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Well THAT was interesting!

Picked up the other two guys in my carpool this afternoon on my way to work. I have only been with these guys for a few weeks since I transferred to a different plant location for the same company.

I'm currently driving a 2001 Honda Passport for the carpool, and it is far from perfect. It developed an exhaust leak, and it's a bit loud. It's on my list of things to take care of, but after moving and several other things going on in my life I just haven't gotten to it yet. I'm hoping to take care of it this week.

After they got in the car, the front seat passenger started laying into me about my exhaust leak. Going on about how it's inconsiderate and how "they" provide a quiet car and so on. He's literally raising his voice to me, a 60 year old man talking to a 35 year old man.

I asked him one time... "You're kidding right?" He replied that he was NOT! I didn't say anything else to him for the rest of the commute in. After we got to work I made a couple of phone calls and will be carpooling with another single person in a couple of weeks.

I went to talk to "Ron" the 60 year old guy, and let him know that I would finish out my week to drive, but after that I was finished. I let him know that he was welcome to ride back this evening, but if he spoke to me again like that I would stop at the first exit available to let him out. Our company has a policy where a registered carpool will get you a couple free cabs home a year in case of emergency. I let him know he was welcome to take a free taxi home if he didn't want to drive in my car by my rules. He didn't care too much for that, and started telling me (and everyone else in the room) how I was the rudest SOB he had ever met and that HE was done with ME. This should make for an interesting ride home.

So how about the mighty Pelican braintrust? Got any good carpool "War Stories" to share?