Driver confrontation question

[Mugshot]

You're caught in a furious spiral of irrelevance. None of this is interesting.

You're right, it does seem totally irrelevant, I however find it interesting

 

[theclaud]

You're right, it does seem totally irrelevant, I however find it interesting

Fair enough! It takes all sorts...

 

[d87heaven]

Personally Id just mind my own business

If only we could be so lucky............

 

[Bicycle]

You're caught in a furious spiral of irrelevance. None of this is interesting.

Sir/Madam,

My whole life is a furious spiral of irrelevance.

Everyone else finds it tedious, but I am the one who has to live with it every day from the moment I awake.

Your Tony Blair analogy, on the other hand, gripped from the first word. That's the difference between us.

You fascinate, whilst I repel. I shall struggle on regardless and try to keep my spirits up.

I've upset you.

I apologise.

 

[col]

Fair point, but this is not what col is concerned about. He is worrying that someone is "hitting his vehicle".

How do you define tapping and hitting, when does one become the other, or are you just being pedantic and clever

 

[col]

If I meet anyone who expresses an interest in your opinion, I'll be sure to let them know...

Please dont, if theyre anything like you ..........

 

[Origamist]

Thats where the inteligence ends in my opinion, what makes you think you know whats going through a drivers mind, when an angry person who might have been unintentially cut up( add any of a large number of reasons here) is knocking on a cars window? If I find myself in this position, the first thing Il say is stop and back off, if they dont then to me they are being aggressive and threatening, and Ill act accordingly.
If someone is knocking on my door, Ill answer it. Unless of course my house has cut up a cyclist and its an angry cyclist knocking

Brilliant!

If you put Col's post into Yodaspeak, it becomes both more intelligible and rational. Try it for yourself:

http://www.yodaspeak.co.uk/index.php

"My opinion thats where the inteligence ends in, you think you know whats going through a drivers mind what makes, when been unintentially cut up( add any of a large number of reasons here) is knocking on a cars window might an angry person who have, hmm? If this position I find myself in, stop and back off, the first thing il say is, if they dont then to me, being aggressive and threatening, are they, and ill act accordingly.
If knocking on my door, someone is, ill answer it. Cut up a cyclist and its an angry cyclist knocking, unless of course my house has. Hmmmmmm."

From now on, I'll be using the yodaspeak generator on all Col's posts.

 

[col]

If only we could be so lucky............

No its easy, you just have to stop thinking your superior and accept that other people can normally think for themselves, and then just keep your mouth shut when you feel the urge to advise others.

 

[col]

Brilliant!

If you put Col's post into Yodaspeak, it becomes both more intelligible and rational. Try it for yourself:

http://www.yodaspeak.co.uk/index.php




From now on, I'll be using the yodaspeak generator on all Col's posts.

Thats brill

 

[Bicycle]

How do you define tapping and hitting, when does one become the other, or are you just being pedantic and clever

I was once speaking to a Mile End landlord, sometime Costa del Sol resident and 'import specialist'.

He was telling me about a disagreement with a German tourist in Spain.


"He wouldn't shut up, so I've reached into my car, I've got hold of a tyre lever and I've tapped him on the head with it," he said.

He did the 'tapping' action too, although I could imagine it well enough.

I thought better of asking him for the definition of 'tapped' as he saw it.

 

[theclaud]

No its easy, you just have to stop thinking your superior and accept that other people can normally think for themselves, and then just keep your mouth shut when you feel the urge to advise others.

Indeed they can. But they can't see their own rear lights too well from the driver's seat...

 

[col]

Indeed they can. But they can't see their own rear lights too well from the driver's seat...

Good point, so why havent most vehicles got rear lights out? Im guessing because they are checked and fixed by most. But then I know what your going to say, what if the bulb goes while on their journey, you were wont you

 

[dellzeqq]

I was once speaking to a Mile End landlord, sometime Costa del Sol resident and 'import specialist'.

He was telling me about a disagreement with a German tourist in Spain.


"He wouldn't shut up, so I've reached into my car, I've got hold of a tyre lever and I've tapped him on the head with it," he said.

He did the 'tapping' action too, although I could imagine it well enough.

I thought better of asking him for the definition of 'tapped' as he saw it.

I personally think this post is completely riveting. My only concern is that some more cynical folk will latch on to your contributions and develop a variant of a game called 'M***** Bingo'. In your case it would be 'Bicycle Bingo' and involve an estimate of the combined distance (by air, sea or road, and as computed by Google Maps) between all the places you mention in one thread. It could run to ten thousand miles or more........

 

[dellzeqq]

Good point, so why havent most vehicles got rear lights out? Im guessing because they are checked and fixed by most. But then I know what your going to say, what if the bulb goes while on their journey, you were wont you

Col, my dear chap. Stop speculating. The light either works or it doesn't. If it doesn't it's only polite to tell people, and it just so happens that cyclists are the people best placed to do the telling - we're usually quicker through traffic, and able to come up on the drivers's side.

 

[Hip Priest]

then you must be one of the goldfish folk who don't respond when I seek to point out, in an entirely helpful way that one of their rear lights isn't working.

I have been alerted to problems with my lights in the past. By pedestrians or other drivers. Though not by a cyclist, yet. On no occasion has this necessitated a tap on my window. I maintain, that having never had someone tap on my window before in 12 years of driving, it would surprise me. I am unsure why you find this admission so threatening and worthy of ridicule.