I usually blow them a kiss and give them a big smile, find this to be a winning combination.
Remember in the incident you describe you have wronged a perfect person, one who has never made a mistake in their life, so your not going to get anywhere being logical/normal.
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I usually blow them a kiss and give them a big smile, find this to be a winning combination.
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>>>>>>>>>>> some male in his car did this to me 3 weeks ago and im still smarting,i thought about a reaction and refrained but everyone i know that i have told the story to have told me that they would have ripped the guy out of the car and smashed his face in,so not recommended to blow kisses to people you have wronged
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How do i deal with road rage? A Sawn off shotgun!
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How do i deal with road rage? A Sawn off shotgun!
Just make sure you've sawn off the right end!
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Going back to the OP this is my pet hate. You are queued in two lanes at traffic lights and its only when you slowly progress forward that you suddenly see the road marking with the arrows telling you that you are in the wrong lane!
On my daily commute I pass through six of these types of junctions, there are no road signs in advance of them and in rush hour traffic there is always a car on top of the road marking!
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I usually blow them a kiss and give them a big smile find this to be a winning combination. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> some male in his car did this to me 3 weeks ago and im still smarting
S'funny but i find it tends to diffuse the situation, maybe they have other issues re. the kisses.
Don't suppose there is any hard and fast rule, but i for one am not cowering in the face of unreasonable bullying..which is what road rage really is.
Thats not to say that i go around looking for trouble, but have you noticed it usually a biggish bloke mouthing off at a smaller chap..and its not on.
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i think blowing a kiss to another man is just asking for trouble
the situation is already heated
somebody sees a wrong whether its there or not
then to try and offer them a kiss that can be mistaken as calling them homosexual
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i wouldnt recommend it
i live in yorkshire
{one word amended}
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 30/11/2007 at 00:31
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i live in yorkshire
I live in Gloucester and I wouldnt recommend it either.
A well visible apologetic sign can calm a situation far better than deliberately antagonising other drivers
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 30/11/2007 at 00:31
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Drive a white van, or a beat-up old banger and shout back 'I only paid fifty quid for this, d'yer fink I bovvered to insure it?' ;>)
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Bottle it all up inside and beat my wife when I get home
Truth is I can't always control my rage, I do start out each journey with good intentions, but every now and again I blow a fuse. I'm a typical bloke. In my defence, it's never when someone makes a mistake, that never ever bothers me. I much prefer people to be cutting in front, pulling out when I'm approaching wizzing in and out of lanes and anything that keeps traffic flowing (all examples of good London driving). I rage at ditherers, dilly-dallyers, fast asleep when the lights go green-ers, people in the fast lane that pull away slower than the bus in the slow lane. Trying to find the exit in those huge out of town shopping centre car parks makes me utterly livid. But my pet hate at this particular time are people who, when you gesture to let them out, they just sit there gawping at you in that slack-jawed manner that ditherers have.
To further prop up my defence, it's not road rage with me as such. It's just rage. Doesn't matter if I'm in a supermarket, restaurant, walking down Oxford Street, working or watching telly. Nothing beats a good rant at both people and inanimate objects. I went to collect my nephew from play school the other day and the headmaster actually came out to tell me off for parking on the grass - I got out, walked up to him, put my face right in his and raged until I thought I was going to burst. And it felt sooooooooo good.
I don't really beat my wife of course, she'd knock seven bells out of me.
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Dave
Spot on. I and the Wife both have the same pet hates. Of course this is exacerbated once you drive in Portugal a log. The drivers over there have no patience at all and as soon as the lights turn green, if the person at the front hasn't already moved 20 yards, they're leaning on their horns. It doesn't help that they anticipate the Green light (No Amber)
Unfortunately, I have picked up this habit somewhat.... Parp! My only problem is that the Horn in my Touran is frankly useless. More like "Excuse me" rather than "GET OUT OF THE WAY"
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"Unfortunately, I have picked up this habit somewhat.... Parp! My only problem is that the Horn in my Touran is frankly useless. More like "Excuse me" rather than "GET OUT OF THE WAY""
Yes YES THATS IT.
horns these days are pathetic weedy things. Road rage appeared when we were foisted with stupid noddy "parps" A good tripple air horn, loud - shrill -urgent that what we all need! road rage disapears in an instant
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stupid noddy "parps" A good triple air horn loud - shrill -urgent thats what we all need! road rage disappears in an instant
Or playing Colonel Bogey ain't a bad choice either. Now.......How many balls did Hitler have??
Love the Backroom most days.............VBR.......MD
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This is a 'well it really depends' type of question (or answer) isn't it? Who here would suggest casually blowing a kiss to a car-full of ethnic looking gangsta types if they started making forefinger & bendy thumb signs at you? Not many I'd wager, inc. me. OTOH, if a bullying type of lorry driver got stroppy, and road conditions were in my favour, I might think it appropriate to generate a nice insulting gesture (or set of gestures) that undermined his masculinity, driving prowess & intelligence. Wimmin can be surprisingly aggressive. My 'technique' in this situation, if confronted with RR, is absolute indifference & mimsiness - a sort of passive stupidity that leaves them flummoxed & deflated. Never leave the car in any RR situation of course, not only for what the aggressor might do - but for what you might do too.
I don't tend to practise the above much, although my thought processes work along those lines. More often than not, if pushed, I'll unleash my look of extreme pity & deep understanding for their life of bathos & pathos. This is best practised in the mirror for the final nuanced perfection, for when deployed.
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