What is it with people?!?

[Alex_225]

God what a sh!tty drive I've had this evening and I only did about 20 minutes driving!

First of all popped into Tesco as I knew it'd be almost empty. Anyway, I'm following a Corsa down one of the car park lanes and the Corsa swings into a space on the right so I stop. Anyway as I'm sitting there, some d!ckhead in a white van starts reversing towards to the side of the car. Now it's he's rolling out towards the side of my car so I didn't notice instantly. Luckily the Mrs jumped as I noticed so beeped the horn and he stopped.

He puts his window down and the conversation goes something like this,

Me : 'You wanna check look where your going mate'.
Him : 'So do you mate!'
My Mrs : 'You're reversing into you us you idiot, it's our right of way'
Him : 'Oh sorry'

Well at least she made him see he was in the wrong! :lol:

Then on our way home I come round a corner, in my lane and there's some chump sticking the front of his car out of a junction to my left. Anyway, I carry on round past him and get a nice long beep!! Anyway, I pull up at a set of lights and this car pulls up to me with it's window down, so I do the same, I can't help myself. Again conversation goes something like this -

Me : 'What you beeping me for?'
Him in a thick accent of some kind : 'You come round the corner too fast, and weren't indicating'

Now I did come round the corner at around 20mph as I didn't have to stop but he's pulling out further up and should be aware cars can come round this corner at any moment.

Me : 'Firstly it's my right of way as you're pulling out onto a main road and secondly, I'd be surprised if you even had an English driving licence'

Then drove off! :lol:

Damn I hate some of these people.

 

[Dazza1]

There's alot of cocks out there mate

 

[jra3d]

Ha stupid people like the dumb lady screaming an waving me to slow down on a road because I was apparently traveling too fast, 67 in a 60 but that road is good for 3 figures!

 

[Daveyb133]

The unfortunate thing about the Twingo mate Is how much wrong attention it attracts one of the reasons why I had to get rid was after an attempted car jacking

 

[Alex_225]

Holy sh!t mate, that sounds scary. You ok now I assume?

Thing is I was in my mum's non-RS Twingo so don't think it was negative attention to the car. Just these people that drive and think they are in the right all the time.

 

[Daveyb133]

Yeah, just put foot down and left them. Was over in a few seconds and he was no where to be seen. The best thing, hit corners say bye bye

 

[manofhow]

unfortuanly, u can be the best driver inteh world, but there are still dicks on teh road.

take for instance my mum, typical mum driver, so dont take risks, drives atspeed limit, and she has be smashed into 5 times, (none her fault) over the years

 

[maggi200]

I nearly hit a car yesterday. Tesco car park, quiet corner I like to use and pull up, reversing info the bay. And a woman in a mini drives through the bay behind me to avoid waiting. It was so close so I hooted and she just hurled a load of abuse at me like it was me :lol: I'm still struggling to understand where it might ever be acceptable to do what she did and think you're in the right

 

[holliedynamique]

Mines attracted to quite scarey incidents which I've never talked about here before I had a motorbike swerving up behind me and getting so close he was almost joined to my bumper he kept weaving to try and overtake me and to get me to speed up, he then overtook me on such a dangerous corner I beeped cos he almost hit people crossing, he then kept turning around and swearing and jumping up and down in his seat and then pulled in to let me go by and then he speeded up past me and hit my wing mirror so hard it went back on itself; I hate it cos I always feel twingos stand out cos of there characteristics and the fact there's only a handful around that he could recognise me again and do something else

I also get a lot of people trying to race me (had two chavs in one of those 1.2 corsa with big black gloss alloys) and a lot of people hang on my tail as if I should be driving faster than I do

 

[manofhow]

sry to hear that hollie, its just not right.

 

[weebob]

Dicks.

I do seem to also get a far amount of the wrong type of attention in the Twingo. Thing is they normally back off fairly quick as I don't think they expect a 6 foot 15 stone bloke driving it.

 

[manofhow]

i must have well behaved idiots round here as since i got the twingo havent had a problem with people wanting to race or giving me any greif

 

[Alex_225]

I don't understand the mentality of a bloke who is prepared to scare the hell out of a woman for whatever reason. Not type of 'man' does that. Boils my p!ss.

Don't get me wrong I've said my piece to male and female drivers in my time but once it's said it's said.

Thing is in my time I've had some crazy sh!t happen and on the ocassions where I've just been left thinking 'What the f*ck' it's been with no provocation from me at all.

Had three guys in a van tail gating me on a 40mph road, I was doing the limit. When they could they overtook me, pulled in sharp, start braking, swerving, opening their doors like they're going to get out. No idea why but scared my girfriend at the time.

Had two Asian guys flashing kitchen knives at me after following me, beeping and flashing their lights at me for no apparent reason at all.

I've even had someone up alongside me for breaking too sharply because the car in front of me stopped sharply, so I braked firmly as well. This guy nearly goes up my ar$e and then has a go at me!

