Okay, normally I try to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to doing obnoxious stuff like this. I try to see things from their point of view, and consider that the course of action might have seemed appropriate at the time. But in this case, I just can't muster up any sympathy for you at all. There are few things more unsettling, distracting, and upsetting than having some moron crawling up your rear end, honking at you, and cutting you off because you're not going as fast as he (or she) thinks you should be. There's absolutely no excuse for behaving that way. It accomplishes absolutely nothing of value. This may come as a surprise to you, but people don't drive slowly for the specific purpose of pissing you off. There are countless legitimate reasons to drive slowly, and none of them have anything to do with you. Maybe he was afraid of getting a speeding ticket. Maybe it was dark/raining/foggy and he wasn't confident enough to speed up. Maybe he was an inexperienced driver. Maybe he was in an unfamiliar area and trying to find the correct turn without missing it. When you don't feel that someone in front of you is going fast enough, don't pull obnoxious crap, especially honking. Using the horn just because you're pissed only unnerves the driver--which will probably just make him slow down, especially if he's at an intersection. And more importantly, it makes you look like a lunatic, and everyone in the area will hate you for startling them. Sure, in some cases a driver really will be going dangerously slowly. In that case, just keep a reasonable distance and wait for an opportunity to pass legally. Don't turn yourself into the jerk by behaving more obnoxiously than he is. Try learning a little patience. And maybe you should also try to remember that the other driver is a human being too. Just because you're both inside cars doesn't make it appropriate for you to treat him like crap.

Am I the only one that imagines Conan O'Brien as the guy that waved?

YDI for pulling over. :P

This FML caused me to realize something both terrible and wonderful. When I was in a driver's ed class for a speeding ticket (bastards!) a clip was shown regarding how ordinarily nice, sane people can, when behind the wheel, become terrible, heartless human beings. They called this "road rage." And I realized, since I'm on FML where this happens all the time - that happens on the Internet too, where we say things more rudely than we ever would in person, either representing genuine opinions as flames or simply trolling, as we hide behind our screennames and the feeling of invulnerability and absence of responsibility, then we bounce elsewhere on the Web. You know, sort of like tailgating someone who has different opinions about driving than you do, and then driving off. This is the wrong place for me to post this but that's okay because this is where I happen to be right now: I posit that road rage and Internet flaming are the exact same phenomena, simply taking slightly different form based on context. Discuss! :-D

Slow drivers cause more accidents than fast ones, on the whole, and there should be stricter laws regarding slowness. In an ideal world, that guy would've been pulled over long before for holding up traffic and indirectly facilitating unsafe driving from other drivers (like you speeding up around him). That said, flipping him off was a pretty childish move. You deserve it for being a prick.

Oh my god, all you ***** in DC and Northern Va and Maryland need to learn to drive. I'm tired of almost getting killed by dumbasses like you. I hope you got a big ticket.

glad to know our country has dumb ***** like Clutch118 who dont know the ******* difference. you can go "Clutch" a dick in your mouth cuz i lived in virginia. you stupid ****

dude; he pwned you

Yeah. **** your life for being an asshole. Ain't karma sweet?

Pfft, you fail. Someone ran a red light and almost hit me once, and got pulled over for it. As I passed them I waved. I'd never felt a higher sense of satisfaction.