Thanking other drivers

jk23 · 28-11-2019 12:09am #1

I just seen this in a quiz on the journal but I was wondering do you thank other drivers for letting you out of a tricky situation! The options were thanking by flashing your lights twice, a wave or do you just do nothing?.. I also notice alot of drivers speed up rather than let you out but with the rush of life and work it's to be expected I suppose.

endacl · 28-11-2019 12:10am

I’d give a wave. Simple manners.

BeerWolf · 28-11-2019 12:12am

Courtesy is always nice, so yes.

Upforthematch · 28-11-2019 12:12am

That's what the orange blinking lights are for... isn't it?

Charlie19 · 28-11-2019 12:15am

A little acknowledgement is always nice.

Leg End Reject · 28-11-2019 12:16am

Wave in daylight, 2 flashes of the hazard lights at night.

It really annoys me when a driver doesn't acknowledge you've let them out. Manners cost nothing.

dxhound2005 · 28-11-2019 12:18am

I remember hearing that in some countries flashing your lights means do not move. It might cause confusion with so many foreign drivers here.

I always roll down my window to make better eye contact at junctions. This usually helps to get an early getaway. In which case I give a thumbs up.

Ficheall · 28-11-2019 12:25am

BeerWolf wrote: »

Courtesy is always nice, so yes.

Except when you're waiting (as a pedestrian, I guess) for the road to clear to cross, and the last effing car stops to wave you across. That drives me nuts.

Raconteuse · 28-11-2019 12:25am

Always do. It baffles me when people don't. Although maybe sometimes they're zoned out. One time that was the case with me. Morning rush hour, big traffic delays - a woman reversed a good bit back to let me through, and I just drove ahead on autopilot, then realised it and turned to acknowledge her quickly. She was mouthing a string of expletives at me but then quickly stopped.

Leg End Reject · 28-11-2019 12:30am

I really enjoy when not only the driver, but the other passengers, all wave in unison to thank you.

I'm rather easily pleased.

Borgo · 28-11-2019 12:56am

Ah yeah id always give a wave to be nice how could ye not. I love the people that go overboard when thanking you I let this chap out the other day and he was only delighted with his life. Most people do be sound enough like that.

valoren · 28-11-2019 12:59am

If you fail to acknowledge a courtesy then you're by definition a total c*nt.

LaFuton · 28-11-2019 1:49am

i follow them home and prune their hydrangeas

Strumms · 28-11-2019 3:05am

If someone holds a door open in an office and let’s you pass you say thanks in acknowledgement of that gesture and kindness. The same good manners should be expected on the road for anyone who helps you on your journey in a similar fashion...

Realt Dearg Sec · 28-11-2019 3:34am

Strumms wrote: »

If someone holds a door open in an office and let’s you pass you say thanks in acknowledgement of that gesture and kindness. The same good manners should be expected on the road for anyone who helps you on your journey in a similar fashion...

I recently held a door for a woman coming in behind me and she didn't say thanks or catch the door, just walked through like that's something she's entitled to and I was the help. But the lovely thing was there was another door a few steps on, which I opened just enough to let myself through and then pulled shut behind me.

She acknowledged me that time alright.

Sadly in the car you seldom get the same chance but to be fair it's very rare someone doesn't thank you for letting them out.

28-11-2019 3:49am

I tend to flash headlights as it can be tricky to see someone waving you on if there's a shine on the windscreen.

With that being said, I develop a twitch when I stop to let someone pull out and they look the other way.

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Sadly in the car you seldom get the same chance but to be fair it's very rare someone doesn't thank you for letting them out.

This. Very rare in my experience that someone doesn't make some gesture of thanks.

Woodsie1 · 28-11-2019 4:32am

As someone who spends most of my life on the road a little bit of common courtesy from everyone makes the roads a safer place to be.

inforfun · 28-11-2019 10:25am

Depending on the situation, i thank drivers with a wave of either 5 or 1 finger.

Marhay70 · 28-11-2019 10:33am

I will always acknowledge when someone gives way, just good manners. I find the people least likely to acknowledge courtesy are women driving late model BMW/Merc/Range Rover etc. probably part of the sense of entitlement endemic with that particular breed.

fluke · 28-11-2019 10:37am

If someone doesn't acknowledge me, I tail them. When they've parked up and well away from their car I key their door, honk the horn, and wave at them as I drive away.

Stevieluvsye · 28-11-2019 10:44am

Always.

