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Wen the kids were young we had a caravan so had a tow bar on the back of the car.

I think it was on the Sandbanks Ferry, we were queuing to get on , kids and Grannie and grandad in the car, ( Peugout 505, 7 seater) there were some " yoofs " in a clapped out car behind us, pushing us to go faster. Shouting, getting too close and generally being prats.

Himself stopped, expert driver behind didn't and got his bumper stuck on the tow bar, Himself then carried on dragging the car with us. When his bumper came off he just got a load of abuse from other drivers and boat crew who had witnessed the entire incident. Two crew members removed the bumper from our tow bar and waved us onto the boat. He was left at the quay with a car missing it's front bumper which was laying on the road in front if him.

M.

Wen the kids were young we had a caravan so had a tow bar on the back of the car.

I think it was on the Sandbanks Ferry, we were queuing to get on , kids and Grannie and grandad in the car, ( Peugout 505, 7 seater) there were some " yoofs " in a clapped out car behind us, pushing us to go faster. Shouting, getting too close and generally being prats.

Himself stopped, expert driver behind didn't and got his bumper stuck on the tow bar, Himself then carried on dragging the car with us. When his bumper came off he just got a load of abuse from other drivers and boat crew who had witnessed the entire incident. Two crew members removed the bumper from our tow bar and waved us onto the boat. He was left at the quay with a car missing it's front bumper which was laying on the road in front if him.

M.

OH is not a violent man, but on one occasion he very nearly assaulted a 'sevices' maintenance worker.

We'd been stuck in a slow moving tail back on a motorway standard A road for about 10 miles. The A road ended in a roundabout. Turning left down a leafy A road, we discoverd the problem.
'They' were digging, laying and filling a continuous trench along one side restricting the road width. Traffic was controlled by a stop/go board, walkie-talkie holding man at each end. The man at our end was only letting 4 cars through at a time.

OH opened his window and really let rip, and would have got out if I'd let him!

I would have shoved them off their bikes for shoving the donkeys, horrible people

I've committed road rage twice. Once when we were at a junction, and a female cyclist came alongside (I was a passenger).
As she drew alongside the car, this cyclist was not only wearing an I-phone, she was also texting!!!
I wound my window down and pointed out (quite loudly) that, if she had an accident, she'd blame everyone but herself, and called her a few choice names. For some reason, my driver drove off - fast!!

The second time was when there was a 'wiggle' event in the New Forest. This is 2 - 3000 cyclists, not racing, but on time trials :-S
The traffic was held up by some donkeys, a couple of pregnant ones amongst them. The cyclists drew up alongside us, my driver had left a huge gap between us and the car in front, as we could see a couple of donkeys would want to cross - they did. just as the cyclists saw their chance to squeeze to the front of the queue - by kicking the donkeys out of the way! :-|
They chose the pregnant donkey to shove out of the way- I was out of the car, in front of them, telling them just what I thought of them, before they could take advantage of this moronic act. As I was berating them, cars both sides of the road were slowly moving towards each other - blocking their path. :-D

This sounds like I don't like cyclists - not true, I used to be an avid '3 speeds, upright, basket on the front, I'll walk up steep hills' cyclist :-D
As a child I regularly cycled on the Forest, and many a time had to make a detour due to ponies/cows/donkeys/pigs being in my way.

My o.h. never locks the car door unless I am with him, when I activate the locks. I would never drive anywhere without locked doors.

Lizxxx

It was a few years ago ,early winter's evening and already quite dark.
I was coming out of a side street onto a main road.
I checked both ways.
Although there was quite a big gap in the traffic and I definitely had time to make my right hand turn, I couldn't help but notice what seemed to be a very long convoy coming from the left and I waited at my junction for a few moments to try to make sense of it.
Mistake!

The car at the front of the flow did seem to be travelling very slowly but the indicator came on.
This vehicle intended to enter the junction that I was exiting.
The car was still a few yards away but the manoeuvre seemed to go on for ever?

The driver starting turning on the wheel but was still a distance from the junction.
At this point, I realised that the car was travelling at less than 5mph !

Then I saw them!
One very tiny, elderly lady driver and her clone in the passenger seat.
The driver was so small that her entire head was behind her steering wheel.
She cut the corner so badly that she almost scraped the front off my car!
As she did pass me, she turned , looked straight at me and shook her head as if I had absolutely no right to be there?

I was then stuck at that junction for a very long time due to the queue of traffic that had built up behind her.
I seemed to go on for miles and there were a lot of angry faces driving past and I am surprised that there was no act of road rage

My car was full of kids and they were in kinks with laughter
Where had these women been but more importantly.... how long had they been in the car?

Thank you for your comments .it does happen all over the country Road Rage .& can have awful results sometimes .I have been driving 52years in July got my licence on my 17th birthday ( couldn't wait & I love driving .(.Provisional ) even with silly folks in the village .I hope when I feel I cant cope hand my licence in . will have to see .might be a proper road hog . ;-) who knows :-D

I have fitted a camera in my car.

