PLEASE EXCUSE ME WHILE I VENT...

You know what I really hate?? I really hate it when people cut in front of me, cut me off or just come right on out into the round about that I am going around becaue I drive a beetle! Why is it that people just see a beetle and think thate just becuase they drive a new piece of plastic they can do this to me?? I am sure I am not the only person who has had this happen to and quite fankly I am sick and tired of having to take evasive action because of other peoples ignorance. I am a road user too, I pay my taxes so therefore I beleive that I am entitled to drive along without my life being put in danger unnecessarily simply because of the type of car I choose to drive...


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[Edited on 14-5-2003 by dakgrrl]

You go Grrl!

good to vent your anger,

now breathe in through the nose - hold it.... out through the mouth

ahhh. 🙂🙂🙂

Yes, I do understand your anger.
But don't you love it when they do 'pick' on you and you leave them to 'eat your dust'. I'm very sure it cures them from picking on Beetles again. You see, a 1962 Beetle, should not 'perform' like this!
Just keep grinning😀
Bugger em!!!!!
Regards,
Mark

I'm after the four bolts that hold the torsion bars (ball joint), to your frame head. I've 'borrowed' them from my farm buggy, but I need to replace them.
Can anyone help?
Regards,
Mark

I'm sorry, this has nothing to do with venting off steam.
🙁
I'll post it under its own heading.
Sorry guys!:thumb
Mark

That shits me
also when there is not a car behind u but some shithead decides to pull out in front of you and slow u right down !
Or change lanes in front of you and then go realy slow !

And then there is work, i work in a restaraunt...anyway
Ppl come in and i say "go for it guys, u can sit anywhere u like" Then they go and proceed to sit on a table for 2 or 6 Ppl and there is only 2 of them. THINK ABOUT IT !!!!!! then they get annoyd they have to move. OR they sit on the only dirty table in the whole restaraunt !

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH been needing to get all that off my chest !
Thanks for letting me join you Miss Dak

Ivan...:bounce

I find that people keep their distance if you are wearing a hat (or beret) & at least appear to be a frigging idiot
IT IS TRUE next time you see someone fitting that description driving along, your instinctive reaction is oh-ohh, better keep clear

😠:sandrine
Hi, being another girl on this forum I think
I can add my 20c to this topic.
Being a female driving a beetle that I guess does stand out a bit, I must attract
the !@#@$% heads in commodores.
Every day without fail I get one.
I get the guy who can't stand me even
getting slightly ahead of them ...even on a roundabout.
You know the breed...the lastest plastic
HSV club sports wanker with the stereo blaring & arm hanging out of window with
tinted oakleys on.....god I hate them.
They have to come up beside you for a perv, smile, then always put there footdown...
whats with that anyway?
Is this supposed to be a animal courting ritual or something...
Now if they only owned a VW & were cute
& loaded.....there's three wishes in a packet of tim tams 🙂
ps. I really have nothing against oakleys!
JUDY (o\|/o)

yeah, you cant be in front in an old car, they always have to have at least a nose ahead............

Yeah I have noticed that when driving herbie that people leave the lights like they bet $1000 on who would win a race between them and Herbie, I mean really do they think herbie is going to stand up on his back wheels and pass them like they are standing still?,
I have found the colour of the car is what makes the most difference as far as no pespect on the road, people just wander along with their mind on anything else other than what they should be concentrating on. You can really tell who is a space cadet on the road, the ones who look straight at herbie like he is a white holden when everyone else around is excited that they just saw herbie, you know those people should be removed from their vehicles till they are prepared to wake up.:cry

i guess being a girl and driving a beetle may attract some unwanted attention, but imagine being a girl in a pink beetle on her L's.
whilst teaching my sister to drive recently in her pink '60 she made a small mistake by pulling into a right hand turn only lane wen she wanted to go left. so she put on her right blinker and went around the corner with the rest of the traffic.
then a grotesquely obese woman in a very rundown VK commadore pulled up alongside my sister's window and screamed "learn how to %#$*en drive!"
plus some more obsenities before planting it and speeding off in her lump.
my sister is on her Ls...:cussing

I just love the tailgater. The one that rushes up behind you [even when you're in a queue of traffic], and just has to get passed you. Then makes an erratic move just to get passed you. Then fun starts when you casually roll past them at the next set of traffic lights.....and just happen to pull into the line of traffic in front of them again. Would I do that???:P

Squiz.....

