have you had it?
 

I've had it. Up to here.

Tonight I'm driving over to pick up the boy and I'm on a 2 lane road, keeping up with traffic. Bozo behind me honks and is motioning at me. I am not on the phone, and I'm not leaving a huge gap in front of me. We eventually get to a stoplight/line of traffic and I look back at him like "wtf?" He continued motioning at me in an annoyed fashion. He appears to be an early 50's westside lawyer/executive type. I'm pissed. I put on the parking brake (light is still red and will be for some time...I know the intersection) and I walk back to his car. I say "what the f*ck is wrong with you? I have no place to go...what is your hurry?" He points at his windshield and with an annoyed/prissy look says, "your washers got my car wet."

Yes, I had the audacity to use my windshield washers to clean my windshield.

I looked at him kind of dumbfounded and said, "are you f*cking nuts? What the hell is wrong with you?"

I walked back to my car, the light turned green, and I went on my way.

I've had it. Up to here. I'm going to have *two* beers tonight (all I have in the fridge). People suck.

You shoulda taken a dump on his hood. I would have...but that's just me.;)

:D Drago

I thought the idea was "say it; don't spray it" . ...apparently, YMMV :cool:

Then again, I've often thought that the O₂ mount on the exhaust would be an excellent place for a little oil injector port.

a piss would have been better - "sorry mutha*****a, I missed a spot!"

I need a reality check here...was the guy totally whack or what? I mean, is his frickin' car going to melt or something? I suppose he just had his "boy* wash it.

I hate the westside...

todd, i might get annoyed if i got sprayed after a recent wash. but only an insane person would even get you involved. part of the cost of admission of driving is putting up with stuff hitting the car. what if a bird schit on his car? is he gonna drive around yelling at it? besides, he would have stayed dry if he kept his distance.

oh, you got crazy balls going back to his car :O

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

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.

I should point out that when I got back into my car, I immediately fired up the washers...

mmm, Negro Modelo. I feel better now.

some times to much civilization sucks.

in HS days the routine was a walk out and bend his wipers up.
then drive away.

This one time I was in the Philippines and.......

Oh, I thought you were axing about something else.:p

That guy was out of line. If I was the man I was 10 years ago, I would have taken a flamethrower to his rig.

Today, probably would have laughed and said "Do you also flag down birds and dust clouds to render your displeasure? My, my Higgins, How do you get by?"

I also want to add that I agree with your approach for cleansing yourself of that nastiness by applying liberal amounts of malted hops and barley product till delightfully fuzzy. Repeat as needed.SmileWavy

you should have pulled out a squeegy, wiped his windshield clean, then demanded money for your good deed.

hEY dANILLA THATS A GREAT BUSINESS IDEA, JUST FOLLOW nOSTATUS AROUND ALL DAY....

Nostatus were U outa your mind getting outa your car, that boy mighta shot you....for fear of his life....you were stupid to put yourself at RISK...never become reactive...always remember where and who you are...sometimes thats better said than done but Geezus..U live in a fking zoo called LA....

Bet U woulda done that if they were a coupla miniority boyz from the hood.cruzin in a low rider..huh...had to be a prepy westie type ******* huh....

I don't know the weather conditions, etc...and I certainly would not have blown my horn...but I admit that I have considered it pretty inconsiderate when I have just spent hours washing and waxing my car and someone with badly adjusted sprayers on a clear dry day doesn't wait for a gap in traffic to spray their windshield and soaked my car and ruined hours of work. Clearly if the weather is good, the dirt did not just suddenly appear and was there when the person got into the car. If it was not so bad that it needed cleaning before being in traffic....it probably wasn't too bad to wait until he would not ruin someone elses detailing. I am sorta suprised that Porsche drivers would consider that good form.

In LA??! :)

There are plenty of gaps in traffic here. Actually not all that crowded compared to the East coast cities that I just drove through. I'm going to be the contrarian here and say that it annoys the schit out of me when someone is drenching me through my open sunroof w/ their windshield washers. It just falls into the general category of being completely oblivious behind the wheel, not that different from cell phone talking midget women rolling through crosswalks.

Simply adjust the squirters, unless you are trying to be generous and wash the other guy's windows too.;)

Seriously, next time it might be some spring-loaded ass whole who goes Medieval on your ass. Granted, in the big scheme of things it's insignificant. But most of the things that start fights between strangers are not exactly of international importance. :cool:

personally, i don't think it's very wise getting out of your car and yelling at a stranger things like.....
"are you f*cking nuts? What the hell is wrong with you?"

in this day in age, people have gotten shot and killed over more stupid things.

this guy could've been a complete psycho, gotten his gun out of the glove compartment and started shooting.

Just keep driving, what's the big deal if someone is beeping, just ignore it and move one. be cool. it's not worth it.

yes, it was stupid to get out of the car, but sometimes you've just had it. and I didn't drench the guy...the washers are correctly aimed, and I was responding to glare off a glass highrise showing my window was dirty. the guy had a faint trace of water drops. and if he hadn't been tailgating me, he wouldn't have gotten wet at all.

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

I rains within 10 minutes of washing my car...always I've just come to accept it. Spraying your washers would just put me out of my misery in a hurry.

Seriously Nostat - in Texas you would get shot. About once a month I get some crazy MF doing something stupid and more times than few they get into my *****. I keep the eyes forward and pull out my pic cell phone and hold er up and make like I am taking a pic. It works every freakin time - 100%. They go driving off as frightened as rabbits. Better than showing a .38 which I could easily carry in my car with no worries but choose not too for obvious and felonious reasons.

You da man!!

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

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.:(

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.SmileWavy

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

:) :) :) :) 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$$.....

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.

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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.

shoulda pissed on his fuchs

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

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

NoStatic.......

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

SvK

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.

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.

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

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$$.

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!

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...

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.

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