[Closed] Shouting at car drivers - unexpected outcomes

Excellent work! Did you apologise?

as much as i want to ROFL i can't help but think she shouldnt have driven in a way that meant you ended up shouting at her...

i blame binners.

Did she apologise for her **** driving?

I hope that they had a "quiet word" with her for driving [s]an Audi TT[/s] in an inconsiderate manner 🙂

I apologised for frightening her. She did apologise if she got too close. I was very charming and polite 🙂

😯

😆

Did you swear?

I'd be miles better at shouting than TJ though Phil. It's one of my favouritest, sweariest things in the whole wide world 😀

I fail to see how what you do outside of work is any business of your boss's. Should've told him she was driving like a male hen.

HR officer

LOL, you don't need to say any more 😉

Did I swear - yes. Effing heck

now if you had been wearing a (full face) helmet, she wouldn't have recognised you 😉

I fail to see how what you do outside of work is any business of your boss's.

Me too. I guess as it's a new job and stuff but on the two occasions I've bellowed at ****ty driving which has turned out to be someone I work with I've stuck to my guns. Easier if you've been there a while though.

but isnt TJ the only person in scotlandshire with an english accent cougar? thus making him instantly recognisable and therefor he must work harder outside of work to be a positive rolemodel and ambassador for the nhs.

i put my hand inside someones driver-side window as they nearly knocked me off driving straight at me overtaking some parked cars with no right-of-way... initially they hit the brakes thinking i was going to grab them but i just did the 'international sign for somebody who likes to relieve themselves manually' in his face. needless to say he stopped and let the riders behind me through as they had right-of-way anyway.

FOO'S DONT MESS WIDDA CONSEQUENCE.

Ha ha, can't imagine you swearing TJ!

You should make her cycle into to work, then she'd know what it's like!

emsz has the answer. She needs a lunchtime tour on the tandem 😀

🙂

That wasn't a euphemism either

[i]She needs a lunchtime tour on the tandem[/i]

that a euphamism?

I shouted WTF!! at a council lorry the other day when it squeezed me against some parked cars as it moved back to the left after only half overtaking me.

When I caught back up to him at the next set of lights the driver put down his window and apologised! Now THAT was unexpected

Sorry IF she got too close? You call that an apology?

No IF about it. She got close enough to scare a cyclist, repeatedly.

I only apologised for scaring her.

I was very charming and polite

but isnt TJ the only person in scotlandshire with an english accent

I think I've posted this here before - my unexpected outcome was much like richmtb's - shouted at a car as it went past, a little further up the road it pulled over. Uh-oh I thought, driver giving me some aggro - actually he'd stopped to apologise!

I wouldn't have apologised. If she was close enough for you to feel the need to shout at her, she bloody needs to be scared

Onzadog - to be fair I was not scared - annoyed and irked at being put in needless danger.

NBT - new job. Also I apologised for scaring her - not for shouting at her

Did you have your fingers crossed behind your back when apologising? 🙂

Cougar +1

HR person drives a TT!, she must have fired a lot of people to earn that

(currently dealing with useless HR ****ers at the moment, not impressed with them tbh)

I don't get why the yr boss felt the need to have a quiet word. None of his business surely?
If she's sincere and drives more carefully in future then maybe something good will come of it...

Well got in an "argument" with one of your fellow brits yesterday. Guy got way to close so I shouted and slammed the rear windows as apparently shouting wasn't enough. At this point rather than saying the usual SMIDSY he told me to **** off...
I think he did not quite expect me to shout back at him the way I did and chase him in the streets to kick his car the way I did. From now on I'll never said brits are considerate drivers.

I'd be more concerned that she actually complained to the boss about this 😯 Sounds like the sort that will be looking for any opportunity to pull you up.

Not completely unreasonable rs - I am in a public facing position looking after vulnerable people. I certainly understand why she told the boss.

None of this was done in a formal way

I'm guessing it's more the propensity to get angry and shout at people which is the issue rather than anything to do with what happens on your commute - hence the boss doesn't really care how close she got?

indeed aracer - because I deal with vulnerable people and they do not know me yet.

