Unwarranted bitchiness

By lois2lane - 23/12/2009 07:15 - United States

Today, a car was tailgating and honking at me while trying to pass me, so I decided to be a bitch back and go extremely slow. We got to a two lane road and the car passed me up. The man in the front seat flipped me off while pointing to his wife in the back seat who was clearly in labor. FML
I agree, your life sucks 13 019
You deserved it 68 185

Same thing different taste

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kelkat09 0

that's your fault. you should never do that anyways.

Disagreed. How the hell was the OP supposed to know there was a woman giving LABOR in the backseat? Honestly, would you have pulled over, because I sure wouldn't have. 99.9% of the time, the tailgater is just being an asshole and just *can't stand* going the speed limit. This is one of the rare [and I mean RARE] times that they had a legitimate reason for being an ass. The OP was not a terrible person for going slower, just human. If you're going to say that, shouldn't you also say that the driver was a terrible person because he really did jeopardize the woman and her baby by taking his eyes off the rode and twisting around to point in the backseat? Besides, honestly the driver should've passed earlier if he was on his way to the hospital, instead of trying to tailgate the person. It takes literally one second to do so.

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Okay #245 after the baby is born, how do you suggest they clear the baby's passages so he/she can breathe? And what if the mother tears? yes babies used to be born at home but that was with a mid-wife or doctor at the house.

that man is an imbecile, people should know that tailgating can lead to brake checks or slower driving from the person in front. i won't draw lines between right and wrong, but that's just the reality of drivers on the road

CoffeeCovered 0

Yes, his wife was in labor, but that doesn't mean he's exempt from common courtesies of the road. He shouldn't have tailgated, he could have caused an accident, and then what? His carelessness under pressure would have served nothing.

actually in driving books it specifically says that if a driver is tailgating you to slow down and let them pass u, it's not like she did it on purpose thinking oh his wife is in labor let's go slow she was just doing wat u r actually SUPPOSED to do so stop being so rude. i do have to say if they were honking and stuff she should have pulled over, but still.

Should have gotten out climbed into his car ripped the dcreaming little ****** out and smashed it's malformed baby head into the goddamn kerb.

Should have gotten out climbed into his car ripped the dcreaming little ****** out and smashed it's malformed baby head into the goddamn kerb.

Oh like you were sposed to know psychically what was going on in the backseat of the car behind you... cause clearly you can see all that in your rearview mirror while also watchin the road and everything around you...... I do the same thing when I've got someone tailgaitin me... And if he's flippin you off with one hand, and pointing with the other? What was he drivin with and good gawd, I feel sorry for the woman in the backseat who is fearing that she and her baby are going to get killed in a car accident on the way to the hospital because of the jackass I assume is the father.........

OP: On three occasions that I have physically witnessed, doing what you have done has gone horribly wrong for the person doing it. In Australia, so don't get confused. 1) A friend of mine slowed down to 30km/h in a 50 zone, because someone was tailgating him. He then got two beer bottles thrown at his car and a $700 repair bill. 2) I have been in a car behind some 17 year old twat dawdling around in the fast lane, doing 90km/h in a 110 zone, when a cop car pulled up behind me. I moved into the centre lane, the cop car then pulled over the 17 year old airhead and probably fined her. Though I did not witness it, an aunt of mine did a similar thing to the 17 year old girl above. In Western Australia, "restricting the flow of traffic" and "failure to keep left unless overtaking" are two separate fines you can get when doing this, and together they totalled aunt S $400 and 5 out of a maximum 12 demerit points. To put that into perspective, you need to travel 20-29kph over the speed limit to get the same fine. 3) Not quite the same thing, but much worse consequences. The road was one lane each direction with "overtaking lanes" every 10-20km, sections of road about 1km long which have two lanes in one direction, one in the other. A caravan was doing 80-90km/h on the 110km/h road, with a queue as far as the eye could see. An overtaking lane came up and the 35m long truck at the front of the queue accellerated to 110kph to overtake. The caravan, cause the driver was a retard, also accelerated to 110kph, and stayed level with the truck so no-one could overtake. All the drivers in the right lane bunched up to overtake, and the caravan was not allowed to merge with the traffic when 2 lanes became one. The caravan was forced off the road into a ditch, and rolled over, destroying the caravan, all the stuff in the caravan, the people's holiday, and probably did some major damage to the 4wd towing the caravan itself.

whoa that last one's pretty dramatic, that happens all the time though you try to overtake people, they speed up so you can't, then when the overtaking lane ends, they start going slow again. i hate it!

Don't blame yourself. 99.9% of people who do that are NOT in an emergency basis such as that, they are either late to work for being a lazyass, or some other holier than thou reason. Just give an apology "sorry" to them, forgive them for giving you the finger, and move on.

were you doing the speed limit or not? if you were, this isn't your fault, if you weren't, i would've done more than give you the finger, i probably would've pushed you along...lol