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12-11-2009, 02:40 PM #1Senior Member
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Remember to laugh. As unsettling as it is / was, trying to make sense of someone that senseless has no upside.
Jimmy - does this answer your question to your other post - http://straightrazorpalace.com/conve...tml#post504689
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12-11-2009, 02:47 PM #2Senior Member
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Thanks fellas. Yeah, I try not to let it get to me. I actually wrote a rather funny essay (if I do say so myself) a few years ago on the topic. I was stopped by a traffic cop in th middle of aleft-turn lane, because a light was broken. A guy behind me leaned on his horn and started screaming himself red in the face. I put my hands up in the "what can I do about it sign." He started to get out of his car, and I think he then noticed the flashing police car and officer in the middle of the road...and quietly went back to his fury. If your week is already that bad at 7:30 on a Monday morning....you need a new job!!!
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12-11-2009, 09:48 PM #3Information Regurgitator
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I admittedly get frustrated when someone knowingly comes up a lane that is going to end just to get ahead of a few cars. Granted I don't think it ever occurred to me to endanger everyone around me in order to vent my frustration.
Sounds to me, from your description of the guy, that it may be someone that spends a lot of time playing on line MMO video games (these games seem to give normal people the anonymity curse where they seem to act like asses cause they can get away with it).
Perhaps this guy got frustrated and didn't realize that his version of windows was "windshield" and that he was currently playing the game of "reality"
either way at least you are OK and didn't end up in a bender with him (or worse).
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12-11-2009, 10:00 PM #4what Dad calls me
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Just an idiot with a mouth.
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain
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12-11-2009, 10:33 PM #5There is no charge for Awesomeness
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12-12-2009, 12:05 AM
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When I scanned through this in the morning that goofy cartoon was what I was thinking about and it is exactly true. Put someone in a chunk of metal with an engine and make them think they are anonymous and they turn in monsters. I used to spend a lot of time on the road and I'll tell you I've seen people do things on the road that left me with no doubt people go bezerk.
No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
12-12-2009, 01:44 AM
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This makes me glad I live in Thailand. Here the accepted method to turn right (for Americans think turning left) is to slowly inch out into the intersection until the other drivers have the option of hitting you or letting you make the turn. Here you can park on almost any road even if it allows other cars to pass with only one onch of clearance on either side. Here it is ok to stop in a shopping center car park and wait for the people you have seen walking towards their car, even if there is a procession of cars waiting behind you.
So if you are tired of road rage, come here and change road rage for road chaos.
