Do you purposely annoy other road users because they are too close or beep at you when you have done nothing?

Question

wrong?

i do

Answer 1

What kind of fool slows down when people get up too close? That'll help, help fill them with a psychotic rage. Sounds like the kind of people that would block someone in for using their parking space. It defies logic. If someone is driving too close to Me I start gentle swerves and They'll eventually back off for fear of crashing and burning.

Answer 2

Yes. When I get tailgated I deliberately drive slower just to annoy them. I'm not the one in the wrong, they are.

Answer 3

EVERY DAY!

Tailgaters get to see me go slower, and slower, and slower.

Honkers get to see me go slower, and slower, and slower.

Makes my day.

Answer 4

When I drove YES.

If another motorist was to close and hassling me to go faster than it  was safe, I would out into the middle of the lane and go SLOWER.

Answer 5

Defo!! I touch my brakes just hard enough to turn the lights on, but carry on in my own time, which is always at least the speed limit, normally faster!!

Answer 6

I usually slow down to the speed limit. If they are being especially rude, I'll go below the speed limit, then floor it when they try to pass.

Answer 7

sometimes. one day a guy was tailgating me although I was doing near twice the speed limit. when he used the left turn lane to pass me I taigated him.  I saw him get really upset. I just thought "hey you did it to me".

Answer 8

Of Course. I hate being bullied.

Top Tip. If you are Cutup/Tailgated by a lorry, get in front and slow down gradually until they have to change down the gears several times and the accelerate away leaving them behind. Take them ages to speed up and go through about 10 gears to do it. Really P***es them off.

( make sure you're not going to have to stop until you're well clear though!!!)

Answer 9

i just give them the ` slash your throat sign` sharp sorts them nasty buggers out.

Answer 10

yes hate speeders and i let them no it and mobile phone users when driving

Answer 11

yep and I usually give them the middle digit!!! I also wave very obviously when I let people out and they don't signal thanks!

Answer 12

Yes I spray my screen washers so it hits them behind me.  Really funny if they are in an open top car....  They soon drop back to a safe distance.

Answer 13

Yep, if they're too close I slow down until we reach a spot where they could overtake, then I speed up again!  I must say, I can't remember the last time I was beeped at.

Answer 14

I drive a very old car, and when an idiot tailgates me when am at the correct speed or just over ,I floor it and my, they get a shock when they blow there ENGINE up trying to catch me , what a bumer for the drivers mates, and am an old man witch also does his street gred no favours, so kid`s beware, grandad`s out for Halloween

good for you girl go get em

Regards

Ryan Dior

Answer 15

yes i'll slow down if they are tailgating...

Answer 16

if i get a tail gater on my rear during the day i will flick my lights on especially on a motorway nothing but joy when you see the buggers face when they think u whack on the anchors

Answer 17

Yes, especially tailgaitors.  They are so rude and inconsiderate, I just slow down.  Bullys need to be taught a lesson.

Answer 18

I tap my brake pedal with my left foot as I accelerate slighly. Oh boy do they drop back and stay back.

it must be accepted that some ailgaters do not realise quite how close they are getting and sometimes it is only for a couple of seconds as they change lanes

Answer 19

no, i usually give the finger!

Answer 20

I do!!! I slam on the break if the person follows me close and I line myself up with cars next to me just enough so they can't pass =P

One car who tried to pass me going 85 mph after I quit playing him was caught by a cop 1 mile down the highway.  It felt good seeing him getting pulled over.

Aggressive drivers need a lesson XD

Answer 21

No, I'm an adult.

Answer 22

no! being a police officer seems to do the trick on its own!

Answer 23

yes I'm a culprit of serious road rage!!!

Answer 24

YES, if they tailgate me or pump their horn i slow down to annoy them , or touch the brake but keep my foot on the gas pedal at the same time

Answer 25

i find the answers to this question quite retarded.

every one of you that have answered yes, have admitted to driving just as erratically as the so called tailgater.

the road is not the place to play your silly games, surely it would be easier to allow them to pass

Your actions with your silly braking games can have serious consequences. If the person behind were to hit you you could both be hurt and the insurance wouldnt help in a knock for knock situation either. grow up, overtaking is not a crime but deliberate obstruction is

Answer 26

yeah those butt heads with little peni deserve to be jailed for a week

Answer 27

Just ignore them, if they want to tailgate you, let them, don't allow them to pressure you.  If they think you're going so slow, they'll just pass you once the road allows.  If you slam on the brakes or something, you risk getting into an accident or just antagonizing the person even more (saw two people do this on the highway, they were too busy s******g with each other that they didn't pay attention and slammed into the car in front of them during a traffic jam).

Answer 28

YES! I thought I was the only one!!!

Some tossy little boy racer will come bombing up behind me so I will slow right down and pootle along,etc etc.

Answer 29

Of course! Doesn't everyone. If i have a fast business man type up my behind trying to get past, i just slow down and start randomly breaking on purpose.

Answer 30

I'm not afraid to answer this question!

Yeah, I do purposely annoy those that tail-gate - if they wish to try and intimidate that is fine but I know by sticking rigidly to the speed limit hacks them of more than what they are doing to me.......either that or I blast my windscreen with water and in the process showering them with screen wash - they soon back of then!

As for pumping their horn - hey, I take no notice since they're generally the ones that know little about driving.

I would also like to add - and I'm not being sexist but I find the worst thing about tail-gating is that the majority of the time it is done by women. That has been through my expereince since learning to drive.

Answer 31

I think we all do. However, I only do it when the person gets waay out of line. I've done slowing down, blocking people, cutting them off on purpose and finger-out-of-the-window package more than once :)

However if someone is stupid enough to drive 50 in the fast lane on the highway I tailgate them myself in a minute!!!