Waiting until I can link it to Amazon. Trust me. That's coming.
Congratulations!
Dave
Staff member
This is kind of a minor epic win but the more I think about it the more epic it becomes.
Driving home tonight I hit a stretch of highway where the lane I was in merges with another. You have no choice but to merge or you'll be forced to exit. I had room to merge but then this chick in a new car sped up to try and block me (she was in the lane into which I was merging). So having an old dented car I merged anyway. Fuck her.
She. Went. Nuts.
Screaming, flipping me off, swerving all over the place trying to get around me (presumably to cut me off). It was amazing. So what I I do? I laughed. Right at her. I looked her right in the eyes and lifted back my head in laughter. She started ranting and hitting her dash - still swerving, but traffic was too thick for her to pass. Finally, she was able to zoom around me and I just KNEW she was going to slam on her brakes, which she did. But I'd already signaled a left turn and then turned right and went right around her, still laughing. She tried to zoom around me again but I exited before she could.
Somewhere in Omaha there is a woman who is chewing the leather off her steering wheel and I'm still just laughing.
Driving home tonight I hit a stretch of highway where the lane I was in merges with another. You have no choice but to merge or you'll be forced to exit. I had room to merge but then this chick in a new car sped up to try and block me (she was in the lane into which I was merging). So having an old dented car I merged anyway. Fuck her.
She. Went. Nuts.
Screaming, flipping me off, swerving all over the place trying to get around me (presumably to cut me off). It was amazing. So what I I do? I laughed. Right at her. I looked her right in the eyes and lifted back my head in laughter. She started ranting and hitting her dash - still swerving, but traffic was too thick for her to pass. Finally, she was able to zoom around me and I just KNEW she was going to slam on her brakes, which she did. But I'd already signaled a left turn and then turned right and went right around her, still laughing. She tried to zoom around me again but I exited before she could.
Somewhere in Omaha there is a woman who is chewing the leather off her steering wheel and I'm still just laughing.
I had a woman in a van the same size as mine try to pull on to the on ramp beside me and refuse to accelerate or decelerate to merge, then decide that I was the problem even though I needed to leave on the next exit. there was ample room before and after me but she didn't want those spots. If she has sped up to go in front I wouldn't have minded and would have slowed to make more space, but to pull window to window beside somebody yelling because they wouldn't let you in is ridiculous in my books.
I am not sure how I could have handled that one differently.
I am not sure how I could have handled that one differently.
Dave
Staff member
She didn't just "not let me in" she sped up to close the gap so I couldn't merge. Had I braked it might have been really difficult to get over because of the exit. I mean, I wasn't racing through construction to get around people, I was merging with the flow.
fade
Staff member
I understood the scenario--the people I'm talking about would still totally agree with her.
I had a guy go off on me once because my bumper dinked his when I parked in front of a gas pump, and not even hard enough that I noticed. He first went off on my wife (who was still sitting in the car while I went in to pay), and she came in to the store to let me know about the upset man outside. She wasn't kidding, either. He sounded like he was practically on the verge of suing me for...I don't know what, vehicular inappropriate touching? None of use could believe it. I just assume it was the absolute last straw in the worst day of his life or something.
--Patrick
--Patrick
Then you will be traveling with the same drivers, but in three dimensions.
I do this, or even move over a lane if there's room. It makes Mr. Z nuts, but I'd rather have my car undented than be "right".
One of the many, many reasons to hate the Grand Central Parkway. Whoever designed that piece of crap never drove a day in his life.
Driving in Italy is dangerous. Being a pedestrian in Italy is taking your life into your own hands.
Italian driving really isn't that bad, and anyone who maintains it is has never driven in Brussels. We've won the "highest amount of roadworks", "worst condition of roads", "highest amount of traffic jams" AND "worst places to drive" awards all at the same time (some world wide, some European). Booyah! At least we're good at something!
(Foreigners don't notice as much because they stay on the UN-NATO-EU axis, which is the only bit anyone's bothered to keep in working order)
I'll pass.
Well you certainly won't be able to stop.
....with weasels, right?
Just chatted with her on Facebook as well. She said to tell you all that she misses and loves you all as well, and will return soon to reign more terror and doomweasels upon the masses!
Wait, is she going to reign those doomweasels on us, or rain them down on us?