Damn Winter!! Damn A#@*&#le people in a hurry in the middle of the night! I'm on my way home from the afternoon shift which ends at midnight, a 20 mile drive on mostly barren roads in on again off again whiteout conditions. Some jerk in a truck comes up on my ass outta nowhere and flashes his high beams like he wants by real bad (i'm driving 30-35 because it's kinda hard to see but this jackass must have infra red or something) Sick of him on my bumper I pull off onto the sholder to let him by and the drifts suck me into the ditch!!!! :af: I'm in to far for the posi to save me and luckly the only other person in my town that works where I work pulls up to give me a ride home. I just got of the phone with the cops to let them know the cars there and will probibly be there till 8 or 9 tommorow when I can get a tow out. Damn I'm mad. The idiot that put me there just kept on driving. Hopefully a plow doesn't come along and crush it overnight, I don't know how long the 4-ways will last.:af: :af: :af:
I had the same exact thing happen to me about a month ago... heavy snow, driving down the road I live on in my little POS S-10, and a little red civic comes right up behind me. It looked to me like they were flashing the lights, so I pulled over to the side. I was lucky- almost got sucked into the ditch. Anyway, they jump around me and head down the road, and end up turning into the driveway across the road and two houses down from mine. I was ticked, so... I drove by really slow and turned around, and parked my truck in the middle of the road- right in front of the driveway, and got out and walked over to them. They looked like high school punks. I asked them if there was something that they wanted... they kept flashing the lights, so I assumed there was a problem. Suddenly, there was no problem "oh, uh, this car just looks like I'm flashing the lights when I go over bumps" Yeah, ok. I'm getting a serious case of road rage from people like this, and I didn't have the best day. I was ready to grab the piece of pipe out of the bed and smash their headlights in. They probably thought I was a psycho or something. There really is no need to tailgate someone on bad roads, you know? I usually just slow down to 20mph or so, which gets them really mad.
forge straight ahead Those "flash the lights" + move over for me idoits don't care what happens to you or your car ,they just want you to bow to their demands.When you pull over they get what they want+you end up stuck or damaged. What usually works is the "animal ran out in front of me" Bendix test !(as long as your not in your "good car") .Then they end up in the ditch----where the belong!:laugh: :laugh: tailgaters really frost me:blast:
When they do that to me I just go slower. They then give me the number 1 gesture, if you know what I mean.
I find myself in the same situation at times and most of the time I try to avoid making both of us mad by pulling into a drive way to let them by. But when I am in a good mood for messing with them I do the slow down and make them mad instead of making me mad. Then of course you can speed up when they try to pass. I try not to make them too mad just agravate them a little. I know it is not correct but why should you bow down to there way.
A week ago we had 12-14" of the white stuff and another 10 yesterday so I have been driving on my share of snow covered and or packed roads. When I get someone like that on my tail I just give the wheel a whip so that the back end kicks out and they tend to back off.
I thought flashing high beams in your mirror indicate that you should stop as quickly as possible in the middle of the road, get out of the car, remove the other driver's keys from the ignition and throw them as far as you can:grin: At least that's what seems to work for me....Yes I have a road rage problem:af: I guess it's better than stuffing the other driver into the trunk of their own car and breaking off the key in the lock:laugh: And they wonder what the "I brake for tailgaters" sticker on my bumper means....
ditched 4x4's I had to drive to Bismarck ND on the 5th and it was icy. I had my digital so I had to take a few. Note the times. I stopped at the first one because the dog was loose. The guy had to break the window to get out.
That happenned to us on the way to Flint last summer. I don't remember what road in Michigan we were on, but there wasn't anybody else on it besides us and this idiot in his mini-van who was riding my a$$ and flashing his lights for me to move over for him. I was already going 10 or 15 MPH over the speed limit and the right lane was clear. This could never have happened if there was a lot of traffic. I wasn't going to xxxxing move over for xxxxing him, so I just kept going slower and slower hoping he would pass us. I figured if he got too hot, I could always get away. If he wanted to play, he could never outrun a superwildcat with a pos dodge minivan (just like what I drive daily). Anyways, we ended up going as slow as 5 MPH, and when I finally came to a complete stop this moron just sat there behind us still flashing his lights and being stupid for about a minute or so. Finally I began driving again and the clown stayed back and eventually passed us (on the right) and just stared straight ahead like nothing happenned. I really did the wrong thing, I should have just pulled over. This idiot could have been dangerous, I just get sick of pulling over for speeders. If they want to break the law, they can go around me. :rant:
You have to stop and jump out with a lugwrench in your hand, and bust out their headlights. The only problem with that these days is that there are too many trigger-happy freaks out there.
