This goes back to the early 80's and was in Pompano Beach, FL. My dad and I were driving my grandmothers car {a real GDOP's car...80 Lincoln Town Car} and stuck in traffic on A1A. I mean traffic was at a complete standstill and dad had the car in park most of the time. There was this real goofball directly behind us, laying on the horn, making universal gestures and generally making a PITA of himself.

Now this was the early 80's and I am in high school and it is possible with my long hair that I could have looked like a female from the back. Add to that my dad was completely bald {long before Michael Jordan brought it in style} and we may have looked like some of your typical Old Folks in a Lincoln. The problem was, my dad was 20 year active duty Army, a paratrooper with the 82nd, and one tough sob. After taking the morons abuse for a while, Dad finally had enough: opens the car and gets out. This guys eyes got huge....not what he was expecting at all. Dad calmly walks up to the car { a 3rd generation Firebird} and brings both arms down on the hood, caving it in.... The goof is in his car, mouth moving like a beached fish, and did not have a clue what to do. The people around us break out in to applause and dad gets back into the Lincoln. Still have not moved and this poor schmuck has no where to go. After another 10 minutes, we finally move and he takes the first turn he could find.

Not something you could get away with today, but it was one of those things I'll always remember.

Woof
Bowser

 

 

Haha, good story Bowser4x4

Jeepin, I love the fact that I come home everyday and know you care about me so much and I'm the center of all your attention. Grow some ***** and go pick on some poor chevy owner.

 

My 3 cases of road rage today...

1. I was going to class, and this dude in a Chevy Caprice was tailgating the crap out of me. So being nice, I pulled over to the shoulder. So what does that idiot do? Pulls over to the shoulder and sits there. I'm like what the heck is this idiot doing. So I pull out on to the road, and the guy follows me to. I wait and wait, and I pulled into a gas station and the tard follows me in. Then I get really concerned... so I turned off the truck, and waited for a bit. The guy kept stalking the heck out of me. So I get out, and go into the store. As I'm going in, I keep looking behind me and I watch the guy as I buy a bottle of soda. He just keeps sitting in his car... so I get out of the store, and I quickly jump in my truck, and cut through a pretty busy intersection. But I did it skillfully enough where the tard couldn't follow me. I then got into my campus, and I called security and I told them what I encountered, and they told me to park next to their cop cars in the front lot for as long as I like, because they've got hi-res security cameras aimed right at those police parking spaces.

2. I got done with my finals at my college, and I get over to my other college where I'm taking an art class, because they are behind 2 weeks. I did it through a consortium agreement among colleges. So I'm going to my art class, and this idiot lady in a tan Honda Pilot cuts me off by less than a foot and she slams on her brakes to quickly stop for a yellow light making me almost rear end her!

3. I am going home, and I am going down the road... again, this time an elderly lady driving a Toyota Camry comes out of a Denny's parking lot into a 4 lane road not only in front of me, but a guy driving a Chevy Tahoe with 26"ers... The guy in the SUV almost hits me, and we all stop to let this damn lady get out of our way! So naturally I am in neutral, and not in a gear, by the time I get my freaking truck into gear, this tard in Ford Expedition floors by not only me, but the guy in the Tahoe, nearly missing us by less than a foot! I don't know how the heck he fit, but it was damn close. The guy next to me and myself almost crapped out pants. The black dude in the Tahoe rolled his window down, and said, "You see that crap?! That guy almost hit us!!" (Profanity taken out.) I said, "I dunno about you man, but that is one crazy driver!"...

So those were my 3 experiences of the day.

People need to relearn how to drive.

 

Dude, #1 sounds like a horror movie or sumthing. Scary stuff right there

 

Yeah, you never know... that idiot could've been stalking someone that goes to the college and try to plant something on my truck or something... like a handgun or quite possibly an explosive device.

I don't put it past anything no more.

After going through those emergency trainings by the state university of ny, and the recent campus threats, I'm not taking any chances.

I'm beginning to wonder if they thought I was security for the campus or something because of my antenna masts and they would plant something on my truck to try to get me into trouble, or to hurt the livelyhood of other students.

