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I do pretty regularly flip people off on the road when they are acting crazy, but one time a car almost side swiped me and I honked and flipped the driver off as second nature. The young girl driving the car was mortified and I really hated the way I acted. Can't avoid using a car in Amerikkka unfortunately and I see how it can turn people into monsters.
Don't feel bad, you helped teach her a valuable lesson, and she will be less likely to sideswipe people in the future.
I do this, but I'm a pedestrian. Don't care how bad I make anyone in a car feel.
I've taken to either giving them sarcastic double thumbs up followed by a derisive headshake, or just locking eyes and giving them a slow, negative headshake. Disappointment stings harder than insults.
The thumbs up is my go to. In my mind it’s the “wow you’re so good at being shitty!”
👎 may still get you killed with the wrong person, but a little less aggressive while still getting the point across
i'm also a fan of Thumbing one's nose as it communicates derision, but also you look silly doing it so it's comes off more lighthearted
"Do you bite your thumb at me??"
I do bite my thumb at you, sir.
yeah i try to enter a zen state, just like refuse to get mad, because the truth is there's nothing we can do to improve other drivers. Pretty much the only things I do are honk when someone's going the wrong way on a one way and flash my lights when someone's driving dark at night.