Who is beeping their horn aggressively at broken down cars?
Posted by CautiousComedian5595@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 106 comments
So yesterday afternoon/early evening my friend and I decided to take our sons to an U21s football match. On route, around 1.5 hours into the journey his car just decided to turn off and not restart, on the outside lane of the M62 motorway, just on the slip road to the M1 junction, at rush hour.
We were there for probably 25 minutes relying on the hazard lights to warn the other drivers screaming past us (several times vehicles went around the right hand side between the central reservation and the outside lane)!
The large number of vehicles that aggressively beeeeeeeeeeeped their horn at us…. Do you think if we had any chance at all of moving the car we would have, or if we just fancied a little nap there?
Anyway, we finally got moved to the hard shoulder then car was recovered. Missus picked up from the Toby Carvery nearby. They lost the football match.
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chrislomax83@reddit
I picked my parents up from the airport yesterday and when we were about 2 mins from home the traffic came to a standstill near some traffic lights.
After a few mins we started moving and as we were going through the lights we spotted someone had broken down right at the front of the queue next to the lights.
My dad said “you’d think they would move to the side of the road to let people pass safely”.
There. That’s who is beeping at someone who can’t get out and push a 2 ton vehicle on to a pavement with loads of traffic around them.
Dans77b@reddit
I wouldnt beep at someone, but have broken down many times. Ive always either coasted out the way or pushed it to the side. So I do get slightly annoyed at cars stuck in the road.
I appreciate not everyone can push a car, and some newer cars lock into gear. So there is that.
Thursite@reddit
At lights kind of implies the car would've been stopped normally and couldn't start moving again, and couldn't have coasted to the side
Elementzero12@reddit
As someone who has broken down and been helped to push a car out of the way, I always stop to offer help and push. I've helped many times over the years. It used to be easy, but with modern cars depending on how they break down, they refuse to move without the engine running. Automatics and electric handbrakes. It can be bypassed, but it makes getting the car out of the way much more challenging and dangerous.
Why didn't anyone offer to help?
Jack_202@reddit
Because it's incredibly dangerous to have a car sitting on a motorway lane where people do 70mph.
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
I think the point is, do you think if there was anything we could have done to not be there, we would have?
skelly890@reddit
If it happens again, get a picnic table out. Might as well make a meal of it.
daddywookie@reddit
I got beeped at once for having my car in many pieces in the middle of the road after being hit head on. I mean, what do you want me to do, levitate it out of your way?
yearsofpractice@reddit
Hey OP. I’ve got a background in studying social and interpersonal dynamics. This is a very specific type of situation and has always fascinated social scientists - the resounding hypothesis is that the vast majority of people are just cunts.
mcnoodles1@reddit
People in cars are cunts. I'm horrific, really do deteste driving and everyone around me for the time I'm in a driving seat. If someone is dangerously driving the language I use would cost me my job.
Sad-Wrap6555@reddit
every type of vehicle turns some people into cunts - from the humble battery powered mobility scooter onwards
Those that aren't cunts tend to be arseholes instead
except suicidal, lycra-clad, yellow jersey cyclists who can be cunts and arseholes at the same time
terryjuicelawson@reddit
See cyclists get a lot of hate but I rarely think one of them is going to kill me. They seem to fall into the same category as the broken down car, where they cause a minor delay for people who then get incredibly aggressive as a result. It is fascinating really.
blinky84@reddit
It's not that they're gonna kill me, it's that they act in an unpredictable manner that makes it distinctly harder for other people not to kill them.
I'm talking going through red lights, going round roundabouts in the outer lane, zipping between pavement and road depending on whatever notion seems to take them. It's like they're outsourcing their conscience to other road users
daddywookie@reddit
A lot of that behaviour comes from cyclists who don’t drive. I drive, I cycle, I am very aware of being predictable and signalling because that’s what I would want if I were driving behind me. My teenage kid is learning all of this but can be a little unpredictable because he has no experience driving a car.
Also, some people are just spanners. I almost got side swiped on a ride yesterday by an old bloke pulling out of a junction without stopping. Luckily, he was on a bike.
Albert_Herring@reddit
Cars are machines designed to turn people into cunts. You're isolated and insulated from any real sense of speed, carrying a big chunk of private space with you into the public realm, and competing with everybody else doing the same thing.
daern2@reddit
This, so much.
