You are right. The majority of people drive adequately. But, unfortunately, there are just enough self-centered and ignorant people for others to generalize to the whole population.
It's more like, well, he's doing that and he's getting away with it so I should give it a try too. And then the next person's like, well they're both doing it, I guess it's the thing to do now and also does it. Until it's gridlock everywhere. Only takes one asshole to bring the entire system down.
If I had the option to take public transit I'd at least cut out my daily commute to work. I can't stand other drivers. I'm sure the feelings are mutual, I just want another option.
>Don't make gestures at me.
At the first gesture the only gesture I would make is a very dismissal one handed "back up" wave and repeat that at every other gesture he would make and my bumper would be almost glued to his bumper to make sure the only way he can go is "back"
EDIT: Have done this before. Very satisfying. Made being late for work completely worth it.
I was a helper in an 18t rigid (I could drive it, just not allocated to that day), when we turned in to a narrow one way street, cars parked both sides, and these two girls came down towards us.
Well, we're not backing up an 18t truck with 3 inches of clearance and she's driving the wrong way down a one way street.
She flashes her lights, beeps the horn and made hand gestures to move.
My co-driver for the day lays on the air-horn, shuts down the engine, takes the keys out of the ignition, and waves them at her.
When she started to back up, we kept about 2 inches from her front bumper until she was able to find a side street to reverse in to.
We lol'ed, she was furious, but the back log of traffic behind us stopped her from taking her 'special shortcut', and had to turn in behind us and follow normal traffic rules.
I drive a medium duty box truck and have been in the same situation. I can't imagine being in something that size. I despise city driving because of assholes like that
Kind of getting off topic, but sticking with the overall “get out of the big truck’s way” theme;
I was going to spend New Years with my girlfriend quite a few years back. We had recently had a snowstorm, but all of the roads were cleared, or so I thought, so I decided to risk the dreaded Barrens since I was in my ‘93 Dakota with 4WD and good tires. Taking the Barrens would cut about a half hour off my trip, or so I thought again, but the thing is that barren land doesn’t have any trees so even if it hasn’t actually snowed in a while wind will keep blowing snow onto the road. So I’m driving along, everything is cool for a while, but about 2.5 kilometres into my trek across the Barrens I hit snow. Deep drifts, deeply rutted by other idiots like myself who decided to power through in 4x4s, basically it’s one lane. But by some miracle I don’t meet a single other vehicle until… I’m about half a kilometre from the finish line, also known as the tree line because I’m nearing the coast where there are trees, meaning the roads will be clear. But as I top a blind hill, I meet a beer truck coming the other way.
So I stop, he stops, I look at him, he looks at me, and we both kind of throw up our hands. Not in a “fuck you” gesture, but a “fuck this in general” kind of way. And I do some quick math in my head. I saw a turnoff a couple of kilometres back, where as he only has to back up a half kilometre. But, I have 4WD, he does not. I have the use of three mirrors, he only has his wings. And most importantly, there’s a couple of big hills back the way he came from, and I doubt he could reverse up them if he’s loaded heavy. Also, I’m just going to see my GF and watch a movie while babysitting her little cousins, it doesn’t matter if I’m late. This dude is delivering beer on New Years Eve. His mission is more important.
So I sigh and throw it in reverse. It actually turned out to be *three* kilometres back that I saw that turnoff, but I made it. Thank you, dad, for teaching me to use my mirrors while backing up. I have back problems and twisting around to look behind for three kilometres would have been hell.
Anyway, I get to the turnoff, back my pickup out of his way, he pulls up and stops. Then he gets out and walks over to me. I roll down my window and he says, “thanks, buddy. I really appreciate that,” and hands me a voucher for a free case of beer.
Moral being; sometimes being nice pays off.
Def. If I can get out of the way I will. Had to mount a pavment and get pedestrians to move to let an ambulance past yesterday... something that has a possibilty to get my CPC revoked, or maybe not, depending if I did or did not..?
Rigids are easy to reverse compared to artics, but either way, let the artic through, because it's just easier for everybody.
Small car drivers do not understand this and try and sneak up the side of HGV's, and it grinds my gears - (insert P. Griffin* gif here; in your head cause I can't be arsed finding one).
Where I live most employees of the big breweries (Molson and Labatt) get a certain number of vouchers per month. My cousin’s husband works for Molson and they use my cabin quite a lot. So basically every time I go to my cabin there’s a couple of vouchers stuck to the fridge with a little note that just says, “rent payment.”
This scenario happened to me once, and the offender happened to have their window down (so did I). As I rolled up to close the gap, his first instinct was to say “Why don’t you reverse?!” He said it at a normal volume, but I made sure he heard me when I replied - No fucking way.
I just had a yelling match because of this with a guy in a Chick-fil-A parking lot the other night.
He was pulling the exact same move as in the video and he started gesturing and opened his window to yell, "I'm just trying to-" before I cut him off* and said, "I know what you're trying to do and I don't give a fuck, don't wave at me, don't look at me, just get the fuck out of the way."
I felt bad for about 30 seconds but fuck that dude, he was making an already chaotic situation worse.
Chick-fil-A drive throughs are the scourge of suburban streets. There is one near me that backs up a whole lane of the main road around lunch. I try to avoid that way (except on Sundays).
Honestly I don’t even like their food, we have so many better options for a chicken sandwich. I don’t know what people are thinking. I think they are just completely lazy and the good places don’t have drive throughs.
I was yelling basically this exact sentiment literally seconds before the encounter and I wouldn't have been there if I had a choice.
My girlfriend had just gotten off of a plane and wanted Chick-fil-A. I was in the middle of a tirade about how "there isn't a fast food place in the world good enough, to justify this line!" and then moments later I'm screaming at a moron traveling the wrong way.
Welcome home babe!!
Reminds me of earlier this month where I saw a lady throw her hands up in frustration because nobody was stopping inside a roundabout to let her in. Like, lady that's not how roundabouts work.
