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Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:35 pm

So we start accelerating, they get into the other lane and pull up next to me. It's a Ford Taurus with 4 women in it that all look like 400lb+. The car doesnt have a windshield, and it looks like its riding on the suspension stops. They were not in a hurry, just going the speed limit. Not trying to be rude by any means, just telling the facts :) .

My wife now understands that there is no respect for bugs...and we are still laughing about this one![/quote]
I just kept what I thought was the best part of the story. The vision of the horn getting stuck, HOOOOOOOOONK,HOOOOOOOONK. What was she blowing the horn with? Why was she blowing the horn, Was it that cold? I have a mental picture stuck in my head now. You should have took a picture.

Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:11 pm

johnnypan wrote: Aint the whole idea behind road rage is to induce it in others?

Its a fool who expects others to respect your car...to them your a hinderance...revel in it,enjoy your car for what it is,let nothing affect you...smile and wave..

This usually works for me but totally failed just now on the way home.

Going home in the normal stop and go traffic here in the fast lane because it moves 45 compared to the other lanes moving 35. Guy come flying up in a S10 with his 2 small children playing in the front seat. I know this because the speed he was going caught my attention. he looks forward just in time to see us (line of car going on into infinity, NOT JUST ME) and locks his tires up sending his kids into his windshield.

Then the fun started. Tailgating to the point I couldn't see his headlights while weaving. Dropping back then flying up on me. One...long.. horn....note. I smiled and waved, even shot the peace sign.

He doubled his efforts. I figured at this point the best thing to do was pull to the left side of the road in hopes he would go away, not so much. This gave him the opportunity to pull along side me with his kids crying at the top of their lungs and ask me what I wanted. :shock: So I told him, "I just want to drive home". His response was "BITCH" and he finally pulled out of my way so I could pull back on the road.

Then the game of him going 20mph on highway 15 south bound so he could slam on his brakes if I came within 15 feet of his truck started. Finally we made it to his exit and he pulled to the inside lane so I could pull along side "worlds best soccer dad" if you go off the bumper sticker for his closing remarks about my sexual preferences.

Still going to use the tactic of the moral high ground but man did that suck.

I feel better now :D

Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:50 pm

Isn't it the same when you're driving the family sedan?

Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:54 pm

bugninva wrote: your definition of "damn near totalled" is a bit off.... damn near totalled usually involves substantial damage, not road rage.... :wink:

Missing his car by a few feet would qualify as damn near totalling my car I'd say. It wouldn't have ended well. Locking up wheels and getting tire smoke on a a car with 4 drums and no real crash protection is scary, especially when it's for something as stupid as some jackass missing the store he was going to.

Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:02 pm

kimbill wrote: Isn't it the same when you're driving the family sedan?

I don't have a different car but I do drive a truck at work, no. I drive a GMC 3500 duely with a modified duramax diesel, I have yet to have someone road rage me in the work truck 8) . So it might not be a beetle thing but it definitely is a small older car thing.

Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:32 pm

They do that to me when I'm driving any vehicle of any kind. Whether it be my F150 or a huge uhaul rental, people do it regardless of what you're driving around here.

Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:37 pm

Cubey wrote: They do that to me when I'm driving any vehicle of any kind. Whether it be my F150 or a huge uhaul rental, people do it regardless of what you're driving around here.

Then move to Vegas, everyone else seems to be :lol: .

Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:13 am

Doc 1369
We are proud of ya,
Just think with a dude like that ya could have got him to take a poke at ya through your window as you shot him with a 45 - in the face --

Many would be glad that ya put the bastard out of his misery!

Jerry

Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:44 pm

bandi wrote: Missing his car by a few feet would qualify as damn near totalling my car I'd say. .

you must have damage that amounts to 80% or more of your car's value to qualify as totalled... i'd say what is commonly refered to as a "near miss" is nowhere near "damn near totalled".... but the embellishment adds excitement to the thread!!

Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:00 pm

bleep wrote: I live in red neck vill and all the red necks at my school try and pick my bug up, and they all pass me on the way home honking there dixie horn

Wow... That's a beginning to a movie about a Bug that wins a cool race if I've every heard one! Don't let them get to ya, more than likely they can't work on their stuff (or havn't).

Original poster: is your bug particularily stand-outish??

Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:59 am

in my place (Jakarta, Indonesia) everytime i drive my beetle everyone seem happy although some people were a bad driver in a freeway but i seen more good karma instead of bad :D

in a heavy trafic jam a lil child cry in to her mom in a car next to mine but the second that child look at my beetle he start to cheer up and smile, sometime i hear a child yell "mom the car wink to me" :lol:

yesterday even worse, when i got home from work there is 1 family standing outside my house so i park my scooter and i ask what are they doing in front of my house, the old man said his grandson saw my car pass their home yesterday and since that the kid always cry wanted to ride my beetle so i let that little boy have fun in my beetle that evening :D

Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:59 am

koenig blues wrote: in my place (Jakarta, Indonesia) everytime i drive my beetle everyone seem happy although some people were a bad driver in a freeway but i seen more good karma instead of bad :D

in a heavy trafic jam a lil child cry in to her mom in a car next to mine but the second that child look at my beetle he start to cheer up and smile, sometime i hear a child yell "mom the car wink to me" :lol:

yesterday even worse, when i got home from work there is 1 family standing outside my house so i park my scooter and i ask what are they doing in front of my house, the old man said his grandson saw my car pass their home yesterday and since that the kid always cry wanted to ride my beetle so i let that little boy have fun in my beetle that evening :D