[Edited on 15-5-2003 by squizy]

If only everyone owned a VW the world would be a better place.

My excuse for temporary loss of sanity, is the retiree with the new 4X4 battle truck, towing the 40 ft caravan.
I visit the brother & mother in Bundaberg on a fairly regular basis, this dictates the use of the Bruce Hiway once you are north of Brissie, the passing opportunitys on this road are very limited, and the roads department engineer's in QLD have in all their wisdom given us passing lanes that are about all of 500 metre's long!
This is the typical senario for me in my 70hp Kombi, sit behind a caravan for miles on end doing speeds ranging from 60-80kmh they never seem to be able to hold a constant speed, and the old Kombi dosent have the balls to overtake, unless I have a good run up and about a kilometre or more to do it in, but guess what happens when you come to an overtaking lane, grandpa decides to crank up the 4.5lt turbo deisel, to 100-110kmh, for the duration of the dual lanes, while I am beside him, running flat strap trying to pass, running out of lane space, then he pulls back in front of me again to resume his snails pace, even if I do get past, it is not long before I am trapped behind another, mobile block of flats.
I really think that it is about time that the government dose something about these travelling roadblocks. I think it is a bit rich that a truck driver has to serve a form of apprenticship in the form of having to hold diferent grades of licence's for a period of time before being able to upgrade to the next level, so he can drive an articulated vehical, on the other hand a car licence holder can go out and buy a caravan, the weight and length of witch, is only dictated by the towing capacity & weight of the tow vehical. Most of these same people have very rarely driven on country roads if at all! a four wheel drive and a 20ft caravan is in my opinion a heavy combination.
There should be a compulsory course, including classroom theory, and on road tuition, by an experianced & trained operator, resulting in a certificate of competency for the trailer owner.
Motorcyclists & truckdrivers have to do it, so should they.
I hope I haven't offended any body by these comments, but being in the transport industy, I have seen accsidents that could have been avoided if the people involved were better educated in the operation of their combination's
I am not tarring all caravaners with the same brush, I know some responsible and very competent operators, some of witch have attended seminars & courses voluntarily, but there are a lot who are downright dangerous, not only to themselves but others as well.

Rob.......

my problem is with the 4x4 utes in the blue mountains, the type 3 don't like lapston hill so i tend to take it easy on the old girl but as i get passed that all those clowns in the 4x4's laughing at the speed i was doin to get up the hill then get the sh!#s when i take off through the corners faster then there high body roll red neck s!@# boxs:cussing so they come up to me just before i turn off the great western highway put on there bloody high beams and hit there horn as i turn off, if i wasn't driving something i loved i'd almost be tempted to p!$$ them off by pulling back in front off them.😀
Blood VW haters, i feel sorry for them that they have to envy the dub like this.
i'm tellin ya its an ongoing battle.
cheers
Ben

[Edited on 15-5-2003 by bennyboy311]

I think its a Sydney thing as in Melb VW's are pretty trendy and the Vics are more nicer. Dont worry i predict next year will be the year of the VW and heaps of people will have one and people will be nicer on the road.

I hate Sydney drivers, just cos they see a dub they have to overtake u or pull out.

:cussing

I cop it all the time, People cutting in front, then slaming the brakes! real smart! Kills me cause their cars can stop so quick, they think mine can too!

But thats what you get when you give them a WRX ect!

N!

Trucks on Pennant Hills Rd and the F3 that decide to overtake each other....even to the point of all three lanes taken up by trucks overtaking each other doing 20kmph!!! 😠

I think there should be rules within City precincts that forbid multi axle trucks from overtaking each other....that they should all remain in a nice, courteous queue! Also trucks shouls be banned from peak hour.....or at least from 4pm to 7pm!!!

