OK, it is about time I revive my driving thread.
On the subject of ROAD RAGE (oooooh... scary):
So I was riding in the car with my dad about a month or so ago. Some guy in a yellow truck sort of cut us off... so later my dad pulls up alongside hime and gives him the finger. Well, I was kinda surprised because my dad does not usual do something like that unless it is a big deal and I guess I had been in lala land when the guy cut us off because for me it all came out of nowhere. Anyway, as soon as my dad gave this guy the finger, he swerved towards us (to his right) almost sideswiping us! Luckily my dad is a good driver and swerved quickly enough out of the way to avoid this because if he had hit us we would have gone spinning out of control and flying off the road for sure. Now THAT was some crazy shit!
The thing is, though, ppl's behavior doesnt really surprise me anymore in this nutty world so I didnt really think much about it afterward... wasnt shaken or anything... just kinda laughed about it with my dad later while talking about how much of an ******* that guy was, but also telling my dad not to be making questionable gestures at other drivers anymore... you never friggin know. I few times, I have tried to give somebody a "thank you" wave and they automatically assumed it was the finger
Anyways...It wasn't til a couple days later when I was riding with somebody else and we sort of almost got into a fender bender and the whole thing just shook my friend up so badly that she barely wanted to drive anymore that day... so I got to thinking... maybe what happened to me and my dad WAS a big deal? LOL
Maybe being an american surrounded by such anxiety and stress and insanity has desensitized me to things that I should actually be freaking out about
Road RAGE GRRRRRR!!!!
Anybody got any more road rage stories? I got more for later
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