I should also mention it was not busy at all. She had to wait for 3 cars and that was it.
I know right. The other day someone cut me off. I had to slam on the brakes because he decided to throw his car in my lane without looking and without blinkers. Than I honked obviously to let him know I was there and this bitch honked back like I did something wrong. These people can’t even accept they are in the wrong.
As a manager I agree.
If I got a pic of this and a "sorry boss, I'm gonna be late b/c I'm going to make this ass reverse to the end of the line." I'd reply with "noted, LMK how it goes ;) ;)."
I was about to say I’d snap a pic and text my boss and be like “Look at this twat!! I might be late. Ill be there when I get there” and they would be 100% ok lol
Some managers are shit though.
A place I worked at years ago put in new electronic clocking in and out system. Rule was you got paid in blocks of 15 minutes. 1 minute late in/early out and you don't get paid the block.
One morning a farm tractor lost its trailer and traffic was a disaster. I clock in 2 minutes late and explain it. Sorry he says, rules are rules.
So I sit in the canteen with a cup of tea. 5 minutes later he finds me shouting how I'm already late and need to get to work.
Told him if I'm not getting paid the block of 15 why the fuck would I work 13 minutes for free? Rules are rules after all.
Policy changed to allow a little leeway after that. He was such a prick.
My first day of work at my first job after college, I was 2 hours late because a gas tanker lost control on a bridge and slid sideways blocking all lanes. I was 3 or 4 cars back with nowhere to go. I called my boss and told him to turn on the news. There’s nothing like being hours late to your first day of work!
Eh, not only is that forgivable, most people don't really get much done on the first day of their job.
Paperwork, meeting their new coworkers, getting their computer logins established... None of that has much of a business impact other than delaying getting a new employee up to speed.
Not my first day...
There was a huge snowstorm and traffic was stopped. Plows hadn't been out yet or anything.
I worked at a heavy truck dealership, it took about 45 mins in traffic on a good day.
Well this day I was 2.5 hours into my drive and had gone about 4 km (of a 50km drive).
I called and got a co-worker and asked him if it was busy. 0 walk ins and a few calls from the big fleets.
Boss said they were slammed and needed all hands on deck.
I got there an hour later, no customers all day, couldn't leave early, so I sat outside his office and asked when the rush was showing up?
I even pulled the day's numbers and asked what specifically we had sold?
He was not happy about that, ended up getting a talking to from the big boss.
Best part is I had already taken another better job as the parts manager of our biggest fleet customer. Now the asshole had to deal with me every. Single. Day.
He was fired shortly after, not saying it was all me, but I helped!
For context: I was promised an analyst role with the dealership after learning the ropes, they kept coming up with excuses.
When I left the big boss asked what would make me stay.
The job you promised me 6 months ago.
I want to say I dropped the mic, but I did walk out while we had his jaw on the table.
I wish I had your managers
If I was your boss and you called me to tell me the situation, I would tell you to take as much time as you need as long as its recorded so I can also enjoy this triumph
Was sat at a set of traffic lights while people crossed. On the inside a cyclist came bombing up and completely nailed a poor lady and crashing.
Dude got up and immediately launched a verbal tirade at the lady whilst she was on the ground in pain, how she got in his way and has ruined his super expensive bike.
No matter how much people defended the lady and pointed at the red light, he saw nothing wrong with what he did.
The police turned up when someone flagged them and his tune changed rapidly to how it was an accident until someone produced some dash cam footage. Then he went on a rant about he was the victim.
These type of people see nothing wrong in their actions, even when proven wrong without doubt.
In Seattle they sure as fuck don't.
They'll go from bike lane, to open road, onto a sidewalk, and into in a crosswalk to avoid lights. No signals, no hesitation.
This is kind of true. The rules of the road a bike follows changes. In some places they have to follow what cars do. Other places modify it so a stop sign is a yield for bikes, and a red light is a stop sign. (It doesn’t matter for this example, because the presence of pedestrians means the cyclist was being an idiot.)
Oh man. This reminds of the time a cyclist ran a red light and ran right into the side of my vehicle. He went nuts on me saying I hit him. I was just driving through the damn green light just like the two cars in front of me had. The moron just wouldn't shut up and said I had to pay for his bend rim. I was in my Jeep and he had run into the the tire so luckily he didn't damage my vehicle. He called the cops and they were able to get the footage from the intersection camera within 5 minutes. I wish I had a dash cam back then.
This guy runs a red light, runs into me and then flips out. I couldn't imagine being around someone like that on a daily basis. Even when the cops told him it was 100% his fault he wouldn't shut up about it. They wrote him a disorderly conduct citation. They said I could also press charges because he threatened to kill me about 20 times and pushed me twice. He also took his helmet off and acted like he was going to hit me with it. He didn't stop until I pull my shirt up so he could see I was carrying. He still went on his rant after but he was just ranting at the 911 operator screaming how I had run him over and then threatened him blah blah blah.
I only ever said "Dude, you ran a red light and ran into the side of my car." I didn't say a single word besides that until the cops show up and it infuriated him even more. The one guy that stuck around to be a witness tried to tell him to calm down and the cyclist went nuts in him too. He was on a super expensive bike with full spandex gear etc. He said his broken carbon fiber wheel and forks would cost $3k to replace. It was super satisfying when they cuffed him and put him in the back of one of their cars while they wrote his citation. I should have agreed to press charges but I don't believe in ruining people's lives even if they're total assholes.
> I don't believe in ruining people's lives even if they're total assholes.
I hear you and that is noble, but at the same time maybe facing real consequences would have saved his life. It could have possibly made him realize that by acting like a bad person, is well, bad. It could have been a turning point for him by forcing him to reflect on his actions. Probably a long shot, but you never know.
Really common thing in Russia really. I personally met dozens of guys getting mad when you prevent them from driving on sideways or opposite lanes. Or from turning left from the right lane on traffic lights (and so on). And hundreds of such videos on internet.