I might be biased here, but I would definitely say that we should get rid of the speed awareness courses and replace them with a mandatory fortnight commuting on a bike. They'd get a bit of exercise and, most importantly, would gain a whole load of experience of what it's like to be a vulnerable road user surrounded by people who think that their trip to the McDonalds drive through is justification for them putting my life at risk.
daddywookie@reddit
TBH, I’d make it part of the driving test, along with driving a lorry and a motorbike. Completely impractical but it would be good for everybody to understand the experience for other modes of transport.
mcnoodles1@reddit
I hate it so much. I sometimes think if life were different I wouldn't need one but kids and dogs and wives and stuff come along and you're backed into a corner.
AllThatIHaveDone@reddit
Conversely, someone displaying the level of stress that you do behind the wheel probably also shouldn't be driving.
theplanlessman@reddit
I'd say youre both right. Nobody should be driving if they have a choice not to.
Good_Ad_1386@reddit
I have a heart condition that encourages me to monitor my BPM closely, and you can tell from my charts when I have been driving.
Though it's not as obvious as when SWMBO is.
AllThatIHaveDone@reddit
Elevated BPM is one thing (and to be expected when driving), but flipping out and screaming obscenities and panicking is another.
terryjuicelawson@reddit
People saying that others shouldn't be driving for trivial reasons, themselves probably shouldn't be driving. Oh, hang on.
AllThatIHaveDone@reddit
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
mcnoodles1@reddit
Nah I'm extremely safe, it's people enjoying their drive that cause all the accidents.
WeeklyPermission239@reddit
It's actually all the people who say things like "I'm extremely safe" who cause accidents.
yearsofpractice@reddit
(Well, them and the cunts)
AllThatIHaveDone@reddit
That's a very silly thing to think, I'm afraid. If you are in full-on freak out mode behind the wheel, you aren't going to be making good decisions.
yearsofpractice@reddit
But - in accordance with the doctrine of Chic - you dancing will be on point
skelly890@reddit
>If you don't feel a heightened level of stress and awareness when driving you shouldn't be driving.
I drive for a living. Up to nine hours a day, ten on a couple of days per week. Maybe 500 miles per day. Probably covered over three million miles over the last thirty five years.
And yes, you do need a heightened level of awareness, but it's impossible to maintain peak levels all the time. So a lot of it is done on autopilot, depending on traffic and road conditions. Empty motorway? Relax a bit, while still checking the road ahead as far as you can see. Busy motorway, and about to head into a city? Radio off, window cracked open when in town so you can also hear the traffic flow.
It's all about the situational awareness. You need to know where everything is, and where it's going to be. So you have to pay more attention when it's busy. This can be learned. It's a skill which can be developed. But maintaining max levels at all times would be exhausting, which would be a danger in itself.
But yes, they are all cunts. Cunts that are out to kill you or hurt themselves.
Halfang@reddit
[[Citation needed]]
yearsofpractice@reddit
No problem:
u/yearsofpractice. et al. (2026) ‘Empirical validation of a gut feeling regards cuntiness’, International Review of Trust Me Bro, 42(7), pp. 133–147. (Data not shown but vibes immaculate.)
FantasticMrPox@reddit
Can confirm this as both cuntee and cunter
daern2@reddit
I was out running at the weekend and saw a chap in a massive Audi wankpanzer holding his hand on his horn....at a learner driver in front of him. I mean, seriously?
FlamingosFortune@reddit
Hahahaha excellent
MushyBeans@reddit
I beeped at a car driving on a motorway at something less than 20mph with their hazards on, while the rest of us were suddenly coming up on them at 70mph.
They put hem and us at great risk of serious harm.
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
I’d understand that, they had the opportunity to pull onto the hard shoulder at least.
Dans77b@reddit
I wouldnt beep at a broken down car, but I have broken down many, many, many times, I almost always have been able to coast to a hard shoulder, and if not have pushed my car out the way.
It annoys me when people just leave the car in the lane.
Having said that, my brother had the engine sieze in his 6 series BMW, and it was locked in park in the middle of a junction completely immobile, abd he gad a similar experience, so Im now a bit more understanding.
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
Annoying that you don’t have the opportunity to move the car at all, it’s a full EV and you’re certainly a stronger man than me if you can push that with its parking break fixed on, it couldn’t even be towed out the way by a Volvo 4x4!!
