Road Rage incidents. Any experiences?

There are 3 things that really piss me off enough to get angry on the road and the same 3 keep popping up,

1) People who can't use roundabouts annoy me in general but especially, people who drift from one lane to another whilst going through the roundabout, Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

2) People who pull out in front of you from a side road and as a result you have to hit the brakes, and you look in your rearview mirror and there isn't another car on the road yet they just HAD to pull out in front of you??
GGGRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

3) When you're happily driving along and the person in the lane next (to the right of you travelling in the same direction) to you is turing right and they drift into your lane to make a wider ARC for themselves. GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Yellow boxes drive me feckin demented.
There is one in the middle of Rock St. in Tralee.
Every day it is full of stationary traffic. Nobody will let you out when the lights go green.
Not once have I seen a guard giving a ticket there.

CatFromHue wrote: »

Motorcyclists. In my opinion the last part of the driving test for these guys is to swear to under no circumstances obey the rules of the road.

It is unfortunate when anyone dies on the road. My first thought when I hear a motorcyclist has been in an accident is that it was probably his/her fault.

Statistically speaking most motorcycle accidents are caused by car users, as far as I remember. I've never, ever had an incident with a motorcyclist, not even near to one.

I get pissed off on the roads on a regular occasion. I've a number of roundabouts between my house and the locations I regularly visit and find that almost every single day a woman will pull out on top of me when I'm going around the roundabout. The behaviour of Irish people on roundabouts is absolutely astonishing, it's as though right of way does not exist. The amount of times it happens is unbelievable and it's always women.

In fact, to be honest, I've never had an incident on the roads involving a man. I've had hundreds of near misses, I've been driven into, I've had to do evasive maneuvers, etc. at the hands of woman drivers driving carelessly or recklessly. I'm glad I've managed to avoid hitting them or similar when these incidents have arisen though as I wouldn't handle it very well.

Another thing that I find extremely annoying is a lot of cyclists. The first bunch are those who cycle on the road, right beside a cycle lane. I usually try and drive right up beside them quickly to give them a bit of a fright, and if there's traffic ahead I'll pull into the curb so they can't cycle past and have to hop into the cycle lane. Those lanes cost money, they're there to be used so either use them or get off the f-ing road. When we start taxing cyclists like we do motorists, then they can have a say on how the roads are used. For now, follow instructions.

The second bunch are those who feel they shouldn't wear reflective gear or lights, and then get cranky when you almost hit their cloaked self when they're on the roads in the dark.

These things can get me pretty pissed off, most of the time I'll get their attention and give them a choice gesture, coupled with the horn and lights going off I was considering buying a motorbike recently, more for recreation than anything, however the state of Irish drivers (particularly women and the elderly , although interestingly elderly women seem to be no worse than elderly men) put me off. I can't imagine how frightening and frustrating it would be to be on the roads on a bike with some of the people I encounter daily.

My_left_leg wrote: »

Back in the days when i used to cycle into TCD from Rathmines i was deliberately cut-off by some idiot. Naturally I slapped his passenger window and gave him the mandatory hand gesture. I overtook him slipping through the lanes in slow heavy traffic. He overtook me as the traffic freed up, and to my surprise he again attempted to deliberately block my passage.

I held back and waited. I stayed behind a Dublin bus. He probably assumed I had turned off. My chance came when again he got stuck on a red. I cycled through and with my lovely new mountain boots I aimed the heel at his wing mirror.

BANG! BULLSEYE! I nailed it. Oh! My joy. The whole thing came off, and was left hanging by a few wires.

As i looked over my shoulder he was screaming & waving furiously.
Hehe! 20 years later I still smile when I think of that fool's face.:D

You're actually proud of that, really? You took something non-physical and made it physical, twice in one incident, the second time causing criminal damage to the car of someone who paid tax on it, to provide the road that you were cycling on (and paid no part of)?

I'd be embarrassed if I were you. That behaviour is absolutely pathetic.