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29-06-2011, 08:34 AM | #61 | ||
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I let people in front of me and stop to let drivers coming out of driveways and private roadways just to be nice.... and the nice hand wave does make me feel good about that. If I don't see one, not a big deal at all. I always hand wave a thank you though. (insert waving smilie but couldn't find one) I've heard that in certain places (in LA) you wouldn't want to give a hand wave, others could mistake that for a finger salute.
I was once in a car and saw a driver trying to pull out of a side street (could have been private lane) and our lane was moving so my friend didn't stop. Then someone in front suddenly stopped short which meant the car I was in ended up blocking that side street and the driver's way. That driver forced his way in behind our car and we were now in front of an angry driver filled with road rage who literally sat on our car and drove that close! Talk about scary, maybe moreso because it was just us girls!! |
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29-06-2011, 09:34 AM | #62 | ||
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Last time I had this done to me, the ***** copped the finger, then I got a finger back, then she copped a Maccas milkshake on her windscreen. I saw her a few days later at the same intersection and she let another car go through.
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29-06-2011, 09:44 AM | #63 | ||
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wow I was going to post something that happened the other day, but as this thread exists I will post here.
Let me start by saying I always let people out who you can see have been waiting ages, but only if it safe to do so. What urks me is when you let them out and they do not acknowledge you have. A simple thumbs up or half wave would be nice. Anyway on to the other day. I was waiting to turn right into a dr's offices, another car from the office right next door, pulled out onto the road a little and waived me into the car park I was going to, needless to say it is a good thing I watch the road as this stupid woman (you know one of those women who is 40 and dresses and thinks she is 20, I know because her kid is in my daughters class) in her 4wd, came flying around the roundabout which was 200m from where we were and just continued at a rate of speed and simply swerved around him and then swerved again to miss me, she did not even batter an eyelid and just kept on going. Then leaving said car park, it is very difficult to see out of the driveway as there is street parking so it blocks your view. I snuck out slowly and as there was no traffic from the right I blocked the right lane waiting for the traffic to clear on left (all of 3 cars), again a car comes through the roundabout, slows down, waits for traffic on my left to clear and simply crosses double white lines and on to the opposite side of road to go around me. I was so angry as they pretty well stopped to wait, but yet couldn't stop and wait for me. But I shouldn't be surprised as people don't even give way when driving in the ambulance. Car parks are the worst but. I was completely reversed out of my bay, yet cars continued to go around me and the school carpark is somewhere to avoid all together. I spent 10mins in reverse with not one single car letting me in, yet they were all stopping behind me. One woman who stopped, for some reason came right up to the car so my reverse sensors were going nuts, it was one of those situations that you visioned reversing the bogan smile off her face. I will admit sometimes I could let a car out and don't (but I don't stop right infront of them or block them, I simply just keep driving) but the attitude of aot of drivers is annoying. The other thing is acknowledgement. How hard is it to give a wave or a thumbs up? I always do this when someone lets me in. |
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29-06-2011, 10:19 AM | #64 | ||
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Car park rage is the worst. Happened to me waiting about 10mins for some lady to get her shopping in the car and get out, as she reversed and drove off, these 2 young girls in a hatch back sped around the corner and took the park. I had my indicator on and everything.I was sooooo pee'd off that if I didn't have my mrs with me, I would have gone to the boot and retrieved my cricket for some metal action on their car. It literally took my mrs to squeeze my hand pleading with me to remain in the car and drive off.
Inconsiderate F heads out there regardless of car make, gender, race or religion. It happens, and in the end I treat all drivers like assholes and don't assume anything anymore.
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29-06-2011, 11:40 AM | #65 | ||
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You were gonna take a weapon to a car with two girls in it over a parking spot, perhaps you should seek professional help.
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29-06-2011, 12:38 PM | #66 | |||
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29-06-2011, 12:49 PM | #67 | ||||
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Hell I punched a P plater in the head through his window cos he stalled on a roundabout.
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29-06-2011, 12:54 PM | #68 | |||
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That cracked me up Hal. GOLD. Was it anything like the Tony Longhurst vs Paul Morris race crash in the 80s in Winton? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdtDfEOxjg
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29-06-2011, 12:57 PM | #69 | |||
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29-06-2011, 02:52 PM | #71 | |||
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Yes i have lost my temper before and abused people but never brag about smashing some girl with a bat. You are a deadset idiot and maybe it takes anothers unwanted advice to open you blurry red eyes. Ok now lets make this somehow my fault |
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29-06-2011, 03:33 PM | #72 | |||
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I admitted it was stupid. I shouldn't have felt that way and have learnt from it. It was a heat of the moment thing, and had I not have had my wife in the car, it could have turned ugly. I cannot fathom how someones expression of feelings at one particular time can be misconstrued into me all of a sudden needing to seek professional guidance. It was purely a threat I had in my heart at the time, nothing further. Nothing else pursued. How was I getting offended? Just because I made a comment about what I felt about a certain experience I had once only, Im automatically labelled as someone in need of professional help? Pleaaase spare me dude. I am the least of your problems. Time to get of your soap box princess. Feel free to PM me about it so we don't run this thread completely off topic.
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29-06-2011, 03:47 PM | #73 | ||
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Posting what one has done in a act of Physical violence isn't welcome here.
Move on and treat the thread with some quality informed posts..
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29-06-2011, 04:02 PM | #74 | |||
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Have you ever stopped to wonder if every person merged early, and nobody overtook that person, how far up the road the merge would eventually be? |
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30-06-2011, 03:39 PM | #75 | |||
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01-07-2011, 04:23 AM | #76 | ||
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i just read the heading of this thread and my immediate thought was "because they are australian drivers" it is all in the aussie culture, sad but true, just like hating police, breaking road rules at will, and then hating the police even more because of perceived revenue raising, while all the time still breaking road rules and still not being kind to any other road users.
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01-07-2011, 04:39 AM | #77 | ||
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I'm guessing it happens everywhere in other countries too. Anywhere there are heaps of cars and people in a rush to get from point A to point B there'll be idiot drivers, inconsiderate drivers, and road rage unfortunately. (no offense to anyone)
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01-07-2011, 11:15 AM | #78 | ||
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I find that the more dents scratches and other colour rub marks the work hack has, the easier merging and changing lanes has become.
Coincidence?
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01-07-2011, 11:25 AM | #79 | ||
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I hate that.
Our house faces a 2 lane highway that we need to pull out onto. People just don't think to move over to let us pull out. It's dangerous enough as it is!
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01-07-2011, 11:41 AM | #80 | |||
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Some of us have beter things to worry about than getting angry over pointless benign crap like loosing a parking spot or getting cut off. |
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01-07-2011, 12:15 PM | #81 | |||
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Punching someone in the head for stalling is way too far though. |
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01-07-2011, 12:28 PM | #82 | ||
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The thread appears to be concentrating on the violence side of the table, at times we all get angry this is no way an excuse to exercise any sort of violence.
Treat others the same way you would treat your own family.. Closed “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” by Mahatma Gandhi
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