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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sleep deprivationone night during a rather knackered sleep schedule it got to around 5am and i decided sod it i might aswell not bother sleeping. So i watched the sun come up. That day was the day i was due to visit my nan in hospital which was about 20 miles away. So im going down the road and get stuck behind this silly cow in a polo doing around 40 in a 60. see a straight bit of road and the merc behind me flys past, by then i reckoned it was too windy for me to overtake.
A couple of miles later and theres a straight bit so i knock her down from idling 5th into third. The thing is, a 1.4 mk3 astra isnt the best overtaking vessel, and in hindsight 2nd would have been a better choice. Just as im doing about 55 and level with her door i see a bin lorry coming towards me. I start worrying, then i see the bin men shitting it in the cab, by this time im level with her. i know im not going to make it. cue a 55mph emergency stop, and the first and only time ive ever managed to lock the wheels. I cut in about a foot behind the slowcoach in a polo. Can you smell it? i was sitting in it.
Anyway, she pulls over and lets me past at the next oppurtunity. I love when you scare people into doing that.
Yeah i was in the wrong, but she shouldnt have been driving so slow.
Girth greater than length. Why does the 'greater than' mathematical symbol chop posts?
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Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 13 Oct 2006, 23:24,
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