I was wondering about that too.
Simply locking the doors, turning the car around and leaving as quickly as possible would suffice.
How does escalating the situation by screaming “fuck you” help? The only thing that’s going to do is provoke more ugliness and perhaps even violence. The only people I’ve ever seen that act that way are trailer trash.
Did you teach her this yourself or did she learn it from the brats in the trailEr next door?
Ricky is a character on Trailer Park Boys, the show the OP was referencing.
Never seen it. Never even heard of it.
Sounds like something trailer trash would watch.
Have you ever been in a high adrenaline situation or have you spent your entire life behind your fucking monitor and keyboard?
Yep.
And I’m smart enough to know that yelling “fuck you” to violent people throwing heavy pieces of lumber at me is really fucking stupid.
Ohhhh. You’re a pussy. I understand now.
Well this was a 17-year-old girl whose fight or flight instinct kicked into high gear hence the screeching of the tires. And as you yourself know, once that adrenaline kicks in you are not always able to control what you do or say, hence the fuck you.
Now, why don’t you stop throwing gas on the fire and go back to playing your “high adrenaline” video games.
If a person is so worried for their life that they are in “fight or flight mode”, the last thing they would do is roll DOWN their car window when there are people hurling heavy pieces of lumber at them. And there is no point in yelling “fuck you” unless your intended recipient can hear you. Which they can’t, unless you have rolled down your window. Get it now?
Again, the girl’s adrenaline was pumping. In that situation I can see her yelling fuck you through a rolled up window and taking off quickly. The fact that you don’t understand how an adrenaline rush affects different people in different ways makes me think you have spent your entire existence behind your monitor and keyboard.
The fact that you don’t understand how people really react in a truly life threatening situation confirms to me that you have no idea what you are talking about.
Hint: they DON’T further provoke the attacker by screaming obscenities at him.
Seventeen year old girl in a car screams fuck you to someone that throws a 2x4 at her car and takes off quickly. Yeah, that’s so fucking implausible.
And once again, the fact that you don’t understand how an adrenaline rush affects different people in different ways makes me think you have spent your entire existence behind your monitor and keyboard.
Sweet. I wondered who the first person would be that I’d add to my ignore list, and thanks to the new rules, I can talk about it.
Going from your ‘contribution’ to this thread, you’re a pedantic douchebag who wants attention. Well, you can have one post of it. Enjoy. Oh, and regards.
Just because the man was standing inside the trailer park with a piece of lumber doesn’t mean that he lives there. And even if he did, that doesn’t mean that everyone in the trailer park is a thug.
I spent two decades teaching in an area where pizza was not delivered. I arrived there before sunrise before the school was unlocked. (My husband had to put me out and take the car on to his job.) Most of the time I was not afraid.
I don’t blame the young woman for her startled response. You don’t always do the cool thing when you’re having an andrenaline rush. She is too young to be delivering pizza though.
Some of you need to get off of your high horse in automatically associating poor people with violent behavior.
I was a female pizza driver when I was 22, it’s not a job for girls. I wish I had the nerve to say “fuck You” to some of the nut cases I delivered to. Having a guy come to the door with his junk purposely hanging out was it for me. And no management did nothing about it.
She should have yelled “Regards”…
which is what I’m surprised no one here has said to you yet.
Yelling obscenities may not be the best reaction to threats & acts of violence but it is a natural reaction, and it is hardly in the same category.
Regards.
The girl was a pussy when she took off. If she had any balls she would have got out of the car and said, Bush-style, “Bring it on!”. That is the only real way to prove your manhood and your worth. The rest is being a pussified sissy.
I should ad that her boss who finally delivered the pizza in question, told her that the customer had his patio door window smashed in recently by probably the same guy.
I struggled pretty hard with the decision to allow her to deliver pizza. She started out in the kitchen and after several months watching one of her best friends pulling in the big dough was quite adamant about wanting to deliver.
She handles her money quite well, has big plans for the future in travelling etc. and I’m reticent to stand in her way. One other big factor is the knack she has for handling tough situations. She does not panic.
Our area she services is semi rural as well as including satellite subdivisions generally devoid of drinking establishments. Any anti-social behavior is more likely to occur in the north of the city.
In the end, I felt a decision to deny her this job would selfishly protect my concerns as a father over her legitimate concerns for molding her future.
Well, its been 24 hours or so, and I seem to be more affected by this than anyone else in my family, so I am going to drop this.
You have obviously never experienced an adrenaline rush. That is when you are out of danger and the excess hormone causes you to shake uncontrollably.
My daughter did not roll down her window.
Her reaction made entire sense to me. She was stunned following the assault, trying to make sense of what just happened, when a second situation presented itself. She needed to make a quick decision, and there’s nothing like verbally expressing that decision in concise terms to yourself and to the other person trying to influence you, to spur yourself to action.
I had the same thing happen to me. I was a 15 year old paper boy. Only the man was a revered figure in my home town of Niagara on the Lake, Ont. who was a instrumental in getting the famous Shaw festival off the ground. And he was fat and ugly.
Ignoring the horribly malformed sentence construction following a pointless spelling nitpick, perhaps you could point out where the OP said anything of the sort. Like, seriously?