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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Ooh, I've just thought of another one.Many moons ago, whilst living at my Dad's pub, I was pulling out of the car park one morning, ready to turn right. The car park was just some space at the front of the pub, between it and the pavement, which had a dropped kerb. This meant that in order to see whether there was anything coming, I had to pull over the pavement.
Whilst sitting waiting for the road to clear an old couple approached from the right (the driver's side, as I'm in Good Old England), and stood right outside my car. As in right against the window, which I was looking out of.
I would the window down to ask them politely to move, to be greeted with an irate "You're blocking the pavement!" from the old man, at which point I decided not to ask them nicely at all and replied "Well if you'd fucking get out of the fucking way I'd be able to see if there were any fucking cars coming and I'd be able to get off the fucking pavement!"
They were quite shocked, and moved swiftly out of the way.
I was even more shocked - as anyone who's ever met me knows, I'm very quiet and reserved usually, and this was totally out of character.
(, Mon 16 Oct 2006, 15:29, Reply)
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