Do you have a big car? Are you a bully?

Liz3yy

When I passed my test my partner insisted I have P plates on my car as he thought people would give me more leeway on the roads, I wasn't sure but did it anyway. How wrong he was! for months I had idiots treating me like something they had to get around as quickly as possible, basically showing me no respect and overtaking before I had a chance to get my speed up. I got fed up with it and after 3 months took the p plates off, now I still get people up my !!!! half the time but they just sit there instead of trying to scare me into going faster. What is it with some people and learners/new drivers? weren't we all learners once?

Zer0

Anyone on a motorway who doesn't move over to the leftest most lane as soon as is safe to do so deserves well.... every bit of bullying they get.

I drive on the m5 to work everyday I can guarantee there will be ast least one of useless drivers every trip. Yes, sometimes there is a valid reason to do it but more often than not there is not.

For the record i drive a small clio and do not think i get bullied, maybe because I do not wait around for it to happen! But I do see it all the time.

gyinnit

I drive a 4x4 and my husband drives a Honda Civic. I've noticed that when I drive the civic and he's in the 4x4 driving behind me, it looks like he's right up my bum even though he isn't. I think its the height and size of the car. If it was a fiesta instead of the 4x4, it wouldn't seem to be so close because you don't see so much of the car.

But I do get annoyed with people who pull out to overtake, and stay in that lane even though there are no cars in the inside lanes. Its an overtaking lane, not a lane for driving miss daisy!

z3phyr04

iolanthe07 wrote: »

When I drive my wife's Micra I get bullied and intimidated all the time, yet I am going the same speeds as I do in my large Mitsubishi. Evey one thinks Micras are really slow, but they can be quite nippy in the right hands.

I've just started driving one of the older style Micras (think about '98) and goodness me is it nippy if you drop it a gear to overtake. It loves taking off if it's got enough revs behind it (60 in second gear - not that I would ever recommend this :rotfl:) and here was me thinking it would be slow as. Smallish car, but if you have the 1.3i its got the meat to.

The only time I've been 'bullied' on the motorway recently was a fast lane driver thinking hoofing it at 100+ is a good way to drive in wet weather. If anything, I'd rather laugh as they have to slow down.

Best part; put 25 quid on Sunday (which filled the tank from just above the red) and it's just getting down to about filling level after 240 odd miles!

Kilty_2

I drove a hired 1.2 VW Polo for work for 2 months, covering about 3000 miles in the process - lot of motorway and dual carriageway driving around the Midlands. I normally drive a 1.5 Nissan Almera.

I found that I was much more likely to have an aggressive driver flashing lights etc at me when I was overtaking slower traffic and barely had room to move back in - there was no way I'd squeeze back into a gap in the lane to my left just so someone in their company Mondeo or A4 can continue on their way at 100mph. (bearing in mind I'd usually be doing at least 75)

I did find a quick flash of the foglights in retaliation to their full beam got them to back off a bit though - and stay backed off (because they thought I was braking, I assume)

DaveMacD

I've had to lend my GF my L200 for the past few months, but I've found that your average repmobile tends to give it a bit of leeway on the motorway (mostly because I wouldn't even feel the bump if I hit them) but when I'm driving, I certainly don't bully other drivers. Never have, even when driving other vehicles. Just don't see the point.

If you're so inadequate you have to bully your way around the road network, there will probably be a bed in A&E with your name on it.