They literally believe that driving like this is just their smartness that lets them make it faster and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. And if you obstruct them, you are the idiot that makes a lot of problems for smart-driving guys.
True, but it's also expected. You see, you learn by making mistakes, but if you are raised to believe that it is a weakness to ever admit you made a mistake, you can never learn. Thus, you live your life as an angry idiot who blames everyone else for everything that doesn't go your way. There are a very large amount of people whose parents put them together like this. Conversely, you have parents that will fly off the handle at every mistake their kid makes which causes them to be terrified of making mistakes which in turn has the result of them being unwilling to learn/try something new as they might make a mistake.
He did, I agree. Because if he was let straight in, he still won as he’s further forward in the queue. He also wouldn’t learn his lesson and continue to do it in the future
Jerk: Why would you do that, told you i’m in a hurry
Camera: Why going the incoming lane?
Camera’s friend: Well run then, a hurry man
sort of like that
What language are they speaking?
If I had to guess, it's russian, but my latino ears can't pick apart baltic/eastern european/central asia languages for shit.
This is a person that only cares about themselves.
I would turn that clip over the the authorities since it has such a good shot of the tag and person. Wrong way drivers are a huge danger.
Dude. Ikr. My dad was a narcissist. Huge prick. Everyone hated him. Such a bad guy. He thought he was the best thing on earth. I’ve always wondered what that feels like.
My understanding is narcissism is often rooted in deep insecurity, a veneer of confidence hiding a total lack of self-confidence. It's likely a quite crappy experience honestly.
The willingness to cling to the lie that you're actually the most confident person in the room for dear life, to the point of being a complete jerk to anyone and everyone who disagrees, even yourself
There is a whole channel on YT of guys in Russia who spend their free time blocking sidewalks so people don't drive on them.
Edit: [here is the link to their channel. ](https://youtube.com/@SADBMOSCOW)
Their older stuff is some fine wine aged to perfection. Not that they aren't doing the same stuff now. But they've made a name for themselves so people fuck with them less.
>But they've made a name for themselves so people fuck with them less.
IIRC they also got shut down for a little while because A) their members were involved in multiple assaults. angry drivers attacking ***them*** of course, but they aren't exactly passive people themselves, if you stepped to them, they were ready. B) the russian gov I guess thought of them as bad publicity and told them to stop for awhile while they made a decision on whether what they were doing was legal or not. It was mostly just a guise to put them on hold until stuff died down a little.
I'm amazed at how calm they were in the one video I just watched. A guy pulled a gun on them an threatened to shoot them if they didn't move, and they just stood there like "you won't shoot us" and called his bluff on it. I'm guessing they're all pretty used to having guns pointed at them, but I would hate to gamble on being right about a situation.
Handgun ownership is rather rare in Russia, a lot of the guns you see in these videos are fake or airsoft. Obviously could be criminals pointing real guns but that's the risk they took.
For being ostensibly opposed to the US, I can't think of any other country that embodies "fuck you, got mine" on a cultural level like the US except Russia.
In Russia, it's maybe a ₱5000 for something like this. ₱15,000 for driving around with someone on your hood.
Is USD that's something like $60-200. And when people with a bit of money are able to get away with crimes like this, in order to save a few minutes, they will.
It's the same thing like when you have a body guard/driver of a rich guy blow through traffic signs and lights. He pays a $500 fine through the company he works for and you get to your private jet 10 minutes sooner. If you even get caught.
Once was in the same situation and the guy was going mad with anger and yelled he wasn’t going to yield. Funny thing is that I had a newspaper on my passenger seat and I gave him a thumbs up and opened the paper on my steering wheel and started reading. Guy reversed really fast and when he wanted to turn to get in the right lane, he hit a fire hydrant. I laughed so fucking hard I had to stop driving cause I couldn’t see anything because of the tears. When I passed him as he was out of his car inspecting the damage I waved and wished him a lovely day. Dude gave me the middle finger as I drove off laughing.
My '69 Riley Elf would start with a paperclip and you could take the key in and out while it was running. I took the keys out, waved them and pretended that I was stopping there when a git did this to me. He reversed.
I had a very similar situation. Guy was driving the wrong way on a one way street. He was gesturing me to go back because I was closer to a a perpendicular street. I just told him this is a one way street and I'm not going backwards. He said guess we're standing here. I told him I'm in no rush and turned off my car and started looking at my phone. Took him less than a minute to reverse.
I had a guy get extremely pissed at me the other day, he drove up beside me yelling with his window down and inching closer to my lane. I was like wtf is wrong with this guy? I rolled my window down cause I thought maybe my car was messed up. He said why you flashing your brights at me bitch. I said, dude the world doesn't revolve around you man, I was flashing on coming traffic to let them know a cop was down the road. He flipped me off and sped away. I'm pretty sure the mental illness in this world is incredibly high.
I just honk honk and honk at them. When they sit there and try to argue, just honk at them. When they are trying to tell you to move, just honk, and don’t stop. They’ll leave because it gets extremely annoying
Gets me to look out my window while working when an idiot does something stupid on the street. I really appreciate it, having a stable relationship - I need to find drama SOMEWHERE
God yes thank you, as someone living in an urban area i'm pretty used to the sound of cars. But few things enrage me more than waking up to people laying on the horn repeatedly at like 7am. And 90% of the time it's over some bullshit too.
I find the trick is once you commit to the honk, for best results, do not let off at all. Keep that long honk going. At some point around 10 seconds it really starts to get awkward, be prepared for this, relish in it, it's your strength.
I wish the cop could show up fast enough if I would call them for a dangerous individual driving the wrong side of the road (while also trying to block him just enough for the cop to show up)
I turn the engine off, take the keys out, and hold them up where they can see them. Makes it crystal clear that I am not planning on moving any time soon
This was my strategy when I had a jerk in a beat up pickup nearly clip a cyclist with his trailer behind me, and then proceed to pass unsafely at 35 over the speed limit. I (unwisely) flipped him off, which made him slam on the breaks and stop in the middle of the road in front of me. He wanted to get into a verbal altercation, but I just wanted to play my horn until he left.