I'll step down from my soap box now....

Squiz.......

[Edited on 15-5-2003 by squizy]

Im a girl and i hate it when morons with utes and 5 teeth cut you off at an intersection, then yell at you to get in your lane... im sorry if i was any more in my lane the pedestrians would be shouting at me... stupid redneck gits... woo, your car is bigger than mine... i bet ive still got a bigger dick than you do!

I'm afraid that we all aren't as civilised as we think we are. Some of us still use the "survival of the fittest" mentality when using our roads. The rudness on our roads is increasing from day to day. I don't want to expose myself to half of the populations wraith but the women out there seem to be getting worse than the men.

I think that we offen forget how dangerous a car can be. We get complacent as we drive our cars every day and nothings happens to us, right. Well one day we may be wrong.

HEHEHEHE!

It also kills me when these so called beast of the road try and drag you off the line, then for some reason or another you end up in front of them!!!!:o

But see the best thing is, You dont give these people any room when trying to cut in, and they usually shit them selves, cause there car is worth more!!

N!

P.S.

I didn't say that women were the worst, just they were getting worse.

And about the drag offs, yeah I get them sometimes too. I've only got a 1600 you know.

Good save there manxed69.....look out for incoming though.

Squiz.....

its worse in a kombi ppl think cause ur a van u can only go slow so they harras the liveing daylights outta ya :cussing😠:cussing

BYRONBUG, give us commodore drivers a break! Sure there are some bloody morons out there, i have whitnesed many of them in action, but I own a VR commodore and i reokon im a considerate driver. Sure i only have half a volkswagen 😉, but still, spare a though for us good guys getting roped in with the stereotypical bunch of 'EVIL' commodore drivers!.... now that sounds farmiliar...:P

Commonbores....

Just got rid of mine and got a kombi while the bug gets built...

I'll tell you something I really noticed driving in California, you could be doing 15 mph faster than the speed limit and still get passed by heaps of people doing 40 mph faster than the limit and its scarey but even with people cutting each other off and being real dickheads there was no road rage abuse at the lights or anything like that.
Because no-one knows which speeding reckless Motorists also carry a loaded gun.
Which makes me feel a lot better when I come home and can hear people shouting at each other without the fear of getting shot.
The big trailers on holiday seem to be pulled by supercharged V10 pickups and are hard to even catch let alone be held up by.
If you have enough power to pass anything you get your own set of abusing motorists, I a few years ago was coming home from sydney in My Very well sorted Bridgeport mazda RX3 and like said before everyone raced through the dual lane and crawled through the rest so I {and I am not overly proud of it} used the power, "the force was with me", I pulled into the far right Lane which I could see was clear for a long way and while all the others were struggling in the normal cars I just pulled out and opened it up, I remember counting 16 vehicles in total that were passed putting me in front of all of the frustrating traffic and put me at near space shuttle speeds. later after stoping for lunch I was caught up to by some of the 16 who abused me for ..... I am not really sure what, probably for jumping the frustration que I didnt cross anyone off or hold anyone up so I think people just like to shout at other people.
Why is it that In a nightclub a persons personal space is reduced to inches or nil but when they get in their car it swells up to 30 feet in any direction. What funny creatures we are. 😀

you know what else is funny when you are sitting at the front of the lights and you look in your rear vision mirror and see impatient people thinking sh1t its a volkswagen and pulling into the next lane then blowing the hell out of them then when you pull up at next set of lights next to them they look stunned they are mostly ford drivers!!!!!

CRUMPLDOORS!

Yeah! pull out on you cut you off then turn right at the next corner because they can......
Mitchell😎.

How come people don't dare push in when you are lining up at the bank,supermarket,atm ect ect ? ,but put them in a car and they will not have a second thought about it...Its like they are the only ones who want to get home.....
Also what happened to the give way to your right rule?

I tend to shock people on round-abouts.
As soon as I see a gap, I launch the Oval across the round-about before the mongrels get a chance to jump in front of me - - lucky I have good brakes, and yes I'm a Bad driver,
but boy I sure suprise people in the Old Oval.

