Monday, August 25, 2008
Extreme Road Rage
As I was running a couple of errands with Addy today, I encountered a woman who I'm pretty sure was mental! We're driving along and we came to a 4-way stop. I must say that the placement for this stop is very inconvenient, because it's really close to a light. I was sitting at the stop sign waiting to go straight through the light. The problem was that even though it was my turn to go, I couldn't because the light was red and if I went through I would have blocked the whole intersection. The lady that I mentioned earlier (who also happened to be quite scary looking!) pulled up to the same 4-way stop to the right of me and was in the same predicament I was, but I'd been waiting at the stop sign for much longer than her. So finally the light turns green and we're all able to go through the stop sign. So I have the right of way, right? Apparently crazy lady to my right didn't think so. She goes on ahead through the stop sign and I honk at her. I don't honk for a long time, just a brief, polite honk. I guess that was enough to set her off, because she stops right in the middle of the intersection, rolls her window down and starts making somewhat dramatic hand gestures and mouthing words at me. Who knows what she was saying and who really cares, but I'm pretty sure she mouthed the b word in my direction at least 3 times. My reaction was simply wave at her to move her crazy self along and laugh out loud. I can understand the whole road rage issue, because I've been there. But this lady looked like one of those people who might own a gun and use it on me at any second and for something that she was in the wrong for. Truly unbelievable!
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3 comments:
That is scary!!!! I hope you had your doors locked and your foot ready to floor it if she did get out of the car. Glad to hear your are ok.
We saw some road rage guy practically get himself in a wreck with the guy he was mad at one evening (they were right in front of us). It always reminds me to ty and have a better temper because it is not only scary but seriously embarrassing to see people have such little control over themselves and begin acting in dangerous and utterly emabarrassingly ridiculous ways!! I am sorry that it was you she was mad at though. It always gives me a yuck feeling to be the object of anyones insane anger.
I have been on both sides of the street on this one. I hate when I'm driving and there are people who should not be on the road, but when I'm the idiot that doesn't know where I'm going or I make a mistake I feel like I'm ticking people off all around me-which most likely I am. I wish I had a driver that just took me everywhere. It would be nice to be a kid again. Maybe I'd have control of the radio then too.
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