Best one I saw was a white van, cutting up and tailgating, passing on the left, not making much progress up the M1 as traffic was heavy. Big cloud of black smoke every manoever, getting bigger. Eventually saw it broken down near nottingham...
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Well, I just remembered one thing, It was back home in Riga, when we were doing 90km/h (55mph) on a double carriageway, in the!!! Center lane (there was three lanes)
And there was a van, tailgating, beeping and flashing behind us, IN A SECOND LANE?!
wtf was that. Well, my GF was steering, so I showed him the finger, then the guy went mental, overtook on the near lane, and tried to cut the corner (but the GF is an experienced driver, and predicted that) so he went passed, cutting everyone else and tailgaiting.
And what would you expect, we stayed in our lane, and eventually overtook him again... I think he was ashamed of himself... So he tried to cut us again, and threw something (like an empty pack of fags) into us, but missed.
Well, we were approaching a toll road, and I was already scratching my fists for a fight with that idiot, but he turner on the free road and disappeared.
So it's not common back home for me as well
And there was a van, tailgating, beeping and flashing behind us, IN A SECOND LANE?!
wtf was that. Well, my GF was steering, so I showed him the finger, then the guy went mental, overtook on the near lane, and tried to cut the corner (but the GF is an experienced driver, and predicted that) so he went passed, cutting everyone else and tailgaiting.
And what would you expect, we stayed in our lane, and eventually overtook him again... I think he was ashamed of himself... So he tried to cut us again, and threw something (like an empty pack of fags) into us, but missed.
Well, we were approaching a toll road, and I was already scratching my fists for a fight with that idiot, but he turner on the free road and disappeared.
So it's not common back home for me as well
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Are you sure he wasn't Parisian, the amount of times I've been driving round the Paris ring road and some head case will tailgate even though you have cars in front of you and the other lanes are packed, but they still think they're bully you to pull over.
If I read this right you were in the centre lane and the guy had enough space to pass you on the inside?
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Plenty of people seem to think that if there is a gap in front big enough for a car, then it's ok to under take and pull in front, well on that bases should we all just tailgate each other so that no one can undertake us.
Just pulling over when you are not actively overtaking would be far more considerate.
He had enough space to overtake me on the inside and outside lanes. But he wanted for me to move (don't know what actually he wanted, btw)
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I remember a women sitting in the fast lane, some people call it the over taking lane, I drove up behing her fairly close in my BMW and she started sticking her figures up. I also under took a Polish car on the North Circular so when he got a chance he over took and slammed on the brakes in front of me so hard I nearly crashed in to him. TBH I wished I had a 4X4 with bull bars and had smashed him to him as hard as possible, he would have had a shock. I think there is too much aggression on the road. Funny thing is every time I have had road rage it's been men in their 60's. Yet young people gat blammed for everything. My BMW was a magnet for abuse, glad it's gone!
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You Sir, are an idiot if you drive like that and endanger others.
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How am I the idiot, I was driving and the middler lane was free, 4 cars were in the right lane, so I undertook and carried on driving and the rest of the road was empty, a guy that was in rhe row of cars then decides to undertake as well, but then overtook me swerves in front of me and slams his brakes on so I nearly crash into the back of him, just because I undertook safely. How am I the dangerous driver, if the 4 cars had been in the middle lane I could have passed in the right lane. I put no body at risk but he nearly caused a crash for nothing!
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And my point is why driving up close to someone that is driving in the right lane when the middle lane is free, does that make them feel they should stick their fingers up at you.
And why because you safely undertake someone does it give them the right to catch you up to try then to make you crash.
I think its all part of how bad our society has become, generally out of London I have found ok but round London there are more and more people starting trouble over tiny incidents on the road.
That was my point! So thanks for you condescending reply!
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Tailgating and undertaking are two reasons I can think of immediately.
Thinking it acceptable practice and trying to defend it are another two.
Catch my drift ?
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So it's true then. 
Because of your impatience you "followed closely", because again of your impatience you "wished you could smash them with bull bars".
That's not rational thinking. I'm not being condescending, I'm being concerned. Anger management is an important skill in life, on the surface by looking at your posts in this thread you should possibly seek help before someone cuts you off and smashes your teeth out with an wheel wrench.
Let other people create tense and angry situations, always seek to be the one who calms them.
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