And again, didn’t have the opportunity to coast. Traffic came to a standstill whilst in the outside lane and car wouldn’t select a gear afterwards.
siblingrevelryagain@reddit
My 17 year old is learning, I bought him a little car for practice. Whenever we can, I let him drive and sometimes this means him driving to a place (like school) and getting out, and me driving the car back.
The L plates are stuck on so I don’t usually remove them, but every single man without fail attempts to overtake at every opportunity, often when it’s really dangerous to do so. I’ve been watching this for months, as it fascinates me; I’ve been driving over 33 years, so often are doing on (or above 🥴) the speed limit, not hesitating or doing anything to signify I might hold you up, but men (women never do it) have to get past, even if it means they are still in a long line of traffic but in front of a ‘learner’.
I think it’s a combination of on-the-edge rage and a small penis 🤷🏻♀️
This is the same energy that makes people beep; they’re secretly annoyed with themselves as they know deep down they were going too fast and not being observant enough that they have to take evasive action; they’re secretly annoyed stress of this and inability to be wrong leads them to lash out at the parked car!
RadicalDog@reddit
As a society can we get past this insult? It's not so different from saying women are "Karens" because they're ugly, etc. (Which is also an insult that needs to be guttered.)
RagingMassif@reddit
I don't understand what you've written WRT to wear you've broken down, but my guess is you should have pushed your vehicle somewhere less inconvenient, or put your vehicle elsewhere when you were breaking down.
It's like the very rare person that breaks down in the fast lane of the motorway... When you're doing 70 and the engine dies, it's hard but most people manage to get to the hard shoulder. Most people do not breakdown in the middle of a roundabout.
The other thing, is most people with serviced vehicles don't break down.
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
Ok tbf valid points, didn’t think I’d need to explain myself but this is Reddit after all.
Traffic came to a standstill in lane 3 right on the junction with the M1, was busy with rush hour traffic. When the traffic moved again the car wouldn’t go into gear, hence not being able to cruise across to the hard shoulder.
Car was a 24 plate bmw iX3 (my mates). 30,000 on it, regularly serviced through his lease company as per their requirements.
FelisCantabrigiensis@reddit
Not the first electric BMW I've heard of with stopping problems. A mate of mine has one and has a long list of odd system problems and sudden failures, including one that required 2 days work by 3 BMW engineers dispatched from the factory to find out what was wrong.
Mostly they work, but if you get one with problems, they can be very whacky problems indeed.
HatOfFlavour@reddit
I saw a Facebook post from a buddy who had broken down at a traffic intersection and been quoted 3hrs for his AA like service to pick him up. The post had been up at least an hour. I asked my Dad if we could go help (I as a degenerate don't drive). We got to my buddy with tow cables and people were just honking at him with his hazards on. They honked at us as we pushed him through the intersection but the only person to help push was a cyclist.
There's something wrong with most motorists.
eastboundunderground@reddit
I was out running a few years ago and saw a car broken down on the side of a major Oxford artery road. I stopped and asked if the lady in the driver's seat was okay. She was about 80 and couldn't hear well. She'd been on her way to the hospital for an appointment. Car was totally fucked. I called my husband, who came and helped push the car off the road and took her up to the hospital.
While I was waiting for him to arrive, we got honked at and cat-called by five men in a white van. "Oi oi daaarrrrling!" as I'm stood by the steaming bonnet of a pensioner's dead Volkswagen and they sped off. Never a better analogy for the shittiness of society.
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
We had 2 x 9yo boys in the back of the car as well who didn’t understand the severity of the situation (a good thing in hindsight). It was an EV as well, so the traffic officers couldn’t tow it, and no way to override it according to BMW!
BugHuntHudson@reddit
We're cool with EVs but one decided to break down intermittently and it's happened in some bad places. It's just a brick when dead and even the hazards have to be off to 'reset' it. Couldn't imagine it happening on a motorway and when it failed with the kids in the back, well that was the final straw and we stopped driving it. Trying to get rid of it but the dealers are always "we found no fault" etc 😐
HatOfFlavour@reddit
How did you resolve that situation?