Similar thing happened to my friend. He had a Citroen estate at the time, with a towing hook. He was just about to sell it (would only have been for scrap), so, when we stopped at a roundabout and 2 lads in the car behind failed to stop in time, nudging us, my friend wasn't too bothered, and just waved.
We went to drive off, and took their front bumper with us!! :-D :-D :-D

Fortunately, it dropped of, so we didn't have to stop!!

OH got run off the M11 today by a car transporter.He ended up on the hard shoulder.OH had pulled in ,in front of the transporter but said there was lots of room and hadn't pulled in suddenly.Horns ,lights going and then the transporter right up his backside.I think OH thought the safest thing to do was just to get onto the hard shoulder and let this maniac carry on.He made a bit of a joke about it but I think it shook him up :-(
I am hoping that someone might have seen what happened and got the number plate of the transporter .

At a time when life in Baghdad was peaceful thanks to the terror regime (?) in charge I was driving a Volvo 4WD truck, a model never sold in the UK but a bit like a Defender on steroids. At the rear it had a large hook for a winch. It also had a reverse gear in the same place as 1st is usually found. I had a bad habit of going off from the lights in reverse ... lots of honking.

One evening on the way to the Baghdad data centre I must have left the lights in reverse as usual before going forward. I noticed there was more honking than usual and the blithering idiot behind was even flashing his lights!!! So I slammed on the brakes a couple of times but nothing would shake him off so I sped up to max around 100kph.

At the data centre check point I showed my ID - the 4WD had "Ministry --- of the Govt of Iraq" stencilled on (in Arabic). The sentry wanted to know who was driving the small blue car impaled onto the winch hook. The road hog of course!

He turned out to be an Egyptian with expired visa. I was told to leave the 4WD and everything would be "sorted out". A couple of hours later on leaving I noticed the 4WD had been washed.

No sign of the Egyptian. I have always felt a bit guilty about this.

Look, I am not particularly proud of this and it was forty odd years ago.

I had a very heavy right foot at the time and was coming along the A27 on a bit of single carriageway when some git pulled out in front of me.

I was livid and tooted him and, because I was also a git at the time, I got in front of him and went fast on the dual carriageways and very slowly on the narrow bits.

We managed to reach the lights on the dual carriageway at the same time. ME at the front of the right hand queue and him at the front of the left. He was steaming and leapt out of his car, stormed round to my front door which he pulled open and shouted "Was there something you wanted to say to me mate?".

Now, I have quite a feminine voice, if not vocabulary, so I said "Oh, no, I don't think so but I must go, the lights have changed" and off I went, leaving him standing by the side of the right hand lane with the traffic pulling off and pulling around his car.

Yes, I enjoyed it, especially when I found out who he was. Bully, wife-beater and generally inadequate little rats bum.

We just recently had a similar incident to Barbra. Driving down towards the car park in our town and a chap came hurtling down a side road looking as though he was going to come straight out so OH stopped. The other chap slammed his brakes on with a screech at the end of his side road and when OH waved him out he drew alongside, wound down his window and shouted "I was going to stop you stupid ********". I saw OH's hand going to the window switch and said "Just don't bother, let him have the stress" so OH drove on. The fellow looked a right idiot shouting to himself in the middle of the road.

Sadly some years ago a woman locally was stabbed in the stomach by a man who was upset because she wasn't going fast enough for him and he couldn't pass in the country lane. When she could she pulled off the road to let him by but he got out of his car, yanked her door open and stabbed her before calmly driving off. Thankfully she was able to call for help on a mobile phone and made a good recovery but I don't think the chap was ever caught. A lot of women now won't drive down that lane on their own. I do but I make very sure that my doors are locked.

Found out she was born in the village & lived all her life here .been done for speeding .my shop keeper friend tells me .45mph along the main street :-0 well known by locals , , really she should not be driving .silly bisom .will try as M says next time I see her :-D

Wendy Lol!!! Were they local or just confused?

Perhaps he recognised the Artist in you and was paying you a compliment. :-D

Many moons ago, when I was a van driver, a new picture of a roundabout had been painted on the road in Midhuest.

As I approached and made to cross it, with nothing to my right so I had right of way, some old git shot out of the road to my left, looking very angry and waving his arm up and down out of the window to show me the newly painted roundabout.

Next time she does this switch you sidelights on and off quickly making her think you are braking but just carry on driving as normal, :-D it does work. If of course she continues to do this report her.**M**.

I would not be happy either if I was you. As you live in a village I wonder if this lady is already known to the local police. You could make a general inquiry with them.

I was in the supermarket car park and it was full. Eventually I saw a car drawing out and I indicated and got into position to reverse into the space when they left. Because of the angle of their car I had to wait for them to pass me, a car came from the opposite direction and drove forwards into the space before I was able to reverse into it. I was fuming and said something to them. They just laughed at me which wound me up even more. When I did get into the shop I saw them pushing a trolley and I couldn't resist asking them if it was their trolley or had they taken that from someone else like the parking space.