If someone lets me out or in they'll get a palm or a thumbs up followed by a double hazard

I always re-pay the favour and when i get the hazards i give them the customary "flash of the lights" to say your welcome

I'm sound like that

If however i let someone out and they do not aknowledge my act of kindness i turn in to a raging psycho.

One thing i will say is that the amount of times i see people stop to let a car out or a pedestrian cross in the most unsafe situations is staggering. Only on Monday i saw a car stop on a roundabout to let a car go on the other side of the roundabout. Now the problem with this is while you are turning on a roundabout you are automatically looking to your right/left for on-coming and assuming the normal flow continues. Dangerous as fcuk

pgj2015 · 28-11-2019 10:51am

Marhay70 wrote: »

I will always acknowledge when someone gives way, just good manners. I find the people least likely to acknowledge courtesy are women driving late model BMW/Merc/Range Rover etc. probably part of the sense of entitlement endemic with that particular breed.

I never let a new BMW or Merc out, man or woman as 99% of the time they dont acknowledge you, they often in fact give you a dirty look like you have killed their whole family.

eviltwin · 28-11-2019 10:54am

I always acknowledge good manners and kindness especially because it really irritates me when mine are ignored.

I think it says a lot about a person if they don't say thank you.

Sky King · 28-11-2019 10:54am

Upforthematch wrote: »

That's what the orange blinking lights are for... isn't it?

No those allow you to park anywhere. Even in disabled spaces or double yellow lines.

Especially when dropping your kids off at school.

28-11-2019 11:54am

Some guy once pulled in on a narrow road to let me through, as I passed him, he put his full hand out the window in front of the windshield and give me the finger. I almost crashed from laughing. It was so over the top and unexpected. I've been wanting to do it to someone else ever since but I'm not sure they'd see the funny side of it like I did.

28-11-2019 11:54am

Also you'd fail your test doing all these things

28-11-2019 12:00pm

Yeah I generally acknowledge with a quick wave.

I don't flash lights as generally there is plenty of traffic and I have seen it confuse people once or twice - car A flashes to let car B out or to acknowledge them, car C sees the flash and thinks it is for them and does something stupid.

the_pen_turner · 28-11-2019 12:08pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Also you'd fail your test doing all these things

Yes but if you drive like you would in a test you would be a prity bad driver in a few areas sometimes you need to be a bit bolder and more forcefull or you will make no progress. There are loads of things you have to do every day that you couldn't do in a test

28-11-2019 1:28pm

the_pen_turner wrote: »

Yes but if you drive like you would in a test you would be a prity bad driver in a few areas sometimes you need to be a bit bolder and more forcefull or you will make no progress. There are loads of things you have to do every day that you couldn't do in a test

Hmmm. Like what?

Edgware · 28-11-2019 2:07pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yeah I generally acknowledge with a quick wave.

I don't flash lights as generally there is plenty of traffic and I have seen it confuse people once or twice - car A flashes to let car B out or to acknowledge them, car C sees the flash and thinks it is for them and does something stupid.

A wave. One finger or two?

Akabusi · 28-11-2019 2:15pm

Canada and maybe also America have a great system where they take turns to exit junctions, maybe i'm not explaining it right but at a four way junction a car exists each road in sequence, it reduces the need for edging out and relying on the courtesy of others

Morpork · 28-11-2019 2:22pm

I'll always give the auld wave during the day if someone stops to let me pass when there is a parked car on their side of the road.
But during the night I'm always afraid of blinding them by flashing to say thanks, so sometimes I quickly turn my dipped lights off and on again.

Boom_Bap · 28-11-2019 2:27pm

Here's a clip from my drive this morning, none of the f*ckers thanked me

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aidyhawse · 28-11-2019 2:33pm

If being let across a road, I'll wave and/or quick toot of the horn (depending on where it is and time of day etc...).
If being let out in front, I'll flash the hazards and/or wave.

HorrorScope · 28-11-2019 2:45pm

If I let you out in to the traffic, and you don't wave or flash your indicators at me, I will chase you up the road flashing my headlights and smashing the horn until you do.

Realt Dearg Sec · 28-11-2019 4:36pm

Akabusi wrote: »

Canada and maybe also America have a great system where they take turns to exit junctions, maybe i'm not explaining it right but at a four way junction a car exists each road in sequence, it reduces the need for edging out and relying on the courtesy of others

They do but a roundabout is quicker only when they have them in America nobody knows how to use it properly

the_pen_turner · 28-11-2019 4:59pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hmmm. Like what?

