2009 BMW 750i: Getting the Finger

It's possible she mistook you for another car that did something to her further back.

Or she was saying you are number one! :)

Or maybe she was just mad that you many-upped her in the BMW hierarchy? Her anger is understandable, especially if she sold one of her kids to buy that 3 series...

No explanation necessary. She drives a BMW. Enough said.

everything is offensive to women. You Donna should know better than us car guys.

i think its just you, Donna. this isn't your first post about getting hated on, lol...

my bad, it might have been Caroline with the last "i got hated on" post...

Typical SoCal 3-Series Driver....

She was probably in a 328i, which is considerably slower than the 7, so you should have passed her and returned the favor ;)

She probably thought you had your high-beams on.

"Typical SoCal 3-Series Driver...."

True, and continuing with the average So Cal 3-series driver, she probably can't really afford it, but she's making some really risky financial decisions just to afford a lease on the thing, just so she can have a status symbol and look down on everyone else. Then you come along with a much higher status symbol and shoot the haughtiness to pieces.

Who cares what the reason. You should of gotten out and snuffed her, or pull in front of her and drive 5mph to be obnoxious, and then when she cuts in front of you, stay on her ass and flash your brights on and off at her and beep your horn. Haha I love pissing off people like that who deserve it.

"and then when she cuts in front of you, stay on her ass and flash your brights on and off at her and beep your horn. Haha I love pissing off people like that who deserve it."

In LA, drivers never actually check their mirrors so that would have accomplished nothing. I can't tell you how many times I've been stuck in a line of cars on GMR backed up behind some doddering fool going 20 mph. All the honking, light flashing, and other measures in the world won't alert them to your presence, much less get them to use a turnout. Same story here. She'd just ignore it and cocoon herself back into her jerk bubble.

A few more people need to get a little beat down here and there to start reminding people that discourtesy, rudeness and just plain being an asshole comes with a cost.

Or, if you abhor physical violence, there are other ways. I miss driving a tuned turbodiesel that could emit a large cloud of soot at will. Just pull to the left of the jerk in question, wait till front doors are about even and then mat the throttle. Even better if the windows are down. Never did to anyone who didn't cut me off, flip me off (or something similar) first, but it was disturbingly gratifying.

I'm not getting out of my car though, I don't carry a gun... :)

ooooo - she's lucky Donna didn't have to go full Philly on her...

Typical BMW driver, why are you surprised?

It sounds like the lady dog is deranged. Never mind it.

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should have given her a jack-in-the-box wind-up finger

Donna- same thing happened to me, my wife, and my two year old daughter. Sitting at a stop light after exiting the highway and my wife says "that woman is giving us the finger" I never cut her off and was going like 70 in a 65. I wanted to follow her.. find out what her deal was and giver her a good ole' talkin' to for flipping of my two year old and wife.

ignore the jerks, people.

nothing good comes of road rage.

I can't believe Donna broke out the "Shocker" street light!

Check that - one finger missing, I spoke too soon.

It's the headlights, they are too F-ing bright even on low beam they certainly blind me if I'm not driving a car with auto-dim mirrors or if it's coming the other way on a two lane highway.

stovt001 said:

"She'd just ignore it and cocoon herself back into her jerk bubble."

This is spot on. Far too many drivers exist exclusively within their own skulls.

An anectode: Yesterday it began raining hard on the way home from work. For some reason, probably a power outage somewhere, a particular traffic light reverted to blink yellow/red mode. Rather than treat it like a stop sign and exercise some common sense and decency, a red Camry in front of me decided to stop immediately in the middle of the intersection. And do nothing. For 45 seconds. Blocking traffic.

I honestly can't imagine what could have been going through that person's head. Either the driver had to be 100+ years old, or was an ostrich.

canadia: It was a Camry, so the driver was probably 100 years old.

hey, i got the finger from a driver just the other day, too. i didn't think i did anything, and i was also stopped behind that car at a red light, both in left lane. as we turned left, the driver stuck his hand out the window and flipped me off. there weren't any other cars around, so i'm sure it was meant for me. -_-??

and it's not like i'm driving a bimmer or something either, just a lowly toyota.

I find it very endearing that some of you think the people doing this sort of crap have reasons, like it's rational behavior.

My M Coupe has had its picture taken about a thousand times since I got it. Recently, while giving a friend a ride, we spotted the tell-tale flash of cellphone cameras. My friend asked if I'd ever flipped someone off for taking a picture of the car.

"No. Why would I?"
"I took a picture of this gorgeous old oval window Beetle and the guy flipped me off."
"Well, that guy was a jerk."
"... I always wondered why he did it. That would explain it."
"Now you know."

It's the car, I took my wife's 330Ci in for service and got a loaner 535xi, I could not believe how people treated me in it, glaring, occasional finger and kids talking smack. Also I drove my parents Merc GL450 up in the mountains and went to pass on a 2 lane highway and a guy in a Dodge Ram cummins kept speeding up whenever I tried to pass. Have never had a problem in my Tundra or Jeep.

For some reason the MS3 attracts the one finger salute from knuckle-draggers in domestic pickups. My Bimmers don't seem to generate much animosity.

I like to say that BMW drivers are some of the worst in the country, with that "I own the road" attitude that has the potential to cause collisions, although in reality it's not limited to BMW drivers only. Higher-performance vehicles in general tend to have more aggressive drivers. BMW's, Mustangs, Si's, anything SS, V8 pickups... But I think some people are just frustrated with life too (like the Beetle driver who flipped epbrown's friend off), whether they're having a bad day or a bad year. They just need to take out that frustration on others. I typically let one infraction slide, but if someone is continually harassing me, I'll just try to distance myself from them as much as possible.

"I like to say that BMW drivers are some of the worst in the country, with that "I own the road" attitude that has the potential to cause collisions, although in reality it's not limited to BMW drivers only."

If you just stayed off my road to begin with, there'd be a much lower collision potential right there.

don't you love it when the other party does something illegal (traffic-wise) or stupid, and then they give you crap like you did something wrong...