Boy are you lucky the cops showed up

The BBQ Pit
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This type of shit just gets to me.

I decide to run a few errands at lunch. I exit 880 at whipple and go right. I stop at the light just in front of a Union 76 station. In the U76 station an Expedition is sitting in the driveway waiting for a space to open going the opposite direction Im travelling. My light changes. As we apprach the gas station, the Expedition pulls out blocking both lanes and waits for traffic on the other side to open up, completey blocking the lanes going my direction.

Well being the helpful guy I am, I yell out my window “Way to go Asshole!” Of course the guy yells back “fuck you, and something else I don’t make out”. Other cars going my way are honking. Now Im really pissed, I put my car in park and get out. “Wanna get out and say it again?”

About this time a CHP officer walks up, (there’s a station another 20ft beyond the gas station) tells the guy in the Expedition to back up, and me to get in my car.

Ooh, I was so ready to teach this guy a little courtesy. So anyone think I was overreacting?

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A great idea until the person gets out and is sic and a half feet tall and weights as much as your family.

Or worse yet, has weaponry.

Yer pal,
Satan

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Not at all. I think you’re the toughest, coolest person on earth. :rolleyes:

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I HATE it when they yell this:

It really frosts my ass…

Zette

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I think that this will become my new traffic curse:

The next time some little old person pulls out in front of me doing 20 under the limit, I’m going to pull up alongside and scream at them “something else I don’t make out.”
That’ll show them.

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You know it never really occurs to me to worry about my personal saftey once my danders up, but I get your point Satan. It’s just I thought it was really rude, and I know the asshole did it on purpose just to save himself some time, and screw everyone else.

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Let me get this straight: the guy is sick (sic), and he is six inches tall, and he weighs as much as my family?
DAMN!!! THAT DUDE IS WIDE!!! :slight_smile:

I do agree with you, Satan. Stuffinb doesn’t know what kind of a fuck is behind the wheel of the other vehicle. And I do know that if you call the cops and give them some crap like ‘a red bronco w/ license plates aaa-123 scraped my car’, you can get the address of the owner of the vehicle. That’s knowledge that I definitely do not want some psycho fuck and his crank smokin’ buddies to have. If some dumb fuck wants to roll the dice and look like a bad-ass, and potentially get him, his family, his house, his pets, etc., fucked up, I’d like to set up a video camera outside of his house. I think it would be a pretty good ‘pay-per-view’ show.

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yeah, you overreacted. that’s a tough driving maneuver - making a left out of a parking lot across busy traffic lanes, and we all have to do it sometimes. blame society if you will, but cut the guy some slack

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Yeah that guy was probably being an asshole, so maybe a few harsh words are acceptable. Although in an ideal world being an asshole would be worthy of a little beatdown…but this isn’t an ideal world, and we are all assholes sometimes.

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Yea, I ** know ** that sort of thing really pisses people off. But, really, what positive outcome were you seeking? Did you think the jerk, unaware of other people’s assesments was going to THANK you for the information? Gasp “oh gosh, you’re RIGHT!”??
or, at best, would it have turned into a scene where you and fuckwad were BOTH keeping traffic from moving?

ya gotta get past the moment.

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This is kind of related to this incident. We have all missed a stop sign, accidentally blocked traffic, or didn’t realize the light turned green. I absolutely detest it when people starting raging on you and slamming on their horns for these minor accidents. I understand that if my accident almost causes you to run off the road, but c’mon just because it took me 5 seconds to see the light had turned green doesn’t warrent someone going irate.

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OK, ok, I admit it. Im not the best person to be in a car with. I do have a tendency to get pissed really easily when behind the wheel . It’s hard to accept because Im generally a pretty even tempered guy, I haven’t had more than a shouting match since HS. But you guys are probably right and I overreacted.

Still I think the guy was a jerk. I also think it’s a stupid location for that Gas station. If it had been a truck instead of me the guy would have gotten creamed (for those who don’t know the area it’s pretty industrial).

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Mynde, I did just that recently and know what? The cops (here anyways) do not give you the person’s name and address. You have to go to the DMV to do that, and press charges yourself against said jerkoff.

