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To think that if you drive a small car, you are fair game for intimidation!

155 replies

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 12/06/2013 22:33

DM is away this week, and has lent me her car. It is a Nissan Micra. EVERY time I have been out in it, I have been tailgated by a van/taxi/4x4. I don't get this in my large Citroen. I have driven the Micra in exactly the same way! If it was my own car, Id be tempted to apply the brakes! Angry

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pleiadianpony · 14/06/2013 09:18

I absolutely hate this. people who do this should be strung up. I don't believe in capital punishment. The exception - tailgaters and people who drop litter in the streets.

SinisterBuggyMonth · 14/06/2013 09:32

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Plomino · 14/06/2013 10:31

My own car is a Seat Ibiza , which I drive to get to work and back , and the DH has a Discovery , which I drive on my days off (usually full of dogs , horse feed or towing the horses somewhere ) . Although I drive more progressively in my own car , people seem far more willing to tailgate me, or as on one memorable occasion , actually put me off road and but for some luck , into the local river , where several people drown every year .

Unless of course I'm towing the horses in the trailer , in which case everyone seems to think its ok to barge past me , cut me up at junctions , get the hump when they can't undertake me at a roundabout , and then having passed me , brake right in front of me , so the horses lose their balance . Thanks for that .

ComposHat · 14/06/2013 13:31

I think people who work hard and have lots of money should be allowed to have the biggest car they like and celebrate their success. Just saying.

Just so long as we stilll have the right to mock their insecurity, status anxiety and tiny cocks.

Anyway, a lot of these mobile compensatory devices are company cars or their drivers are up to their eyeballs in loans to finance companies.

Just saying

diabolo · 14/06/2013 13:43

I've got a Corsa and yes, certain people try to overtake me in 30mph zones, think they can get ahead of me by illegally overtaking in the wrong lane at a roundabout etc - sadly for them, it's got a sports engine and amazing acceleration so I usually leave the bas*ds for dead.

That teaches them not to underestimate me again! Grin

MrsDoomsPatterson · 14/06/2013 13:44

I think people who work hard and have lots of money should be allowed to have the biggest car they like and celebrate their success. Just saying.

Someone on this fred said this ^ ?! Oh lollers!! God there are some twonks on here.

Redtractoryellowtractor · 14/06/2013 13:46

I drive a Nissan Micra, they are very fast at pulling away. I find that's quite good fun when twatting about with Boy racers or merc drivers.

My approach is usually to just smile and sing and tra la la and refuse to be intimidated out of the way, then send people off with a cheery wave. That tends to piss them off more.

Tallulahmae · 14/06/2013 13:48

I used to drive a yellow and black smart fortwo and had people trying to intimidate me all the time (luckily I simply don't care and just slowed down, waved and laughed at them, with the occasional brake light show).

Now I drive a grey and white smart fortwo and don't really get people trying to bully me too often but again I simply don't care - their aggression simply amuses me!

Fairydogmother · 14/06/2013 13:56

i def used to get this when i had a citroen c1 but not so much in my 207cc. however i do get nasty comments from people when i have the roof down! err i paid for this damn car so i'll put the roof up and down as i please!

my partners subaru impreza is the best car for annoying boy racers tho as they dont realise its one with a 250bhp engine lol. their 1L corsas simply wont compete!

ComposHat · 14/06/2013 15:10

but not so much in my 207cc.

How much do you charge for a cut and colour? (ducks)

ComposHat · 14/06/2013 15:29

The funny thing is that my totally bog standard 1.6 Corolla is faster than the 2litre GOlf GTi off the same era.

It has similar horsepower, is much lighter and has 16 valves, when the 8 valvegolf is horribly overweight. The late 90s Golf GTI was spectacularly shite though. Sadly I've never had one pull up alongside me at the lights.

theodorakisses · 14/06/2013 17:01

Compost-mine isn't. it is big, safe and fun. I don't have a cock and am not insecure, just like having nice things that are comfy, fun and safe. The insecurity is far more likely to be from the cries of 22 year old Fiesta drivers who think they are eco firendly because they drive it. They are not. My truck does, however, do 9mpg but my fuel is free so I don't care. My Escalade is quite efficient and has saved our lives (although sadly not a foster dog I was picking up who went through the windscreen when a lorry hit us head on a 120kph). Imagine if we had been in a Picanto, we would have been squished.

theodorakisses · 14/06/2013 17:02

people who say lollers are the biggest twats.

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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 14/06/2013 17:30

I think people who work hard and have lots of money should be allowed to have the biggest car they like and celebrate their success. Just saying.
Hmm
on finance, paying through the nose

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frostyfingers · 14/06/2013 19:14

I either drive a Mazda 2 (teeny tiny) or a Landcruiser (large) - there is a junction near here at which I can guarantee a driver will pull out of across me if I'm in the small car, but not if I'm in the big one. A large lorry nearly chopped me in half last week when I was driving the small car - I would put money on it not happening if I'd been in the big one.

I'm with Plomino on the trailer driving too, people see you coming and barge out in front of you in case you hold them up....I pull over if I have a queue of traffic behind me but very few ever acknowledge that with a wave or thankyou.

MrsDoomsPatterson · 14/06/2013 20:24

people who say lollers are the biggest twats.

I agree! Never said it before & probably won't again, was just blown away by the pure twattishness of someone saying that.

MrsDoomsPatterson · 14/06/2013 20:29

BTW, I actually said 'Twonks' - please get the insults correct, yah?

RoooneyMara · 14/06/2013 20:39

I nearly got crushed by a skip lorry the other day. It was literally a split second decision that came, quite clearly, into my mind - If you do not mount the pavement, your baby will die.

I went up the pavement and thank fuck there was no one on it. The fucker was coming straight towards me, without stopping - I wasn't even scared. I just knew I had to act.

Perhaps he just didn't see me.

RoooneyMara · 14/06/2013 20:42

Oh not you Theodora. Not again. My old adversary. Why do we always meet on these threads?

theodorakisses · 14/06/2013 21:19

Because you think that that anyone who has a nice car and doesn't agree with you should be shot. I don't really care what car you drive but don't think you should hate all people who don't choose drive the cars on your list of acceptable vehicles

Lazyjaney · 14/06/2013 21:21

Caught in a queue this pm behind a Nissan Micra conforming faithfully to stereotype, frustrated drivers in all sorts of cars behind did various taligates/ overtakes/ cut-ins / push pasts / etc to get past.

Car turned off before I had to try and get past it, made a meal even out of turning left.

Some drivers cause their own problems.

theodorakisses · 14/06/2013 21:23

Twonk isn't a word and not a way to describe irritating and offesnsive people. Twat describes the type of person I was thinking of. Not stupid, just literal.

WeAppearToBeAlright · 14/06/2013 21:33

I get much more consideration in my old banger 2L diesel estate peugeot 406 than I ever had in my shiny new 1.4L 206.

I think it's because I don't look like I care about another dent or scrape; I'm quite large; and I'm going quite fast.

In reality, I drive a lot more safely in this one because I loves it.

Original poster
SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 14/06/2013 21:57

Twonk works for me!

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Fairydogmother · 14/06/2013 22:02

compos sadly I'll not be much use for your hair since I'm a civil servant