So a few of you have mentioned honking/flashing/waving at these idiot drivers. Anyone ever actually confront someone?
Oh yes. Several times. If I was ale to.
But I always tried to make it sound ironical or sarcastic. I didn't swear or start shouting. That's not my way. Witty remarks can be much more effective.
At a local supermarket a BMW was parked on one of the spaces for the handicapped without the necessary pass behind the windscreen. I was shopping there with a friend and saw the guy return to his car and it was clear that he was not handicapped at all. So when we walked past him, I said out loud to my friend to make sure the BMW driver could hear me: "Must be a mental handicap".
On another occasion I was following a colleague on the way to work. He never indicated. So when we arrived at the company, I told him: "If I were you, I would drive to the garage immediately after work." "Why?", he asked surprised. I said: "Because your indicators are broken".
And then there was the woman in a Renault Twingo, who used up two parking spaces. I just walked by and said smiling: "It's really hard to park these cars, isn't it?"
Then there was the woman in an older Mercedes who thought I stole her parking space. Only I was indicating and she wasn't, so I slipped in before she could. She freaked completely out and shouted at me (women are getting more and more aggressive in traffic here). So I walked to her car, after I locked mine, and calmly asked her: "I suppose you have one of those levers on the left side of your steering wheel? Use it, if you wanna park".
Needless to say, that I never got a coherent reply to my comments. So I walked away. However, that woman I mentioned above kept swearing and calling me names.
I don't want to offend any female forum members now but I think there are moments, when the female mouth seems to work completely independent from the brain
A man usually notices in time, when he is about to make a clod of himself (unless he is drunk). But women often seem to be determined to completely and utterly embarrass themselves.
Just once I got an aggressive reaction from another driver, because I made the thumbs down gesture and shook my head at him at a traffic light, after he cut me off shortly before.
It was a Friday and obviously he was a navy soldier from Eastern Germany on his way home, as I could tell by his haircut and his number plate. But that didn't prevent him from following me to the parking lot of my company, where we obviously wanted to have a fight o at least threaten me.
Only when he saw that I was about a head taller than him and about twice as heavy, he resorted to asking if I had a problem. I said "No, but you will have one, if you don't get into your car again and get lost", I replied and left him standing.