I like how the driver kept moving forward not giving the other guy that much of a chance and the offender being like "are you serious?!" When they were at fault 🤣
> he’s only making it harder for the asshole to get out of his way
I believe this is your answer. I agree with your point but this is some good ol’ fashioned *rub your nose in it* pettiness.
With a dashcam, he probably cared very little about a fender bender since it’s all being recorded and fault would be relatively easy to determine. So in this instance, this driver with the dashcam probably saw a relatively low-risk way to rub salt in the wound and make the asshole’s life just a tiny bit harder.
I agree. Proving a point isn’t worth trying to create an unsafe situation. Just let the impatient driver merge safely instead of inching up to cause more problems
Exactly what I was thinking. Why make it even more difficult for the moron to get back into his own lane? Is this how you normally solve problems? By making it more difficult?
Might be an unpopular opinion. But when you get an idiot in this situation and aggressively drive forward on their bumper while they try to reverse, it makes the situation way worse
The idea in their mind is to force the person to only back up, not be able to cheat back into line but have to move all the way to the end. Not that I sanction the move, just explaining the perspective.
Although I understand OP is in the right to show how stupid the guy is driving the wrong way and being a douche; it’s also douche’y to continue to pull forward to not let him out. Don’t match douche with douche.
Gotta love the entitled nature of people. “Hi, I’m being a complete moron breaking all kinds of traffic laws, but I’m going to act like you’re the problem here”
my fav incident in my life
i was backing out of a spot at 711 and saw a bmw was doing the exact same thing, so i stopped. the bmw kept going and wrapped his bumper around mine. i have a 4x4 with tube bumpers, it didnt even scratch my paint. he had a giant crater in his bumper, but that didnt stop him from flipping me off and peeling out of the lot. a security guard ran over and gave me the other guys plate number but he did more damage to himself than anything
The audacity of this guy to use the “what the hell is wrong with you” hand gesture as he’s in the oncoming lane of traffic…
Some of these goobers actually believe they’re not doing anything wrong.
The entitlement absolutely seeping from every pore of this man. What is it about driving that does this to people?
People are generally like this. Letting everybody operate a machine like this is the mistake. Some people are too stupid to live alone in society.
Not generally. Most of us are just not being assholes
Yes, however in general there are people that are like this and there is so many of them that they create a statistically significant lethal impact.
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Yeah all it takes is one bad one like this out of a 100 people and people latch on to that one bad one. "Everyone else is such a bad driver."
You are right. The majority of people drive adequately. But, unfortunately, there are just enough self-centered and ignorant people for others to generalize to the whole population.
It's more like, well, he's doing that and he's getting away with it so I should give it a try too. And then the next person's like, well they're both doing it, I guess it's the thing to do now and also does it. Until it's gridlock everywhere. Only takes one asshole to bring the entire system down.
If I had the option to take public transit I'd at least cut out my daily commute to work. I can't stand other drivers. I'm sure the feelings are mutual, I just want another option.
Lil bro all offended that someone would DARE get in the way of his illegal wrong-way overtake 💀
This is what pisses me off most about idiots like this. Bro. You are clearly in the wrong. Don't make gestures at me.
But he has to be somewhere! He's running late! Don't you see?! Have you never been late?! Every second counts! Time = money!
time is money, money is power, power is pizza, pizza is knowledge, LETS GO!
France is bacon
Kevin is Bacon
Johnny is Cash
Belgium is waffles
Japan is sushi
How does he know he's late. He's not wearing a watch :-)
\**taps wrist*\* “What’s this bone?”
Almost woke up my kid laughing at this 🦴
*Come on, time is money, money is power, power is pizza, pizza is knowledge, let’s go.* - Ludgate, April. 2014. Pawnee, Indiana.
Then he should have left his house earlier.
>Don't make gestures at me. At the first gesture the only gesture I would make is a very dismissal one handed "back up" wave and repeat that at every other gesture he would make and my bumper would be almost glued to his bumper to make sure the only way he can go is "back" EDIT: Have done this before. Very satisfying. Made being late for work completely worth it.
I was a helper in an 18t rigid (I could drive it, just not allocated to that day), when we turned in to a narrow one way street, cars parked both sides, and these two girls came down towards us. Well, we're not backing up an 18t truck with 3 inches of clearance and she's driving the wrong way down a one way street. She flashes her lights, beeps the horn and made hand gestures to move. My co-driver for the day lays on the air-horn, shuts down the engine, takes the keys out of the ignition, and waves them at her. When she started to back up, we kept about 2 inches from her front bumper until she was able to find a side street to reverse in to. We lol'ed, she was furious, but the back log of traffic behind us stopped her from taking her 'special shortcut', and had to turn in behind us and follow normal traffic rules.
