when someone is following you too closely in the car

[ortiz34]

Don't EVER tap the brakes at a tailgater. Most likely, they're already anxious and angry, and most likely if they're tailgating, they already have a bad driving record and don't care if they crash into you and get yet another accident on record. Just pull over into the next lane and let them by, or motion them to pass asap and LET THEM when they go for it. I don't know if my attitude on this comes with age and experience, of if I'm just more secure with my manhood... I just don't need to be the boss on the highway.

I feel the same way, life's to short to deal with idiots or road rage asswipes. I have a life to live and a family I love.

I drive a 2006 GMC Sierra Pro Sport, black on black, corsa exhaust, Denali 20" rims.. classy looking not obnoxious.
On the highway I ALWAYS get some tough guy in another pick up(usually a ford or dodge) who floors it next to me so I can hear "his" badass POS. I don't even glance or acknowledge them as they are doing it. I just let them go on their tough guy way, bruising their ego knowing I couldn't give a fuck about their 2005 dodge diesel with uber geigh smoke stacks coming out from behind the cab.

 

[digimon7068]

i used to do that stuff, then one day it just seemed silly, the whole "getting pissed" thing, giving that other asshole free rent in my head...nowadays, if someone is riding my ass, if it really bothers me, if we come to a stop sign or stop light and the douche is still behind me, i'll throw it in park, get out, walk back, and ask them if they have a problem with my driving or with the posted speed limit...99% of the time, they won't even talk to me, or even look at me...i'll stand there for a bit and give them an opportunity to respond and then i'll just go back and get in my car and leave...usually takes care of the issue...and it's a small town, people know each other, and after a while people stop messing with you.

 

[-SD-]

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well dave, if we'd had this levelheaded temperment - wisdom in our teens and early twenties.................our lives would have been totaly boring as fuck

after 2 bullets, several knife fights ad infinitum , i got nuthin to prove
and i NEVER sweat the small stuff. not to mention, i have kids and i live
by example. i don't want to teach my boys to be "reactive"

ten years ago they all would have been staring down the barrel of my .45 lol

 

[reyz324]

lol @ you having a game avatar like last week

i was joking i have no idea who they were an also

game goes hard dont care if he is pyru or blood. same goes for dj quick

 

[ceo]

i used to do that stuff, then one day it just seemed silly, the whole "getting pissed" thing, giving that other asshole free rent in my head...nowadays, if someone is riding my ass, if it really bothers me, if we come to a stop sign or stop light and the douche is still behind me, i'll throw it in park, get out, walk back, and ask them if they have a problem with my driving or with the posted speed limit...99% of the time, they won't even talk to me, or even look at me...i'll stand there for a bit and give them an opportunity to respond and then i'll just go back and get in my car and leave...usually takes care of the issue...and it's a small town, people know each other, and after a while people stop messing with you.

I wouldn't recommend doing that in SoCal, bro.

 

[ceo]

I would like to think that if someone were coming up behind another driver that the driver in front would be aware enough of their surroundings, and be courteous enough to pull over if they had the opportunity. If they didn't have the opportunity to pull over right away, I would hope that they would pull over when they could.

Unfortunately, I know that's not the case. Here in California, it seems worse than anywhere else. People either don't notice you're coming up on them in the far left lane of a multi-lane highway, doing 75-80 while they're doting around at 60-65, or they just don't give a fuck. Rarely around here will a person have the decency to pull over even if there is no one next to them. That frustrates me, but I just go around them.

 

[Strongbow]

i used to do that stuff, then one day it just seemed silly, the whole "getting pissed" thing, giving that other asshole free rent in my head...nowadays, if someone is riding my ass, if it really bothers me, if we come to a stop sign or stop light and the douche is still behind me, i'll throw it in park, get out, walk back, and ask them if they have a problem with my driving or with the posted speed limit...99% of the time, they won't even talk to me, or even look at me...i'll stand there for a bit and give them an opportunity to respond and then i'll just go back and get in my car and leave...usually takes care of the issue...and it's a small town, people know each other, and after a while people stop messing with you.

Hell Yea punch the fucking window a few times next time and yell you wanna piece of me mutha fucker with spit flying out yo mouf, all these mutha fuckers round here think I am crazy, even teh blacks are scared shitless of me.

 

[ceo]

I just wave my handgun behind me in the rear window for them to see. They almost always slow down.

lol, this reminds me of a story. I was a little kid, around 8 yrs. old maybe. I was with my dad in Oklahoma, and we were driving on a 4 lane hwy (2 lanes each side, divided by median). We were in the left lane and there was another car in the right lane ahead of us, right behind a semi truck.

As we are getting ready to go by him he starts to pull into our lane, and my dad honks, brakes, and swerves out of the way onto the shoulder a bit. The guy swerves back into his lane. After 20-30 seconds we start to go by him again and he does the same fucking thing! This time my dad honks, swerves onto the shoulder and hits the gas. We go by him and the truck.

Well, the asshole pulls in right behind us, literally on our ass, and swerves around us cutting within inches of us and the semi. He pulls up next to us and is yelling and flipping us off (remember, I'm like 8). Then the other driver swerved at us like he was going to hit us.

My dad says, "Open the glove box and hand me my gun!"

LOL! I was scared as shit! I thought my dad was going to kill this guy and I knew he would go to jail. I was like, "NO dad, please, it's ok just let him go!" He said, "Give me my gun damnit!"

This other driver was still next to us, and my dad holds up his handgun. That guy hit the brakes so hard he locked up his tires and made smoke! LOL! He took off on an exit that happened to be right there.

Funny as hell now, but scary for a little kid.

 

[ortiz34]

lol, this reminds me of a story. I was a little kid, around 8 yrs. old maybe. I was with my dad in Oklahoma, and we were driving on a 4 lane hwy (2 lanes each side, divided by median). We were in the left lane and there was another car in the right lane ahead of us, right behind a semi truck.

As we are getting ready to go by him he starts to pull into our lane, and my dad honks, brakes, and swerves out of the way onto the shoulder a bit. The guy swerves back into his lane. After 20-30 seconds we start to go by him again and he does the same fucking thing! This time my dad honks, swerves onto the shoulder and hits the gas. We go by him and the truck.

Well, the asshole pulls in right behind us, literally on our ass, and swerves around us cutting within inches of us and the semi. He pulls up next to us and is yelling and flipping us off (remember, I'm like 8). Then the other driver swerved at us like he was going to hit us.

My dad says, "Open the glove box and hand me my gun!"

LOL! I was scared as shit! I thought my dad was going to kill this guy and I knew he would go to jail. I was like, "NO dad, please, it's ok just let him go!" He said, "Give me my gun damnit!"

This other driver was still next to us, and my dad holds up his handgun. That guy hit the brakes so hard he locked up his tires and made smoke! LOL! He took off on an exit that happened to be right there.

Funny as hell now, but scary for a little kid.

OLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome

I love the pricks that cut YOUoff and give you the finger or a look. That grinds my otherwise calm gears

 

[Whiskey]

lol, no brake check, i just down shift and let them about hit me. love watching the front of the car dip down when they slam on the brakes.

Whiskey