Getting Road Rage

[DannyboyDS]

Been getting angry recently. since i've been driving in peak traffic I have discovered a whole new breed of driver.

Has anyone got any advice? it's such a sudden shock for me, i'm not used to people who care only about themselves doing 30-40 below the speedlimit on the one lane double line road, refusing to use the cleared areas ont he side of the road specifically designed to be pulled into to allow the 10 cars trapped behind you to go on with thier lives.

[ClairBear]

Has anyone got any advice?

Catch the bus

[gopher]

get as close as possible to the back of them.

otherwise sit back and enjoy the scenery

[ParkwayDrv]

get as close as possible to the back of them.

yeah and then when they suddenly hit the brakes and you rear end them you can pay for the damages

[danja]

Look on the bright side, you're apparently in a place where doing 30-40km/h below the limit is optional during peak hour.

[minux]

Just overtake them over double lines, they are only there to protect the stupid anyway.

[strgas]

get used to it mate it happening everywhere you go these days even sunday arvo on the monash , pick any lane they still aint doing the limit , and thinking they doing nothing wrong by driving 20 kms under the limit , and yet you drive more than 3 kms over the limit you get booked for speeding but not for driving to slow for the posted limit .
Best advice change your attitude and the route you drive to and from work avoiding the stress and stupidy of careless and thoughts drivers.

[hakhawk]

buy a more fun car to drive, makes it all the more worthwhile

[MasterOfReality]

Just overtake them over double lines, they are only there to protect the stupid anyway.

Hehehe, I used to do this all the time when driving to my old job. I did it basically to visually give them a hint to hurry the hell up.

Had to drive along a semi rural road that was dead straight, yet had double lines. People always used to do around 60 in the 80 zone.

Got plenty of birds flipped at me as well :P

[VYMAD]

Calm down with some medication?

[strgas]

Calm down with some medication?

What you recommend ???

[f1tzy]

i wonder why they call them 'nudge' bars?

[ryno_vrx]

herbal medication

[wana s' charge stock vt]

get a kick ass steza, crank it n relax.

skitzing out dont help,trust me.

[strgas]

add a dirty big bull bar problem solved ?

[jules]

where i live, it's the 40-something unmarried mediterranean bloke driving his mother around in his (or her) LPG EF-EL Falcon. they are everywhere here, they are angry and they don't give way

[TVR-190]

get yourself one of these:



then you can tailgate without having to worry about damages (to your own car atleast)

[jakbob]

Just overtake them over double lines, they are only there to protect the stupid anyway.

In the spirit of giving silly advice, you should find that if you depress the center of your steering wheel, a loud and somewhat high pitched noise will emanate from the front of your vehicle, which should make the driver in front of you aware of their misdemeanors, allowing them to take corrective action.

[TVR-190]

In the spirit of giving silly advice, you should find that if you depress the center of your steering wheel, a loud and somewhat high pitched noise will emanate from the front of your vehicle, which should make the driver in front of you aware of their misdemeanors, allowing them to take corrective action.

should being the keyword there

[fkford]

trust me kid i feel ur pain. i drive to and from Richmond everyday on the eastern freeway from Doncaster. Each way there is always traffic so you just have to deal with it. The thing that really pisses me off is when there is a long line of cars in the far left lane all "waiting" to get off at Chandler highway exit. So i just go in the next lane and cut in once Chandler gets close. But people crack the shits because they think there is some invisible line to get onto chandler highway exit.. theres no line nor road rules saying you have to wait in the "line". Assholes

[DannyboyDS]

hmm some interesting advice, probably the best has come from Sashyre and Minux, except the bus would mean getting up at 1am, oh wait no bus service from Healesville at 1am

The ring road is bad enough, but once you hit the single lane country roads, my god the F wits come out to play.

Rudeness is an epidemic, I wonder if Hanibal is out there somewhere.

[Rufus®]

lol, where u driving from and to, maybe find a different route..... fortunately i only have to put up with peak hour / city traffic twice a week, otherwise i reckon i'd go insane as well.

[levymetal]

funny.. peak hour traffic is fine for me, yet i have what can only be described as extremely severe road rage against people who drive dangerously/stupidly. when it happens i have no common sense and the anger takes control. i live at the start of a very busy street. the entry into my street is blind, and to get out of my driveway onto the road is always dangerous as ********s are always planting their foot around this corner (edit at 7am: been up for 10 minutes and heard 2 cars racing around it already). yesterday was a close call. the second i hit the accelerator to get out onto the road some hero came flying around the corner. i was already moving and on the road so i planted my foot and prayed for the best. he only just missed me. of course, he yelled and beeped at me and yelled all sorts of insults with his head out the window (i was doing the same)... lucky i was heading in the opposite direction otherwise i would have followed him home which could have ended up very nasty. my heart was pumping and i was shaking due to the adrenaline for the rest of my drive. but when he flys around a blind corner, does he just expect that the people in those houses will never actually be leaving their driveway to enter the road? i would like to know what's going on in his mind, i can't possibly understand how i deserve to be yelled at and how it could be my fault when i'm just leaving my driveway and he's speeding around corners. actually yeah that's what ****ing gets, people who yell at you when they're wrong.

my road rage is so bad that i wish these people death. i pray to god that the die. i want them to die. sometimes i worry because although i haven't been able to successfully follow anyone yet, the very first thing i want to do is chase them so if i'm in the right situation in the future this could happen. then i don't know what will happen next. all i have is thoughts of me chasing them until they stop then smashing their car to bits with a tyre iron unless they apologise/admit they are wrong. i can visualise myself doing it. and what if the anger takes control so bad that i actually do beat someone to death. people die from road range incidents and i doubt that the perpetrators aspired to be murders. anger is a dangerous weapon. i need help.

[jujibelly]

Ok guys, shh keep this between us I think levy is crazy in the head. Lol.

Levy take up some sort of Kung Fu or get a missus. Either way when you feel like this you can pound your anger away.

[V8Silverfox]

levy, lay down some speed bumps or even better spike strips