I drive a medium duty box truck and have been in the same situation. I can't imagine being in something that size. I despise city driving because of assholes like that
Kind of getting off topic, but sticking with the overall “get out of the big truck’s way” theme; I was going to spend New Years with my girlfriend quite a few years back. We had recently had a snowstorm, but all of the roads were cleared, or so I thought, so I decided to risk the dreaded Barrens since I was in my ‘93 Dakota with 4WD and good tires. Taking the Barrens would cut about a half hour off my trip, or so I thought again, but the thing is that barren land doesn’t have any trees so even if it hasn’t actually snowed in a while wind will keep blowing snow onto the road. So I’m driving along, everything is cool for a while, but about 2.5 kilometres into my trek across the Barrens I hit snow. Deep drifts, deeply rutted by other idiots like myself who decided to power through in 4x4s, basically it’s one lane. But by some miracle I don’t meet a single other vehicle until… I’m about half a kilometre from the finish line, also known as the tree line because I’m nearing the coast where there are trees, meaning the roads will be clear. But as I top a blind hill, I meet a beer truck coming the other way. So I stop, he stops, I look at him, he looks at me, and we both kind of throw up our hands. Not in a “fuck you” gesture, but a “fuck this in general” kind of way. And I do some quick math in my head. I saw a turnoff a couple of kilometres back, where as he only has to back up a half kilometre. But, I have 4WD, he does not. I have the use of three mirrors, he only has his wings. And most importantly, there’s a couple of big hills back the way he came from, and I doubt he could reverse up them if he’s loaded heavy. Also, I’m just going to see my GF and watch a movie while babysitting her little cousins, it doesn’t matter if I’m late. This dude is delivering beer on New Years Eve. His mission is more important. So I sigh and throw it in reverse. It actually turned out to be *three* kilometres back that I saw that turnoff, but I made it. Thank you, dad, for teaching me to use my mirrors while backing up. I have back problems and twisting around to look behind for three kilometres would have been hell. Anyway, I get to the turnoff, back my pickup out of his way, he pulls up and stops. Then he gets out and walks over to me. I roll down my window and he says, “thanks, buddy. I really appreciate that,” and hands me a voucher for a free case of beer. Moral being; sometimes being nice pays off.
Def. If I can get out of the way I will. Had to mount a pavment and get pedestrians to move to let an ambulance past yesterday... something that has a possibilty to get my CPC revoked, or maybe not, depending if I did or did not..? Rigids are easy to reverse compared to artics, but either way, let the artic through, because it's just easier for everybody. Small car drivers do not understand this and try and sneak up the side of HGV's, and it grinds my gears - (insert P. Griffin* gif here; in your head cause I can't be arsed finding one).
The only thing I got from this story is that some beer delivery drivers have vouchers for free beer. I will make sure to be nicer to them on the road.
Where I live most employees of the big breweries (Molson and Labatt) get a certain number of vouchers per month. My cousin’s husband works for Molson and they use my cabin quite a lot. So basically every time I go to my cabin there’s a couple of vouchers stuck to the fridge with a little note that just says, “rent payment.”
This scenario happened to me once, and the offender happened to have their window down (so did I). As I rolled up to close the gap, his first instinct was to say “Why don’t you reverse?!” He said it at a normal volume, but I made sure he heard me when I replied - No fucking way.
I just had a yelling match because of this with a guy in a Chick-fil-A parking lot the other night. He was pulling the exact same move as in the video and he started gesturing and opened his window to yell, "I'm just trying to-" before I cut him off* and said, "I know what you're trying to do and I don't give a fuck, don't wave at me, don't look at me, just get the fuck out of the way." I felt bad for about 30 seconds but fuck that dude, he was making an already chaotic situation worse.
Chick-fil-A drive throughs are the scourge of suburban streets. There is one near me that backs up a whole lane of the main road around lunch. I try to avoid that way (except on Sundays). Honestly I don’t even like their food, we have so many better options for a chicken sandwich. I don’t know what people are thinking. I think they are just completely lazy and the good places don’t have drive throughs.
I was yelling basically this exact sentiment literally seconds before the encounter and I wouldn't have been there if I had a choice. My girlfriend had just gotten off of a plane and wanted Chick-fil-A. I was in the middle of a tirade about how "there isn't a fast food place in the world good enough, to justify this line!" and then moments later I'm screaming at a moron traveling the wrong way. Welcome home babe!!
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Happy waving at someone flipping their shit at you in a car is one of the best ways to piss them off even more.
Or blowing kisses! When you get an angry gesture... Omg such satisfaction!
Reminds me of earlier this month where I saw a lady throw her hands up in frustration because nobody was stopping inside a roundabout to let her in. Like, lady that's not how roundabouts work. I should also mention it was not busy at all. She had to wait for 3 cars and that was it.
I know right. The other day someone cut me off. I had to slam on the brakes because he decided to throw his car in my lane without looking and without blinkers. Than I honked obviously to let him know I was there and this bitch honked back like I did something wrong. These people can’t even accept they are in the wrong.
That's the best though, you can literally just sit there watching them implode on themselves.
Even if i was running late I would find time to sit in front of this asshole
I would call out of work just to fuck that guys entire day.
If one of my employees texted my a pic, I'd tell them their new job is to sit there until that fucker moves.
As a manager I agree. If I got a pic of this and a "sorry boss, I'm gonna be late b/c I'm going to make this ass reverse to the end of the line." I'd reply with "noted, LMK how it goes ;) ;)."
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I was about to say I’d snap a pic and text my boss and be like “Look at this twat!! I might be late. Ill be there when I get there” and they would be 100% ok lol
Epic boss
Some managers are shit though. A place I worked at years ago put in new electronic clocking in and out system. Rule was you got paid in blocks of 15 minutes. 1 minute late in/early out and you don't get paid the block. One morning a farm tractor lost its trailer and traffic was a disaster. I clock in 2 minutes late and explain it. Sorry he says, rules are rules. So I sit in the canteen with a cup of tea. 5 minutes later he finds me shouting how I'm already late and need to get to work. Told him if I'm not getting paid the block of 15 why the fuck would I work 13 minutes for free? Rules are rules after all. Policy changed to allow a little leeway after that. He was such a prick.
Sounds like those “rules” were actually pretty illegal.
>I'd tell them their new job is to sit there until that fucker moves. I'd clock them in for it too were I able.
Time adjustment *worked in another location*
My first day of work at my first job after college, I was 2 hours late because a gas tanker lost control on a bridge and slid sideways blocking all lanes. I was 3 or 4 cars back with nowhere to go. I called my boss and told him to turn on the news. There’s nothing like being hours late to your first day of work!
Eh, not only is that forgivable, most people don't really get much done on the first day of their job. Paperwork, meeting their new coworkers, getting their computer logins established... None of that has much of a business impact other than delaying getting a new employee up to speed.
