Waitrose car park rage

I think you got one bit wrong up there ^^ petallus he was obviously no gentleman, so therefore it was his rudeness that prompted you to behave in an uncharacteristic manner!

(Personally, I favour using the universal "wanker" sign, but with just my thumb and index finger to indicate inadequate size)

I very much doubt it petallus

I have given the V sign to rude or dangerous drivers. I don't really know how to do the 'finger' - it'd probably come across as a cheery wave or a beckoning gesture if I attempted it...

I agree about the spasm of anger, Petallus! And it only ever grips me when driving...

Petallus you've just gone one better than j08. Completely understandable behaviour on your part, for goodness sake, it was a Waitrose car park.

Haha! I am afraid that that sort of driving behaviour gets me gesticulating and swearing too! Empathise totally.

Perhaps we shoud ask for an appropriate emoticon for use on GN!

Did you see him in the store afterwards I wonder? I have never had the nerve to approach someone personally after an episode of "hand gestures" except once on my way to work when I recognised the driver behind me who had screeched up on my tail just before a (dangerous) bend , gesturing that he wanted me to hurry up a bit, and rang him in his department at school. He was mortified, most apologetic and it bears out my theory that we have few(er) qualms about being rude to strangers or in impersonal situations, but usually refrain when when we know the other person or are face to face. Maybe this also has some relevance to the FFS thread ?

I find it surprising how so many peaceful, quiet, mannerly people become quite different behind the wheel. One of my French friends becomes very irate and starts shouting obscenities at what she thinks is the offending driver and then apologises to the passengers. I have to admit that quite a few times she has been the offending driver! but I never tell her!!!

I did wonder if I would see him when I was drinking my free coffee in the Waitrose cafe and decided to go and tell him off if I did (though I admit I was a bit nervous at the prospect of a face to face confrontation) but perhaps luckily he was nowhere to be seen and anyway I had forgotten what he looked like (there are so many elderly folk where I live, especially in Waitrose).

Thanks everyone who responded so kindly. I was reassured. I will add the 'wanker' sign to my repertoire thanks phoenix. Ana you hold your middle finger up in the air. It means 'up yours'.

We have a lot of male 4x4 drivers where I live and they invariable tailgate me when driving through the narrow country lanes, when we do reach a spot where they can pass they do so with loud revving of the engine - I'm afraid I waggle my little finger at them (for those who don't know its a comment on the size of a certain part of their anatomy).

Sunseeker there was a woman who often tailgated me on narrow lanes.
One day I waited until I was on a section where she could not get past, stopped, got out and opened the back of my estate car. She wound down her window and asked what I was doing. I said "Sorry, I thought you wanted to get in the back, I was holding the door for you" She quickly wound her window up again!

A friend had a great bumper sticker which had a big pair of red lips on it and the immortal words "If I wanted you up my arse, I would have kissed you first"

phoenix love it!

phoenix, you are brave!

phoenix

I've learned a couple of new signs today. Thanks!

phoenix are we related? When I was in Canada supposedly behaving myself because we were meeting son's fiancée's family for the first time, we had a contretemps with another driver about a parking space with was just being vacated. We had been waiting longest but the other driver was in a better position to get in. DS's future MiL didn't want me to get out and say something but after a while I just went and stood in front of the other car, didn't say a word. The driver became very irate but could do nothing about it unless she ran me over.

When my aunt got older she said that drivers were much ruder than they used to be, kept honking their horns. We were not surprised!

I think that I have been educated!

Oh I have to admit to being a hand-gesture driver when someone gets my goat - phoenix that is a classic!

My OH has told me off a few times when I've been driving alone and I've told him I've given the finger to some useless s*d who is driving like an idiot, saying they could be aggressive and there might be a possibility of getting mysef into a dangerous situation. Hasn't stopped me so far, I really should know better. Must.Try.Harder.

love it phoenix

There was an idiot causing a delay in the main street of our village and I was leaning hard on the horn. After I eventually got past, I noticed, in my mirror, the idiot getting out of his car and soundly berating another completely innocent driver.

As my OH often says, the only road accidents he ever sees are in his rear-view mirror...

I just laugh at them and shrug. They find that even more infuriating than any gesture

I have never given the finger sign! And I don't even know what the universal wanker sign is! [claims moral high ground] [halo]

Rude ladies!!!