have you had it?

[dafischer]

Originally posted by Moneyguy1
Years ago, back in the northeast, on a lousy winter day, traffic on a road leading to Kodak's plant outside the City was moving really slow due to snow and ice. The guy behind me would lean on his horn every time traffic began to move ever so slightly. THis continued for a mile or so. At the time, many cars still had an outside hood latch. I got out of my car, opened his hood and cut his positive cable, got back in my car and drove off. He never dared get out of his car.

I was young and rather rebellious at the time. Would think twice abnout doing that again, particularly since everybody is so edgy, armed and ready to sue!!

But it felt good at the time.

You da man!!

[Drago]

I still stand by layin' pipe on his hood. Worked for me...once.

[Wrecked944]

Originally posted by nostatic
so I was wrong but he's still a prissy prick in an suv.

No, you weren't wrong. Windshield sprayers are a safety device. Shiny paint is not. Use the sprayers whenever needed. Like the others said, is the guy gonna wig whenever it rains? No, of course not. Mr SUV was completely inappropriate.

That said, in my old age, I actually feel sorry for people who behave like the guy in the SUV. I'm sure your encounter was not an isolated incident. He probably behaves that way often. And there is simply no way a person can behave that way and live a happy existence. After the traffic light incident, you probably drove away and spent the day with your kid - perhaps miffed but looking forward to more good times and a happy life. He went on to another confrontation and more misery. Over time, I have no doubt he hurts himself more than he hurts others.

[kach22i]

Now that you know your car an wet the one behind you, have fun with it.

You owe that guy, maybe you can juice him again.

[tabs]

Originally posted by speeder

who goes Medieval on your ass.

Ha ha ha ....U'v bin watching Pulp Fiction....

[tabs]

I'll bet that guy in the SUV or whatever it was is on his SUV Message Board crying about how this NUT CASE in LA got out of his car and told heim he was "Fking Nutz"....and his Buddys are consoling him that he did the right thing....or maybe that he shoulda used his Kung Fu skills and kicked Nostatus's a$$.....

[Superman]

Todd, if you wanna have a completely opposite experience, I have an invitation for you. Next weekend is my favorite of the year because it is the only three days in my life that make complete sense. It's called the Oregon Country Fair. Attitude is everything, as you know. Strange to me, that a group of mostly pagans would be the only folks to perform the grand social experiment suggested by Jesus. And it works. Love does indeed conquer all. MLK said "love is not the answer, it is the assignment" and was half-right. It is indeed also the answer. If you make it, I'll be working security at the Bus Gate from 2 to 7 pm each day. Here are two pics, because a pic is worth a thousand words, right? I lost the moustache.







Okay, three pics. I couldn't resist. More where they came from.

Visit the website:

http://www.oregoncountryfair.org/

[scottmandue]

My two cents:

I also have "lost it" in L.A. traffic so do as I say not as I do.
Whenever I have yelled/flipped off anyone I always walk (drive) away with a queasy notion I just risked my life not knowing if if the person in the other car was a nut job with a gun.

When I come up against automotive a-hole I now try to remember that anyone who gets that upset in traffic is going to be perpetually miserable in L.A. Therefor there is no need for me to punish them. Oh and it is only a matter of time before they meet up with some nut job with a gun with the usual unfortunate results. So I just feel sorry for them and move on.

More importantly my research at yesterdays BBQ shows that we no longer "get medieval on your a$$". The latest crop of macho guys "go kill bill on you a$$"

Try to keep up huh.

[}{arlequin]

shoulda pissed on his fuchs

[umgang]

Next time, tell the guy you mixed a sex inhibitor into the washer fluid to keep his car from humping yours.
Nick

[scottmandue]

Geez Superman, and they saw the folks in So. Cal. are a bunch of weirdos!

[svonkampen]

NoStatic.......

I don't care what they say about you.....you're alright ;-)

SvK

[Icemaster]

Had a former boss tell me one time that the key to winning is to be the calmest person in the room.

Sorry dude, I empathize, but it aint worth getting upset about, ignore him. Try explaining to your kid why Daddy is getting nasty letters from lawyers or has to go meet with a judge, or spend a week in the hospital celebrating a new orifice.

[Superman]

Originally posted by Icemaster
Had a former boss tell me one time that the key to winning is to be the calmest person in the room.

This is so true! In business, certainly in labor relations, the first one to lose their temper.........loses. That's the game.