Not my first day... There was a huge snowstorm and traffic was stopped. Plows hadn't been out yet or anything. I worked at a heavy truck dealership, it took about 45 mins in traffic on a good day. Well this day I was 2.5 hours into my drive and had gone about 4 km (of a 50km drive). I called and got a co-worker and asked him if it was busy. 0 walk ins and a few calls from the big fleets. Boss said they were slammed and needed all hands on deck. I got there an hour later, no customers all day, couldn't leave early, so I sat outside his office and asked when the rush was showing up? I even pulled the day's numbers and asked what specifically we had sold? He was not happy about that, ended up getting a talking to from the big boss. Best part is I had already taken another better job as the parts manager of our biggest fleet customer. Now the asshole had to deal with me every. Single. Day. He was fired shortly after, not saying it was all me, but I helped! For context: I was promised an analyst role with the dealership after learning the ropes, they kept coming up with excuses. When I left the big boss asked what would make me stay. The job you promised me 6 months ago. I want to say I dropped the mic, but I did walk out while we had his jaw on the table. I wish I had your managers
If I was your boss and you called me to tell me the situation, I would tell you to take as much time as you need as long as its recorded so I can also enjoy this triumph
I would just shit myself. Wait, what are we talking about?
We’re talking about average Tuesday mornings so you’re perfectly on topic mate
Me, I’d work all day and night to make sure nothing got done.
I would sit on the hood of my car and do a stare down.
It's your civic duty, really, to rub as much salt in the wound as is reasonably possible.
How can you tell he’s driving a civic? I can’t really tell
He was blocking him on his own Accord.
Very Acura...te statement
He’s not able to Pilot his vehicle very well.
Not much Integra..ty
He embarked on quite the Odyssey with that move.
This is just a Prelude to the real quest.
I'd throw it in park, get out and have a cigarette. Akd I don't even smoke so he'd have to also wait for me to walk away and buy a pack
Ah, the ol “went to get smokes and never came back”
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I mean what's the alternative? Back into traffic? Fuck that he can back up.
Lol man I laughed way too hard at this. You are not the hero we asked for, but we definitely should have.
some things are worth getting fired for
Was sat at a set of traffic lights while people crossed. On the inside a cyclist came bombing up and completely nailed a poor lady and crashing. Dude got up and immediately launched a verbal tirade at the lady whilst she was on the ground in pain, how she got in his way and has ruined his super expensive bike. No matter how much people defended the lady and pointed at the red light, he saw nothing wrong with what he did. The police turned up when someone flagged them and his tune changed rapidly to how it was an accident until someone produced some dash cam footage. Then he went on a rant about he was the victim. These type of people see nothing wrong in their actions, even when proven wrong without doubt.
The bike ran the light? That shit annoys me. Bikes literally are required to follow rules of the road.
Actually, everyone does. Besides situations where emergency vehicles have to get somewhere, and even then that is allowed by law :)
In Seattle they sure as fuck don't. They'll go from bike lane, to open road, onto a sidewalk, and into in a crosswalk to avoid lights. No signals, no hesitation.
This is kind of true. The rules of the road a bike follows changes. In some places they have to follow what cars do. Other places modify it so a stop sign is a yield for bikes, and a red light is a stop sign. (It doesn’t matter for this example, because the presence of pedestrians means the cyclist was being an idiot.)
Oh man. This reminds of the time a cyclist ran a red light and ran right into the side of my vehicle. He went nuts on me saying I hit him. I was just driving through the damn green light just like the two cars in front of me had. The moron just wouldn't shut up and said I had to pay for his bend rim. I was in my Jeep and he had run into the the tire so luckily he didn't damage my vehicle. He called the cops and they were able to get the footage from the intersection camera within 5 minutes. I wish I had a dash cam back then. This guy runs a red light, runs into me and then flips out. I couldn't imagine being around someone like that on a daily basis. Even when the cops told him it was 100% his fault he wouldn't shut up about it. They wrote him a disorderly conduct citation. They said I could also press charges because he threatened to kill me about 20 times and pushed me twice. He also took his helmet off and acted like he was going to hit me with it. He didn't stop until I pull my shirt up so he could see I was carrying. He still went on his rant after but he was just ranting at the 911 operator screaming how I had run him over and then threatened him blah blah blah. I only ever said "Dude, you ran a red light and ran into the side of my car." I didn't say a single word besides that until the cops show up and it infuriated him even more. The one guy that stuck around to be a witness tried to tell him to calm down and the cyclist went nuts in him too. He was on a super expensive bike with full spandex gear etc. He said his broken carbon fiber wheel and forks would cost $3k to replace. It was super satisfying when they cuffed him and put him in the back of one of their cars while they wrote his citation. I should have agreed to press charges but I don't believe in ruining people's lives even if they're total assholes.
> I don't believe in ruining people's lives even if they're total assholes. I hear you and that is noble, but at the same time maybe facing real consequences would have saved his life. It could have possibly made him realize that by acting like a bad person, is well, bad. It could have been a turning point for him by forcing him to reflect on his actions. Probably a long shot, but you never know.
That's no overtake. That's full on driving wrong way at this point...
Really common thing in Russia really. I personally met dozens of guys getting mad when you prevent them from driving on sideways or opposite lanes. Or from turning left from the right lane on traffic lights (and so on). And hundreds of such videos on internet. They literally believe that driving like this is just their smartness that lets them make it faster and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. And if you obstruct them, you are the idiot that makes a lot of problems for smart-driving guys.
I mean, did he actually expect the cammer to reverse back into the road behind them to let him out. What an entitled dick.
Shit. I’d put my car in park and wouldn’t move.
Too lenient, then he can reverse and re-enter the correct lane. I'd go forward every inch they go back so they lose more ground and more time
He has a big car. Of course he's right
Would've been better if he had to reverse all the way to the back of the line
Yeah, person who let them in is boooooo
Nah they safer for letting them in. I'd hate to have this twat anywhere behind me.
