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Got chased by an idiot around a mall...

#81
I'm not an angry person. I have a lot of faults, but anger is not one of them. I simply don't understand rage of any kind including road rage. Sure, I get frustrated, and might give a honk if someone is being unsafe, but I simply don't understand the concept of road rage. I don't pursue, yell, threaten, etc. Better to let it go. I understand that a 2 ton vehicle is a weapon with thousands of joules of kinetic energy and can (and does) easily kill people.

That said, if you think I've slighted you and decide to follow me and pull over, ESPECIALLy with large knives, you're going to see a cell phone in one hand and a handgun in the other. You either get back in your car and drive away or wait for the cops to show up. I have no interest in shooting somebody or holding someone at gunpoint for police. But I also have no interest in being one of those guys who gets followed for 40 minutes to have the follower pull them out of their car and beat, shoot, or stab them because of some perceived slight.

YMMV where local laws are different, but I know what they are where I am.
 
#82
fdeck said:
I've noticed that some folks seem to get into a lot of dangerous altercations, while others almost never do. I can't believe it's totally random. For this reason, when it looks like someone has experienced more than an extremely small number of physical altercations or armed standoffs, I begin to suspect that they should consider changing their attitudes or their habits.
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agreed!

as i recall, the last physical altercation i was in, i think i hit the other guy with my genuine Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox with the included Thermos®.

all this says to me that we do indeed need a second kind of horn, but not a "wake the dead" truck horn; we need the opposite, a quieter, "polite" horn for those "ahem" moments at stop lights or whatever.

it wouldn't be hard at all for car horns to have a two-stage button, where a light press elicits the quieter, "excuse me, the light's changed" sound and a harder press gives you the louder "look out you're backing into me!" sound.
 
#84
walterw said:
agreed!

as i recall, the last physical altercation i was in, i think i hit the other guy with my genuine Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox with the included Thermos®.
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Lol, in the third and forth grades I carried an actual briefcase to school. My dad gave it to me. It worked, it was practical, I liked it. But I took a lot of crap for it, earning the nickname 'Briefcase Dave.'

One day the most prominent bully decided to start taunting and shoving me, so I hit him with it as hard as I could. That particular day, I'd decided to bring some of my Lionel wide-gauge locomotives with me for show-and-tell. Yeah, he went down. Hard.
 
#86
dmusic148 said:
Lol, in the third and forth grades I carried an actual briefcase to school. My dad gave it to me. It worked, it was practical, I liked it. But I took a lot of crap for it, earning the nickname 'Briefcase Dave.'

One day the most prominent bully decided to start taunting and shoving me, so I hit him with it as hard as I could. That particular day, I'd decided to bring some of my Lionel wide-gauge locomotives with me for show-and-tell. Yeah, he went down. Hard.
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Case closed.
 
#87
walterw said:
all this says to me that we do indeed need a second kind of horn, but not a "wake the dead" truck horn; we need the opposite, a quieter, "polite" horn for those "ahem" moments at stop lights or whatever.

it wouldn't be hard at all for car horns to have a two-stage button, where a light press elicits the quieter, "excuse me, the light's changed" sound and a harder press gives you the louder "look out you're backing into me!" sound.
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Agreed. This has been one of my principal arguments for at least ten years. We need an "excuse me" sound and a"duck you" sound.
 
#88
dmusic148 said:
Lol, in the third and forth grades I carried an actual briefcase to school. My dad gave it to me. It worked, it was practical, I liked it. But I took a lot of crap for it, earning the nickname 'Briefcase Dave.'

One day the most prominent bully decided to start taunting and shoving me, so I hit him with it as hard as I could. That particular day, I'd decided to bring some of my Lionel wide-gauge locomotives with me for show-and-tell. Yeah, he went down. Hard.
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Love it. LOVE IT!!!
 
#89
ProgRocker said:
Wow! There's some THICK people on tonight? Is this an ESL thread now? Go back. Read s l o w l y. One word at a time. Take it all in. Then, read it again. Rinse and repeat until you think you've got it. Then, read it again.

Now, after all that, hopefully you've got it. Now, you can comment. I'm tired of explaining the obvious.

On to more interesting things. Perhaps I'll check back tomorrow.
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In addition to the road-rage support group thread, we'll need a second for message-board rage (unless there is one already, this isn't a new thing here, but I did not do a search for one - sorry).


FWIW, I saw a bumper sticker that said, "I'm sorry but I'm not in YOUR hurry!"

Yes they were driving like molasses.
 
#93
dmusic148 said:
Lol, in the third and forth grades I carried an actual briefcase to school. My dad gave it to me. It worked, it was practical, I liked it. But I took a lot of crap for it, earning the nickname 'Briefcase Dave.'

One day the most prominent bully decided to start taunting and shoving me, so I hit him with it as hard as I could. That particular day, I'd decided to bring some of my Lionel wide-gauge locomotives with me for show-and-tell. Yeah, he went down. Hard.
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Did the same with my Kiss lunchbox and broke a kid's nose. Wish I had that lunchbox now.
 

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