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Arséhole drivers

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  • 29-09-2014 10:55am
    #1
    louthguy25
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭


    I was driving home from Dundalk on the M1 last night and while over taking a line of cars and buses this woman in a northern reg car drives right up behind me and starts flashing her lights and waving her hands as if I was at fault.

    I was doing the speed limit and there was at least 10 vehicles to my left that I was over taking I was wondering where she wanted me to go. This went on until I got past all the traffic and I pulled over to the left where she proceeded to give me the fingers and the wanker sign.

    She then pulled in front of me and jammed on the breaks as if to give me a scare which she did especially with my young son in the car.

    Why do people think they own the roads and why do people flash the lights to get you to move??


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    #2
    Hoop66
    Registered Users Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    Because they're so much more important than you.


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    paulbok
    Registered Users Posts: 4,904 ✭✭✭paulbok


    This should go well.


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    #4
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Some people are dicks. Some people are pussies. And some people are arseholes.


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    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    If you'd a dash can you could always hand the footage over to Gardai or publish it on YouTube.
    You've no rights to privacy in public and it's recorded footage so it's fact.

    Not much you can do otherwise.


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    Balmed Out
    Registered Users Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    Presuming you were overtaking all the time and not using the over taking lane to gain speed slowly in preparation for overtaking it sounds like you were perfectly in the right and regardless her behavior was out of order.

    That said if someone was flashing me I would overtake faster or pull in on the off chance they are driving someone to a hospital in an emergency.


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    allthedoyles
    Registered Users Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    If you'd a dash can you could always hand the footage over to Gardai or publish it on YouTube.
    You've no rights to privacy in public and it's recorded footage so it's fact.

    Not much you can do otherwise.

    He would need a front and rear dash-cam for this one


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    twin_beacon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭twin_beacon


    louthguy25 wrote: »
    I was driving home from Dundalk on the M1 last night and while over taking a line of cars and buses this woman in a northern reg car drives right up behind me and starts flashing her lights and waving her hands as if I was at fault.

    I was doing the speed limit and there was at least 10 vehicles to my left that I was over taking I was wondering where she wanted me to go. This went on until I got past all the traffic and I pulled over to the left where she proceeded to give me the fingers and the wanker sign.

    She then pulled in front of me and jammed on the breaks as if to give me a scare which she did especially with my young son in the car.

    Why do people think they own the roads and why do people flash the lights to get you to move??

    get a dash cam.


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    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,812 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Honestly OP you will meet this type of driver everywhere. The key is to not give a flying fcuk about them.
    Once you've finished your overtake pull back in and just laugh at them as they shout obscenities at you.. I do it cause I like to think it pisses them off even more :)
    Chill out and just tell them to jog on.


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    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Driving miss daisy types get my goat.

    Move out of me way granny.


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,179 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Driving miss daisy types get my goat.

    Move out of me way granny.

    Did you just diss Morgan Freeman? :confused::eek:


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    Moist Mittens
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23 ✭Moist Mittens


    I think they prefer the term "homosexuals"?


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    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    bear1 wrote: »
    Honestly OP you will meet this type of driver everywhere. The key is to not give a flying fcuk about them.
    Once you've finished your overtake pull back in and just laugh at them as they shout obscenities at you.. I do it cause I like to think it pisses them off even more :)
    Chill out and just tell them to jog on.

    This.

    My attitude to drivers like that is that I much prefer them in front of me where I'm in control of the distance between us than behind me, where they're much more likely to do harm.

    That said, I always take great pleasure to let a *** like that get past me to watch the boil as they're stuck behind the next car down.


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    italodisco
    Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    nothing worse than getting stuck behind 'speed limit' types in the fast lane.
    if you want to stay within the limit that's fine but could you do it in the left lane ???

    and btw , if folk want to break the speed limit it is nobody else's place to decide the rules but the gardai .

    sorry for the rant but it's enraging getting stuck behind someone that purposely won't move just to make the point there's a speed limit...

    if you look for trouble you'll get it , it's that simple.


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    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    If I'm overtaking and someone comes flying up behind me giving it the lights I'll slow down. Any gestures, beeping etc are met with a smile and a wave.

    It's easy not to be an arséhole, If I'm approaching a slower moving vehicle and can see someone behind me that is clearly going way faster I'll lift my foot and let them pass before I pull out.

    The old man always told that if anyone wants to go faster than you just let them off, no point getting 'involved'.


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Pay no heed to them, just concentrate on your own driving, if I got flustered by every driver that gave me the horn or flashed me on the road I'd never leave the house.


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    italodisco
    Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    where's my comment gone ? it's not offensive and does not contain bad language like in the thread title ???


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    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    louthguy25 wrote: »
    She then pulled in front of me and jammed on the breaks as if to give me a scare which she did especially with my young son in the car.

    Someone did that to me some years back, on a single carriage road. Thing was though, I was in a Hilux towing a trailer and she was in a little fart car with kids in the back.

    It just beggars belief :D


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    italodisco wrote: »

    if you look for trouble you'll get it , it's that simple.

