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View Poll Results: Have you ever flipped off another motorist?
Yes 136 79.53%
No 35 20.47%
Voters: 171. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-16-2016, 05:36 AM
 
Location: Homeless
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I like the people who cut you off or almost run you off the road & then you honk your horn & they flip YOU off. Like it was your fault
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Old 09-16-2016, 06:41 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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I've flipped of various people for various reasons, but one of note is i was sitting at a red light, but in the turning lane (right turn). The cross traffic was flying by but the idiot behind me thought i should ignore that and just pull out anyway. He started laying into his horn. and I was like "Who the hell is that? Are they beeping at me?" i looked out my mirror to see it was the fool behind me and I yelled out the window "Do you see the ****ing traffic!?!?", which he should have because he was driving a gigantic SUV and I was driving a BMW Coupe. He just kept on blasting his horn and I was like "**** you, *****!!!" and gave him the bird. I didn't move until the light changed despite the traffic, just to **** him off further...
Yes, yesterday I'm in the right lane to make a right turn but I was on Staten Island, which is part of NY City and the city doesn't allow right on red. The light turns green but we are by a high school and there is a cop directing traffic holding her hand up to me and signaling for the opposing traffic to go. Well, this little fetus in the car behind me is honking furiously, but I'm not moving for HER, I'm going to move when the cop says I can, and she probably couldn't see the cop. I didn't give her the finger, though. I just grinned at her in my rearview mirror and enjoyed her tizzy.
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Old 09-16-2016, 07:05 AM
 
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Nope, not my style. Also, people are crazy so I wouldn't try it.
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Old 09-16-2016, 08:57 AM
 
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I like to just wave at them and smile. I think it pisses them off even more than 'the bird'
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Old 09-16-2016, 09:06 AM
 
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I saw this question in the New York magazine recently, and about half the people responding said yes.

I have once, but it was to a friend. So, more like a greeting than a hostile gesture.
Where I grew up ... you get k:lled for less than that
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Old 09-16-2016, 11:53 AM
 
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On Saturday I was behind a car at a stop light. The light went red. The car did not move. I counted 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005 and then I beeped my horn. The passenger in the car flipped me the bird, then the car proceeded to enter a strip mall via an exit marked with a do not enter sign.
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Old 09-16-2016, 03:53 PM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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A friend just posted on Facebook that he honked at a lady in a minvan to get her attention, and she flipped him off and sprinted away. He was trying to let her know her purse was on top of the van. A few miles later, he ran over a purse in the road.
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Old 09-16-2016, 10:23 PM
 
Location: Valley of the Sun
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I am assuming since everyone has had to flip someone off, that this poll means weekly?
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Old 09-17-2016, 09:40 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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I've never flipped anyone off but I've been flipped off myself. Hmmmmm.
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Old 09-17-2016, 09:41 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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A friend just posted on Facebook that he honked at a lady in a minvan to get her attention, and she flipped him off and sprinted away. He was trying to let her know her purse was on top of the van. A few miles later, he ran over a purse in the road.
Should've stopped off & checked it out.
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