To find it funny when someone overtakes you?

[SydneyJones]

Going at a ridiculous speed and then you end up at the traffic lights together?

I love it. They are always staring dead ahead when you pull up next to them at traffic lights though and refuse to engage with my cheery wave.

Very occasionally I've done this. It's usually not because of speed per se but because of stopping distance. If someone is going very slowly it can be hard to be a safe distance behind them. I don't mean you are doing this, of course!

Yep!

Or you end up crawling behind them for miles along a winding country road because the numpty has overtaken you and ended up behind a tractor 😁

Happens all the time - there I am , going at the speed limit, and some tosser wastes fuel on what is sometimes a dangerous overtaking move. Then up comes the village and the 30 limit and there is tosser.

Same in the other direction - see you at the roundabout, dickhead.

I saw a car attempt to overtake at some traffic lights yesterday. The first car was not amused beeped the horn then drove very slowly in front for a way.
I do hate dangerous overtakers though.

Yes. I bloody love it when this happens. The twats

Yes love it!!

Some idiot was weaving in and out of lanes yesterday on duel carriage way. Gets to roundabout and as I turned right, he was going straight on and ended up behind a large car carrier.
I did chuckle to myself as it was a single lane road that he wouldn't be able to overtake on until the next junction.

They are the same idiots who think tailgating is ok and that everyone else should get out of their way.

I chuckle everytime.

Always amusing :)

How is it hard to drive a safe stopping distance behind someone going slowly?

It's no harder to drive safely behind someone doing 30 in an 60 than it is to drive behind someone doing 30 in a 30, I don't understand that justification at all.

Turquoiseblueandgreen how exactly do you justify that?!?!? Sounds like you're one of those who overtakes! How is it any more difficult to stay a safe stopping distance behind a slow moving vehicle than a fast moving vehicle? Just stay a safe distance! Do you mean because others from behind you may try to overtake you into the gap? If so that's less likely as they can see you have a slow moving car in front and it's the same with anyone overtaking, if someone overtakes slow to allow a new stopping distance. I've never heard such rubbish. I've driven daily for 20 years and never had to overtake, if someone's going slowly just give them the time and space they need.

Yes I find it funny too. For them to overtake you at such speed but you both pretty much end up in the same spot seconds later.

Hard to explain really. Just I know sometimes I think 'thank Christ for that' when I overtake one car even if I then get stuck at lights. I don't go particularly quickly and I only overtake when it's safe to do so.

Yes it makes me laugh too. They have gained a whole car's length by overtaking. Then there they are at the lights.

I love it. They are always staring dead ahead when you pull up next to them at traffic lights though and refuse to engage with my cheery wave.

Be careful doing this. I laughed at someone doing the same and was a victim of a road rage incident as a result

On my drive to work a few years ago every single day the same car either undertook me at a junction in town or sped past me at about 90mph on the dual carriageway (obviously depending on how late she was!!) and it really annoyed me!! If your needing to drive like that every day just leave bloody earlier!!

I took great pleasure if she wasn't able to overtake me on the dual carriageway driving at a nice sensible 50mph as the next 5 miles or so was a very hilly and busy single carriageway with almost no chance of overtaking!! 🤗

Surely if someone is undertaking you regularly you are using the wrong lane?

On the dual carriageway I mean, at a junction is just stupid on their part

No she was overtaking me on the dual carriageway, sorry I meant to write that.

I also prefer to have the idiots in front of me where I can keep an eye on them more easily (and a safe distance).

What really irritates me is when people start to overtake me just at the point when I am accelerating when the speed limit changes from 30 to 60. I often have to brake quite hard to enable them to squeeze in front of me before oncoming cars get too close - and then I end up chugging along behind them at 55 when the road conditions are perfectly safe for 60, so they are actually slowing me down!

I do get this feeling if someone overtakes aggressively, or when you are doing the speed limit, however overtaking is not an aggressive act in itself? As long as you do it calmly and when it is safe to do so.
There are many reasons to overtake, yesterday I overtook a car who I felt was driving erratically and I didn't want to be stuck behind, so as soon as it was safe I did so and like a pp felt relief that we where able to remove ourselves from the situation and not be at the mercy of their driving!

It's no harder to drive safely behind someone doing 30 in an 60 than it is to drive behind someone doing 30 in a 30

If someone is doing 30 on a 60 road then they are the da heroes driver and yes of overtake them as they're likely to cause an act