I go to Indo every year and the driving over there is unreal. just drive along, flat out and if something is in front, none of this indicate, na, just pull over. the guy beside you just slows down a bit you overtake and then back in your lane again. roundabouts!!! you give way on the roundabout to trafic coming on at you, very bizza, but just great to drive in. no road rage. i get back to Oz and get yelled at for the first week coz i'm constantly cutting people off. it's a great life eh!!! fish

I sh!* myself going onto the Eastern Freeway from the city end in peak hour sometimes. Drivers floor it and do all sorts of crazy things around me. If I'm not in a brave mood I'll go on at Punt Road so don't have to make my way over to the left lane:jesus

Mind you I drive daily and am far from a Sunday driver but Bel can only reach 90:kiss

Don't find problems on normal roads.

Hmm, had an impatient 4wd towing a trailer nearly wipe me off on a country road when he over took me and cut in way too soon:o

There is a social stigma to being BEHIND a VW, particularly at highway speed.
Especially a Kombi.

Always has been, always will be.

Years ago, being overtaken by a VW was a good enough excuse to burn your car on the side of the road.

As for tailgaters, my curtains are permanently shut. Doesn't take em long to figure out I just cant see them.
On the bike I carry a couple of old spark plugs for just that event.
You'd be amazed how quick someone backs off when their windscreen shatters.......

😎

yikes!!! look out for the spook on a bike.😎😎

Unlike my 1600 kombi my mate has a 2lt kombi and we passed heaps of the common sorta vechiles heading up qld mountains...boy did we turn a few heads as they just werent expecting it, and wow did it feel good for a change.

[Edited on 15-5-2003 by kOMBI KARMA]

Had some fools in a VN commodore ask me "how much did you pay your grandma for the car for the night" needless to say i absolutely destroyed them once the lights went green, nothing like the sleeper factor...

I guess I spend more time on my mountain bike than in my dub as there's too many fools on the road whom take their licence for granted...and don't even know how to turn their heads to look...:cuss

Yes , drivers of ordinary vehicles give me the shits when they pull in front of your kombi,cause' they think your a pot smoking hippy with a top speed of TOO SLOW! Well i'm on a mission to turbocharge every kombi in australia. Just to give a few TREVIES (v8 drivers) something to think about! Look out for mailorder d.i.y. kits soon........

My favourite cruiser is definitley the Beetle. I cruise without the need to race, thrash, cut off or stress out. Unfortunatley every second other driver treats me as a driver with less respect

The Kombi commands more respect, and I find people are more likley to let me in, and less likley to cut me off.

The EH, well that is easy I just give it a squirt and the supercharger and huge exhaust scare everyone away.

I have a BA Falcon as a company car, This is the most interesting of all. As there are current Police cars that are BA Falcons. There must always be a element of doubt in some drivers minds.
A young girl fully pulled out in front of me as I was driving past a small shopping centre, and I flashed the headlights, so she put her indicator on and was going to stop, like she was getting pulled over. I also see a few people when I come up next to them in the BA, put their brake lights on when I am just in mirror view. They were going 65 in a 60 and then they drop to about 55.

Personally I think chill out is the new road rule of the Millenium. The 90's were all road rage, but that has to be put behind us. As the roads clog up more and we spend more time in our cars, we have to allow ourselves to feel relaxed.

True, however most people stay away form me as i'm still on my L plates and in a scary looking bug. But i still get people who ignore that fact that i have L plates on my car and procede to abuse me...

squizy wrote:I just love the tailgater. The one that rushes up behind you [even when you're in a queue of traffic], and just has to get passed you. Then makes an erratic move just to get passed you.
[Edited on 15-5-2003 by squizy]

Hello?
What about the motherf#%&s in COMMOWHORES who tailgate you when there is clearly alot of space in the right lane to overtake you!? The thing is you're not even going slow! You're going at the limit of limits, 69kph! But, if you want to get nasty, step on the brakes, and see what the dumb ogre does then, just make sure you have your clublock ready at the lights in case they get agro.
😀
Psssshhh!
Cheers
Josh.