Both of them did say they are not cyclists but understand that we feel vulnerable on the road

Interesting in that case that you didn't apologise for the shouting 😉

[i]but understand that we feel vulnerable on the road[/i]

but not quite enough understanding to actually drive differently in one case.

so I was told when hauled up infront of the boss for a "quiet word"

Hope you took your union rep with you 😈

tbh does it matter that she is a boss?

Gosh, she must have been so scared, being in a locked 1 tonne metal box, all airbagged up and crumple zoned, it must have been terrifying. There's no way I would have apologised to her for anything, new job or not. As an HR person, you would hope she would have some care for other people, but from her driving, clearly not. Imagine if she smashed into you and you'd been rendered unable to work? She should have been the one hauled in front of your boss.

So have you wee'd in her shoes yet?

if thats to close for you, don't ever even think of riding your bike on a Danish road.

She did apologise if she got too close.

TandemJeremy - Member
Not completely unreasonable rs - I am in a public facing position looking after vulnerable people.

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Yes and a very good job you do of looking after us forum inhabitants.

You should have said she was sexist, as she didnt drive close to a female rider, if there was one on a bike.

I'd have curled one off in her desk drawers by now.

Last time I shouted at a car driver he ended up getting a Police warning for assaulting me - none of us had been expecting that!

He drove an Audi as well......

mansonsoul - Member
.... As an HR person, you would hope she would have some care for other people....

not dealt with many HR people mansonsoul? 😉

At my school in Thailand one morning, a pickup truck clipped one of the Thai science teachers motorbikes and pushed her into the ditch.
I stopped checked she was alright and followed the truck that had just turned into the school gates to drop off a kid.

I knocked on the window and told them what had happened, they said they hadn't touched her and tried to shut the door.. I grabbed the keys out of the ignition and walked off to the principles office, who wasn't in. I sat in there waiting for her to arrive at work. All the time I had this demented mother screaming at me and trying to get assistant heads to get me to hand the keys back. She even called the police.

When the principle arrived, she was somewhat miffed at my behaviour, and bollocked me for it, but at the same time, when the science teacher came in and said that it was in fact the lady who had clipped her, told the mother that she had pushed her off her bike. The mother then still refused to admit she had done it.
Two or three witness's (thank god for having not pissed off all my kids parents) all backed up my story and the science teachers story.

Mother eventually admitted she did it and that was it. Paid for the broken wing mirror on the bike.

I got grilled for that, absolutely and utterly grilled. Really lucky my principle and I got on well or I would have been out the door.

Having an informal chat about it in the office seems like a good idea, since it's the sort of thing that can fester in one party's brain if not brought up.

PS, were you wearing a helmet? I gather motorists drive closer to helmeted cyclists 😉

Riding into Glasgow one morning a lady in a corsa passed me and nearly shaved off my elbow hair. My exclamation appeared to not be noticed.

She turned up the next side street. Knowing she would almost certainly be stopped at the next set of lights i set off after her to "have a little chat".

Just as she gets to the lights a Vectra pulls across in front of her and she stuffs the Corsa right into its flank !

I believe my words were "KARMA YA BI'ATCH !!"

I don't see the need to apologise personally, I wouldn't have. IF you're driving like an idiot and getting that close without realising, the person shouting at you is doing you a favour and work colleague or not makes no odds. I'd consider it going back on my principles to apologise in that situation. Shame on you TJ!

TJ only brave when sat behind the keyboard shocker. 😆

yes,yes,but is she fit ?

It does seem odd and a little pathetic that she was scared.

I'm incensed...(well I'm not, but.)

What right has your manager "to have a word" about something that happens outside work, Does he tell you off for not doing the washing up as well..

I hope he had a word with her as well for nearly killing one of his employees

As for apologising to her, well you're a very generous man. She nearly killed you and you're saying sorry to her.

Most company contracts have a clause about "bringing the company/organisation into disrepute" although how anybody would know you work for them I don't know... were you wearing a uniform ?

