Why is it that when you remonstrate with someone who is clearly in the wrong and they know it, 90℅ of the time they respond with aggression - usually a hand gesture?
I've just approached a set of lights, green for me, where a car is waiting from the opposite carriageway to turn right (ie cross my path from right to left). They wait until I'm barely 30M from them before suddenly deciding to go for it, despite there being a clear road in front of me. I have to slam my brakes on and beep my horn. I can now see it's a young family with kids in the back and mum gives me the V sign as gratitude for not T-boning her family.
WTF is that about? What's the psychology behind such a response?
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The reaction - with a chorus from her friend in the passenger seat - was to scream and shout that she had right of way because the parked cars were on my side and that I should have stopped and gone back. WTF? I was already at least 90% of the way down the line! So on the basis that there's no point in arguing with idiots I told her to just fuck off and wound my window up again. If I hadn't being going somewhere I needed to be on time I would have been quite happy to just wait all day there until she backed up, but because I was I did actually pull just far enough to the left that I could get around the back of her car. But really - what was the point? If she'd even just slowed down a bit when she saw me we would probably have both arrived at the clear space at the same time.
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I was pulling into the middle lane from the inside the other day. I looked in my mirror, indicated and pulled out when I noticed that the car in the outside lane was pulling into the middle lane at the same time. I waved and mouthed my apologies (no really, I did) and got a mouthful of abuse from the guy who had also just decided to sit on his horn (ooh Err) to show how superior he was and that it was obviously me at fault! I actually don’t know whose fault it was which is why I tried the conciliatory wave and apology, but sometimes people just have to assert their right to be in the right, if you know what I mean?
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youThen he leans out the driver window starts a bizarre rant about chavs and kids. In the end the Mrs flicks him the vees and carries on.
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