Your right on the money Hellbus, chill out has to be the new road rule for the new millenium.

Rush rush rush, all the rush in Melb is just to next red light, or traffic jam. So whats the point really.
Leave earlier I say and be considerate all we'll all get were we want to go.
Why do people see an old grey vw and try so hard to pass, pull out in front of or cut you off. When all I want is to legally use a liitle bit of the road. And tailgating 4WD's are the absolute worst. How the hell they think they can see a VW ovals tails lights 3ft away thru a bullbar just beats the shite out of me.
Feel better now. Ventings good.:P

I'm not sure that the commodore drivers are the main culprits anymore.

I'm finding the geese with the supra, or whatever, with a milo tin for a tailpipe are getting to be a far bigger pain in the arse than your average holden driver.

The car may look quick &, in a straight line, may go quick. But when they hit Mooney Mooney or the Liverpool range, that's when you find out that they are still a 4............😎

Don't know what your all talking about sorry. Please explain.

Mabey cause I'm rural, I live 2 mins from work or ignore most nutbags.

The real reason I think I have no probs is that The Dog-O-War looks to be worth $200, sounds wild, is a foot shorter each end and has pipes around the motor.

Mr. Gloss paint job and Mrs straight panel see me coming and move aside - dunno why.

I'm gonna carry a couple of spark plugs now in case I meet anyone who dosen't.

All of us, drivers of quality german automobiles of style and character need to keep in mind that we dont actually know if the person who pulls in front of us actually thinks we are pot smoking hippies in our Kombies or if they even think at all, in all these sort of scenarios it is purely our interpretation of the events manifesting into our conclusions, quite often a projection of our own fears or opinions. however keep this in mind and when in doubt repeat to yourself,
"Just because I am paranoid, it doesnt mean that everyone DOESNT think I am a pot smoking hippy in a kombie!" 😀😀😀😀😀
Thus ends our session of amatuer psyhcology, and TRY to remember that smoking pot often brings short term memory loss and paranoia and Ill tell you another thing, Smoking pot often brings short term memory loss, I know what youre thinking.......blah blah blah😀😀😉😀

How do you know what I;m thinking Herbie :o

Do you work for the government? They can do that you know.

I think what you are alluding to is 'Attribution Theory' - I'm not going to explain it, look it up as I'm not going to explain it in detail but basically it's paranoid empathy crossed with domino theory.

Hehe

I had some wanker in a Toyota Hiace Van nearly smash my Baja to Death once.
The thing that pissed me off the most, was that he was looking at me in his mirror as he was cutting me off and forcing me to stop. So I blew the Horn and I got the finger response and a mouth full of abuse. So he got a Broken nose and 2 Black eyes and I got to spend 3 hours making a Statement when the Cops came around to pick me up.

I never got Charged because he got out of the car first while swearing at me.

All I can say is that I don't have any where near as much trouble with other drivers being inconsiderate when I am driving the baby 4WD with a big bull bar. (it is a Suzuki Sierra, it wants to be a Landcruiser when it grows up!)

A couple of years ago I had a guy in a hiace van try to intimidate me by tail gating and flashing his lights so I courteously checked his brakes by applying mine very firmly in my 4 wheel power assisted disc braked Mazda {with a big towbar😀} which then encouraged the Van driver to shit himself profusely hitting the back of my car and then locking his brakes and I then released mine tearing off his front bumper with my towball, I did give him the oportunity to pull over and get the crap kicked out of him but he declined instead opting to just drive away with his bumper bar draging on the ground making sparks as he went reflecting no doubt about which course of action he may choose to take next time he is in a similar situation. it left little more than a small rub mark on my car and it felt sooooo good to serve him such a well deserved treat.

to every action - there is a reaction

But I looooove driving sloooow in my fasty at times (say on a 3 lane Hwy), often enough the traffic slows down with you! Sometimes someone might actually look at his speedo and go "shit.... I'm 3kph bellow the limit" then floors it, so the race is on and the sheep follow.
funny