAKE SURE YOU CAN ONLY EAT SOUP FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!” It was at this moment I knew...I fucked up. So I pulled into the right lane and onto the highway to let this conversion van go by me, and then went home to look for clean shorts.
Don’t be an asshole. Especially don’t be an asshole after you turn 18 and it’s no longer a felony to hit you.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
06/28/2017 at 09:42, STARS: 0
Pretty docile... I get pissed at people, but mostly I just shout to myself.
Worst receiving would be a tie. #1 took exception to having two people decide he was going too slow at the same time. The first to go by him was a 2000's Corolla, which gives a little perspective. We both went for a completely empty lane beside him as we came up to a red light... easy way by right? He decides he didn’t like that and swerved in and out of my lane right next to me. Then when the light went green he proceeded to pick up the pace, matching the Corolla move for move so I was boxed in until he finally got bored and wanted to turn off. #2
Worst giving. I was travelling with one other vehicle, second car in the convoy. Lead vehicle pulled the trick of grabbing the right on red just as the cross-traffic gets the green and in the process pissed off some dude in a riced-out Civic. Didn’t impede his progress... I think he was just trying to show off for his girlfriend. Be that as it may, I got seperated from the lead in the right turn, and when I caught up Civic dude had gotten ahead and was deliberately boxing him in. So as soon as I could I got in front and did the same thing to the Civic, letting the lead get out. Carried on like this for probably half an hour, letting him run a little sometimes but never get near the lead. I figured he’d be bored by then but noooo. As soon as I let my gaurd down he ran and got in front of the lead again, this time slowing down an entire lane of highway in search of revenge. End result I had to jump in again and impede his progress so the lead could get by again.
I dunno how bad that really was though... just before I let down my guard I was feeling like a bit of a dick. But the fact that he still went straight after the lead... I feel justified. What surprised me, though, was he seemed to have total tunnel vision. Didn’t seem to figure out I was fucking with him. Never got pissed at me, just was absolutely RIVETED to the guy I was traveling with.
"Maxima Speed" (maximaspeed)
06/28/2017 at 09:44, STARS: 1
I tried to pass a Chevy Pickup hauling a trailer, he was going slightly under the speed limit so I decided to get around him. I was driving my beater Ford Aerostar so passing is a chore as you have to carefully plan when to go full throttle to get around them. Anyways, I build up speed and start the pass, while I’m in the pass he accelerates to stop me from passing him, knowing there is nowhere else to pass on this road I continue hoping I can get around him. About this time a dump truck going well over the speed limit comes over the rise at the end of the passing zone. The I begin braking immediately to get back in my lane, the pickup with trailer starts braking to block me so I decide to go in front and as I accelerate to pull ahead he accelerates again. At this point he is giving me the finger while staring at me, as he is trying to lock me into a head on collision. I thought I’m getting over one way or another so I kept on full throttle and pulled back into my lane nearly running the pickup off the road. I had one car length before I would have been dead. Looking back I was stupid to try to pass him, I also should have just brakes to a stop if I had to to get back over. Also the next day I tried to confront the guy about it, he was at the college I was going to. I began questioning him, and he said he didn’t know what I was talking about and drove away.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
06/28/2017 at 09:47, STARS: 5
I find it really weird that so many people will happily sit with a string of traffic behind them at 5 under, but the instant you try to pass they race you.
Suffice it to say, I don’t dick around any more. If I have a passing opportunity, I’m GOING. FAST. For 80% of passees it’s excessive, but you never know... and it ensures I’m by that last 20% before they can decide that their ego needs a little stroking.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
06/28/2017 at 09:56, STARS: 4
Disagree. You weren’t an idiot for trying to pass. Slow movers are fair game. He was an idiot for trying to stop you. And the fact that he wasn’t even going to let you get back in BEHIND YOU, WITH A TRUCK COMING THE OTHER WAY, cements that as fact. If it came to it it, unless there was an open shoulder on the far side you could have used, I’d have no issue with you changing lanes directly into his side and shoving him into the ditch.
Fuck that douche sideways with a lemon wrapped in razor wire.
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
06/28/2017 at 10:14, STARS: 0
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
He hit the brakes HARD
this vid is funny for some reason
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
06/28/2017 at 10:30, STARS: 1
Similar story happened to my mom. We were on our way up to an off-road resort called Durhamtown. And on our way up their, there was this Honda Pilot going under the speed limit (naturally) and the f-250 that was in front passes it easily. Now, if you know anything about an 2013 Audi Q7 tdi besides emissions scandals, they aren’t very fast. So my mom floors it and right when she floors it, the pilot floors it. All while giving us the finger. Right around the corner was a dump truck and my mom barely made it around the Pilot before getting hit. One more second trying to pass, she would have hit the truck head-on.
"Arrivederci" (arrividerci)
06/28/2017 at 10:49, STARS: 1
I’ve also found that if you pass someone slowly, subconsciously they’ll match your speed. I don’t believe they’re doing so intentionally, but I’ve tested this a few times, slowly increasing my speed when someone does this. Once I had a minivan pacing me up to about 85, then they realized what happened and slowed wayyyyy down quickly.
"Arrivederci" (arrividerci)
06/28/2017 at 10:53, STARS: 1
One of my favorite antagonism methods is to cut someone off who’s being a dick like in your example, then after cutting in front of them, give them the “thank you” wave, like they let you in on purpose.