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
Recovery with skid steers things to move us over, then a truck to the recovery place, then a beer
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
The one and only time I've broken down in a way I can't recover myself, was leaving a supermarket car park. Few mountain rescue lads helped me push it into the supermarket car park. I immediately went into the supermarket and bought a pack of IPAs. Left the car until I could get there next day and tow it home, drunk the beers on the bus.
Marcus_2704@reddit
My mother, who was 79 when it happened, broke down on a lane causing a tailback. She was in tears, not knowing what to do. She told me that the amount of abuse she got from drivers as they slowly passed her was horriffic. What kind of person screams abuse at an almost 80 year old woman that has clearly broken down is in distress? The flipside to this, was that a man in a lorry helped get the car off to the side of the road, whilst a lady who was passing along with her young daughter stopped and sat in the car with mum the whole time until I arrived. She was amazing and so lovely. I cant help but wonder if it was their mum that had broken down like this, would they want others to hurl abuse at her, or stop to help like those kind people did.
Pop-goes-the-fish@reddit
I have to beep my horn to get your attention long enough to shout 'You can't park there mate!' at you before driving away, cackling.
PressureChemical7237@reddit
It’s as if they’re taking it as a personal affront.
jasonbirder@reddit
I always think "there but for the grace of god go I" when I see omeone broken down byy the side of the road.
BUT it does seem more a thing to just abandon your vehicle in the lane of traffic...rather than push it to the side of the road and bump it up the curb.
As someone who drove sh*tty Cortinas and Escorts for many years as a youngster _ i can tell you i've done this many, many times...but now people DO seem far more passive about it...happy to wait for recovery.
skelly890@reddit
Fucking hell, that's a nasty place to break down. What is it? Seven lanes in total? And you're in four, counting from the left? Or in seven, still on the '62?
Either way I'd have slowed to 40, preparing to stop, despite not being in lane four or seven in the first place. You might have got a blast of air horn if it looked liked anyone was wandering into my lane, but it wouldn't be malicious. And if you weren't I wouldn't, unless it was to warn the cunts in cars that they might like to pay attention.
Conscious-Pie-4794@reddit
Same happened to my sister, broken down on roundabout with the bonnet up and people beeping at her. Young girl in her 20s, no one to help her. Why would people do that to others - because if they are not stressed enough, let's just make it worse 😑
FogduckemonGo@reddit
Right in the middle of the fackin road
PowerApp101@reddit
https://youtu.be/d5p3p0jFxZg
Someone did a Garry's Mod of that!
rwinh@reddit
Morons. Simple.
The same people who wind down their window and say "can't park their mate" which maybe funny to them, but they could just get out and help move a car that might be blocking a road or just shutting up as breaking down or having an accident isn't exactly the nicest thing to experience, especially in built up traffic or at dangerous junctions.
Had a similar experience but on my own, where the car just stopped in a right turn set of traffic lights area of a busy motorway.
The number of idiots who raced up behind the car and got annoyed it wasn't moving, despite it having its hazards on, was very telling, especially when they wound down their window to shout at an empty car (I was stood on the side of the road - really wish I filmed it all as it was as hilariously as it was concerning how stupid people were - it didn't have blacked out windows).
The police turned up to move it by rolling it down the road into a side road, and even they got stupid remarks.
PolizeiW124-Guy@reddit
I’ve been a roadside technician for 22 years, driven and operated vehicles from service vans, small recovery vehicles to heavy wreckers.
The amount of people who beep when loading or repairing is insane.
Arriving on scene, I’ll indicate for which lane I need to be in, beacons on, hazards on and stop, guaranteed my time there will be split between doing my job and watching drivers pull up behind my vehicle and sit and wait and beep.
We have cones to put out as well, we set them up in a taper across the width and a good length of the lane, they still slow to a stop and start beeping, either that or they run through them.
I’ll put my vehicle at an angle to increase visible presence, beacon’s and hazards on, yet they still pull up and honk.
Ive witnessed motorists pull up next to the broken down vehicle and my own, shout at the driver and at myself “what a place to park”, the presence of a 12 tonne recovery vehicle doesn’t register in their minds.
I can’t figure out the exact reason why peoples eyes and brains cease to function and they lose the ability to act rationally.
You don’t have much choice when a car decides to break down, where it will stop.
Over the years, selfish behaviour from drivers has become so much worse.
