https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:36:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1866392 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:03:05 +0000 Maysprout 1866392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've had 2 scary experiences and both times I threatened to call the police - both times were with middle aged men in pick up trucks. Once when I was driving alone so I drove to my closest friends house bc he was tailgating and beeping and acting like an AHole. He said I pulled out in front of him but he was no where near, I think he was a drunk crazy person. The next time I was on my bike with a friend (he didn't like that we were riding next to each other) and again I'm not sure if he was drunk or crazy but he just pulled over and started ranting. There were several people threatening to call the cops with that one since we were in a neighborhood. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865989 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:45:34 +0000 mrs scrapbook 1865989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never was personally, but a few years ago I was in the car with my dad. He made a right at a corner where he didn't have a stop sign, but the other driver did. </p> <p>Apparently, the other guy felt my dad should have stopped anyway, despite no sign, and let him go first. At the next stop sign, he swerved around us (going to the wrong side of the road in the process) and blocked our minivan with his car by stopping perpendicular to the road. </p> <p>He actually jumped out of the car screaming at my dad that he is the "daredevil of (our town)" and how dare my dad cut him off and basically cursing and yelling and flipping out in the middle of a normally quiet residential street!</p> <p>It was super scary at the time, but now every time my dad has to turn at that corner we all joke about him being a "daredevil". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865983 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:39:08 +0000 78h2o 1865983@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, about 1/4 mile from my house. I'm pretty sure I was going the speed limit. I saw a woman with two kids by the side of the road. The one boy tried to cross in front of me and the woman took his hand and held him back. I slowed way down as I approached them. The woman screamed at me that I needed to STOP!!!!! There was no crosswalk, so I don't see why I needed to. I normally would have, but I was late to the funeral for my friend's little girl :crying: . Made a bad day worse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865981 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:38:08 +0000 ineebee 1865981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was pulling into the driveway of our CSA to pick up food when a lady on the right side of the driveway was watching her daughters on the left side of the driveway. I slowed down but kept going because the girls were stopped a good distance from the driveway. Then, their mother WAVED TO THEM TO COME TO HER, and then when they darted across the driveway, she looked at me and screamed with this indignant tone, "STOP!" as if it was obvious that she was going to signal her daughters to run across the driveway in front of a moving car. </p> <p>The following week, a car was trying to park backwards, but it looked like she was getting out of the way of our car, so we just continued on slowly down the narrow driveway trying to get past her when a passerby yelled "STOOP!" in the same indignant way. Something about these CSA ladies!!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865960 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:26:15 +0000 mamimami 1865960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, I have been yelled and I have also yelled (AKA provided verbal feedback to a fellow driver). It's pretty normal here. Last week a taxi stopped in the middle of a two-lane street to drop off a fare. So I rolled down my window and asked him why he didn't just pull over. Not malicious and I didn't drop any bad words. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865885 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:43:16 +0000 aegie 1865885@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: I live on a one way street with a school on my block and another one down the street from ours. It causes MAJOR traffic jams to get out of my street and trying to make a turn on the intersection is a nightmare for many of the reasons you made. School buses, moms doing drop offs, etc. There is a school crossing guard which makes things even more slow. i know there's NO WAY you can go speeding down with all the chaos going on. So she's just being super bitter? Maybe she was trying to cross the street and you drove by? Who knows ... but don't let her get to you. She's clearly what my husband calls, the crazies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865856 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:35:28 +0000 Mama Bird 1865856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, crazy! They should be yelling at the real unsafe drivers, but those guys will buzz by before anyone can say anything. </p> <p>I once got yelled at by a driver behind me because I slowed down to go around some stupid guy just standing in the street. Apparently, because I just went through a yellow light and didn't slow, I'm also not supposed to slow down for mr. chat on the road . Right, I should just keep going because I'm confusing her with my braking! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865852 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:33:34 +0000 yellowbird 1865852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was stopped stand still in traffic once because of an accident and inched my way over into the lane I needed to exit. A guy gets out of his car, knocks on my window and screamed at me for inching over. Really? !!? I </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865772 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:05:44 +0000 Anagram 1865772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh my gosh, all these stories are good. I also live in NJ, so a certain about of crazy/aggressive driving (along with LOTS of honks) are pretty par-for-the-course here. </p> <p>But the worst incident I remember was actually when I lived in Texas, in the small city where I grew up. My little sister just had her learner's permit, but I was over 21 so she could drive with me in the passenger seat. I had to Hobby Lobby, so I had her go with me to practice her driving.