Re: Road Rage/ My Blood is Still Boiling

[Andrew Paroczy <evilone@dove.net.au>]

When you have some wanker tailing you,just tap the brake pedal to
electrify the lights,I found this to work particularly well!!! Then just
watch them back off in the rear vision mirror,whether they are driving a
piece of shit or not!!!!!But still, good move !!!!!! you did well!!!!
Charles E. Whitney wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I saw my life, and the life of Rachael (my '67 SB) flash before me
> today.  Here's the story.
>
> I was coincidentally coming back from signing the title to my '72
> Fastback over to the local junkyard to have it towed away.  At this
> point it is TOTALLY stripped and just a rusted out carcass.  I was
> depressed knowing another T-3 had succumbed to the harsh realites and
> elements of life.  So I'm driving along and up behind me comes a
> rusted
> out piece of crap Subaru.  For about a mile and a half this car is
> tailgating me.  Not the "kind of close", tailgating, but the kind of
> close where all you can see is about the last third of the hood and
> windshield of the car.  Well already being depressed this started to
> irratate me.  And it's not like I was poking along, I was doing 45mph
> in
> a 40 mph zone.  So I slow down to 40 trying to give the jerk a hint to
>
> back off, to no avail.  We go along another mile and I'm getting more
> ticked.  If I had to stop for any reason this gal would have been up
> my
> tailpipe.
> This was at 5PM and traffic was heavy.  There was another car in front
>
> of me about 20 yards, and a whole line of cars in front of it.  So
> it's
> not like this gal was going to go anywhere anyway.  Well, about a mile
>
> later the one lane road splits into two lanes.  I see this girl
> weaving
> in and out of both lanes trying to get ahead of everyone.  I don't get
>
> it, 5PM Friday rush hour traffic!  Where does this person think they
> are
> going?  I'm in the left lane, and she finally manuevers next to me in
> the right lane.  I see it's a young gal and ask myself if she ever
> took
> driver's education.  She is now still to my side, but slightly ahead
> of
> me, her rear bumber about in line with my front tire.  With absolutely
>
> no warning, she veers into my lane.  I SLAMMED on my brakes and I
> still
> don't know how she missed Rachael and I.  Now I WAS PISSED OFF!!!  We
> come to a light just turning red, I hop out of my car run up to her
> and
> say a few choice words and ask her what in the !@%#*! she thinks she's
>
> doing.  Just because she drives a piece of crap and doesn't care if
> it's
> dented up I DO !!!  Well, her male passenger hops out of the car
> starts
> yelling to get away from his wife and runs around the back over to me.
>
> He's yelling, I'm yelling,  he tells me to get away or he's going to
> punch me out.  He was a squirrely little guy.  He's got his fist
> cocked
> back like he thinks he's going to punch me and has a hold of the
> shoulder of my shirt.  We yell some more, him still with his fist
> cocked.  I quiet down and in a low seething voice tell him that his
> first punch better be damn good, bacause it will be his last.  That
> struck home,  he let go, backed off and in a now quiet voice says to
> just get away from his wife.  Well, the light turns green he hops in
> his
> car and they make a speedy get away running away on the first side
> street.  It's now seven hours later and I'm still pissed off!  If they
>
> had hit my car it would have been good night.  Bye the way, as I was
> getting back into my car, the surrounding driver's were all yelling at
>
> me, "Way to go, what a menace she is, she ought to have her license
> revoked, etc."
>
> The moral, DRIVE DEFENSIVELY!
>
> Greg, I hope there was enough T-3 content in there.  I am now through
> ranting, and thank you for your support.
>
> Charlie
> '67 Square  just barely alive!