So I'm sitting at a stop light today waiting to turn right, just minding my own business, waiting for the light to change. It does and as soon as I'm focused on making my turn, some jerkwad pedestrian starts barking at me like a dog as loud as he can. wtf?? no problem making the turn, but I admit it startled me... I don't understand some people. :cookoo: I wanted to go around the block catch up with him and bash him :icon_mrgreen:
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Quote from: Wantabe_Wryder on February 23, 2006, 05:14:58 PMIn different times, though, fewer of them made it to adulthood.
That's for sure.
I still get that occationally. Usually it's the two guys in a late '70's-early '80's EL Camino (you know the kind. Almost always a dark color, rims, interior hanging like the drapes in whorehouse), drive by really fast and yell, or whoop, like they're hollerin' at some chick walking on the sidewalk like a couple of high school boys.
Its funny you mention that Wantabe, I locked eyes for split second. I think otherwise he'd of done nothing. Events like that have had me trying to figure out why in the past, now the most relaxing and satifying resolve I find is in forgive and forget.
I used to do that when I was trying to pick a fight. Maybe he wanted a piece of you? Or maybe he was just an idiot saying hello?
It's not a full moon is it? I was driving the cage to work today in the rain, and this woman wanted to drive across the street. She stops, there is clearly no room for her on the other side of the street seeing as traffic was backed up, she looks straight at me, and proceeds to pull out and block the street. It's not like there wasn't time for her to cross the street (thankfully, because I was able to stop without sliding) but there was no freaking room! It makes me want to have a beater that I can just smash into people to teach them a lesson. As it was, I had to settle for a liberal dose of my horn. I mean, seriously, what part of don't block intersections, especially in the rain, is so hard to understand?
QuoteQuote from: makenzie71 on February 23, 2006, 05:50:42 PM
Or maybe he was just an idiot saying hello?
Next time I say hello to sometime - I'll conjure up the biggest fart
uh! at the first yell and once I recognized that it was aimed at me, I would have just let my body to go in auto mode...
my right hand would have reached for the kill switch, my left foot would have kicked the sidestand down at the same time, my legs would have dismounted, and my fists would have gotten ready to kick some booty. no need to think and waste time
If someone barks at you, treat them like a dog... Take off your helmet and bash them on the nose with it while saying no, no, no :nono:
...people....their the worst.
I just don't know what's the matter with people, absolutely no respect for anyone else. I've gotten what you described while bicycling. While on the motorcycle(and bicycle) it seems that other vehicles on the road have a chip on their shoulder and it's directed at me. If there's any revenge to be had it would be having the offender break down a mile up the road while I drive by. :laugh: Wouldn't work with a pedestrian though. Maybe they'll fall down and break a leg.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... Modular helmet and spit...
Some years ago I was a passenger in a beat-up-old Nova... We were stopped at a light and the driver and I were randomly chatting about paintball or something... He had his window down.
Some "pimped-out-gangstamobile" pulled up next to us thumping away... The passsenger of the other car rolled his window down and spit a HUUUUUUUGE wad on the driver's face right before their turn-light changed to green... Then they drove away. :o
I was so amazed by the guy driving the Nova... He wiped his face off and said, "f%$king assholes!" ... And that was the end of it. :o
I don't think I could have stopped myself from chasing them down and smashing the bling right off the car... Good thing I wasn't driving.
The moral of the story is... People suck... But, if you run them down and hurt them, you're gonna go to jail. So, don't do that. :nono: (Although, I couldn't really blame you if you did.)
My advice to anyone that experiences anything like this is to just let them be and move on. Life is too short to get into a fight over words or a dirty look. Plus you never know what the other guy is on or is carrying. Maybe he's on pcp. Maybe he's got a gun. I'd rather not find out. As much as I'd like to beat the $#!% out of anyone that provokes me for no reason I know it's not worth it and if karma hasn't already dealt him a bad hand it's sure to come around.
keep in mind that motorcycle gear provides fantastic protection in your basic fistfight. Carbon-fiber knuckle gloves will keep your knuckles safe while you're smashing that @$$hole's face, and if you leave the bike running a quick getaway is guaranteed!
oh yeah! now I remember... (those spitting stories refreshened my memory)
before my car accident (when I was rear-ended and as I result the car was totaled and I got a motorcycle :icon_mrgreen: ), I rmember I was driving normally and I got to a stop light.
On my left side another car pulled over (2 couples) and right before the light went green, one of these stupid kids sprinkled me whith a water gun. it wasn't much water actually, but it was like somebody put a firecracker ot my... crack and light fire to it.
So I took off behind them (gotta love the 8 cilinders), drove next to them and rammed the car against theirs... but before impact, I tought about it again while I saw their faces filled with terror... so I yanked the steering to the other side while they applied their brakes leaving a cloud of smoke....
so basically I did not do any damage to them, and I'm sure they will think twice before shooting their crappy water pistol again.
Quote from: subc on February 24, 2006, 05:17:12 PM
drove next to them and rammed the car against theirs... but before impact, I tought about it again while I saw their faces filled with terror...
I believe this is called assault with a deadly weapon? :dunno_white:
Road rage sucks, whether the source is a cager or a rider. :icon_rolleyes:
Quote from: pandy on February 24, 2006, 07:57:11 PM
Quote from: subc on February 24, 2006, 05:17:12 PM
drove next to them and rammed the car against theirs... but before impact, I tought about it again while I saw their faces filled with terror...
I believe this is called assault with a deadly weapon? :dunno_white:
yes it is :thumb: (i did not touch my car against theirs btw)
oh, and btw, what is it called when a persons blinds a driver by splashing water on their face? ... having fun?
I was on my bike once and some bastard tossed a pickle out the window at me... I didn't see who it was when the group of cars got up to the light I was lookin' lookin' hard ready kick sombodys ass... you just don't throw a f^*)'n mickydee's pickle at a moving motorcycle and was ready to teach somebody a lesson... It still pisses me off just thinking about it...