Stuffin, I think I know what you are feeling. In anger I don’t even think of my personal safety. I am just a liable as you are to tell another driver what a poor excuse of an oxygen-breather they are.

Yesterday morning I got into an arguement with a guy over just such a dumb traffic move. Except this incident took place right in front of where I work, so I was parking within a minute afterwards. This idiot (n a big ass Ryder truck)pulls an illegal left across a median into a driveway that goes around this office complex area. I have seen several accidents happen this year alone in that exact same spot, because of the exact same illegal move. So as I pulled into work, I saw the dude again coming around my building and I flipped him off as I passed him.

I parked and noticed the Ryder truck stopped. There are 3 black guys in the cab FYI. The driver gets out and walks over to where I am getting out of the truck. So he says to me “did you say something to me?” And I can see in his face he is wanting to tell the dumb bitch where to get off. Well the best defence is a strong offence, so I jump right in with both feet. I asked him where he got his license and went from there. Well this dude tries to go off and tells me “you don’t even know me, or what I could do to you…” at which point I leaned into his face and said “like I give a flying fuck” and walked towards my companies door.

Well as my hubby pointed out to me later, this was probably not the smartest thing I could have done, getting into a pissing match first thing in the morning with a strange man off the street. sigh I am not the smartest person when I am pissed. Well nothing really came of it, and for that I am gratefull.

[mini rant] BTW, the thing that REALLY pissed me off that this dude said after I told him how little I cared was that he started saying shit like “I should be talking to your husband, he would know what to do with you”. WTF??? Why do men do this? I turned and asked him exactly wtf he thought my hubby would do besides agree with me that said dude was a fucking jerk and a piss poor driver? What exactly does my husband have to do with any of this???

Upon reflection, this is not the only time I have been told “well if I could speak with your husband” and it has pissed me off each time. At the dealership talking with the mechanic about my brakes for example. What is it that I am not explaining clearly? Why makes you think he knows any more about the problem than I do? And what about my directly looking into your face when I talk to you bothers you so much? Hmmmmmmmmm [/mini rant]

Ok, I’ll shut up now. :mad:

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You answer this in your next paragraph- because it bugs the living shit out of you. And it seemed to work.

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Next time you feel yourself about to blow up at a stranger, may I suggest you NOT do it in front of where you work? I once drove around the block just to make sure I wasn’t pulling into my office while another jerk off driver could see where I would be.

It’s really not safe. for you. for your employer. for your coworkers. for your car. Jeez. just a thought, and please note, I did NOT ask to speak to your hubby… :smiley:

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Aenea Way to go! A girl after my own heart (with wrings caveat, of course). :cool:

Don’t know what to say about the husband comment, except Ive seen guys do the same thing. Reminds me of the last time I went to buy a car. I’m looking at this Chrysler Sebring I think and the salesman proceeds to turn the radio to 106.1 (rap & top 40) and mentions all the cool shit about the sound system. WTF, you think all black guys listen to that shit, and what the hell does this have to do with the car? :mad:

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Would you have noticed if it had been three white guys?

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And I would have noticed if they had all been Hispanic or Middle Eastern. And I would have commented on any of them. Any problem with that?

As far as the rest of the comments go: well you guys are right. It was stupid all the way around. I have a bit of work to do with my temper still, in case you hadn’t noticed. Gives me something to do I guess.

Mojo, yes it did bug me but it’s not as if I let him know that. I just told him how hubby would be agreeing with me and opened the security door. Excuse me while I make a bit of a generalization here - but only in the ‘south’ have I run into this “your just a woman, where’s your husband” attitude. You see, this is a bit different than the attitude of “yur jest a women” that can be found so easily elswhere. :wink:

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Just in case my previous post was not clear on this issue, I’ll detail it a bit more for you. I would have described anyone who was sitting in that front seat, in whatever words I felt like using, be they white, black, grey, or purple.

You see, I was merely setting the scene for you, not pointedly insulting anyone. Plus this is not a popularity contest, especially here in the pit. I don’t feel the need at all whatsoever to be politically correct about the statements I make. I hope this has cleared up any confusion you might have had.

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:eek: You would really have said “There were three white guys sitting in the front seat” without thinking about it? Wow. Well, you’re a lot more observant than most people, I suppose.