Road rage psychos!!
05 July 2005, 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by cookstar
It really does take a bigger man to say something like this.
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Confrontations over very annoying (but no harm no foul) situations like this are better avoided unless absolutely necessary i.e. self defence as there was no means of getting away. Doesn't matter how tasty you are with your fists etc. you're gonna come a cropper sooner or later or end up in jail. Remember the saying: He was right, dead right, as he drove along, but he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong!
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...& then **** off ...sharpish!
05 July 2005, 01:10 PM
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Unfortunately, I have to admit I have been on both sides of the fence recently, and am slightly ashamed about my little indiscretion although imho when I was "In the wrong" and lost the plot, there was a very good reason for it.
I was towing my sister's car off her street and turned right to cross a single lane railway bridge. Before and after the bridge is 2 lanes and after the bridge is a left hand 90 degree turn.
Just getting half way across the bridge and an old dear pulls out from the left and blocks the exit to the bridge........ and sits there. Assuming that it was not obvious that I was towing a car behind me I got out and noticed that she had got out too. I explained very calmly that I could not reverse as the car behind me was on tow.
She said she could not move as there were by now four cars behind her........
Well how do you combat logic like that? I repeated that I could not reverse, and asked her just to ask the drivers behind to reverse a little, which she refused to do, saying that I should reverse
Plot lost big time! I wont repeat what I said then on a website, but she said that I wouldn't have said what I said if her husband was there, at which point I couldnt resist asking,
"I wouldnt have had to, he would have told you that you didnt have right of way, and that you are too stupid to be driving - anyway, ring him tell him if he's upto it , he's going have to help me push the broken down car off the bridge".
I think she understood then.
From my perspective, I would never have harmed her, and throughout was stood 40 yards away on the other side of the bridge so as not to walk towards her and intimidate - but there is no accounting for how you react to absolute abject stupidity is there?
I was towing my sister's car off her street and turned right to cross a single lane railway bridge. Before and after the bridge is 2 lanes and after the bridge is a left hand 90 degree turn.
Just getting half way across the bridge and an old dear pulls out from the left and blocks the exit to the bridge........ and sits there. Assuming that it was not obvious that I was towing a car behind me I got out and noticed that she had got out too. I explained very calmly that I could not reverse as the car behind me was on tow.
She said she could not move as there were by now four cars behind her........
Well how do you combat logic like that? I repeated that I could not reverse, and asked her just to ask the drivers behind to reverse a little, which she refused to do, saying that I should reverse
Plot lost big time! I wont repeat what I said then on a website, but she said that I wouldn't have said what I said if her husband was there, at which point I couldnt resist asking,
"I wouldnt have had to, he would have told you that you didnt have right of way, and that you are too stupid to be driving - anyway, ring him tell him if he's upto it , he's going have to help me push the broken down car off the bridge".
I think she understood then.
From my perspective, I would never have harmed her, and throughout was stood 40 yards away on the other side of the bridge so as not to walk towards her and intimidate - but there is no accounting for how you react to absolute abject stupidity is there?
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