What do you do when people cut you off?

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Originally Posted By: naphthoylindole
I don't need any of this "I politely ignore them and continue on with my life" [censored], that's great that you're a hippy, and I don't really care.

Long honk on horn, flash headlights, then forget about it. Life's too short for more than that. Really.

Know what really turns MY crank? Idiots who drop their cigarette butts out their slightly-opened window on the highway. I've had a couple actually land on my windshield and end up on top of the wipers. I regularly find them stuck in the gap between the rad and the front crossmember. THINK, dummies! THINK! WHERE are the flippin' things going after you toss them?
 
Originally Posted By: dgee
When I was younger I use to throw pennies out the window when someone was tailgating the [censored] out of me. After about 3 or 4 cents they can't bear hearing the loud cracking noise on their windshield and back off.


Sounds interesting. Will have to try that.
 
Originally Posted By: Tegger
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Know what really turns MY crank? Idiots who drop their cigarette butts out their slightly-opened window on the highway. I've had a couple actually land on my windshield and end up on top of the wipers. I regularly find them stuck in the gap between the rad and the front crossmember. THINK, dummies! THINK! WHERE are the flippin' things going after you toss them?


My ex-girlfriend tells a story about getting caught flipping a cigarette butt out of the window of her car in California. She had to pay a hefty fine and spend a day picking up litter on a roadside.
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Originally Posted By: Tegger
Originally Posted By: naphthoylindole
I don't need any of this "I politely ignore them and continue on with my life" [censored], that's great that you're a hippy, and I don't really care.

Long honk on horn, flash headlights, then forget about it. Life's too short for more than that. Really.

Know what really turns MY crank? Idiots who drop their cigarette butts out their slightly-opened window on the highway. I've had a couple actually land on my windshield and end up on top of the wipers. I regularly find them stuck in the gap between the rad and the front crossmember. THINK, dummies! THINK! WHERE are the flippin' things going after you toss them?



I had a cigarette butt land on the window cowl, where my interior air is coming from. It was still lit and just kept on burning, filling my car's interior with that stench!!

I literally had to pull over and get it off! I couldn't take it.

The problem was, it kept on stinking in the car even with the Windows open. I ended up having to remove the cowl and found cigarette ashes everywhere, even found them lodged in the interior air filter of the car!!!

After replacing the air filter and cleaning the cowl area, I finally got rid of the smell. I never had that happen to me before but after that incident, I hate when people throw cigarettes out the window with a Passion.
 
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A coworker used to drop ball bearings from underneath his truck. He rigged up a trap door and out they came. He would speed up 100 feet away and open the trap door. Tailgaters didn't no what hit them.

He also added a hose the to the exhaust manifold and poured after to create a smoke screen for tailgaters, that was in high school.

Pretty creative, but why?
 
Who cares?

As long as there's no contact I'm fine with it.

I don't have high expectations after over 40 years of driving. I routinely drive 60-70k miles a year for business, and the key is to avoid contact of any kind.

Anyone else notice the changes as the holly-daze get closer?
 
I try to write it off. I mean, we all screw up, so, I try to not take it personally. I'm sure a couple times a year I do it myself.

If they're really bad, I'll high beam. Means nothing I know. More often I will just slam on the brakes, but let myself get real close. Nothing too dangerous, more of a "yes, you cut that too close, you're a moron".

But life is short. Why make it shorter over something stupid?

Speaking of this: don't know if anyone believes in karma, but I had this happen to me this morning. PT Cruiser pulled out, so I slammed on the brakes, was going 50mph or so, hard braking because the dolt pulled on right in front of me. Glad I didn't have a load of stuff in the trailer that I was pulling. The dolt then tries to dodge over into the breakdown lane, as some sort of "I'm sorry" but by then I'm doing like 20mph so I've lost all momentum and let them back in.

Couple miles down the road, I notice that the car smoking. "Stupid Chrysler product, serves 'em right" I think to myself. After a couple more miles I notice it is smoking far worse. Get a little closer, and it turns out the exhaust is on the other side. Huh? Oh--it's an almost completely flat tire!

At this point I try to be nice, and I high beam 'em. But no sooner do I figure this out that they take a side road. I see it's a woman driver. I figure by now, there's no way she would have let me help her, so, hopefully AAA helped her in the end.
 
