Back in high school, I was on my way to work when I got cut off by someone driving a brand new Cadillac. (I was driving a big steel old-school Buick- NO FEAR! ;)) This happened as I was entering an on-ramp. Well, I honked at the lady, just to let her know that I sincerely appreciated being cut off like that.
Big mistake. This lady went BALLISTIC!!! She would accelerate as if there was no problem, then jam on her brakes. She did this several times while we were still on the on-ramp. Driving my beastly old car, I didn’t quite have the braking power she did, so there were some near-rear-end-collision misses.
After playing this game a few times, she got up to speed, and I figured that the game was over, everyone was sufficiently pissed off, and we could just go our own ways.
Wrong again. At the very end of the on-ramp, with no highway traffic in sight, she does the old “jam-on-the-brakes” again. This time, however, I was moving too fast to stop in time, so I swerved around her and hopped onto the highway, pulling directly into the fast lane, doing about 70mph.
It’s far from over. Cadillac-girl comes flying up the highway, jerks into the fast lane about 10 feet in front of me ,and crams on the brakes again! So I swerve over to the middle lane.
Now, she comes tearing up the highway on my left and does the same thing again. So, again, I swerve to the right, and I am now in the first lane.
Our hero has done run out of lanes. The piece of highway I was driving at this point decided to dispense with its breakdown lane, having no use for it. I am now traveling at about 60mph wth nothing on my right bank a steep downhill embankment.
Caddy pulls up along-side me and slowly starts to pull into my lane! This bitch is actually trying to drive me off the highway and down a sharp hill!
Well, here’s the kicker. It was me or her at this point. So I got to do something that I never in a million years thought I’d get the chance to do. I jerked the wheel left, and popped her one, broadside-style. Steel met fiberglass, fiberglass shredded off and flaked away into the distance in my rearview mirror.
Caddillac-lady looked pretty surprised as veins popped from her head, and her expensive car’s right side went it’s own way. She dropped back, then came flying past, and got off at the next exit.
As soon as I got to work, I called the State Police and told them the same story I told here. I gave them her license plate number. The trooper said that she sounded nuts, if my story were true. I told him that I just wanted to make sure that she didn’t call saying that I hit her and ran.
Apparently, she didn’t have the gall to even pretend that she was innocent. She never filed a report or anything.
I don’t honk much anymore.
My Buick had a tiny dent on the left driver door where it had shredded some Cadillac.
I loved that car.
-j