C'mon up here Todd. Fest with the gentle extroverts.

[kach22i]

Superman it looks real freaky...................a little to freaky for me, but if it makes them happy - why not?

[targa911S]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
That kinda ***** would've bought him a slug between the eyes 'round these parts. Send him our way...

Ditto that around here. Man you either got balls or you were NOT thinking straight. I would NEVER do that. You were just inviting him to shoot your a$$.

[Moses]

Originally posted by fintstone
...someone with badly adjusted sprayers ...

During college years I worked as a mechanic/body guy during the summer. (I was REALLY awful) Anyway, a customer came in to pick up his Jaguar convertable but I had misplaced the washer nozzles. I pulled a set from one of our beater cars and hooked 'em up. The customer noticed a slight bit of dust on the front glass and hit the squirter button. It sent a thick, solid stream of washer fluid arching up over his windshield hitting him in the forehead. Oops!

[M.D. Holloway]

Happened last night while leaving the fireworks. Must have been a zillion people trying to get out all at once. Everybody was pretty cool about it but there was one guy who thought he was entitled to drive the wrong way to get ahead. I met him at the turn and being the dick that I am edged so he couldn't get through.

The traffic was at a stop and no one was coming the other way but this guy was cut off unless I let him go. I proceeded to let about 15 cars go instead of me just to piss him off. He gets out of his car and stands in front of the traffic and starts to direct traffic so I can move. I would have given him choice words but my kids were asleep. I just stared at him and laughed. He started coming to my car and I waved my index finger at him and mouthed "no no', then made like a pistol with my hand. He stopped dead and his tracks, turned around, and went back to his car and didn't even look at me. We then drove home...

Simple actions...

[Z-man]

True story:

I was on a double yellow road in Franklin Lakes, NJ. (A rather weathly town in Northern NJ). A man in a BMW 5-series came out of his driveway and cut me off. I was going about 30mph, (in a 40 mph zone) since I had just turned the corner about 50 yards ago.

So I beeped my horn. Just a little tap, indicating that I was displeased with his judgement of time and space.

I saw his hands go up in exclamantion. In response to his hands going up, I did the same - just a "what the heck was that" kinda jesture. (No birds were displayed in this action).

The next thing that happened, I could not believe. I see something come out of Mr BMW's open sunroof. It was a warm cup of coffee that Mrs. BMW had prepared for hubby to drink on his drive to work. Apparently, Mr. BMW thought it would be a good idea to throw said beverage through the sunroof at me.

Apparently, the laws of physics did not abide with Mr. BMW's wishes -- I could clearly see the fluid from the styrofoam cup return into the BMW sans the cup -- all over the front leather seats. The empty cup landed several feet infront of my car -- not a drop of the delicous brew hit my car. Hold on --- it gets better....

Mr. BMW, now sporting a new coffee scented cologne, proceeded to STOP his car in the middle of the road, get out and walk over to my car. As he approached, I rolled up my windows, to which he said, GET OUT OF YOUR CAR. I simply responded "No way."

Then he started on a rampage on how people have no business driving 60mph down his street. (Mind you, unless my car or I had super-hero powers, it would be near impossible for me to be travelling even at speed limit, given the fact that I had just turned the corner!) and how he's so sick and tired of how people drive.

I simply reached for a pad and pen, and with a bit of over-acting, I wrote down the license plate of the car that was stopped before me.

He huffed and puffed a bit, and then went back to his car and drove off, enjoying the wonderful aroma that only a combination of 'rich Corinthian leather interior' and warm spilled coffee can produce.

I called the Franklin Lakes police department and they stated unless Mr. BMW caused me any phsical harm, there was nothing much I could do. Perhaps I should have rolled down the window and taken a punch or two...

Gotta love folks with temper tantrums - be it windshield water of warm coffee -- they just look so stupid when you put it in perspective.

-Z.

[island911]

Geez Z, you even knew where the guy lived . .. and he knew that you knew! What an idiot.

Lube; re:Simple actions...Man, don't do stuff like that. The guy could have had a little girl who had some random nasty party-injury . . .and the guy really needed to get her to a hospital, or some such.

It's amazing; if you just wait 20min's 4^th traffic clears, and you'll get home at about the same time. I never understood why so many want to participate in that hurry-up and wait . . .in that giant, slowly moving traffic clog. . . . .the BLOB