You never know...

 

Yeah dude, all this crap thats been going on with colleges and school shootings and such. Just last friday there was a stabbing at a bowling alley due to a card game played at school so now half of our towns police force is at every corner in the hallway. Its weird. Some kid got into a fight today at lunch and he was carried away in handcuffs. They're taking this stuff seriously now, which is good.

 

Yeah... it's crazy.

It truly is terrible what is going on.

If I ever saw anything suspicious I'd make sure authorities know ASAP. Even if that means I have to take my life for a fellow student.

I hope it never comes down to that -- ever.

 

 

Most road rage cases with me are the lack of awareness and respect people have for others. In Texas I think it is due to the lack of mass transit. Everyone sits in their car in their own world and no one else matters. I think that is crap. I consistently help other drivers by slowing down to allow them on (if they are speeding up accordingly to match the flow of traffic) hand signals and turning lights on and off to allow people to change a lane in front of me, etc... I really try yo generate good karma if I can. I try not to get mad when I am in a hurry and someone else isn't. If I am doing 75 and they are doing 70 and it is 65, I don't fault them and it is not their responsibility to get out of my way, I am in a hurry so I should politely as possible find a way around.
I do not tolerate oblivious self minded individuals.

1. About 6 months ago I was on the short drive to work. A gentleman in a late model Jag gets on the freeway. It is 8:0 traffic and the rest of the world is on the way to work. This A hole decides he will go 45 mph to get on the freeway (65mph) and maintain 45mph. So now he is breaking the law. I let him on because I thought he was nursing it. Turns out he was a *****. People behind me were piling up as he continues at 45. The minimum legal limit was 55! I drop it in neutral and floor it so he can hear me. He wont speed up. I flash my lights and rev it, he wont speed up.
We make it to the exit, I wave like he is a dumba$$(no finger) and he slams on his breaks, cuts off the guy behind me and floors it off the ramp. I stop casually and he rolls up, windows down and asks if "we" have a problem. I said "No sir,you have the problem. You were breaking the law not me."
He says again, Mr. tough guy "Do we have a problem?" Trying to disguise my anger I say again "You were breaking the law not me. You were not obeying the speed limit and endangering the lives of everyone behind you."
He speeds off.

2. This was partially my fault and very stupid. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed so I was agitated already. I left the house to take my son to school. My neighborhood is nestled in a cove of trees and close to a freeway so I exit the subdivision onto a feeder. I maintain 50 and up ahead is my entrance to the freeway. A young man in a newer corolla is barreling down the exit ramp. Knowing the distance between the light polls I calculate he is exiting the freeway at close to 90mph! As a matter of timing I need to get over. I signal and count to ten but he is not slowing down and I am soon losing my window. He races up next to me and I give him the finger. All I can think is young punk a-hole, and I know this is not mature on my part. He SLAMS on the breaks, so hard his car veers up on the curb. I drop the hammer and get on the freeway.
I see this guy drop off the curb and floor this little car to catch me, He gets right up on my bumper and starts swerving. Now this is where I laugh because he is so brazen to believe his little car will survive me slamming on the breaks. I don't, I just slow down to 50 to take my exit. We are in morning traffic so he has no room to maneuver. I position myself in the middle lane of three between two other cars and match speed. He is freaking out because he can't get next to me. Finally a car on the left moves and he can get next to me. I pretend to ignore him. He pulls a little ahead and then turns back to scream at me and give me the finger. Then he rockets down the road and gets back on the freeway......and I wonder why he got off on the first place.
I should not have given him the finger. I had my soon to be 5 year old son in the truck and that was not mature or responsible of me. My son was completely oblivious because we were singing nursery rhymes and laughing. He didn't see me give the finger and I didn't portray any anger. But I swear if I catch that punk somewhere I will get out of my truck and beat his a$$ to the ground with my flash light (without my son around of course). When you are in the right and the guy in the wrong gives you crap, that's when I pop.
Either way we should all take the high road when we can.

 

Only your tin foil hat can save you from the conspiracy.