    Indeed.


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    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    italodisco wrote: »
    where's my comment gone ? it's not offensive and does not contain bad language like in the thread title ???

    This one? :)
    italodisco wrote: »
    nothing worse than getting stuck behind 'speed limit' types in the fast lane.
    if you want to stay within the limit that's fine but could you do it in the left lane ???

    and btw , if folk want to break the speed limit it is nobody else's place to decide the rules but the gardai .

    sorry for the rant but it's enraging getting stuck behind someone that purposely won't move just to make the point there's a speed limit...

    if you look for trouble you'll get it , it's that simple.

    We turned over the page dear :)


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    hardCopy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    gramar wrote: »
    If I'm overtaking and someone comes flying up behind me giving it the lights I'll slow down. Any gestures, beeping etc are met with a smile and a wave.

    It's easy not to be an arséhole, If I'm approaching a slower moving vehicle and can see someone behind me that is clearly going way faster I'll lift my foot and let them pass before I pull out.

    The old man always told that if anyone wants to go faster than you just let them off, no point getting 'involved'.

    Your first paragraph seems at odds with your last.


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    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    italodisco wrote: »
    nothing worse than getting stuck behind 'speed limit' types in the fast lane.
    if you want to stay within the limit that's fine but could you do it in the left lane ???

    sorry for the rant but it's enraging getting stuck behind someone that purposely won't move just to make the point there's a speed limit...

    If you're in the right lane but overtaking then you don't have to be going at the speed limit but I would certainly agree that people who stay there just to prove a point are knobends.


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    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    hardCopy wrote: »
    Your first paragraph seems at odds with your last.

    Sound like simple self-preservation to me.

    If they're going to crash into my boot, I'd prefer it if they did so at 80kph rather than 120kph.


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    KilOit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭KilOit


    italodisco wrote: »
    nothing worse than getting stuck behind 'speed limit' types in the fast lane.
    if you want to stay within the limit that's fine but could you do it in the left lane ???

    and btw , if folk want to break the speed limit it is nobody else's place to decide the rules but the gardai .

    sorry for the rant but it's enraging getting stuck behind someone that purposely won't move just to make the point there's a speed limit...

    if you look for trouble you'll get it , it's that simple.
    He was overtaking cars on the left, woman behind him was completely in the wrong


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    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,812 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    italodisco wrote: »
    nothing worse than getting stuck behind 'speed limit' types in the fast lane.
    if you want to stay within the limit that's fine but could you do it in the left lane ???

    and btw , if folk want to break the speed limit it is nobody else's place to decide the rules but the gardai .

    sorry for the rant but it's enraging getting stuck behind someone that purposely won't move just to make the point there's a speed limit...

    if you look for trouble you'll get it , it's that simple.

    I probably would agree with you if the driver in the fast lane is overtaking sweet F all - which you see a lot on the M6.
    But, if someone is overtaking a row of cars which are obviously going slower than the limit then I'd just wait until the person has finished and then speed up past them. If they still refuse to move the left then I'd stick on the indicator.
    There are far too many brake testers in Ireland to do 120 right up someones arse on the motorway.
    At the end of the day what have you lost? 10/20 seconds?


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    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    hardCopy wrote: »
    Your first paragraph seems at odds with your last.

    You're right it does but sure we don't always do what our daddys tell us!

    I suppose my point is that even if you're in the 'overtaking' lane once you're overtaking then people shouldn't be flashing. If you're ambling along there stopping others from passing then thats a different story.


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,179 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Why does a motorway only have two lanes?


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    #28
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,812 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Why does a motorway only have two lanes?

    How many should it have?


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    #29
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    There's always some asrehole somewhere.

    Whether its the guy, or lady, who sticks in the outside because they're a wannabe Gard and its their job to enforce the speed limit.

    or the person with the minor personality disorder who can't bear to be arrive 30 seconds.

    Thing is to just keep your cool (and even I don't always :o) but sometimes being right means SFA at the end of the day.


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    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,242 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    italodisco wrote: »
    nothing worse than getting stuck behind 'speed limit' types in the fast lane.
    if you want to stay within the limit that's fine but could you do it in the left lane ???

    and btw , if folk want to break the speed limit it is nobody else's place to decide the rules but the gardai .

    sorry for the rant but it's enraging getting stuck behind someone that purposely won't move just to make the point there's a speed limit...

    if you look for trouble you'll get it , it's that simple.

    That has nothing to do with the OP.

    The OP was overtaking other cars, and the OP pulled in when the manouver was complete.

    It's not bad behaviour to be in the overtaking lane while overtaking other cars and driving at the speed limit as long as you keep left when you're not overtaking.

    Anyone who thinks differently is wrong.


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    anncoates
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    If you're not hogging the overtaking lane and just using it to overtake, just get out of their way. Life's too short to start messing with them or braking in front of them on a motorway. With any luck they'll crash eventually.

    There's no such thing as a fast lane by the way. Unless used as a dumb metaphor in a lifestyle supplement.


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