Dude, excellent post. You have a way with words, and I like how you actually got some politeness out of the rude arse at the end of that segment.
Your bit about the old folks made me twitch, though. Once the Hubster and I took a little drive up through New Brunswick into Quebec, and up the St. Lawrence on the Trans-Canada highway. I grew up in a big city, I'm used to major highway traffic. The Hubster is not, but he insisted on driving and it was his car, so I let him learn the hard way. Even *I* was not prepared for the sight of an RV passing us at probably 120km/hr, driven by a man older than the dirt in my garden. His equally fossilized spouse was in the passenger seat, and when she came level with our front seat, she gave us the finger. They promptly cut us off and sped off into the distance.
We stopped at the next motel that appeared and were excruciatingly polite to the people that worked there, in spite of being so rattled we almost didn't sleep that night. It wasn't the motel folks' fault, and they were awesome and appropriately sympathetic. I don't take out my issues on strangers, I just don't.
Your bit about the old folks made me twitch, though. Once the Hubster and I took a little drive up through New Brunswick into Quebec, and up the St. Lawrence on the Trans-Canada highway. I grew up in a big city, I'm used to major highway traffic. The Hubster is not, but he insisted on driving and it was his car, so I let him learn the hard way. Even *I* was not prepared for the sight of an RV passing us at probably 120km/hr, driven by a man older than the dirt in my garden. His equally fossilized spouse was in the passenger seat, and when she came level with our front seat, she gave us the finger. They promptly cut us off and sped off into the distance.
We stopped at the next motel that appeared and were excruciatingly polite to the people that worked there, in spite of being so rattled we almost didn't sleep that night. It wasn't the motel folks' fault, and they were awesome and appropriately sympathetic. I don't take out my issues on strangers, I just don't.
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