"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
06/28/2017 at 10:53, STARS: 0
Well see, when there is enough traffic around to take up three lanes its more understandable. Especially a bunch of trucks that cant help but be slow. I still think its annoying how inefficient the roadway is being used, but I just move on from that. I particuarly get annoyed when the same thing happens and there are literally only 3 or 4 cars on the entire road including myself. The speed limit is 65, the accepted local speed is about 80, and yet we are stuck going less than 70 for miles on end.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
06/28/2017 at 10:54, STARS: 1
Some, maybe. There’s still a ton who won’t speed up but can’t stand being passed.
"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
06/28/2017 at 10:59, STARS: 1
Yup, the guy I dealt with was sitting in the left lane and randomly braking (no traffic whatsoever, no turns, no cops, just dark out) and going between 60-70 for a while. Then I pass him on the right quickly after 5 or 6 miles of this crap and set the cruise for about 85. A minute later he came FLYING up behind me so I brought it up to about 90-95 until he gave up.
In a Miata going 90+ is damn near 5k RPM so its not exactly pleasant to do this lol.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
06/28/2017 at 11:05, STARS: 0
I was driving the shitty little 2015 yaris I drove for work, which people seemed to love bullying around on the road. I was in the second to right lane of a four lane highway, in lots of traffic, going the same speed as the person in front of me, with cars going the same speed as far as you can see. A Dodge Ram merges, crosses the right lane and into my lane behind me, and immediately parks on my back bumper. I’m going faster than traffic in the right lane, and there’s no open space in front of me, and he could move into the left lane to try and go faster, so I’m not moving. I slow down to the speed limit, he flashes his high beams. I slow down to 5 under the speed limit. He flashes again. I tap my brakes. He honks. I resume the speed of traffic ahead of me, trying to put distance between us. He has far more power, and stays right on my bumper the whole time. So I aggressively brake check him, he serves into the left lane, guns it, and swings toward me, forcing me across the right lane and onto the shoulder. Then he floored it towards the nearest exit and fucked off.
So yeah, I should not have brake checked him, but I still think he was a psycho for running me onto the shoulder and tailgating for ages where it wasn’t possible for him to get anywhere even if I wasn’t in front of him.
I should add, that’s the last time I brake checked anyone
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
06/28/2017 at 11:07, STARS: 2
Basically my driving philosophy. Innocent until proven guilty, once guilty never innocent. Once you’ve shown yourself to be an ass you ain’t getting back in front. I don’t trust you as far as I could throw you.
"Arrivederci" (arrividerci)
06/28/2017 at 11:08, STARS: 0
I’ve told this story before, but can’t find a link to it, so here’s a quicker version. I was on a date with my girlfriend (now wife) and driving my old Lexus IS250 six-speed manual. It’s later at night, we had just seen a movie, and were turning left out of the shopping center at a light.
The road were were turning onto is four lanes with a center turning lane. Since I was turning left onto it, I turned into the left lane and there is another stoplight less than a quarter mile ahead. Before I have a chance to move to the right lane, the guy behind me in a Maxima decides to swing around (he must’ve made his left turn directly into the right lane) and attempt to fly past me.
Since the light up ahead is only about a quarter mile away, and I always accelerate a little briskly, we’re roughly side by side as we’re approaching the light. I assume he’s going to make a right and head on his way. Nope. Sonofabitch keeps accelerating, cuts in front of me while slamming his brakes, to shoot over to the left turn lane. I slam on brakes, lay on the horn and we’re sitting at the stoplight, next to each other.
I pull the e-brake, put the car in neutral and get out, walking over to his car. I’m astounded to find his car full of his family, and none of them will look at me. I was going to lay into him with an unholy tirade of language that would make a sailor blush, but decided not to with his family there. As I stood there glowering, he ran the red light to make his left. What a little bitch that guy was.
Clearly stupid to get out of the car, but someone damn near intentionally trying to wreck me can have that effect.
"Dru" (therealkennyd)
06/28/2017 at 13:33, STARS: 0
It was a lovely sunny day in May, and it was bike week here. I was headed back to work after lunch, going South on a four lane road divided by a grass median. This road has frequent stoplights to be as sparsely populated with business as is, but it’s near a mall and friendly to foot traffic and bicycles. Two folks on Harley’s were just ahead of me at a light as I pulled up. My turn was about a quarter to a half mile ahead, and I was already in the right lane to turn. The speed limit has changed from 35 to 45, and I figure motorcyclists are going to do some spirited riding on this nice stretch of road. Nope. They putter along at 33 in a 45, and I made mistake of anticipating them riding at least the speed limit. A woman on a Harley, one of the two, turns her torso 90 degrees to get better purchase for finger direction as she flips me off. Presumably for driving too close? I laid on the horn for a solid 15 seconds and she threw her hands up. Dumbass: go the speed limit and we’ll all be happy.
The surge of anger I get from these interactions is bizarre. I rarely get angry about anything, but driving makes me the hulk.
"Moltenburn" (ryanroland)
06/28/2017 at 16:11, STARS: 0
I would have broke out his windshield with my helmet. Fuhk that guy.
"McMike" (mcmike)
06/29/2017 at 07:13, STARS: 0
I duck and go to my car saying Im getting my gun
Don’t ever, ever, ever do that again.
While it’s not actually threatening with a gun or brandishing, It’s likely he could tell the police he was in fear for his life as they were questioning him on why he shot you.
Either way, you’re laying on the stree with a gunshot wound.