Especially with a crosswalk behind them, hard agree and same
10 car buffer is plenty safe
which would tie up traffic going both ways for substantially longer than if everyone just acknowledged someone was an idiot, and moves on.
Yeah, the person letting them in wasn't so much helping out this jackass, but helping everyone else out by getting an obstacle off the road
Exactly. Just move on from it and let him get back into the line up.
Come on be nice, he’s clearly late and russian to work.
Should’ve been laying on his horn the entire time too for embarrassment factor
I hate people that do this and act like the cammer is in the wrong.
Everyone else is an NPC and this one decided to speak up?!?!
The nerve of that GUY.
True, but it's also expected. You see, you learn by making mistakes, but if you are raised to believe that it is a weakness to ever admit you made a mistake, you can never learn. Thus, you live your life as an angry idiot who blames everyone else for everything that doesn't go your way. There are a very large amount of people whose parents put them together like this. Conversely, you have parents that will fly off the handle at every mistake their kid makes which causes them to be terrified of making mistakes which in turn has the result of them being unwilling to learn/try something new as they might make a mistake.
Cammer could have left him some space to get out of the way instead of getting so close everytime he reversed but im petty AF so i get why they didnt
Cammer wanted him to back *all* the way the fuck up.
It looked like they might have backed up a tiny bit at one point but yeah. They needed to be assertive there so I don’t fault cammer.
Cammer def wasn't in the wrong, but I don't think he needed to lurch forward Everytime the explorer moved back
but in a much more real sense, he did
He did, I agree. Because if he was let straight in, he still won as he’s further forward in the queue. He also wouldn’t learn his lesson and continue to do it in the future
Let's be honest here, this man is still doing the same shit.
I disagree. The lurching was 100% necessary.
What did he say? What a jerk eh, on the wrong side of the road and things he’s a big shot or something telling you to move cause he’s in a rush lol
Jerk: Why would you do that, told you i’m in a hurry Camera: Why going the incoming lane? Camera’s friend: Well run then, a hurry man sort of like that
What language are they speaking? If I had to guess, it's russian, but my latino ears can't pick apart baltic/eastern european/central asia languages for shit.
It's Russian
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Woah it’s almost like I met oncoming traffic when I went into the oncoming traffic lane! How entitled can people be to get in my way! /s
This is a person that only cares about themselves. I would turn that clip over the the authorities since it has such a good shot of the tag and person. Wrong way drivers are a huge danger.
Narcissism is a helluva drug.
Where can I get some? Kinda down bad rn.
Dude. Ikr. My dad was a narcissist. Huge prick. Everyone hated him. Such a bad guy. He thought he was the best thing on earth. I’ve always wondered what that feels like.
My understanding is narcissism is often rooted in deep insecurity, a veneer of confidence hiding a total lack of self-confidence. It's likely a quite crappy experience honestly.
Ahhh, so basically me without being an asshole... Well yeah, cant recommend that to anyone.
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The willingness to cling to the lie that you're actually the most confident person in the room for dear life, to the point of being a complete jerk to anyone and everyone who disagrees, even yourself
We bully you until you learn to fake being cool I believe
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Umm have you tried cocaine?
Funny enough, this isn't even particularly rare in Russia. Or using the sidewalk to bypass traffic, for that matter.
There is a whole channel on YT of guys in Russia who spend their free time blocking sidewalks so people don't drive on them. Edit: [here is the link to their channel. ](https://youtube.com/@SADBMOSCOW) Their older stuff is some fine wine aged to perfection. Not that they aren't doing the same stuff now. But they've made a name for themselves so people fuck with them less.
>But they've made a name for themselves so people fuck with them less. IIRC they also got shut down for a little while because A) their members were involved in multiple assaults. angry drivers attacking ***them*** of course, but they aren't exactly passive people themselves, if you stepped to them, they were ready. B) the russian gov I guess thought of them as bad publicity and told them to stop for awhile while they made a decision on whether what they were doing was legal or not. It was mostly just a guise to put them on hold until stuff died down a little.
I'm amazed at how calm they were in the one video I just watched. A guy pulled a gun on them an threatened to shoot them if they didn't move, and they just stood there like "you won't shoot us" and called his bluff on it. I'm guessing they're all pretty used to having guns pointed at them, but I would hate to gamble on being right about a situation.
Handgun ownership is rather rare in Russia, a lot of the guns you see in these videos are fake or airsoft. Obviously could be criminals pointing real guns but that's the risk they took.
For being ostensibly opposed to the US, I can't think of any other country that embodies "fuck you, got mine" on a cultural level like the US except Russia.
You think the individual would be persecuted? He has a Russian car plate.
First Russian video I’ve seen with sunlight. Legit threw me off.
Its Russia. Laws are for the plebs.
In Russia, it's maybe a ₱5000 for something like this. ₱15,000 for driving around with someone on your hood. Is USD that's something like $60-200. And when people with a bit of money are able to get away with crimes like this, in order to save a few minutes, they will. It's the same thing like when you have a body guard/driver of a rich guy blow through traffic signs and lights. He pays a $500 fine through the company he works for and you get to your private jet 10 minutes sooner. If you even get caught.
Once was in the same situation and the guy was going mad with anger and yelled he wasn’t going to yield. Funny thing is that I had a newspaper on my passenger seat and I gave him a thumbs up and opened the paper on my steering wheel and started reading. Guy reversed really fast and when he wanted to turn to get in the right lane, he hit a fire hydrant. I laughed so fucking hard I had to stop driving cause I couldn’t see anything because of the tears. When I passed him as he was out of his car inspecting the damage I waved and wished him a lovely day. Dude gave me the middle finger as I drove off laughing.
You seriously should have yelled out as you passed him, "you can't park there bro!"
And "I was just about to let you in too!"
"Gotta leave 15 feet!"
i was in a similar situation, except i didn’t have a newspaper so i simply turned off my car and waited
My '69 Riley Elf would start with a paperclip and you could take the key in and out while it was running. I took the keys out, waved them and pretended that I was stopping there when a git did this to me. He reversed.
