I’m not sure if this is a 100% f up or not, but I feel so embarrassed if this person got the wrong ideaðŸ«
Last night I was driving home from the grocery store and I noticed someone coming from behind in the right lane while I was in the left, with their lights out. No one was behind me or them so I decided to slow down and try to catch their attention as they drove next to me so I honked quickly a few times and flashed my brights and pointed at their lights. They turned on their lights, but where this becomes a TIFU is my car is old and probably needs the alignment fixed because it does drift to the right as soon as I take my hands off the wheel, and to make matters worse the street we were driving on was curving to the left. So while I was trying to catch their attention I ended up drifting a bit into their lane.
I immediately corrected and drove off normally but when I looked in my rear view it looked like they had pulled over into the closest driveway ðŸ˜
I immediately wanted to die thinking I had scared them and made them think I was trying to run them off the road.
TL:DR: Tried to catch someone’s attention who had their headlights off driving at night, accidentally drifted into their lane slightly while doing so due to old car and curved road and I think I scared them making them think I was angry and trying to run them off the road ðŸ˜
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Be hilarious if they were trying to sneak back in and you started honking and flashing your lights at the house.
Personally I turn my lights off and back on to get someone’s attention to their own lights. If that’s not enough I leave it to ‘god’ and community to assist that person.
lol. I had something similar happen to me a couple months ago. Driving home from work I passed someone on the highway and they started flashing their high beams. I figured out why when I hit a spot on the highway where there weren’t any street lights and realized my lights were off. In my defense I leave them set to automatic and just had an oil change, not sure why the dealer always sets them to off.
I’ve had people get mad at me. One guy in front of me at a red light got out after I high beamed him. I told him his lights were off. He stopped jogging towards my car and looked and saw his lights were off. Then he told me to fuck myself and mind my own business and then called me “bitch ass.”
I was working in a drive thru late at night and told a customer his lights were off. He reacted with surprise, then turned to his passenger and asked why they turned his lights off… I still wonder about it sometimes.
Personally I would’ve assumed you were just letting me know about my lights, mine doesn’t have a drift problem since it’s newer but if I try reaching for something I do drift a little so I wouldn’t have assumed you were running me off especially if I could see your facial expression
You were trying to help and messed up a little happens to the best of us. I doubt they thought you were aggressive. If anything, they probably just thought you were a weirdo waving at them 😂