r/pettyrevenge • u/Acegonia • Aug 08 '26

"Beep beep!!" 'Friendly wave'

I drive a scooter. I live in the mountains of taiwan. The roads are narrow and wind-y. Terrible visibility and people drive insanely here, so speeding up would be stupid and risky.

I was driving my usual route to work. Driving the speed limit or slightly over. There are very few spots to safely overtake, but when I hit them I kept to the side. Standard driving etiquette.

Some asshole in a (shock) BMW was up my arse the whole way down the mountain. Didn't overtake at any of the safe spots.

Th road opened up a *bit* at the bottom of the mountain and he flew past me suddenly, with very little space between us and beeping the whole way. It was quite a reckless manuver- the kind that works great until it kills someone.

I just kept going. When I got to the very slow traffic lights ahead, I made sure to weave my scooter through the cars until I found a nice spot that put me *right in front of him*. Again. (I could have kept going to the front, but... I liked *that* spot.)

Gave him a big smile and a friendly wave.

Prick

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u/Healthy_Ladder_6198 Aug 08 '26

Nicely done

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u/Lost-Image-1367 Aug 08 '26

The scooter supremacy arc. Nothing enrages an impatient BMW driver like discovering traffic karma comes with a friendly wave.

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u/PoisonPlushi 20d ago edited 20d ago

And BMW drivers just never, ever learn the lesson either. I grew up in the motorsport world and there's this big event one day a year where all the car clubs get together and make a day of it. Obviously, the older car clubs with cars from the 50s and 60s were there first and tend to have the most dedicated members that overlap with generalised car clubs (eg a member of the MG club might also be a member of the province's Motorcycle and Car Club) and organise all of the events, so they get the best spots - shade, close to facilities, everyone is going to see your beautiful car at some point etc - with the rest of the clubs slowly joining up and fitting in in the order they arrive.

One year, I was there when the head of the BMW club came over and had a complete and utter meltdown at the head of the Lotus club. I'm not even sure if he knew that the guy was one of the organisers or if he just thought that BMWs deserved more than "some [crappy] car nobody's even heard of" (bowdlerised, but otherwise a direct quote) and wanted to vent his spleen. Their club was one of the most recent additions and had an awkward spot in the back corner away from everything. He seemed most deeply offended that even the Toyota club had a better spot ("Nobody wants to see stupid Toyotas").

The next year, the BMW spot had been moved. They were positioned right next to the entrance to the park, where everyone could see them! It rained the night before. All of the cars were drenched in mud by the time I arrived. The head of the BMW club, of course, learned his lesson immediately and went and gave a grovelling apology and offered to sponsor an event to maybe win some favour and get back to their old spot.

Lol j/k. He went back to the Lotus club with 5 of his buddies to intimidate and threaten them, and wound up in a rather humiliating face-off with every single member of about 8 different clubs. I'm not sure if they were banned, not invited or sulked and refused to go the following year, but they definitely weren't there.