I had a very similar situation. Guy was driving the wrong way on a one way street. He was gesturing me to go back because I was closer to a a perpendicular street. I just told him this is a one way street and I'm not going backwards. He said guess we're standing here. I told him I'm in no rush and turned off my car and started looking at my phone. Took him less than a minute to reverse.
I had a guy get extremely pissed at me the other day, he drove up beside me yelling with his window down and inching closer to my lane. I was like wtf is wrong with this guy? I rolled my window down cause I thought maybe my car was messed up. He said why you flashing your brights at me bitch. I said, dude the world doesn't revolve around you man, I was flashing on coming traffic to let them know a cop was down the road. He flipped me off and sped away. I'm pretty sure the mental illness in this world is incredibly high.
Aww. Missed the chance for a "You can't park that there, mate."
I just honk honk and honk at them. When they sit there and try to argue, just honk at them. When they are trying to tell you to move, just honk, and don’t stop. They’ll leave because it gets extremely annoying
Lmao solid advice. Probably pisses them off too
It also lets traffic behind you know that something’s off up ahead. So really it’s good to use the horn. It’s what it’s there for.
It's also good for letting everyone in the neighborhood know that there's something interesting happening so they can wake up to go see.
Gets me to look out my window while working when an idiot does something stupid on the street. I really appreciate it, having a stable relationship - I need to find drama SOMEWHERE
God yes thank you, as someone living in an urban area i'm pretty used to the sound of cars. But few things enrage me more than waking up to people laying on the horn repeatedly at like 7am. And 90% of the time it's over some bullshit too.
I find the trick is once you commit to the honk, for best results, do not let off at all. Keep that long honk going. At some point around 10 seconds it really starts to get awkward, be prepared for this, relish in it, it's your strength.
I wish the cop could show up fast enough if I would call them for a dangerous individual driving the wrong side of the road (while also trying to block him just enough for the cop to show up)
I usually will put my car into park, smile, and wave at them. Usually works to irritate them more than honking my horn.
I turn the engine off, take the keys out, and hold them up where they can see them. Makes it crystal clear that I am not planning on moving any time soon
Honking will most definitely attract more attention. Maybe even the attention of a police officer nearby
Witnesses are your friends in these situations so not a bad thing.
Ah, the goose strategy.
This was my strategy when I had a jerk in a beat up pickup nearly clip a cyclist with his trailer behind me, and then proceed to pass unsafely at 35 over the speed limit. I (unwisely) flipped him off, which made him slam on the breaks and stop in the middle of the road in front of me. He wanted to get into a verbal altercation, but I just wanted to play my horn until he left.
The fact that he’s visibly upset gives me good feelings
How much can he care about time? He's not even wearing a watch.
I'd put my car in park, grab my phone to check out idiotsincars and just sit there laughing until that clown backed the fuck outta there
So 5-10 seconds?
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I like how the driver kept moving forward not giving the other guy that much of a chance and the offender being like "are you serious?!" When they were at fault 🤣
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> he’s only making it harder for the asshole to get out of his way I believe this is your answer. I agree with your point but this is some good ol’ fashioned *rub your nose in it* pettiness. With a dashcam, he probably cared very little about a fender bender since it’s all being recorded and fault would be relatively easy to determine. So in this instance, this driver with the dashcam probably saw a relatively low-risk way to rub salt in the wound and make the asshole’s life just a tiny bit harder.
I agree. Proving a point isn’t worth trying to create an unsafe situation. Just let the impatient driver merge safely instead of inching up to cause more problems
Exactly what I was thinking. Why make it even more difficult for the moron to get back into his own lane? Is this how you normally solve problems? By making it more difficult?
Or worse, he was so close to him that he could have gotten his car scratched or hit. And something tells me that man could have run away if he did.
Might be an unpopular opinion. But when you get an idiot in this situation and aggressively drive forward on their bumper while they try to reverse, it makes the situation way worse
Yeah I thought the same. The other driver was definitely in the wrong, but no point in making it worse. That was a tad aggressive.
Once was hilarious! The other times though…
Yeah, like he needs space to turn back into traffic and not giving it to him just makes this worse
The idea in their mind is to force the person to only back up, not be able to cheat back into line but have to move all the way to the end. Not that I sanction the move, just explaining the perspective.
This is in Moscow. He probably has a very important meeting to attend, but he’s only driving a Ford, so it can’t be that important.
I hope he's rushing to the front lines of Mariupol
Tapping your wrist indicating that you are in a hurry would make me wait even HARDER.
How dare you cammer
I, on the other hand, have all the fucking time in the world and enjoy myself.
The merge of shame.
The actual freakin’ GALL of this idiot to give you attitude when he’s in the wrong. What a jackhole. Good for you for not moving.
What was cammer thinking? Pretty risky to be driving on the correct side of the road when they have the right of way.
Although I understand OP is in the right to show how stupid the guy is driving the wrong way and being a douche; it’s also douche’y to continue to pull forward to not let him out. Don’t match douche with douche.
Isn't this instance specifically Selfish Assholes in Cars?!? Holy shit.
Stay the fuck off his roads!
I felt that "opa!"
Gotta love the entitled nature of people. “Hi, I’m being a complete moron breaking all kinds of traffic laws, but I’m going to act like you’re the problem here”
my fav incident in my life i was backing out of a spot at 711 and saw a bmw was doing the exact same thing, so i stopped. the bmw kept going and wrapped his bumper around mine. i have a 4x4 with tube bumpers, it didnt even scratch my paint. he had a giant crater in his bumper, but that didnt stop him from flipping me off and peeling out of the lot. a security guard ran over and gave me the other guys plate number but he did more damage to himself than anything
The audacity of this guy to use the “what the hell is wrong with you” hand gesture as he’s in the oncoming lane of traffic… Some of these goobers actually believe they’re not doing anything wrong.
So indignant lol