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[Lizzie_Zoom]

I have a theory that with women who are in professional or business occupations, like me once, we are so busy trying hard to be even more competitive than the men in dog eat dog cultures, that this conditioning / training continues when behind the wheel of motor cars because you cannot just switch it off.

It is frightening though when you have that red mist descend

[Banjax]

I have a theory that with women who are in professional or business occupations, like me once, we are so busy trying hard to be even more competitive than the men in dog eat dog cultures, that this conditioning / training continues when behind the wheel of motor cars because you cannot just switch it off.

It is frightening though when you have that red mist descend

I've noticed that too Lizzie - usually a smart woman in a nice car - you've NO chance of being let out - they won't even make eye-contact - it's like they'd be "losing" some "game" in their heads, either that or they'd see it as weakness - I'll genuinely let anyone out if its safe to do so  

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I have a theory that with women who are in professional or business occupations, like me once, we are so busy trying hard to be even more competitive than the men in dog eat dog cultures, that this conditioning / training continues when behind the wheel of motor cars because you cannot just switch it off.

It is frightening though when you have that red mist descend

I've noticed that too Lizzie - usually a smart woman in a nice car - you've NO chance of being let out - they won't even make eye-contact - it's like they'd be "losing" some "game" in their heads, either that or they'd see it as weakness - I'll genuinely let anyone out if its safe to do so  

Spot on Bannjaxx ! That is exactly how it is in my experience - one million miles on mostly business.


...............and when two women come together with the same attitude......oh god!!

[waspy]

Silly bugger.
I was gona say it could have been the wrong time , but 54  :-/

[TheBoy]

I must admit that in my younger days I was often tempted to ram some bugger (usually a man) off the road who had cut me up; once this happened on the M4 at 100+ mph because I was so angry.

I am ashamed of it now, as I often brought myself down to their level, but then I hated that feeling of some other driver really taking the pxss by some dangerous maneovre cutting me up when out on business (NEVER with my kids in the back!) and with a powerful car at my control I wanted to show them I couldn't be intimidated by then driving at absolutely stupid, reckless speeds.

Amazingly I always got away with it, with not even one "ticket"EVER,
but I certainly condemn such actions now and feel very sad when I read something like this!  Her poor, poor, family; could have been mine!!  

Still at least she didn't kill anyone else and give their family great sadness

Ah, but understandable in your youth, when you had PMT as the bloke cut you up

//TheBoy runs and hides....

[TheBoy]

Mrs TheBoy occasionally, like most of you girlies, gets a touch of road rage.  Usually no more than a 'wave' and comments about how they must be less than well endowed (in her mind its always blokes who hog the middle lane of the M40).

Though saying that, she did eat up the last set of tyres a bit quickly

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I must admit that in my younger days I was often tempted to ram some bugger (usually a man) off the road who had cut me up; once this happened on the M4 at 100+ mph because I was so angry.

I am ashamed of it now, as I often brought myself down to their level, but then I hated that feeling of some other driver really taking the pxss by some dangerous maneovre cutting me up when out on business (NEVER with my kids in the back!) and with a powerful car at my control I wanted to show them I couldn't be intimidated by then driving at absolutely stupid, reckless speeds.

Amazingly I always got away with it, with not even one "ticket"EVER,
but I certainly condemn such actions now and feel very sad when I read something like this!  Her poor, poor, family; could have been mine!!  

Still at least she didn't kill anyone else and give their family great sadness

Ah, but understandable in your youth, when you had PMT as the bloke cut you up

//TheBoy runs and hides....

Come to think about it...............

It is a good excuse anyway, and something I would have used in any legal argument if I had lived!!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Mrs TheBoy occasionally, like most of you girlies, gets a touch of road rage.  Usually no more than a 'wave' and comments about how they must be less than well endowed (in her mind its always blokes who hog the middle lane of the M40).

Though saying that, she did eat up the last set of tyres a bit quickly

That is exactly what I always thought!  I wasn't wrong was I??!!!

[chunk]

 I actualy find it very sad. Thankfuly no one else was injured but she had bipolar disorder. In debate we could conclude that she should'nt have been driving with a mental disorder. But who knows? there by the grace of God goes any one of us as the saying goes under the wrong set of circumstances. :-/

[Ian_D]

Daft idiot IMO!  :-/

Crashing car, then spinning wheels is just daft...
Continuing to do it till the tyres are no longer, is utter stupidity...
AND to then stay in the car when its on fire???

Maybe it’s a good job she did stay inside the car after all for the safety of others! Plus next time it could have been a LOT worse, you just don’t know what she was capable of!


I do get road rage evry now and then (I consider it to be very minor though), and unless you were a passenger, I guess you wouldn’t know! I just tend to used the pedals as "on" or "off" (Including pressing the kickdown switch!!!) and flicking the back end out a few times if its quiet

The thing that REALLY gets on my nerves, is when I have to stop for a car coming the other way, when a car is parked on THEIR side of the road... If they say 'thanks' etc I don’t mind, other wise.... GRRR!

Oh, and people that drive slow! Don’t get me started on them!  

[Andy B]

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Oh, and people that drive slow! Don’t get me started on them!  

Although it p***s me off when I'm sat behind the people who are doing their 29.999 mph in a 30 you can't really argue too much (apart from they STILL brake to go through a speed camera! - they are doing the limit I suppose. It's those, like the bint I was behind today on the way into work, who drive everywhere at 34/35 no matter what the limit is, whether it's a national speed limit, 50  etc etc. Also, when it takes them a mile to get up to speed from a stand still.