I live in Germany and was driving on the autobahn in a section that had no speed limit, but was only 2 lanes. A semi-truck was passing another semi-truck on an uphill, so it was taking a while. I drove patiently behind the semi-truck in the left lane, waiting for him to finish passing so I could speed up again.
Suddenly some dude in an Audi flies up behind me, getting so close I can’t even see his headlights. He rides my ass for a few seconds until I happen to clean my rear windshield, spraying his car with windshield wiper fluid. This prompts him to back off to a safer following distance, but he is flashing his brights and has his left turn signal on- both universal signs that someone is in the left lane who shouldn’t be.
Now sometimes someone will do this not realizing you’re stuck behind someone else. But I was behind a semi-truck. He could clearly see that I was stuck behind the truck. What did he want me to do? Go through the truck?
But hey, I’ll do as he asks. I drop back and get in the right lane, letting him take my spot behind the semi. I then promptly get behind him, turn on my turn signal, and start flashing my brights nonstop. I can see him getting angrier and angrier, but there’s nothing he can do. Finally, the truck finishes passing and gets back in the right lane and the Audi absolutely takes off.
Unfortunately for him we had entered a 120 km/h zone and I saw the telltale flash of a speed camera. He slowed down, and then ended up exiting at the next rest stop, presumably to cool down. I’d like to think he learned his lesson and won’t drive like that in the future, but I doubt it
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Love the turnabout. I hate drivers like that, and I truly hope he got a nice expensive reminder not to drive like an ass.
Out of curiosity, how much does a speeding ticket there usually cost?
Er ist ein dummkopf!
Karma is a bitch. And sometimes very swift! 😂🤣
Great. I also flash the ones flashing me, under similar circunstances – like when they want to pass me but I already have someone ahead of me, or when I have a straight line on my right and can’t change lane.
Sweet, sweet revenge, and of his own doing
Other than not seeing a speed limit sign is there another way to tell when you have transitioned from a no speed limit zone to one that has a speed limit, and vise-a-versa
A Polish guy
Wow brilliant way to show him what his issue was!!
Drive like a Bostonian
Then maybe you get there fast
Or maybe you die
Or maybe your car gets totaled
But for sure you work out your all your aggressive instincts
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In Boston, traffic laws and traffic signage and speed limits and all that are basically just there to remind you of the humor of ignoring any and all trivial legal rules about driving.
I feel like I’d get shot in the US if I did what you did to an impatient driver 😠good on you for teaching him to stop being childish and creating unsafe situations for no reason. And 90% these people don’t have anywhere they need to be. They’re just being assholes.
Classic schadenfreude.
I think he got his assphal back
He exited at the next stop? He probably had to poop real bad and was close to shitting his pants! At least that’s what I always say when someone’s speeding.Â
Jesus f*cking christ. This is magnificent! 😂
Stunning how drivers think you should part like the Red Sea for them.
I will never understand someone riding my tail so close and so impatient when I’m right behind 10 other cars in front of me in the fast lane. Do they think it will make the 10 cars in front of me speed up?
He’s an Audi driver, he’ll definitely continue to drive like a twat, it’s what they do.
That ischef’s kiss hilarious karma for him.
I will ride someone’s ass if they can move over AND the lane is clear ahead of them. There’s no point tailgating someone who’s stuck behind some other chucklehead.
Niiiice
I sometimes flash my rear fog light back at them
Revenge. Served in a flash of light.
i had something similar happen in Kentucky at like 2:30 am. stuck behind a semi passing a row of semis, nothing i can do about it. car comes FLYING up behind me, nearly rear ending me as we’re driving 70+mph, tailgating me… i slowed down even more because im petty like that and i had time… once i passed the truck and moved over they SCREAMED past me… followed two seconds later by a cop in hot pursuit with their lights on >:)
As advanced as we are as a species, we are yet to discover the law of physics which allows us to go faster than the vehicle in front…..Â
I love these moments! I usually stay right where I am, when the truck goes right again, I speed up a tiny bit, then go right once the truck is visible in my back mirror ( that’s what the driving instructor told me to do back in the day) and then sloooooowly switch lanes. Drives them absolutely mad and I love every second of it 🤣.
Source: am frequent driver on Autobahn.
>He rides my ass
What an interesting choice of wordsðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Well played It was good to give him exactly what he did to you. Even sweeter when he got himself a speeding ticket.
did that several time.
I had some medical courses in varsity. the teacher of neuroanatomy explained us that he always let pass that kind of people while saying “see you soon on my dissection table”. I follow that example : better that roadragers have their accident far from me.
I had a guy riding my ass in the HOV lane. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe HOV stands for high occupancy vehicle lane, not passing lane. I was a reasonable distance from the car in front of me, so was I supposed to run over him?
You should not have been in the left lane until the semi had finished passing and had returned to the right lane.
Two things I hate about germany
Having to pass on the left.
Those damn speed cameras.
Being in a multi lane road with congestion in the two left lanes going under the speed limit is annoying. When I pass someone’s grandma on the right she looks like she wants to murder me. People do it all the time in the US but over there it’s super illegal, like flipping the bird.
Isn’t that called an elephant race in Germany?
Honestly if someone is riding my bumper because they are uber important, sometimes I put my signal on and
s – l – o – w down. And take my T. I. M. E. moving over.
Are trucks speed limited on the autobahn? Here is Australia they are limited to a maximum of 100km/hr.
I find it annoying and a curious thing when people who do bad things get all butthurt when those same things are done right back to them. How is it that they don’t equate their anger at the actions to other people’s anger at the offender’s actions? Do they feel a divine right that no one else can use?
It’s always an Audi.
He didn’t flash you, he wanted you to stress the semi so you both can pass.
Did you really think he didn’t see the semi?
Twist: he was shitting his pants and rushing to the rest area.