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
Thank you for your reply, I can’t imagine some of the things you’ve seen over the years after my conversation with the traffic officers & recovery guy! 🫡
PolizeiW124-Guy@reddit
It’s truly eye opening and mind boggling.
casglu@reddit
I broke down once on a slip road exit from the M1. It was dark, about 8pm at night and I did well to get it as far over to the side as I could. I was a lone person and the car was on a slope, I couldn’t have pushed it any further and I called for recovery immediately. The amount of abuse was unreal, not just horn honking, full on grown men slowing down to shout out the window. I couldn’t really hear what they were saying most of the time but I definitely heard one ‘fucking cunt’ so I don’t think they were checking on my well being.
sihasihasi@reddit
As a counterpoint to this:
My son (20) broke down at the entrance to a roundabout on the A27 when the ECU fell out of his car (that's another story). Almost immediately, a bloke and his son stopped, and pushed him off the roundabout and into a handily located quiet residential street.
Thank you, kind strangers.
Dizzy-Permit1919@reddit
I think if horns were removed from cars it would only have a positive benefit.
They are meant to be there to alert other drivers to your presence, but are instead used to say "I am aggressive and want you to do what I want"
I wouldn't be surprised if people crash their car rather than avoiding an accident because they need to test their horn for the next 5-10 seconds.
My friends were once queued at a set of double petrol stations on a roundabout during a fuel shortage around 10 years ago. They were waiting about 15 minutes and then one of my friends decides it would be funny to honk the horn.
The next thing you know 50 pissed off motorists are all honking their horns for several minutes. Not really sure what they thought it would achieve but it was hilarious.
Estrellathestarfish@reddit
I live near a school and at pick up times you get a chorus of them beeping aggressively at each other while they're trying their best to mow down other people's children.
KingkLou@reddit
It might be cos they're all dickheads. Or, if in putting my positive spin on it ...they were honking to alert other road users of a hazard...? Maybe?
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
I’d like to think some may have been. Certainly not the ones that were speeding up going past with inches to spare giving it a good 5 second HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK when they were past us though, not sure how that alerts the drivers 100m behind us!
Fullchimp@reddit
Seen certain people do this to parked ambulances.
HandsOfGawd@reddit
I usually just tell them they can’t park there
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
Hahaha will give you that!
Aggravating_Speed665@reddit
Should had given each one the finger.
MrTripperSnipper@reddit
The passenger side front wheel fell off my van when I was on a roundabout on the A11. It was in an awful position, cars/lorries could only just squeeze past on my driver's side and it was a busy time of day. No one coming up from behind could see my missing wheel and everyone was stopping and having a go like I'd just decided to leave it there.
Difficult_Egg_4350@reddit
I was right behind an accident on the M25 once, pulled over onto the hard shoulder make sure everyone was ok because the vehicles involved were pretty smashed up. Obviously with nothing left of the engine or steering, let alone the people in the cars in no fit state to do anything, they were unable to move them out of the live lane until a tow truck arrived (luckily lane 1, so people could go around). The number of people who came speeding up behind them, even once a highways guy got his car there to warn people, and beeped at these cars that were literally in pieces, and where they had no idea of the condition of the people in them, was amazing. Like, sorry this life threatening event is a minor inconvenience to your Friday.
BuildingArmor@reddit
Don't forget, people are stupid.
So while you might have broken down, there would be someone sometimes who decided to park there to answer the phone or eat a sandwich.
Active_Arugula_7079@reddit
We were at the front of the trafficlight queue once and our handbrake jammed- stuck. We put hazards on etc. The amount of abuse we got! 😳
DiamondBikini@reddit
Imagine if instead of hooting, people stopped to help you push your car out of the way
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
Tbf the car couldn’t be pushed or towed off (EV, completely shut down and couldn’t release the electronic parking break), but I do appreciate the sentiment
Puzzled-Job9556@reddit
On the motorway? Behave.
PuzzleheadedLow4687@reddit
Stopping and getting out of your vehicle on a motorway is pretty stupid. That's a job for the professionals.
CentralSaltServices@reddit
I don't think anyone is going to stop on a motorway
Cute_Direction_8500@reddit
Oh god poor you! That bit of motorway is a nightmare
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
I broke down on the entrance to a roundabout. Said roundabout has two lanes entering so I wasn't actually blocking anyone joining the roundabout, but forcing them to all use the left lane. It's a small roundabout so not a problem.