</p> <p>So my little 15 year old sister was driving VERY carefully and we get to the parking lot and a car right in the front space was backing out---so I instructed my little sister to put on her blinker and wait for that space. A car behind us went NUTS--I mean, nuts--that we weren't moving along. This lady honked her horn continuously for about 7 solids minutes until the old lady pulling out of the space (very very sowly of course) left and we could pull in.</p> <p>My little sister was almost crying, she was so overwrought. Just imagine 7 solid minutes of someone laying on the horn in a parking lot outside Hobby Lobby--people were coming outside to stare at the spectacle. There was actually space for the woman behind us to go around, but she refused and just kept honking. It was totally bizarre.</p> <p>But she got her kharmic reward, because another random woman in the parking lot bitched the honking lady out and told her she was harassing us! haha. a total 3rd party bystander got into it with this woman on our behalf.</p> <p>My little sister was so stressed out by the whole situation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865762 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:01:33 +0000 .twist. 1865762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: ugh. I don't know why people don't manage their anger better? LOL. I mean, this guy was older than us, shouldn't we be the ones making irresponsible choices like egging someone car? :P</p> <p>@autumnlove: lol! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865719 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:40:22 +0000 T-Mom 1865719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ooh reading your post just makes my blood pressure rise. I hate people who decide to take the "law into their own hands" and self-police. Leave that to the police. </p> <p>I was once in a school zone and was going the posted speed limit. Right as I turned a corner, the flashing school zone light turned off, indicating that the time period was over. I even checked the clock to make sure. So I sped up (not a ton, just a little). And this other car decided to take me to task and literally drove their car into my lane and tried to push me to the side of the road, while yelling at me! Ugh. This was a few years ago and it still makes my blood boil. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865714 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:38:45 +0000 loveisstrange 1865714@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: There was a british guy who lived near the base who used to CONSTANTLY rant about people using their fog lights.... even in the fog. He was a twat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865709 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:35:20 +0000 Ajsmommy 1865709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes... I grew up on a country road and one of our neighbors always used to make the slow down motion to us when we'd drive by. He did it to all of my family so I never took it personally LOL, he never yelled but I'm pretty sure he was muttering under his breath. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865707 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:33:46 +0000 Cherrybee 1865707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh! I hate people like that! </p> <p>Only a few days ago I pulled up alongside a car at the lights and he signaled for me to wind my window down. I did as he asked and he then proceeded to lay into me because my "headlights were blinding everyone" and how the glare from his rear view mirror (I was behind him for a while) was so much it nearly made him crash. It was foggy so I had my lights on - as did everyone else - but I apologised profusely and turned them off. When I got to work, I tested them and they're really not too bright.... ??? Moron. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865704 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:33:11 +0000 jedeve 1865704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Once I was making a left turn on my bike at a light, so I was stopped waiting for the way to be clear to turn. A truck was driving in the left lane, zoomed around me on the right, rolled his window down and called me a "little shit." I didn't really get it because even if I was a car, I would have had to be stopped. Maybe he didn't know the left hand signal I was doing and just thought I was standing in the street?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865695 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:26:26 +0000 autumnlove 1865695@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: Yeah, I can still picture him waving the rake in his zubaz pants....lol! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865693 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:25:47 +0000 loopedd 1865693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: I know, my DH just acts like it's normal way of interacting with his fellow drivers! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865689 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:23:37 +0000 mrs. wagon 1865689@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loopedd: hehe... it doesn't even phase Wagon Sr.... he's from NYC!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865686 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:22:47 +0000 mrs. wagon 1865686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: ugh, such stupidity!!</p> <p>@Synchronicity: yes, I am usually the one yelling at Wagon Sr. for his speeding, so it totally threw me that she was yelling at him because he wasn't...!!!</p> <p>@snowjewelz: nothing gets me angrier!!!</p> <p>@rachiecakes: ugh... the worst is when they bang on your car. For some reason that gets me REALLY mad!! don't touch my car!!</p> <p>@.twist.: oh my gosh, you just reminded me of a time when Wagon Sr. cut someone off (he really did cut them off) and they followed us and threw a bottle of water at our car! It hit the car but didn't make a dent... but we were SO mad.