Sometimes you need to edge out even though you have the right to or you will be left there

Letting a car roll back is often required , safely of course

Pulling into a hard shoulder to let someone overtake you

You cant always yield right of way ot you will make no progress , Parnell st in thurles is like this . You would stay there all day if you wont squeeze down the middle

You have to enter some roundabout that you cant exit

You need to hold the road and even block it sometimes so you can safely make a maneuver. My friends house is like this. It's a twisty road with a straight starting outside his house. If you stay in your lane and indicate some drivers will think you overtaking something and try to overtake you and it , I have had it happen a few times going in his gate. There is a slight kink in the road before the straight so I cut that slightly and hold the middle of the road for 50 yards before moving back into my lane , I'm indicating and slowing down . But controlling the road.
That's not strictly legal but it is a lot safer than a lunatic overtaking me as I turn in a gate

Stevieluvsye · 28-11-2019 5:04pm

the_pen_turner wrote: »

Sometimes you need to edge out even though you have the right to or you will be left there

Letting a car roll back is often required , safely of course

Pulling into a hard shoulder to let someone overtake you

You cant always yield right of way ot you will make no progress , Parnell st in thurles is like this . You would stay there all day if you wont squeeze down the middle

You have to enter some roundabout that you cant exit

You need to hold the road and even block it sometimes so you can safely make a maneuver. My friends house is like this. It's a twisty road with a straight starting outside his house. If you stay in your lane and indicate some drivers will think you overtaking something and try to overtake you and it , I have had it happen a few times going in his gate. There is a slight kink in the road before the straight so I cut that slightly and hold the middle of the road for 50 yards before moving back into my lane , I'm indicating and slowing down . But controlling the road.
That's not strictly legal but it is a lot safer than a lunatic overtaking me as I turn in a gate

Why would you ever need to let your car roll back?

the_pen_turner · 28-11-2019 5:05pm

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

Why would you ever need to let your car roll back?

If you had to edge out to see but there is something coming so you cant go but your on a hill so you can roll back a foot

Stevieluvsye · 28-11-2019 5:08pm

the_pen_turner wrote: »

If you had to edge out to see but there is something coming so you cant go but your on a hill so you can roll back a foot

I thought you were referring to stop/start on a hill initially

Esse85 · 28-11-2019 5:16pm

It drives me mad when someone doesn't issue a thanks, I just wish I could rewind the clock and undo the good gesture I did.

I do find it's mainly women that don't say thanks, I've no idea why a person wouldn't salute a kind gesture.

Are we all very selfish and looking for something in return?
Can anyone say it doesn't bother them when their kind road gesture is not acknowledged?

SeaFields · 28-11-2019 5:16pm

I always do it and would expect others to return the gesture. It's fairly annoying when they don't.

Also, I must say I have much respect for a driver that acknowledges their mistake with a quick flash of the hazards or a wave. We've all been there and staring straight ahead after fcking up is pointless.

Ash.J.Williams · 28-11-2019 5:18pm

i usually follow them home and call in and thank them nothing creepy just "hey it's me from the junction earlier, you let me out...."

Wanderer2010 · 28-11-2019 5:34pm

Always a wave, its the decent thing to do. But when im letting other people out of a street, garage etc, its always with no expectations because half of them wont even acknowledge you. Such a rude thing to do.

Biodegradable · 28-11-2019 7:36pm

jk23 wrote: »

I just seen this in a quiz on the journal

Yuck

heroics · 28-11-2019 7:43pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

I never let a new BMW or Merc out, man or woman as 99% of the time they dont acknowledge you, they often in fact give you a dirty look like you have killed their whole family.

I only let other BMW drivers out

And yes I always acknowledge someone who lets me out

cj maxx · 28-11-2019 7:45pm

A wave in a town or village, on a motorway or lorry, normally the hazards

Purple Mountain · 28-11-2019 7:48pm

I used to always flash the other driver when they let me merge but once a Garda observed me doing it and I got a formal warning not to get my jugs out again so I ceased the custom.

Family Gal · 28-11-2019 7:53pm

In our family , even the children know that ‘the Hazards’ is also called ‘The Thank you ‘ button.

bmc58 · 28-11-2019 7:57pm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Wave in daylight, 2 flashes of the hazard lights at night.

It really annoys me when a driver doesn't acknowledge you've let them out. Manners cost nothing.

Just be happy you've done a favour for someone.If they don't thank you ..so what!You helped someone,you know that,should be enough for you.

bmc58 · 28-11-2019 8:04pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Here's a clip from my drive this morning, none of the f*ckers thanked me

You in a truck?Video is not clear as to what you are driving.

Thanking other drivers

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