How do react when you get flipped off?

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  1. AModelCat

    AModelCat Road Train Member

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    I just blow 'em a kiss. Really gets them angry lol.
     
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  3. WesternEmpire

    WesternEmpire Medium Load Member

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    I usually speed up and tailgate them, as soon as I get the chance I get next to them and crowd into their lane. Then I will take a random exit when they're still next to me.

    After I have my Walter Mitty moment and snap back to reality I do what Cat sdp does, I blow them a kiss.
     
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  4. gentleroger

    gentleroger Road Train Member

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    No, but it does ##### and moan worse than a trucker.
     
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  5. tnscavenger

    tnscavenger Light Load Member

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    When I get the bird I do nothing. Why get bothered by something so insignificant in life. Rather it reminds me of how the bird got stared in the first place. A fascinating story.
     
  6. Alaska76

    Alaska76 Road Train Member

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    I get the bird almost daily, for driving the speed limit, using my turn signal, coming to a complete stop... I must be a real friggen idiot...
     
  7. okiedokie

    okiedokie Road Train Member

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    I imagine the flipper naked. Then I LOL. You don't see the double flip anymore. It's impressive.
     
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  8. j76ny

    j76ny Light Load Member

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    I must be doing something wrong, I've only been flipped off once in my year of driving. It was a tool in a Beemer and he threw me the finger out his sunroof.

    I must have laughed for the next 15 miles.
     
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  9. tnscavenger

    tnscavenger Light Load Member

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    I came close to shooting a man over the finger.

    Here is the story:
    My wife & I were on vacation at Myrtle Beach, SC. It was the last day of our vacation, so we had loaded the car and checked out of the hotel. We went to McDonald's for breakfast, it was quite busy, so at the drive-thru window the cashier had us pull fwd to wait on our order. So I pulled up as Far as I could to the car in front of us.

    But a guy in a work van behind us started honking the horn at us because he was blocked in. After a few minutes of this the driver in front of us realized what was going on and pulled forward a few feet. So I pulled up too, and as the guy sped past us my wife, who was 7 months pregnant at the time, flipped the bird at him. When he saw that he immedialy backed up to the passenger side of our car, effectively blocking us in.

    At that moment, I locked the doors, and reached for my pistol that was holstered on my left side. The guy yelled at us out of his window, my wife, now terrified looked strait ahead. I locked eye contact with him, my right hand poised to draw the pistol from its holster. Then he paused, and I think he saw the position of my arm and realized I may be armed. He then sped away.

    My wife has not given the bird since...
     
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  10. Luke628

    Luke628 Light Load Member

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    I hardly ever get flipped off. Possibly because I'm such a ##### good driver. ( Luke pats himself on the back)

    Many years ago early in my driving career there was a loser driving a piece of crap Geo Metro drove by me and flipped me off, my truck at the time wasn't governed , I got right on his bumper turned on my brights and motioned him to pull over. Of course he didn't. Couple hours later I stopped at a rest area to take a whizz and to my shock there was the same Geo Metro parked. I waited for him and this little weasel not 5ft tall came walking out and I calmly walked up to him and asked him if he had the balls to flip me off to my face. He let out a little girl like scream and ran.

    I laughed hysterically at him as he jumped into his pos car and tried to peal out but he couldn't even peal out in that little golf cart and he stalled and had to restart it .

    I'm older and wiser now and if the same thing happened today I wouldn't confront them as I've learned people like that are cowardly losers and not worth the trip to jail had I beaten the crap out of him.
     
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  11. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    The funny thing about police escorts is when the 4wheelers come by you, they wave at you and then point at the cop behind you, "There is a cop behind you!!!!" That's when you hunker down, put a deathgrip on the steeringwheel, shake your head, give them a sinister look and yell, "NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
     
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