</p> <p>@autumnlove: hehe only you can make me giggle in a thread like this!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865682 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:21:00 +0000 loopedd 1865682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lol people yell at each other all the time here, so yes. It's one of the joys of living in NJ :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865679 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:19:22 +0000 .twist. 1865679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: LOL. All I can picture is *rake waving* "GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DANG KIDS". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865676 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:18:00 +0000 autumnlove 1865676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, when a guy thought I was speeding in a residential area. He waved his rake at me. :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865673 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:15:24 +0000 .twist. 1865673@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband seems to attract these types of people. I know his driving is a little aggressive, but he follows the rules of the road. One time, he "cut off" but didn't cut off some old dude (mid 50's!) doing 40km/h in a 60 zone. The guy followed my husband home and yelled at him then came back later and egged our car. SO MATURE. </p> <p>I've never, personally, been yelled at, but I have had people give me the finger. Although, I'm also guilty about shaking my fist at people and honking because they drive like idiots. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865636 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:57:31 +0000 rachiecakes 1865636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>YES! At Whole Foods Fresh Pond.<br /> They were crossing on a "do not cross" light" and DH almost hit them because the giant SUV next to us was blocking that view and we got the green arrow to turn in.<br /> We apologized that we scared them and yes, obviously it would've been terrible for everyone if there was an accident. But we saw them, nothing happened. Everyone was OK. No need to scream at us in the parking lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865578 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:27:08 +0000 snowjewelz 1865578@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I get soo mad at people on the road that end up yelling at YOU when THEY are the ones doing the wrong thing! :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865570 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:24:07 +0000 Synchronicity 1865570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! I mean, I can understand her general concern, but that sounds a bit excessive, especially since you weren't speeding! </p> <p>I've never been yelled at about my driving, no. I would be RATTLED if I was, and I don't think I'd be very nice about it :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865567 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:21:58 +0000 loveisstrange 1865567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had this dumb bitch who used to live down the street from my parents when I was in college step out IN FRONT of my Mustang and yell at me for speeding. a) The neighborhood we lived in.... that's super dumb because I easily could have been some idiot who pulled a gun on her and shot her ass in front of her kids (not a great area), b) they lived on the corner and I had JUST turned, meaning I was not speeding as I had just slowed down to turn. c) who steps out in the road in front of a car!?</p> <p>I was so mad. I had to stop my dad from going down the street and tearing her a new one when I got in the house. He was probably more livid than I was. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/has-a-stranger-non-police-ever-yelled-at-you-for-your-driving#post-1865552 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:13:57 +0000 mrs. wagon 1865552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This morning on our way out from daycare dropoff, a lady was standing on the side of the road leading out from daycare and signaled to us, so we pulled over and opened the window. She then proceeded to YELL at us for speeding down the street, said she saw us "bullet" down the road, and said "I live in this neighborhood, I don't know where you live, but if your kids go to nursery school here, imagine if you lived here and you were speeding and you hit and killed a kid, how would you feel then?" She was already walking away because Wagon Sr. had put his hand up and said "yes, thank you, alright" and we just drove away.</p> <p>Normally when people say these kinds of things I go straight to apologetic, but I was immediately livid. The cross street she was waiting at is one of the busiest roads in town, and she obviously stalked us down there and waited for us to come back out after dropping the kids off. It's a known busy area and kind of dangerous because there's a school bus stop on that corner, and it becomes even more dangerous because parents park (RIGHT in front of the "no stopping anytime" signs all over!!) and wait for the school bus and there are kids everywhere. So there are cars all over the place, the buses literally stop right in the road to pick up the kids and it causes all this traffic right at rush hour. There is NO way we were going more than 10 mph anywhere near this intersection because of all the traffic. Unless she stalked us from like, half a mile away, there's no way she could have observed us going more than 10 mph. And the only road we drive on other than that road that's within walking distance has a speed limit of 35. The police station is RIGHT around the corner and they're always out there with the speed guns so we're always super vigilant. </p> <p>Anyway, I had to get this off my chest. This lady was obviously sensitive because her kid's bus stop is at such a busy intersection and she gets nervous, but she has no right to pull us over and yell at us for driving our car under the speed limit on a public road! I lived on an even busier road for 6 years in that town and as annoyed as I got with some drivers, I never took it upon myself to flag one down and yell at them and present a hypothetical situation where they kill a child. </p>