I've a similar story - I was waiting to pick my dad up from the station once and a mum was walking up the road towards me pushing her young kid in a pushchair. As he saw my bug the kid gasped 'mum, what's that?!'. She told him it was a beetle as I flashed the headlamps for the car to 'say hello' to him - he saw the flash and grinned from ear to ear :) Made the kid's day and, as a bonus, I got a smile and a wink from his very attractive mum :D

Michael

Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:04 am

here in ohio we have some of the worse driver in the USA . when i am on the freeway the speed limit is 65mph i am doing 70mph getting ready to pass a car . i move over to the passing lane and all of a sudden here comes a car at high speed passes me on the inside and cuts me off .he allmost rear ends a truck . then has to slow down for a car in frount of him . i am on the brakes hard. i allmost rear ended him .in ohio we have red and yellow plates for DWI people that have more than one DWI so the cops can be aware that that car has a driver that has had a DWI . well he had a set of those plates on his car . and above the plates was a bumper sticker that read party plates . i guess he was on his way to a party and was in a hury to get drunk . allso it can be dangerest to mess with these nuts on the road i had a guy in a van that thought i was not going fast enought for him and was giveing me the finger and yelling at me .i had a car in frount of me that was holding me up from going faster and i could not pass . he tryed running me off of the road. at one time was he 12"off my rear bumper. a real nut case. he passed on a yellow line and ten through a cup of pop at my car.he allmost had a head on with a big truck when he passed me and the other car in frount of me . i thought what a nut case .well down the road i seen him pulled over by a state cop. i go right on .the cop had his gun out the guy was acting like a nut yelling at the cop .that cop had his hands full with that guy . i bet he went to jail lol you have to be care full on the road. on nut cases like the guy above. i try to stay out of there way . you never know if they have a gun on them . spencerfvee ventura tim wrote: It seems to me that people really disrespect beetles in traffic. Even when my bug is running good ( finally ) these a-holes find every way to cut me off or pass me on the right, even when I am cruising at 65 or 70 +. Maybe Calif. has a disproportionally amount of jerks driving on the road.
What about your state? People used to say that NY drivers were bad, I disagree, Calif. has no traffic manners...every man for himself.
Sorry for the rant, but Slug-Bugs need some respect!

Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:50 am

Here in Phoenix we have drive by shootings for the rude!

You drive like Ohio and I will guarantee that someone will eventually shoot you in your car just for fun.

Since we read this everyday in the news- 99% of us fear the unknown driver psychopathic nutcase - we are armed - and ready -to be very polite,, or perhaps one might suffer the consequences.

Mind Blowing -

Come on Down Ohio - join up with reality

Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:22 pm

I get people coming toward me on back roads that don't like to get over, especially the 4x4 guys, they like to drive right down the middle
other than that, I get the occasional ricer in town that feels the need to come up next to me and rev the piss our of their engine, or fly by me while they are bouncing off the rev limiter

Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:44 pm

Here in Salt lake is scary nutzos and Utards Everywhere they seem to think speed limit signs and red lights are suggestions

Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:31 pm

Driving almost 50 miles a day to school has me see all sorts of wonderful driving, like the ones that are in the left turn lane at a light and decide they need to turn right instead, or the ones that are in the right turn lane and decide they need to make a left. :roll:
But about disrespecting Beetles I've got a good one. I had to get a ride to the parts store for a new belt from a friend. While we're driving there he's saying how my car is crap, its always breaking down, and saying that his acura is the best car ever and i should scrap mine to get one, ect... his WHEEL WELL falls clean OFF and gets stuck under the car. After pulling over and getting the half melted plastic off the exhaust I ask him how "fail proof" his car is. :lol: Timing couldn't have been better on that piece of karma.

Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:48 am

Today I finally got my laugh on the road. I have a 45 miles commute (5 mile hway and the rest single lane no passing zones).

A nice 2011 Alpina B7 BMW stop next to me on the first light of my long 40 miles of 35/45 speed limit country road and then I looked at him (must people just do the thumbs up) and he is mocking me like if I am driving a circus little car. As the light turned green he left like three pounds of rubber on the ground like a drag racer. Two lights later I am right behind him and I honk (beep, beep Herbie style). He looks angry now and left another few pounds of rubber. two lights later, there we are again. At this time I am just having fun with his stupidity. I did hunk again and he did the same thing as before. Three lights later he is on the side of the road with five State Troopers around his car. I passed (about 20 mph cus' the police activity) and hunk again waving as he wave his middle finger at me and then I saw the police (from my rear mirror) taking him out of his car by force.

Who is laughing now. beep, beep.

Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:59 pm

decobugma07 wrote: Today I finally got my laugh on the road. I have a 45 miles commute (5 mile hway and the rest single lane no passing zones).

A nice 2011 Alpina B7 BMW stop next to me on the first light of my long 40 miles of 35/45 speed limit country road and then I looked at him (must people just do the thumbs up) and he is mocking me like if I am driving a circus little car. As the light turned green he left like three pounds of rubber on the ground like a drag racer. Two lights later I am right behind him and I honk (beep, beep Herbie style). He looks angry now and left another few pounds of rubber. two lights later, there we are again. At this time I am just having fun with his stupidity. I did hunk again and he did the same thing as before. Three lights later he is on the side of the road with five State Troopers around his car. I passed (about 20 mph cus' the police activity) and hunk again waving as he wave his middle finger at me and then I saw the police (from my rear mirror) taking him out of his car by force.

Who is laughing now. beep, beep.

haha never had justice like that happen nice nice i always liked it when a car zooms pass you in a no passing zone a few miles later red and blue wooo wooo

Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:22 pm

Disrespect ???? Try getting stuck on a busy 2 lane highway behind a semi truck hauling Hogs in N.C for 45 minutes in the middle of July . It aint pretty and the smell lingers in the bug for hours afterwards .

Rick