I have the hazards on, and I'm stood outside the car clearly on the phone.
Some wankpuffin in a white van decides to beep his horn loudly at me.
I'm not in the mood for this so when he gets level I stand in front of his van so he has to stop. He winds his window down and I ask why he's beeping the horn at a broken down vehicle that I can't move on my own and I'm on the phone to my insurer. He says I shouldn't leave it there. I ask him how I'm meant to move it and he says that's not his problem. Well it is mate, because you're the one suggesting it needs moving. I ask him if he'd mind pulling up and helping me push it while I steer it. He says he's too busy. I moved and he drives off.
Quite what he expected me to do I have no idea. It's pretty hard work both pushing a vehicle and dry steering it working against the broken power steering module (harder than just not having power steering to begin with). Anyway, about a minute later a mountain rescue vehicle comes by and the driver winds the window down and asks if I want a hand. 3 lads get out and push the motor while I do the steering then the brakes as it was on a slope. Sent them £100 donation for their help, even though it only took a couple of minutes.
Zorolord@reddit
Ive experienced this before, I guess people don't have rhe comprehension skills that cars can actually break down. Who would have thought that a complicated vehicle with either either moving parts and electric systems can break down.
Any_Suggestion7619@reddit
I saw a car the other day that had been queuing at a main set of lights, green light came on and the car said no. The amount of beeps they got were unbelievable. I hope karma catches them and they go out to their car one morning to 4 flat tires.
West_Slide5774@reddit
This happened to me once, it was on a one way street there was space to drive around me which cars were but one old lady instead of following the rest of the cars around me drove right up behind me and just started honking and I had to explain my car is broken down, I had my hazards on btw
spoo4brains@reddit
It is effectively a "Honk if you were born without empathy" sign.
tdcOO7@reddit
TBF cars don't just stop, they cut out, so if you're in the outside lane you should immediately be indicating and pulling left to get to the hard shoulder. It might be tricky but far less dangerous than coasting to a halt in the third lane.
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
Tbf, you’re wrong. The traffic initially backed up to a standstill and the car wouldn’t then engage the gear (car was a BMW iX3). According to BMW technical assistance there wasn’t a way to override it. But thanks for your input, found another beeper
zephyrthewonderdog@reddit
Lots of people are just cunts. My wife broke down on a busy road years ago with our two young children in our slightly old knackered car. Nobody stopped to help her. One hilarious bus driver actually slowed down leaned out of the window pointed and laughed in the Simpson ‘Nelson’ laugh. Then drove off.
So I reported him to the bus company. I asked if they thought any of their drivers actually needed some sort of psychological help after laughing at a mother struggling with a broken down car and two young kids. They said they would investigate, probably did fuck all.
It was more annoying because my wife’s late father was ex military and took a bus driving job after he was pensioned off due to injuries. He would help anyone he came across, all his regular passengers knew him. Different character altogether than this scruffy little bus driver scrote.
Lau_kaa@reddit
People are absolute twats at that junction at the best of times. That stretch from Huddersfield to Leeds is where braincells go to die.
robbiegfuk@reddit
It helps other cars realise there's an issue maybe?
Scrumpyguzzler@reddit
I had the same. Car just gave up and died on a roundabout. Loads of people beeping - must have thought I'd just decided to park on a roundabout, idk
Fit_Adhesiveness7307@reddit
It’s actually “en route”.
pooinyourear@reddit
What a great contribution to the discussion
Praetorian_1975@reddit
Are you sure, it may be ‘en croute’ perhaps they were baking at the time 🤷🏻♂️🤣
CautiousComedian5595@reddit (OP)
You’re correct, it is, my mistake. I think I’ve found one of the beepers.
Feema13@reddit
Ha ha!
newnortherner21@reddit
Pity you did not film them on your camera discreetly, take the vehicle registrations, report to police or DVLA. Argue it is road rage and so the drivers are mentally unfit to have a car licence.
achey85@reddit
Brain dead, that's all they are. They were probably annoyed at the fact they didn't see the car till the last second as most never look past their bonnets never mind looking at the road ahead
Monsterofthelough@reddit
That must have been very stressful.
SimpleManc88@reddit
Morons
stm2657@reddit
Explaining the actions of other drivers, and the anger many seem to have all of the time when driving, is an impossible task. Glad you got through it safely.
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