Driving home from dinner tonight on a 4-lane city street, I get behind a guy going 30 in a 35 mph zone. So, I pull into the left lane and start to go around him. He accelerates (like any douchenozzle would) to try and prevent me from getting back over to make the intersection. I accelerate and get back into the lane I was originally in, ahead of him, but am now going 45 and he's right on my rear bumper. Then, he puts his brights on and leaves them on like a complete jack-off, still tailing me.
Seriously, what is wrong with people?? Experiences like that remind me how disappointed I am that mutant superpowers aren't real and I don't actually have laser heat vision with which to melt his tires.
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Don't worry about what's wrong with him, clearly something is, finding out to what extent isn't worth the risk in the research. Road rage was the 90s rage, today it's simply madmen with the political agenda of a religious zealot armed with the arsenal of Eric Robert Rudolph. The only thing that matters is that you arrive home safely. If I read and understood a recent post correctly you have a small child who is most likely standing in front of the window looking for Dad to come home. You have the greatest gift on earth, a child who wants and needs you. Minutes can seem like hours, days even, when Dad is the only hero in
ReplyDeletethe universe.
Seems to have the traits of a Republican politician.
ReplyDeleteWhen they get close, use your windshield wipers with the cleaning solution. Works like a charm.
ReplyDeleteTime to go see (or resee) "Deadpool" :-)
ReplyDeleteWalk around the block.
ReplyDeleteAnd get dashcam. Nothing more satisfying than posting video of bad behavior...
Lisa Chabot It does make me want to gin up a Bond-esque oil release defense on the rear of the car.
ReplyDelete(I really liked the controls of the newest Aston Martin in "Spectre". Also, the labelling.)
ReplyDeleteIt's funny (strange, not ha-ha). After a half-mile of staring at his high beams, I pulled over to let him pass. He just stopped, backing up traffic, for like 30 seconds. He then drove past. I pulled in behind him. He went through the next light (on bright red) and I sat at the light waiting to turn to go home. Next thing I see, the car had pulled into the gas station ahead and he and his buddy had gotten out and were pointing at me as if to suggest that I should come over there to discuss the situation or something.
ReplyDeleteRiiiight. I may be short, old, and unarmed, but I'm not that foolish.
Once, driving The Duchess (aged Coupe de Ville '63, fins but not gigantic ones) we had a car following us too closely and flashing brights on a road with no shoulder and no pulloffs; when we got to a gas station we pulled in, nervous, but relieved to be in a brightly lit public place and not smashed into on a dark, lonely road, ....and the Mustang followed suit. Yikes! Two high school girls got out and stormed over, then saw us (two nerdy college girls) and turned around and drove off. I have no idea what they intended or who they thought we were.
ReplyDeleteI think the people who just stop are getting confused by their GPSs...seriously, folks, considering that self-driving cars are going be using GPSs, I'm concerned above and beyond my inevitable whining about the asshat things I've seen the Google cars do (possibly under human control, but maybe the computers are watching).
ReplyDeleteUsually the drivers around my neck of the woods display gross incompetence rather than rage. 30 mph in a 45 mph zone, for example... just because he wanted to make a left turn in half a block. Or cutting across the entire roadway because she's driving a BMW. You know, Reasons.
ReplyDeleteCrossing the yellow line repeatedly? That's a call to 911 (hands free) from me to report a dangerous driver.
ReplyDeleteI'm a firefighter/EMT and I have to deal with the collisions, injuries and deaths that idiots like that cause on our roads. I have no patience for reckless driving.
Unfortunately, sometimes it is a medical case. My wife got home once after driving behind someone driving erratically. She had no cell phone but called 911 as soon as she got home. 5 minutes later, my radio went off for a head on collision. Before the police could find the vehicle, it crossed the center line into the path of a flatbed truck.
Not much we could do and we were not able to save him.
By the way, 30 in a 35mph zone is perfectly acceptable.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne Not when you gotta pee.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne It's also perfectly acceptable to pass.
ReplyDeleteI hate that sort of stupid behaviour! I just flip my rearview mirror down (it has two positions, this is usual in Spain, not in the US?) if the bright lights persist.
ReplyDeleteJoby Elliott Yes, it is. I suspect in that situation, I probably would have called 911 for aggressive driving. However, not if I had to pee...
ReplyDeleteThis is why I don't drive. I am not kidding.
ReplyDeletePatrik Hanson Right? I quit my old job about a year ago, and these days I do all my work and school on the same campus, under a mile from my house.
ReplyDeleteRiding my bike 5 minutes to work is so much better and saner than driving my car even 15 minutes ever was. I feel like a different person.