I was on the other side of this a few years ago, working for a local council and one of the road repair trucks nearly took me out on my bike at the same spot once too often, coming roaring out of the depot without looking properly.

By sheer chance I had a meeting with the head of that division that day, and he was a cyclist so I mentioned it. They had been waiting for a reliable witness to this guy's bad driving and emptied him. Oops.

I can't believe she felt the need to go to the boss?? Speaks volumes about her character IMHO. How can you feel scared locked in a car FFS. I wouldn't have apologised new job or not. A the end of the day if she hadn't driven like an idiot, you wouldn't have done anything.

A tt coupe nearly ran me off the road as he was lane hopping approaching some traffic lights on an island. I caught him up and told him so and he told me to f off and turned his stereo up. I took the keys out the ignition and lobbed them in to the hedgerow. I smiled all the way home.

coffeeking - Member
I don't see the need to apologise personally, I wouldn't have. IF you're driving like an idiot and getting that close without realising, the person shouting at you is doing you a favour and work colleague or not makes no odds. I'd consider it going back on my principles to apologise in that situation. Shame on you TJ!

+1. Seems a bit moronic of her to bring it up in the work environment. Especially if she went through your boss - the official channel - rather than just approaching you about it personally.

Wait till she discovers TJ is unionised and mouthy
HR vs TJ 🙂
Don't get too upset TJ when it ends in tears for you

Do keep us all updated

I was riding along one of my lanes heading towards the Woods (as I do). Simple tiny roundabout to navigate and I'm turning right see, so I heard this car aproach from behind an indicated right, a nob in an old Astra tries to overtake me on the righthand side approaching the island whilst I'm turning right and he almost knocks me awf..

"Blast and damn" I shouted (something similar anyhoo's)

The fat lad got out and came over to me and said "what am I going to do about it feking cyclist"..

So I spat in his face and kicked the passenger window in with my spuds. I then rode off whilst he turned a funny shade of pink. He never gave chase, said nothing, didn't do anything towards me after that.

So I conclude that he got the message.

[i]So I spat in his face[/i]

Classy

kicked the passenger window in with my spuds.

😯 😯

Ah, you mean SPDs. I thought, er, never mind.

an indicated right,

😯 😯 😯

I had a very large Scouse-accented bloke hop out of a newish 7 series infront of me and he was by my bike in seconds shaking my hand and apologising.

As he drove off I was still in the exact same position in the road astride my bike with jaw on the floor.

kicked the passenger window in with my spuds

Oooooof that must have stung. Do you have unusually heavy testicles?

There was a report in the Matlock Mercury I read today about a walker having a word with a cyclist who was riding - apparently - too fast on the Monsall Trail

The Police are now looking for the cyclist as they actually bit the walker on the hand during the ensuing discussion.

Would imagine that should get filed under "unexpected" 😯

Fair play, if your safety is suddenly endangered I think you're allowed to shout at the person doing the endangering.

I agree with TJ again 🙂

Just remembered when I blasted my horn at a guy in a Benz in Thailand, while out in the missus's car. He pulled up alongside me and showed/waved a gun at me, smiled and drove off.

Mrs. Q gave me a right bollocking.

Me and a friend were riding on the back roads of Mobberley last week when we were overtaken just before a corner by a car nearly knocking my friend off his bike. My friend indicated that the driver should give us more space, which was met with the driver 'flicking the bird'. My mate indicated again that he should have given us more space which was then met by the driver slamming on his brakes and jumping out of the car to confront us! Swearing the chap quickly made his way to the boot and pulled out a 3ft long pickaxe handle. He started waving it around and swearing a bit more before another couple of cars arrived. The sudden occurence of more potential witnesses seemed to make him change his mind and he jumped back in his car and drove off. I took note of his number plate and my mate called the Police. Following us giving statements and a very nice Police Officer (also a cyclist) the chap has been arrested and charged with threatening behaviour. My mate is ex RAF and on GB Paracycling squad so I'm sure that went some way into them taking it a little more seriously.

Bet she said Jack Bauer would have 'had him