Road rage, how do you react?

Scaletail

I find it hard to believe that people are able to act like they are more important than a fire engine on call to an emergency.
She had kids under her care as well. It's a given that a flashing blue light means get the heck out the way, someone's life may be in danger.
Hearing about kids throwing rocks at fire engines is another story I'll not forget. I'm aghast at what motivates that.

Ned Senior

I just relax and move on....... one time years ago a fella beeped madly as I made a turn before he oncoming got to the junction, i gave him the finger grinning so he came after me idiot
Used to be a bit of a willow the wisp in my youth tho so it was easy to dissappear

Sloppy Bob

I tend to follw them home, stalk them on social media and then break into their house. I move everyday objects into slightly different places until they slowly lose their grip on reality and have a nervous breadown.

It usually takes a decade or so, but it's worth the effort in the end.

The lack of sleep gets to me though as I have 28 people currently on my list and it's nearly a full time job.

Sloppy Bob

Note- I'm only kidding.










I just break into their house and murder them in their sleep. I couldn't be bothered faffing about with all that psychological drama.

icemanonline

I used to get upset at drivers or cyclists doing stupid stuff but the last year after medical issues....I don't bother anymore, just let it go!  Life's to short for little issues that in the big scene of things mean zero.

I don't drive as much either so that helps.

Ice

Ari33

For me anger is a very negative energy that takes me right down, I hate getting upset and try to count to ten whenever I start feeling like that...
I was a bit hotter headed in my younger years but I think I'm pretty chilled out now and will let most things go, especially unintentional mistakes.... well, maybe if I had a really, really bad day... then I might peep my horn and mutter/shout a few obscenities at them if they properly endangered me... but never more than that.

I rarely cause other road users to get upset with me, but if I ever do and I'm in the wrong I almost always apologise by raising my hand.

I didn't vote as its a bit vague and the seriousness of the wrong doing would probably escalate accordingly. ie; someone cutting me up (let it slide) vs throwing a brick at my car?  Yeah... I really hope that never happens to me as I'd probably go a bit radio rental.

Panavision

I used to get wound up in my younger days, now I just ignore it and carry on. Getting angry over someone you won't meet again is pointless.

A few weeks ago I saw a guy pull out.
He got flashed at.
The guy stops in the middle of the road then gets out to have a go despite it being his fault.

Ridiculous.

Life is short, why waste so much negative energy, you don't win any prizes.

outoftheknow

Are you sure he wasn’t politely pointing out that he didn’t see the warning? If he had he would have been looking for the car and seen it already.  Probably reminding that the horn would have been more effective than flashing the headlights since he doesn’t look and only stops if he he hears a horn  

NooBish AbbZ 92

Depends on the degree. Generally I'll just shrug it off with a 'fudgeing ********' under my breath and move on. Friday i had an incident where an X5 pulled out on me while I was on the motorbike on the way home. This wasn't a gap that was small, it simply wasn't big enough. So pretty heavily on the brakes, shook my head at him and that's all he heard. Obviously I called him a fudgeing See you next Tuesday in my helmet and got on with my day.

Just after Christmas I had a similar situation but this time in the car. ******** pulled out from a side road from behind parked cars onto a main road(in front of me) without looking, then saw me coming and slammed on his brakes and stopped dead in front of me. I slammed on my brakes and had to steer to actually go into the side road, to the rear of his car. Window was down immediately after I stopped and I was ready to get out and deck him tbf. I changed my mind when he wound his window down and asked 'are you mad bro?'

The car one was a one-off and I've never felt like that before; probably because it nearly caused damage to my car

IronGiant

Perhaps he felt you should have not "made a point" by driving behind him Just let him on his way...