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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The daily commuteCan't complain too much about it, it's about 10-15 mins long. But half of it's through (single-lane) country lanes that everyone else seems to use as a shortcut and bombs through far too fast (I'm allowed to drive them regularly as I live in the middle of them and have done for most of my life, so I don't ahve a choice in the matter, I'm not being (unnecessarily) self-righteous...besides, I don't drive through them like I'm in a rally)
Anyway, driving home as usual, not going any faster than 20mph due to lots of blind corners and very few passing spaces, I beep my horn a couple of times approaching one of the nasty corners to be greeted by a builders truck slamming its brakes on and screeching a good 2-3 car lengths before stopping about 6 inches off my front bumper.
I, keeping my cool quite well I think, mouth the words "SLOW DOWN" very deliberately at the driver as I reverse back to let him pass.
He responds by stopping alongside me, leaning out of his window and proclaiming:
"GO FUCK YER MUTHA!" in a thick welsh accent.
Kinda stunned by this mental image for a second, my brain trying to juggle that and the fact that "surely he realises he was in the wrong for driving so fast?", the best I could come up with was
"Whuh?"
He then responds with "I'll rip your fuckin 'ed off!"
Realising that whatever his problem is, talking to him calmly and reasoning with him that he may want to drive more carefully in the future may not work out too well for my health so I left things there and drove away.
Other times people have actually got out of their car (after I've driven past) and then stood in the road gesturing for a fight, a very sensible thing to do on a blind corner...
I despair at times, I really do. (Of course, if I have to reverse back to let any of these dicks get past I tend to do it i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-y c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y a-n-d s-l-o-w-l-y just to piss em off...esp if they've just passed a space and are refusing to reverse themselves)
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GigerPunk has, hopefully, slept since, Fri 13 Oct 2006, 18:59,
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