To find it funny when someone overtakes you?

[SydneyJones]

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

My partner does this. It drives me nuts. He is usually concerned about safety (or he gets a bollocking), but every time he does it I always say "It won't make your dick grow you know".

I often deliberately let overtakers go past. As in when I see a clear stretch of road for them to pass. I hate being tailgated

A whole ' several minutes'

Happens all the time, also on the motorway when they undertake and usually end up sat at the roundabout when you arrive.

When they drive closer behind me when I am doing the speed limit I slow down on purpose.

Yep or when they overtake and then a vehicle up ahead is going painfully slow. Slows me down too but I don't care because I've got revenge

Happens all the time, also on the motorway when they undertake

And again, if you're being undertaken then you are the dangerous driver. If this is happening to you all the time then you may want to book a driving instructor to give you a couple of motorway lessons.

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.
Are you sure you've never overtaken anyone in 20 years of driving?
If that is the case (which I doubt), it would suggest to me that you are not a very confident driver...

Dodo I think that for a bike it's different because you cannot safely stay behind a bike for ever going at 20~30mph. That would be dangerous for the car, and for you. Even if it was only to carry on for a mile and you then overtake them at the traffic jam.

Having said that, I hate people who tailgate bikes. it's too dangerous.

No, I don't find it funny. It's either dangerous driving, which is seriously unfunny, or you are being overtaken because you are driving too slowly and pissing the other person off. Neither situation is remotely funny.

What I love more is the purposeful speeding up when someone overtakes badly or cuts in dangerously as if to illustrate how much you were holding them back, or how important it was..

A lot of people seem to find overtaking wrong/stupid/rude in any circumstance - just curious as to why?

I had a Ford Fiesta so more often than not I was being overtaken rather than overtaking.

If I'm on a long journey then yes I might only save "several minutes" by overtaking one car, but if I overtake 4 or 5 slow drivers/tractors/lorries etc then my 3 hour journey is reduced to 2 hrs 15 mins (for example). Quite a big time saving I'd say! Yes I was also often a target of inconsiderate and impatient tailgaters, and they can go swing, but I still can't get worked up over a safe and legal overtake.

Waves for @MeltorPeltor from another daughter of a racing driver.

I find I am overtaken much more often when driving my car (v.old golf) than I am when driving dh's (new and shiny large ford) . Driving on same roads at same speeds (at or just under speed limit). Some people just target a car that is "less good than theirs" and have to overtake it. It is particularly annoying as they often overtake on the dual carriageway, pull in and slow down. Meaning I going at a constant speed end up breaking or particularly annoying to them overtaking them. ( They then invariably re overtake me aggrievedly and blaze off into the distance, only for me to catch them up on the single carriageway)
Yesterday I nearly saw an accident as an idiot undertook me in the lane that was filtering off left then pulled back into my lane as someone else pulled into it from the outside lane.
For a seriously close tailgater I will slow down too, slower speed makes it easier for them to overtake me and bigger off or means that if they do go into the back of me the accident will be at a slower speed .

A perfectly executed multi vehicle overtake is also a thing of great satisfaction.

Surely if it's possible for someone to undertake you on a motorway you are in the wrong lane.

It depends how late you are as to how many lots of 'several minutes' you need to save I suppose.

You shouldn't be in the lane filtering off to the left if you are not changing motorways/going off at that junction, so I would have thought in that instance, the undertaker would be 100% in the wrong.

Unless it's a dangerous manoeuvre why would anyone care if someone overtakes them? I overtake where it is safe to do so, I hate tailgating, I don't care if we pull up at the same lights, sometimes we will sometimes we won't. If I want to save 10 minutes on my journey that's up to me.

I hadn't realised people were watching to see if they catch me up, next time I notice this I might give them a little wave ... or I might just listen to my music and enjoy the drive.... watching the lights oblivious to the fact that the person in the next car is feeling triumphant that they have caught me up

My favourite is when I overtake someone and the next set of lights turns amber just as I cross them, or I get to the roundabout just in time to safely pull on to it in front of the tractor. Person overtaken not inconvenienced in any way... and never seen again.

It does make me chuckle. I love to shush people if they shout anything. Hilarious.

Ooh just remembered when someone overtook me and then slammed into the back of the car I was originally behind. Angelic "do you need a witness?" To the front car.

It's always better to have the reckless tailgaters ahead of you than behind you. So let them get in front always.

I live rurally and know the roads really well, so my least favourite overtake is when I am slowing to hit a 30 zone, which is coming up. I get the bloody car which has been tailgating me as I did 60 on the approach, go whizzing past as I lift my foot to cruise into the 30, and they promptly have to step on the brakes when they realise why I'm slowing down.

Plus there are lots of roads round here that are legal 60 zones, but twisty windy with badgers, horses, loose sheep etc likely round any corner. I drive fairly cautiously but regularly get overtaken on tight bends and (as a horse rider) my heart is often in my mouth. If you don't know the road and the likely hazards, then don't go shooting around at 70!

halloumi if you are regularly being undertaken on the motorway would suggest you are in the wrong lane. Also. If someone drives closer behind you when you are doing the speed limit makes you slow down deliberately, really? Either pull over or keep driving the way you were. It's not up to you to police other people's driving I'd much rather let them pass than have them stuck behind me.
sometimes I really despair at other people's driving and reading the regular threads on here about it just confirms it.

I don't get why it matters what other people do in their cars, as long as it doesn't put anyone else in danger.

So what if you both end up at the same set of traffic lights? They're doing their journey their way; I am doing my journey mine.