re:pt1, i've no qualms about giving poorly illuminated cars a sharp balst of main beam. usually works, apart from the foglighters who remain oblivious.
re:pt2, on encountering these morons on my motorway commute in seemingly increasing numbers I've recently experienced an overwhelming desire to give a long hard blast of horn in protest, however i've managed to resist the urge so far. Anyone else feel the same?
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I get irritated by excessively bright lights. Whether it's those super-bright lasers that modern cars seem to come equipped with or someone who's had a shunt that's knocked one of their lights out of line.
As for the phone thing, I've recently taken to shouting "get off the ****** phone" to anyone I see on the phone while driving, whether I'm in the car or on foot. Of course they're too engrossed in their conversation to notice.
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\"I\'ve recently experienced an overwhelming desire to give a long hard blast of horn in protest, however i\'ve managed to resist the urge so far. Anyone else feel the same?\"
Ohh, yes. Then I realise that they would then have the problem of working out why I was blowing my horn which would leave them doubly distracted.
I once, on a motorbike, stopped at the lights alongside someone who had been weaving all over the road in his merc while trying to use his phone. I suggested he might be better served not to use the phone. His response, \"What the pink flufy dice has it got to do with you?\". Fair point?
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Not a fair point at all, if this bozo's going to take out you, me, himself, my kids stood in the bus queue nearby, and my old mum crossing the road. Surely this is why we have a Highway Code, and get nobbled by plod for breaking the regs even if we've not actually done anyone any harm (yet).
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...I guess the "fair point" is what stops me blasting my horn. However riled i am by dangerous drivers with phones glued to their heads, I am not an agent of law enforcement or a vigilante road safety patrol superhero type person.
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Got to agree with X5 - if everyone had the guts to challenge this sort of thing maybe there'd be less of it. Drinking/ driving was once considered an OK thing to do by most. Not any more thankfully. Driving will be a lot safer and more enjoyable when this sort of thing is considered equally unacceptable.
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Got to agree with X5 - if everyone had the guts to challenge this sort of thing maybe there'd be less of it. Drinking/ driving was once considered an OK thing to do by most. Not any more thankfully. Driving will be a lot safer and more enjoyable when this sort of thing is considered equally unacceptable.
Since everyone would have their own idea of where the line between and act of citizenship (for want of a better word) and an act of road rage is drawn, you'd get a lot more fighting in the street but that would be about it.
I would not accept unsolicited comment on my driving (or on anything else) from anyone who I did not know to be more highly trained and experienced than me.
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We're probably all in agreement here, and we're all right as well. British society these days is predominantly selfish, and you challenge anyone's "right" to do what exactly what they want at your peril. And as the car is really an extension of the home and the self, it becomes very personal indeed. As volvoman says, it will take a long-term culture change in society to rid us of this unpleasant "beggar my neighbour" attitude. To subvert someone's tagline, I often feel like a "stranger in my own land" these days; I don't like Blair's Britain at all. But that's nothing to do with motoring is it? (sorry mods).
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