Road RageLast week I had to stop a guy attacking another one in the middle of the road - one had run the lights whilst on the phone and the other had objected. I actually had to take the attacker's car keys out of their car and tell him he wasn't getting them back till he calmed down.
Looking back on it, I was lucky I was feeling all parental and in control or the situation could have panned out very differently.
Have you lost it on the roads, or have you been on the recieving end of some nutter?
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chthonic, Thu 12 Oct 2006, 21:31)
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Are you talking to me?So, I was taking my car to the local hand car wash. As I came round the bend, there was a car stopped on the left, not moving, not indicating - nothing. So I assumed it was parked, which was reasonable in the circumstances, nipped round him, and drove down the ramp into the car wash.
At which point, the guy in the car jumps out and starts effing and blinding at me, and waving his arms around - "I was waiting to go in there, you c*nt, I ought to give you a good kicking, etc".
So, I get out of my car, and start walking towards him. Now, I'm just under six foot, with a shaved head, and was wearing, I think, a Motorhead T-shirt. He gives me one look, jumps back in his car and locks the door, with this strange "oh, shit" look on his face.
I walk over, and he winds his window up. I knock very gently on the window, and calmly ask him if he'd like me to move. Now he won't even look at me.
I haven't hit anyone since I was 15, and I'm not about to start now. I guess looking like a potential psycho does have its advantages at times.
So be careful who you pick on when you have road rage - it might be a pacifist!
(, Fri 13 Oct 2006, 12:28, Reply)
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