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...




[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.