Weirdest "rage" incident I've had

[jefmcg]

A couple of days ago I was heading through Tower Hamlets or Hackney. I was on a narrow road, with parked cars on either side, with no room to pass on coming cars. There were 3 cars heading towards me, and a stop line a little behind me. I settled down to let the 3 cars pass. Two went through, and the 3rd (a big 4x4) waved me through, which would have been reasonable if the first 2 cars were still at the stop line. As I wasn't primed to go, I knew it would take me a few seconds to start moving. I looked behind me, both cars had cleared the stop line, so there was plenty of room for the 4x4 to clear me. So I shook my head.

tl;dr - I car offered to let me through, and I shook my head.

Anyway, he moves through, and as he pass me with an open window I hear an angry voice in my ear "Don't you shake your head at me!"

WTF? He sounded seriously enraged.

 

[guitarpete247]

How dare you refuse to make him wait. What right have you to allow him to go ahead and not to hold him up on his not very important journey.

Perhaps he was on his way to the dentist and was wanting to put it off as long as he could .

 

[benb]

Maybe he thought you were shaking your head in a disapproving way, which I often do when someone drives like a twunt.

 

[fossyant]

Bloody cyclists !

 

[wiggydiggy]

Strange Rage

On a towpath, passing some 'peds after a ding ding on my bell "Don't you ring your bell at me!"

Weirdo's the lot of em

 

[Cush]

Had the opposite to Wiggydiggy. Narrow country road that can be busy with fast 4*4s. Two Ped's wandering all over the road on a blind bend. Give my usual cheerful "Good Morning" Female ped nearly pee's herself and I get told off for not useing a bell, point out that she was lucky she was not on the bonnet of a 4*4, she replys "I just dont like to be shouted at". Man has said nothing but looks sheepish. I ride on.

 

[HovR]

Strange Rage

On a towpath, passing some 'peds after a ding ding on my bell "Don't you ring your bell at me!"

Weirdo's the lot of em

You can't win! If you didn't ring your bell, they would have complained about that as well! Similarly if you're on the road, you're told to get on the pavement - But if you were on the pavement, you would be told to get on the road.

 

[wiggydiggy]

You can't win! If you didn't ring your bell, they would have complained about that as well! Similarly if you're on the road, you're told to get on the pavement - But if you were on the pavement, you would be told to get on the road.

To be fair on the rest of the peds I meet it was a pair of scally types that propbably thought they were walking by a really slow river and they had no idea its etiquette to ding ding when you go by Was still funny though especially as I dingdingdingdingdingding'd as I cycled off to their shouts of rage haha

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

A couple of days ago I was heading through Tower Hamlets or Hackney. I was on a narrow road, with parked cars on either side, with no room to pass on coming cars. There were 3 cars heading towards me, and a stop line a little behind me. I settled down to let the 3 cars pass. Two went through, and the 3rd (a big 4x4) waved me through, which would have been reasonable if the first 2 cars were still at the stop line. As I wasn't primed to go, I knew it would take me a few seconds to start moving. I looked behind me, both cars had cleared the stop line, so there was plenty of room for the 4x4 to clear me. So I shook my head.

tl;dr - I car offered to let me through, and I shook my head.

Anyway, he moves through, and as he pass me with an open window I hear an angry voice in my ear "Don't you shake your head at me!"

WTF? He sounded seriously enraged.

You have encountered the Common or Garden " warm fuzzy feel good glow hunter" , you make the mistake of thinking that the idea behind the 4x4 driver waving you through was to help you, and so if you didn't need help or it would cause you more hassle than it was worth then you woidn't bother. This is a mistake becuase the real reason the 4x4 driver did this was that he was seeking a fuzzy warm feeling by "helping you" , you then denied him that warm glow by not takeing up the offer. You often see " warm fuzzy feel good glow hunters" as the last in a line of vehicles , where with a gap behind them (that you can see and are ready for ) they will brake ( putting you off your timing) then wave/flash/wave etc... all the while forgetting to look in the mirror to see if
A) they are holding up any other traffic
B) Is there any other traffic about.

The " warm fuzzy feel good glow hunter" can be very dangerous at crossroads , where instead of following the RTA and Highway code it makes up it's own rules about who should have priority.

 

[HLaB]

The weirdest rage I've had was on a wide, straight residential road after the peak (just three cars). The driver overtook me, just inches from me then slammed on his brakes, did that repeatedly and tried reversing at me a few times. I honestly didn't know why and didn't respond but this wound him up more 'try that again hard man and I'll effing kill you', try what For the next half mile he tried the same, getting more wound up by me not responding! He eventually drove off, only to come back a bit later and have another go at me. Fortunately the next leg of my journey took me passed the Police HQ, that might be coincidence but he decided to back off. The only thing I could guess at was mistaken identity

 

[smutchin]

The " warm fuzzy feel good glow hunter" can be very dangerous at crossroads , where instead of following the RTA and Highway code it makes up it's own rules about who should have priority.

I once enraged a driver looking for a warm fuzzy glow moment by refusing to turn right out of the side road that he wanted to turn right into. He waved me out but I just sat there and waited for him to go first.

The reason I waited? Because he was only letting me out so he could cut the corner. FFS.

d.

 

[VamP]

I once enraged a driver looking for a warm fuzzy glow moment by refusing to turn right out of the side road that he wanted to turn right into. He waved me out but I just sat there and waited for him to go first.

The reason I waited? Because he was only letting me out so he could cut the corner. FFS.

d.

So did you get a warm fuzzy glow out of denying him his warm fuzzy?

 

[smutchin]

So did you get a warm fuzzy glow out of denying him his warm fuzzy?

No, I could have let it slide but I wanted to make a point, dammit, so I got all angry and righteous about it, and he got angry at my stubbornness, and thus the net happiness of the world was decreased by a small but noticeable amount.

But I won and that's all that counts in the gladiatorial arena that is our nation's road network. Grrr!

d.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I get the fuzzy glow'ers from right turning cars as I wait to turn right at a particular junction on a regular basis. Waving me out in front of the 40mph cars (used to be 60mph) that are undertaking them.
Crashes at this junction are common. Emergency services spend so long at that junction there may as well be a canteen set up.