That's just some of the many examples of idiocy that's on our roads. I do my absolute best to be a good driver, hence joining the IAM but no matter how good you try to be there's always someone out there that thinks they're better and you're wrong!

Thing is they normally back off fairly quick as I don't think they expect a 6 foot 15 stone bloke driving it.

I've been fortunate to be similar to you mate. I'm about 6'1" and more like 18 stone which has it's benefits when you step out of a Twingo. Was even funnier in the Lupo haha

 

[Matt]

Reminds me of my trip into London one day in a small convoy where a van was tailgating the lot of us and got around to the convoy leader (which was a woman driver with her kid in the back) they started swerving and pushing then towards the central res.

We later found out that there was another one with them who pulled up next to me, opened the sliding door and threw/shot/IDK something at my window causing it to smash all over me. Luckily I didn't panic and gave chase in order to get the reg. Took police minutes to even pick up the phone and then they said they're too busy, go report it in the morning!?

You get the idiot drivers who cause accidents because they don't know how to drive and then the stupidly dangerous drivers as described in this thread who shouldn't be driving full stop.

 

[MovingShadow]

Had two Asian guys flashing kitchen knives at me after following me, beeping and flashing their lights at me for no apparent reason at all.

Seems like fun times where you live :shock:

 

[Sam]

You always get the odd idiot. I had an off duty police officer pull out in front of me (he was sat behind a give way line) in a supermarket car park. So I blasted my horn at him (obviously not knowing at the time he was a police officer as he was in his own car and in ordinary clothing).

Anyway he braked and tried to block me off but then realised he wasn't on duty and therefore couldn't do jack sh*t, so he carried on to the traffic lights. I pulled up in the lane next to him and stared him out and he pulled his Police I.D. card out of his pocket and began waving it ferociously!! I just shrugged my shoulders as if to say "Well, what? You're the one who nearly caused the accident mate, not me." then he continued to wave his ID card so I just ignored him.

Wish I'd have taken down his reg. no and reported him really.

 

[jra3d]

You always get the odd idiot. I had an off duty police officer pull out in front of me (he was sat behind a give way line) in a supermarket car park. So I blasted my horn at him (obviously not knowing at the time he was a police officer as he was in his own car and in ordinary clothing).

Anyway he braked and tried to block me off but then realised he wasn't on duty and therefore couldn't do jack sh*t, so he carried on to the traffic lights. I pulled up in the lane next to him and stared him out and he pulled his Police I.D. card out of his pocket and began waving it ferociously!! I just shrugged my shoulders as if to say "Well, what? You're the one who nearly caused the accident mate, not me." then he continued to wave his ID card so I just ignored him.

Wish I'd have taken down his reg. no and reported him really.

Grr that annoys me, if he's in the wrong suck it up and get on with it, if it's say your fault Sam so be it but really there is no need to abuse your power like that, only unless someone seriously is doing something that dangerous then have a word if safe to do so but really that's what annoys me!!

 

[weebob]

It gets on my tits when people don't fess up when its thier fault. Ill never claim to be a perfect driver but at least when i do cock up i own up to my mistake, not get all aggressive about it.

 

[Sam]

You always get the odd idiot. I had an off duty police officer pull out in front of me (he was sat behind a give way line) in a supermarket car park. So I blasted my horn at him (obviously not knowing at the time he was a police officer as he was in his own car and in ordinary clothing).

Anyway he braked and tried to block me off but then realised he wasn't on duty and therefore couldn't do jack sh*t, so he carried on to the traffic lights. I pulled up in the lane next to him and stared him out and he pulled his Police I.D. card out of his pocket and began waving it ferociously!! I just shrugged my shoulders as if to say "Well, what? You're the one who nearly caused the accident mate, not me." then he continued to wave his ID card so I just ignored him.

Wish I'd have taken down his reg. no and reported him really.

Grr that annoys me, if he's in the wrong suck it up and get on with it, if it's say your fault Sam so be it but really there is no need to abuse your power like that, only unless someone seriously is doing something that dangerous then have a word if safe to do so but really that's what annoys me!!

Exactly! I blasted my horn as was perfectly within my rights - to alert another road user of my presence, as it was quite clear he didn't look otherwise he'd have realised I was there.
I did keep my cool but it was just rather shocking for an off duty police officer to get all confrontational and abuse his power when it was his own fault! The sad thing is, it does happen.

 

[Alex_225]

Had two Asian guys flashing kitchen knives at me after following me, beeping and flashing their lights at me for no apparent reason at all.

Seems like fun times where you live :shock:

The irony is where I live is actually a really nice area but I'm only about 9-10 miles from Croydon and sadly you've got some very scummy areas near there. The chavvy scum, sadly aren't penned in with a military enforced zone so they do sometimes appear. :lol:

Irony is that between my house and Croydon is Purley. Which is one of the most expensive post codes in the country! :?

W*nkers, they're everywhere! lol