Road rage attack yesterday morning, is it me or are people getting angrier?

[LivinLaVidaLoki]

Was driving to work yesterday and a man pulled out in front of me not even looking or indicating...nothing. Almost hit my car.
As he wasnt looking, I quickly peeped my horn to let him know I was there.
He stopped. Got out of his car and came to mine banging on my window shouting "did you not see me pulling out you stupid fucking bitch? You fucking blind cunt!!" More banging.
I just kept looking ahead not engaging so he sped off.
I pulled over to collect myself for a moment (a man who was just getting out of his car in front of where I pulled over came over to ask if I was OK) but the more I thought about it yesterday the angrier I got. What makes people think they can just do that and its OK?
Why are people so angry these days? Or have they always been a and I've just not noticed?

I think men have never liked being pulked up by women and have always reacted angrily.

But in general we are getting more intolerant, impatient and aggressive.

What a shit thing to happen. Hope you’re ok. I think being entitled, impatient and angry behind the wheel has been legitimised (partly by the catchy term ‘road rage’) and for some people this must just give way to intemperate fury. I wonder if this chap reacts to every mildly inconvenient life situation by shouting and banging on windows. I’d actually be quite interested in the psychology of it all. Hope it doesn’t play on your mind for too long.

It’s a man thing!
I’ve had this but because I train and do HITT I’m often more built than a lot of men. Man tried to do this after my gym session but I also got out (not suggesting anyone do this!)
As soon as he saw how tall and built I am he backed off!
This is a true story!

Livin - hope you called out "have a good day" as he drove off!

Similar happened to me the other day. He shot up to a junction that meets the road I was travelling on. He stopped about a metre onto my road narrowly missing me. I swerved and said something like “fucking hell!”, to which he shouted something (couldn’t hear as windows up) and gave me the finger. He didn’t get out of his car, but I could hear he was beeping his horn at me as I was going round the corner some 10m away.

What a horrible experience, and yes people are generally more aggressive these days. You only have to read a few threads on here - a person (generally a woman) will pose a simple question and often there's a pile on. I've reported 2 this week - unwarranted personal attacks on the OP. There's absolutely no call for it.

I had the exact same experience op - except my attacker was a woman and she actually started kicking my car and then when that wasn’t effective enough - used her car door to smash against mine.
I did not say one word to her. I didn’t drive because I was worried I would run over her foot.
It was a horrible experience and I’m finding life really difficult to cope with at the moment as I seem to be encountering horrible bullies everywhere I go. They’re everywhere and by god they’re nasty.

Hope you are okay, this type of thing can really shake you up.
He was an absolute arse to speak to you like that. If it happens again (god forbid) try and get registration of car and report to police. This is verbal assault.

Sorry this happened to you, what a maggot. I've been wondering if it's just me, because lately I've seen so much more selfish, entitled behaviour on the roads. And in a busy little town with congested roads, it just leads to more jams when everybody thinks they should have right of way. But the physical intimidation, man bullying thing. I'm thinking of getting a dash cam.

You can report to police but they won't do anything. A man cut me up and I beeped at him so at the next lights he got out of car and came and screamed abuse at me through my window. I had children with me which he could clearly see.

Reported with photos of car etc. Nothing

It's quite clear that there has been a rise in feelings of anger, resentment and a sense of unfairness in some men, and this is being manifested in many ways against women, and some "vulnerable" groups. However looking at a number of posts here (where the posters are more likely to be literate women with a good level of education- hopefully) the fuck Boris, hate trump, haha-laugh-at-the-thought-of-elderly-brexit-votes-dying,rage at trans,hate whites and other comments there is a lot of anger and dunderheads everywhere. We all need to chillax.

I experienced an incident recently in our sleepy little village. Driving up a road where cars were parked all along one side (including in the keep clear spaces!) I was confronted by a man coming the opposite way (parked cars on his side of road). He wouldn't back up and sat looking aggressively at me whilst i politely indicated with my hands that if he backed up a few yards i would be able to go into a wide driveway and let him past (i would have needed to back up much much further to get a passing place on my side). After a short standoff he backed up a little but not far enough for me to get into the gap. At this point he drove at me, made (gentle) contact with my car and tried to push me back! Totally pointless as he wasn't going to push me out of the way. He eventually backed up so i could pull alongside him and hurled a load of foul mouthed abuse at me. He had a small child in a car seat in the back of his car. Fine example he was setting. Everyone i have mentioned it to have been totally stunned that this happened in the middle of our village. I am seriously considering a dash cam - in fact the Police recommended it. Some people should really not be allowed behind the wheel of a lethal weapon.

Same happened to me. I was pregnant with Twins at the time. What he didn't realise was that my husband was following me in his car so he got out to protect me. He was going to hit me so I told him he had to back off as I was pregnant and I would report him to the police. It was very upsetting.

I had my car full of kids and I stopped at a junction the van behind me began beeping aggressively I drove down the road he was up my bumper revving his engine I got onto the island he overtook me on the island and screeched off

I've no idea why

Dashcam. Best £100 you'll spend.

@bigbluebus - I live on a road where that happens all the time. I've never actually been involved in a stand-off but I hear/see them quite a lot, and it always intrigues me that people refuse to back up or move into spaces so that others can pass. What's the point? I once saw someone get out of their van and kick another driver's wing mirror off because they wouldn't move.

What will the dashcam do @MrOnionsBumperRoller? How does it stop road rage?

My DD has a dashcam. Maybe in the heat of the moment it does nothing but it will be recording evidence (if needed). I know it gives her a little extra confidence.

I'm not excusing behaviour at all (he behaved like a total prick) but I do think that there is a massive correlation between a more stressed out society and aggressive behaviour. It pervades social classes. Universal credit means some people are very anxious about how they are going to pay for things, workplaces seem to lack humility (dozens of threads about people not able to take time out for a doctors appt), people unable to get doctors appointment, smartphone culture means we are always on, - lots of people basically meant to respond 24/7. The economy is not great, my own husband came home stressed out over a £7k contract at work. It's not right. We all need to chill out on the path of consumerism and remember what is important.

My dd was injured and her car written off by a large aggressive man who drove straight into her, at speed, from a side road.
She was trapped in her car and he got out and shouted and screamed abuse at her
The police turned up and could not have been less interested.
The insurance claim took 3 years and 4 years later she is still having physio.
She was lucky he couldn't get the door open because he looked as if he was going to kill her.

I’ve had someone try and block me off the road and put there fist upto my face -also called me a fucking stupid cunt as I opened the window to ask what the problem was, silly of me to open the window in hindsight. Car was going reallyyyy slow in a 60 so I safely overtook on a long straight road. I was in tears afterwards I honestly think it’s men that bully woman I think we’re seen as an easy target.

Dash cam. Wouldn't drive now without it

I saw a woman pull out to drive the wrong way around a one way road and then refused to move when a car coming the other direction almost hit her. They just both sat there for ages and the people who were going the right way called the police.
She continued to sit there and refused to move even though at least 20 people had told her she was going the wrong direction. She could have easily moved by reversing into the empty junction she pulled out of but instead chose to sit there causing an obstruction.
I’m not sure what happened afterwards but some people really do not know how to drive and are too stubborn to acknowledge their mistakes.

I already wanted a dash cam but I do even more after reading this. I hope you're ok op, and everyone else on this thread whose had a horrible experience. This is the kind of thing I dread happening in the car with my dc. I agree that a lot of people seem to be really aggressive on the roads now.