I may flash lights to let them know "hey, I'm here and that wasn't cool, but not much more than that, last thing I need is some psycho nut case pulling a gun on me during a road rage moment and making me waste a bullet back at him. Besides, sometimes digging a hole big enough to bury a 55 gallon drum can be tedious and might make me late for work!
 
Originally Posted By: joaks
Give them space. I have bigger problems than being cut off.

EDIT I mean I hit them with my laser enhanced flame (trying to follow the rules of the thread)


Usually I can see it coming. So I give up space and let them go. They can get their road rage from someone else.
 
Grumble and drive on. Honk if I am about to get hit.

I try and remember the morons who engage one another and breathe out.
 
Had a line cutter attempt it at a local public event.

I moved up, not leaving room for him to nose in.

He punched my car, broke my mirror, attempted entry multiple times and generally went berserk. $1200 damage. He's very fortunate that he did not get in.

While he agreed to pay, he has not done so yet. I'm about to press charges. It's a felony in FL when damage is over $1K.
 
Smile, back off, wave if they give me the one finger salute. I always prefer to back off from a fight. Being passive/aggressive keeps me out of a lot of trouble.
 
On Thanksgiving night, my gf and I were in my RX-8, on our way to our friend's house for dinner. We were carrying 2 pies and a crockpot full of tasty stew, and were in the right lane heading up a fairly steep hill, where the speed limit is 40.

An old lady (over 65, with grey hair) in her green Honda Accord started drifting over into my front left fender, so I honked the horn. She swerved back into her lane, and then she started to completely come unraveled in her car.

She was swinging her arms wildly, turning her head and screaming at the top of her lungs, head gestures, the whole 9 yards. When I came to a stop at the light behind the pickup truck in front of me, she pulled up alongside me, and was still screaming, and gesturing wildly.

So I rolled my window down, and asked her what her problem was. She was still screaming at the top of her voice, and with her windows rolled up, I couldn't hear a thing she was saying (great insulation in her car, I guess).

That's when she started trying to open her car window, but she must have been hitting the button the wrong way, and couldn't get it to roll down. That when she switched to trying to reach across her car to hit the window button on the door, but her seat belt was on, and she couldn't reach far enough with it, but she tried reaching 3 times anyway. She's still screaming her head off, this whole time.

Then she unbuckles her belt, tries to reach across again, and her car starts rolling forward, so she jerks back up, and slams on her brakes, still screaming, but I can't make out a single word.

When the light turned green, I slowly drove off (don't want to spill the crock pot), leaving her behind, still screaming and gesturing. I made a sweeping away gesture with my left hand as I turned onto the highway entrance ramp, and continued on with my life, without even a single understanding of why the lady went bezerk over being warned that she was going to hit my car if she kept drifting into my lane, nor without having my blood pressure raise a single point, because of the hilarity of an old lady becoming unglued in the car next to me.

So, I honked, and then was fully entertained for the next minute or two.

BC.
 
Originally Posted By: Cujet
Had a line cutter attempt it at a local public event.

I moved up, not leaving room for him to nose in.

He punched my car, broke my mirror, attempted entry multiple times and generally went berserk. $1200 damage. He's very fortunate that he did not get in.
While he agreed to pay, he has not done so yet. I'm about to press charges. It's a felony in FL when damage is over $1K.

When did this happen ?
That would have been great if you blasted his [censored]. I would of unlocked my door and let him enter my car and start swinging. Then I would have unloaded my Glock at point blank range.
 
Originally Posted By: LT4 Vette
Originally Posted By: Cujet
Had a line cutter attempt it at a local public event.

I moved up, not leaving room for him to nose in.

He punched my car, broke my mirror, attempted entry multiple times and generally went berserk. $1200 damage. He's very fortunate that he did not get in.
While he agreed to pay, he has not done so yet. I'm about to press charges. It's a felony in FL when damage is over $1K.

When did this happen ?
That would have been great if you blasted his [censored]. I would of unlocked my door and let him enter my car and start swinging. Then I would have unloaded my Glock at point blank range.






Heck yeah man! Same here! And in Texas if you have a chl,you'd be within your legal rights to end his life
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I'm really happy to see maturity won out in this thread, despite all of the peace loving hippies.......
 
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