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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A few years backa friend of mine was giving me a lift home, sometime after midnight.
Near to my house was a chap and his girlfriend standing by the side of the road, their car immobile. The chap waved at us to stop.
"Can you possibly tow me to a petrol station? I have a rope in the back of my car..."
Now my mate didn't really want to do this, but he is a thoroughly nice chap who wouldn't want to leave somebody else in need, so he agreed.
The journey to the petrol station wasn't all that smooth - my friend was a pretty inexperienced driver at the time and his first towing experience was a bit jerky, but we got to the garage.
"Thanks very much," said the other bloke, "...but when you are towing a car and it starts to jerk like that, you should blah blah..." he then proceeded to give my friend a patronising lecture on how to tow a car properly. This annoyed me greatly.
I replied, "See when that red light in the fuel guage comes on, that means you should fill the car with petrol."
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Mystery_Bob, Mon 16 Oct 2006, 15:32,
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