I had something similar, I was driving through a little town near Burnley with the top down. Some guy walking in the opposite direction was stroking an imaginary penis as I was driving past.

I was a little confused, because he was wearing a shirt in shocking pink under a navy blue harrington jacket.

The worst thing you can do is invest even a moment acknowledging the existence of pond-life like these...

 

DING!

 

[QUOTE=PaulF,Feb 21 2010, 02:45 AM]Next time try a very loud "thank you", it confuses them no end

 

Just slow right down and shout, "I'd love to stop and talk mate but your momma just text me and she's looking for some bum love. She really can't get enough of it lately."

 

Could have been worse!
First day I got mine some knob on a Shogun tried to drive me off the road!

 

Some daft woman tried to turn left off a roundabout from the right hand lane (of 3), with me in the middle lane indicating & turning right (two lanes go right at this roundabout). She came from slightly behind me and, had I not had the roof down, I wouldn't have seen her in the corner of my eye. I large blast of horn to let her know I was there just resulted in two fingers and a loud 'F@*k Off' through the window as I passed her, turning right at the next junction seeing as she'd prevented me taking the normal route. Not a clue that she'd nearly caused an accident. I was quite wound up for several minutes afterwards, but a quick redline blast on to the motorway and all was forgotten. Just hope she doesn't do the same to someone a little less observant than me.

In short, having the roof down saved my life! Kinda...

 

Nothing but pure Jealousy!

I took the hardtop off yesterday for first time this year, went for a lovely scenic snow drive over the Bwlch into Treorchy;I pulled into the inside lane about 3 lengths ahead of a taxi in the inside lane; as soon I moved in I could quite clealry see and here the taxi put his foot down to close the gap, slam his breaks on right behind my bumper and blast his horn while shaking his fist.

Completly needless, if the other half was not in the car, I would have have got out and confronted him.

 

Oh yeh.
I love the Bwlch.
We fly the big toy gliders up there, hear it was snowbound along the top lane at the moment so todays event was cancelled...

Regarding your encounter, this kind of bloody minded tosser his highly visible right now.
It seems a funtion of the recession and the poor losers in life are rightly struggling along.

Same event last weekend, as it happens, with my 8month pregnant wife as a passenger.
Very long gap in traffic on a local A, pull out to pass gently and the bloody hammer goes down.
Had to nail it just to get safely past and in the remaing gap before the door was shut on us.
Nowhere else to go and approaching traffic.
Cue 1 foot off bumper, horn, lights, road rage etc etc.
A family man with two kids in his little Focus and wife alongside.

You have to wonder.
Had I been alone I would have buried him in my boot, no messing.
As the car is for sale, a write off is timely and easy for me.
So anyone else fancy tailgating, have bit of a think about the state of mind of the driver in front...

 

About 3 weeks ago I was in a queue on a dual carriageway.

In the left hand lane alongside me was a massive quarry type dumper truck and behind that was a white van with a meat head inside.

He made the w****r sign every time he got close, seemingly showing off to his mate in the passenger seat who had his feet up on the dash.

I was in the wrong lane and was looking to pull into his lane so was indicating left.

He spent most of his time texting someone so every time the quarry lorry pulled forward there was a huge gap. Every time I looked like I was going for the gap, he nailed the arse off the white van to stop me.

He did this about 5 times, each time laughing and giving me the w****r sign.

Time number 6 though, he sped past me leering out of his side window and grinning right up until the moment he smashed into the back of the quarry lorry.

I'm sure he heard my laughter as I pulled into the gap left by the quarry lorry as it pulled onto the hard shoulder.

A right mess of white van bonnet, glass and water on the road....

I just shouted "Karma" and went on my way. Although he probably thought I was talking about a curry....

I was gutted there was no "Call this number if I'm driving like a cock" sticker on his van. I'd love to have made a call telling his boss he'd be late back and he may want to check his mobile phone text records.

 

^^ ^^

I noticed yesterday lots of people having lots of roof down fun as I was driving the Prelude. Having the sunroof open isn't really the same