ok this is quite a long one but i need some advice.ive noticed before but today ive been informed by my girlfriend that I drive too aggressively in the car, in fact today i scared her sister and boyfriend. Something needs to change.
i stick to the rules when it comes to giving way, using indicators and other rules of the road. Speeding not so much and i can get quiet impatient with other road users for either going too slow or making silly mistakes. I can tailgate use the horn, flash my lights and I get quite aggressive and shout/swear at people in the car. Three times ive picked on the wrong person, one who happened to be an off duty policeman and gave me a good telling off, one who got out and came to my window to see what the problem was, and one that tried to get smash my window and get me out of the car, thankfully i got away with this one even though we got chased (3 emergency u-turns and a phone call to the police and i managed to escape). I feel as if i have to tell these people the errors they make for some reason - i do wonder if this is because when i was younger i wanted to be a traffic cop
I know im not the best driver in the world and far from it, yet im not learning from my previous mistakes. For those that dont know me, im pretty young (24) and if you do know me you probably wouldnt think the above was me (or maybe you do?). Ive been driving a car since i was 17 and touch wood have never had an accident and only have 3 points on my licence for going through a red light on the bike. Now that im on the bike (a year and a half) and im still quite aggressive, not so much as in the car because i know how much more vulnerable i am and I can’t lock the doors! However im not like this towards bike riders oddly
I need to stop this before I get in more trouble and get the **** kicked out of me or kill myself/passengers through stupidity or bad driving/riding.
Does anybody else suffer from these issues or have done in the past that can help me or advise me how to stop? I hope this doesn’t make anyone think differently of me and thanks in advance.
but i know what you mean dude, i was like that not too long ago. i found giving the car in front more room helped me cos keeping very close seemed to get me more worked up.
remember London is a mad place, with soem seriously unhinged people, weapons are commmon, even if you can take care of yourself you may still coem unstuck…great thing about a bike is, you can use the power and just dissapear!
I’ve had drivers like you get aggressive with me In fact when I had my ‘in betweeners’ syle fiat I had one geezer get out of his lorry and kick the tyres of my car, bend my wing mirror round and when I wound down the window to remonstrate with him, he spat at me!! He looked like Phil Mitchell from East Enders. Was that you? Do you drive a large truck and are you bald? I need to know!!
If your ‘aggressive’ road manners are mainly flashing your lights and hitting your horn then just get a car with a broken horn and no lights. Actually I’ve got a better idea- just sell your car and get a new girlfriend.
*If your ‘aggressive’ road manners are mainly flashing your lights and hitting your horn then just get a car with a broken horn and no lights.
Actually I’ve got a better idea- just sell your car and get a new girlfriend. *
Now that’s pragmatic ** lessimore** advice.
I’d go a little further. By your own admission your a dick head. Try growing up.
Now I know that’s not the advice you were hoping for, but tough.
Now just think a minute of why you drive like that…
Because I know your type. You drive your car to its limits-at least in a strait line- (being I guess either a older car or something newer with the low engine capacity (1.6 l and under)
You tailgate people that are doing 80+mph on the fast lane and that are somehow overtaking the middle lane (which you never use because some how you are scared of it)
Here, I think it is only fair to tell you that I am the guy that will slow down if I have an idiot like that behind me just to waist his time and accelerate the moment he try to undertake me to had to his frustration forcing him to stay in the middle lane stuck…
I am also the guy that is always happy to get out of my car to have a nice word if necessary-when I don’t have wife and kidz with because I am scared of what my other half would do to you if she gets involved
Now, on an average journey, how much time do you think you save?
Try it…
One day, do one journey your way.
the other day, do it in a relaxed maner, never get close to the car in front at speed. No flashing, no horn… Play some nice relaxing music or even have a nice conversation with your girlfriend…
See how long more it takes you. And see how nicer it feel
Might realise that it is worth 5 minutes a day…
And also, as previously mentioned: Grow up!!!
PS: i am not keen of traffic coopers but I can pretty much say with a certain level of confidence that I do not think that any, or at least not many, of them drive in anyways the way you just described. Allegedly;)
you made a start by posting this.Read it again your self, what would be your advise to this person, If you speed around acorner a CHILD stept out from parked car, and you KILED him would that not stop you from driving, could you live with your self, thats what i thought and it stoped me used it ever since,i too was about 25yrs at the time good luckps think of the petrol you save:D
As much as I hate to say it :pinch: Frenchie is right, try a journey in your normal manner and then try the same journey in a calm manner, I can bet you don’t save much time at all so what is the point in risking your life or p1ssing people off to the point where they might wanna kick the sh1t out of you?
I got pulled over by some lovely traffic cops a couple of months back for a spot of speeding on the A406, they let me off with a stern word but I can tell you that has slowed me down for sure!! I now travel at the speed limit and it only takes a few minutes more.
Do you listen to music whilst your driving? I find that what type of music I listen to whilst driving can affect how I drive, try turning the radio off or if you really want to have something on then stick classical on or soemthing lol
In fact when I had my ‘in betweeners’ syle fiat I had one geezer get out of his lorry and kick the tyres of my car, bend my wing mirror round and when I wound down the window to remonstrate with him, he spat at me!! He looked like Phil Mitchell from East Enders. Was that you? Do you drive a large truck and are you bald? I need to know!!
