I'm erratic. Sometimes I get really frustrated driving, and sometimes nothing can fluster me.
I'm erratic. Sometimes I get really frustrated driving, and sometimes nothing can fluster me.
Some things that people do infuriate me. Like passing me when I'm doing 55 on a 55 going into a 25. When that happens, I speed up and ride on their tail like there's no tomorrow. Sometimes even follow them if they're going somewhere I'm not. It irks me bad.
Oh man I used to do that. One time this backfired as it pissed the guy off and he randomly stomped his breaks to make me hit him. And hit him I did. I've calmed down a lot as a driver since then.Originally Posted by Hsu
When people tailgate me (i.e. every time I drive anywhere), I start carefully going 3 mph below the speed limit. Sometimes I oscillate my speed 10 mph or so up and down randomly to make the person behind me wear his brakes out. It's not rage so much as enjoyment of punishing bad people. I have a lot of patience.
My father does the "randomly slam the breaks" move when people tailgate him. I imagine it scares the crap out of people.
For good reason. One tends to get what one deserves.
I wear my brakes out on my own. If you are going 3 miles under I honk my horn until you speed up. If that doesn't work then I pass you up. If you then proceed to put my life in danger by speeding up so I don't pass you then I run you off the road. My car is a piece of [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] so I have nothing to lose and you are then liable for everything. I win.
Also randomly slamming on the brakes doesn't scare me and probably doesn't scare any tailgaters...just makes us angerier. Just don't do it to the rage-a-holic that would kill you.
That reminds me. There were these two guys each in their own pick up truck that wouldn't let me pass them up(4 lane road) and then when we finally came to a stop light one was going to turn left and the other was still in the right lane. He was going to wait for me to go and then turn left because I tailgated my way into that divide. I made him go straight and screw them all up. He was pretty pissed but so was I and he knew he deserved it.
There was this other time I did run someone off the road but that is for another post
ed you animal
The #1 reason why I tailgate is usually because I have to go to the bathroom real bad. So if you slow down on purpose while I'm tailgaiting you because I need to get to a toilet, then I will go insane with rage. I'm like ed, I'll honk like there's no tommorrow, hollering profanity, and I'll eventually pass you up.
I don't have horrible road rage, but I can get a little irritated sometimes. I don't like slow drivers, I'll complain, then just pass them. However, I do get very angry when someone puts my life in danger, from just being stupid.
Tailgating is retarded, but driving slow to piss other drivers off is perhaps moreso. And I agree with ed, I would probably run you off the road, Unne. You're too much of an old man to be driving anyway.
I have now offically UNLEASHED THE FURY!
The only way to describe my road rage is in a quote.
"IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY DRIVING, GET OFF THE F***ING SIDEWALK!!!"
ed, your trolling never used to be this obviously over-the-top stupid. *ignore*
Interestingly, all the tailgating and swearing in the world does not make anyone go faster. It certainly doesn't make me go faster. And if you rear-end someone while tailgating, I'm pretty sure you're liable. You're supposed to leave four seconds of time between yourself and the person in front of you, because it takes a person about four seconds reaction time to slam on the breaks and be able to stop in time without slamming into the back of the person in front of you.
[qq=Yamaneko]Tailgating is retarded, but driving slow to piss other drivers off is perhaps moreso.[/qq]
Contrary to popular thought, the speed limit is actually an UPPER limit on your car's speed, not lower. Driving slow is legal and safe. Driving fast and tailgating is neither.
Other people's impatience is none of my business. People with serious personality flaws (impatience, self-centeredness, carelessness, etc.) deserve to suffer.
[qq=Miriel]The #1 reason why I tailgate is usually because I have to go to the bathroom real bad. So if you slow down on purpose while I'm tailgaiting you because I need to get to a toilet, then I will go insane with rage. I'm like ed, I'll honk like there's no tommorrow, hollering profanity, and I'll eventually pass you up.[/qq]
Pull over somewhere. Rather than risk your life and the life of innocent people for entirely foolish reasons. The person you tailgate may be a mother with children in the car. Or someone just learning to drive.
The anonymity of driving is one of the things that makes this kind of crap so prevalent. How many people walk on people's heels down the sidewalk, screaming profanity at them when they don't walk faster? No one, because when you can look someone in the eye, you know enough not to be a complete ass. But stick someone in a car, and ass-mode is apparently engaged with ease.
Brian: the speed limit is not some magical number that is safest to drive at. Driving slower than the speed of traffic is more dangerous than speeding up 5 or 10 mph. That doesn't make it legal, it just makes it safer - for you and everyone else. If you're willing to put yourself at risk to maintain the speed limit, that's your choice.
EDIT: And deliberately speeding up and slowing down quickly in front of a tailgater is the most unsafe of all.
I didn't say I would ram you off the road from the back but on a 2 lane road if I am going to pass you up and you decided to speed up from preventing this you are in fact the one liable. If someone is going to pass you then you are the one that must slow down. You must let them pass you up and it doesn't really matter how fast you or they are going in this sort of case.
You would like to think I made those stories up but the sad part is...I am not. Now go complain about your grandma driving somewhere else
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