 

Ok all of you must be road rage magnets! In my 10 years of driving I can maybe recall 2 minor cases of RR against me. I also drive about 20k a year so I am on the road much more than most.

 

Comment for Attworth:

Technically, cruising in the far left lane at ANY speed is illegal. This law is seldom enforced. Technically, passing on the right is also illegal, also seldom enforced.

Now, in the real world, if you are on a 3 lane expressway and both the middle and right lanes are beat to crap, I don't blame you in the least for sitting out there. You were doing at LEAST the speed limit. If I were driving on that road and came across you doing this and wanted to go faster, I'd simply pass you on the right. Now, if the pavement were in decent shape in the middle lane, that might be a different story - I might get behind you at a reasonable distance and hit you with the high beams a couple times.

I think this is the funniest instance I've ever seen. Back around 1970, I was stationed in Willow Grove, PA. I was taking a couple people to the Philly airport in Friday afternoon rush hour. This was the days before I-95, the way to get there was the Schuylkill to 26th St to Penrose Ave if you know anything about Philly. At that time (don't know what it looks like now) 26th dead-ended at Penrose, the right turn was about a 45 degree, with a traffic light. Both 26th and Penrose had 3 lanes, so this was a nightmare merge in rush hour - 6 lanes into 3 which are barely moving and the traffic light was essentially meaningless. I was sitting there on 26th almost into the intersection and watched quite a show. On Penrose, in the middle of the intersection, there was a GTO with a trailer hitch, with a Chevy station wagon right behind it. The Chevy kept creeping up on the GTO and tapped bumpers. The GTO moved forward a couple feet. The Chevy again tapped bumpers. The GTO moved up a bit again, driver got out, walked back and looked at his rear bumper and gave the Chevy driver a dirty look (no finger or other gestures, and I didn't hear any shouting or anything). Well, the Chevy did it AGAIN - so what does the GTO do? He moved up as far as he could, threw it in reverse, brake torqued it to get the *** end up, and popped the brake. He put his trailer hitch right through the Chevy's radiator! Steam and antifreeze EVERYWHERE. This was in the days before bumper standards, they were purely decorative and didn't protect anything. Not a scratch on the GTO - the drawbar was a pretty long one and the ball was mounted.

 

I was riding with my grandpa once and we were pulling a 25 foot gooseneck trailer, we were on a stretch of road that it was hard to pass on and we got behind a guy doing 45-50 in a 65. He was on the cell phone, and everytime we would get a chance to pass either a car was coming or he would speed up. After about 15 min of following this guy, my grandpa is pissed we find a small opening and he guns it, we get next to him and just as our truck clears his front bumper grandpa throws on his blinker and comes back over. He took the guy all the way into the barditch, he never said a word about it just put the truck on cruis and away we went.

 

I once rolled a guys hand/arm up in the window of my car because he was threatening me. So I was merging onto a road and douche bag was behind in his FJ Loser. So its a divided road, 2 lanes going in the same direction. I needed to get into the far lane so I could get into a turning lane that was shortly down the street. Needless to say douchebag musta been in a hell of a hurry because I made my turn into the left lane and went to move over and he was already on my damn rear fender. So then douchebag wouldnt let me over, he'd speed up/slow down to the same speed, and the turn lane was coming up. Well this was when I had my Eclipse, and boy was that thing sporty. So I dropped it a few gears and flew in front of him and into the turn lane. Well douchebag (with his son in the front seat) swerves over into the turn ABS going off and what not and starts yelling at me. So I was like ****, because this guy is pretty big and I'm not. So I locked the doors, and douchebag is coming over to the passenger window and grabs the door handle. Well its locked and he starts to put his hand in the window and I was like hell no you dont and rolled that bitch up in there. He was yanking his arm out but I just kept my fingers on the up switch. I finally moved it down enough to let him get it out. And after I got home my switchblade went back into my car...just in case I met him again.

If you drive a black FJ Cruise in Huntsville, AL YOUR A DOUCHE and when I see you again Ill run you sorry *** off the road, because now I'm a lot bigger than you.