Again to be clear it was not a case of left lane vigilantism (which drives me as nuts as anybody else) as there was no left lane. Due to asinine city planning this is a 2 lane road with the traffic somewhat stacked up in both directions. The only way I could have pulled over would have been onto the shoulder and stop, then hope some kind soul would let me back in (unlikely on this road during the commute).
I view it as pre-emptive self defense since there was a very good chance I would get rear-ended by her if I had to make a real emergency stop for whatever reason. After the obscene gesture she did stop tail gating me.
Ah yes, one of those PITA two lane roads that always runs bumper to bumper. Well, there was nothing else you could do I suppose. You are thus absolved.
Tailgaters are especially annoying to me; I drive a small fuel efficient vehicle most of the time and it's typically an SUV on my ass in an attempt to intimidate. I get the last laugh, though, because I'm getting 40mpg and they're not.
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Paddy, karma's done. Lady was tailgating, and she got creamered. Who's to say that if 41magsnub didn't brake-check her that day that she wouldn't have mowed a pedestrian down at a crossing the next day or rammed the back tire of a motorcycle in her inattention?
Thinking like that is annoying because it's dishonest. He didn't 'brake check' randomly or for the purpose of brake checking. He did it to stop her from tailgating. You know it, I know it and he knows it.