So last night I had my first experience with road rage, don't worry I wasn't the one raging, it was the other guy.
So there I was minding my own business, heading home after a long day at work (this would have been at about 10:45pm), just got onto a dual carriage way heading home, admittedly going faster than I should have been and thus I was in the outside lane, you know, going fast. When the guy behind me decides to ride my bumper for a bit then thinks it's a good idea to overtake me on some hazard lines, misjudges the distance before the central island separating the two flows of traffic,
goes onto the wrong side of the road (so he's driving into the oncoming traffic).
Of course I just keep going thinking "What the fuck is he doing?" and come off the dual carriage way at the next roundabout, think nothing more about it and continued on my way home. This guy speeds up to catch up to me, tries blinding me with his full-beam headlights, no problem if the guy wants to be a twat I'll just dim the rear view mirror. Then as we approach my home village decides to ride my bumper again, while looking for a way past me. He goes really slow over the speed bumps through the village then speeds up to catch up to me, of course knowing what the speed bumps are like in this area I just casually go over them at an average speed. Unfortunately for me there's a bus in front of me by this point, the guy rides right up to my bumper (seriously, I couldn't even see his fucking headlights) and tries to pin me in up against the bus. However being the (reasonably) sensible driver that I am, I left enough room for myself to over take the bus, which I did once it had stopped at a bus stop.
Of course the guy quickly pursues me, rides my bumper again, then over takes me on a narrow stretch of road, I honk my horn at him for being such a twat, he then forces me into stopping in the road. Gets out of his car comes over to mine and then has the balls to claim that I was in the wrong and somehow forced him onto the wrong side of the road, oh and he ended up quoting the speed limit on the dual carriageway. Of course I pointed out to him that he was going well over the speed limit, he had to be, I was and he was going faster than me, of course that means nothing to him because I forced him onto the wrong side of the road.
It's worth nothing here that I just kept on going straight while on the dual carriageway and at no point did he actually get past or equal to my car, he was behind the whole time and could have easily slipped back behind me or even undertaken me. Granted that's as wrong as trying to overtake on hazard strips but there was infinitely more room on the inside than the outside.
Anyway, words were exchanged, another driver honked his horn (quite rightly too) as he drove by because this twat was standing in the middle of the road as he bared his grudge, once this other driver had driven by the twat got back into his car and drove off. Unfortunately for me, I was heading in the same direction he drove off in and so had to stick behind him, so what does he do? Periodically slammed on his breaks trying to get me to go into the back of him, or just trying to piss me off, either way it didn't work and a few yards down the road I was able to turn off at the mini-roundabout and continue on my way home, fuming at the fact that this guy was trying to put me in the wrong.
And relax. Breath in.... and out..... and in...... and out....
In hindsight what I should have done was driven him around the houses, seeing as he was so obsessed with following me, I could have made him go back and forth criss-crossing the village all night long. Then if he did eventually get me to stop, I should have just either not wound down my window or done a 3-point turn and drove off.
Oh well c'est la vie
This is Benji Dude, asking you to not be a dick on the roads.
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