I took a safe driver's course, and they said never retaliate against an agressive driver, no matter how mad he/she makes you. Sometimes I have to grit my teeth and let someone like that just go on. What about you?
Do you ever retaliate when confronted with an agressive driver?
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Nearly never. If I can get something subtle and relatively safe in, though, I will. Like the finger - easier to flip the bird and make a fast getaway on a freeway.
Vic
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In my experience, people who use the phrase "aggressive driver" are incompetent drivers who can't drive and chew gun at the same time (much less talk on their cell phone) and are usually found gridlocking intersections, not using their turn signals, and blocking traffic doing 45 in the left lane on a fast-moving freeway, wondering why-oh-why is everyone so pissed off at me for? :roll:
No, never. I've seen people pull guns. Not smart people but real guns. I am just glad to be safe and drive another day.
mobobuff
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Not really... just really mild stuff, like if somebody pulls out in front of me and I'm already 10 feet behind them I just blow past them and cut them off instead of filling my brake pads with metal dust. Or if I'm already going like 70 but somebody's still on my ass, I'll wait for a long line of opposing traffic and then signal a right turn and come to a complete stop and wait a good 5 seconds to complete the turn.
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Who's the aggressive driver? :roll:
You have some deep-seated passive-aggressive issues of which you're in denial about and need to seek professional help.
See my other post above. Those other "aggressive drivers" are people that you have pissed off with your passive-aggressive discourtesy.
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Back in the day, in my earlier driver days, had to retaliate or at least contemplate it mightily. Now I might grumble to myself (a.k.a. teach the kiddies some new vocabulary) but I take no physical action. I have mentally blown some people up though, oh they have met with a swift and painful death.
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Course I do. Well, less as I age now, because I realize it's nothing personal, and it's not worth getting into an accident. sometimes though I have to teach somebody a lesson, like if they are super aggressive just to get one spot ahead, I'll wait until I can make my move and show them how it's really done. yee haw!
Last time I flipped some jackass the bird, he just happened to be going to the same place I was and by his reaction you would have thought he caught me in the sack with his little sister. He was totally having a hissy fit. I was turning into a driveway with my turn signal on and he honks his horn and I flip him off. That should have been the end of it, but he was going into this whole thing about how it doesn't matter what he did to me, it can't possibly have justified such drastic action as giving him the finger.
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It's not worth it. Who knows if the next guy isn't going to bust out a gun?
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It's not worth it. Who knows if the next guy isn't going to bust out a gun?
episodic
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One lady got out of her SUV and cussed me because I would not let her into traffic while she was trying to turn right out of a parking lot onto a busy rush hour street that was plagued with construction problems. Screw it, I had to wait 15 minutes to turn onto this same road minutes before and noone else that I had control over was getting in front of me.
you mean a left turn?
If you REALLY want to piss them off, make an unsignalled left turn. however, I fully believe that no legal protection should be extended to people who make unsignalled left turns. if they get shot, the cops shouldn't even bother looking. They had it coming.
Once I was riding with a friend of mine and a middle-aged lady blatantly cut us off, as if we weren't even there. She was directly parallel to us in the left lane and with no turn signal or anything, she just merges into our lane. I never felt as close to death in my life. When I caught up to her, and I made sure we did, I blanketed her hood with a freshly prepared coffee frappucino. This is definitely out of character for me, but she deserved it.
"Yeah, Mom, he told you to vigorously fornicate yourself with an iron rod because you decided that his driver-side door was a good place to merge your minivan."
Technically, I have no problem with "aggressive driving" per se - it's the "stupid driving" I have an issue with.
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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
"Yeah, Mom, he told you to vigorously fornicate yourself with an iron rod because you decided that his driver-side door was a good place to merge your minivan."
Technically, I have no problem with "aggressive driving" per se - it's the "stupid driving" I have an issue with.
- M4H
mobobuff
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Wow, a complete psychological diagnosis all from a brief paragraph describing my non-frequent driving habits when confronted with strenuous traffic situations... well done, you pretentious f_ck. Everybody has a bad and stressful day every once in a while, get used to it.
"You slammed a door two years ago? Wow, you really have some deep-rooted psychological problems stemming from a bad up-bringing and sex-life troubles. I am also willing to bet that you're 6'1" and diabetic and your uncle's stepfather had a gambling problem, I am correct in all of these observations because I understand humans and normal ones NEVER display any sign of emotional discomfort or distress without having diagnosed mental and emotional issues, that's just absolutely absurd." </derisive sarcasm>
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