How Many Times Do I Have to Pwn You, Lady?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Fun fact: In many states (California included), it's actually illegal to flash your lights at other drivers on a multi-lane highway.

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Well, in all states, it's illegal to tailgate and speed, and yet that does not seem to be the deal breaker for these idiots.

[Mytical]

Well, in all states, it's illegal to tailgate and speed, and yet that does not seem to be the deal breaker for these idiots.

We all know that is because they are Spechal Snowflakes that the rules do not apply to.

[wolfie]

I don't know about you, but when I see stupid or aggressive drivers they're ALWAYS in either:

1) A half-destroyed junker with a Japanese or Korean marque
2) A very new, if not brand new, car with a luxury european marque

And both categories crush equally well when they encounter the Peterbilt of Natural Selection.

or the soccer moms in their oversized SUVs of doom.

SUVs of self-doom when they try their "I've got 3 tons of steel to protect my family, so get out of my way" tactic against someone who's got 10 tons (bobtail) to turn them into a red smear.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

SUVs of self-doom when they try their "I've got 3 tons of steel to protect my family, so get out of my way" tactic against someone who's got 10 tons (bobtail) to turn them into a red smear.

This very weekend, I said to Mr. Kinkoid "You know these idiots who drive these monster SUVs because they are 'safer' kind of negate any sort of safety edge they might have had when they drive like jackasses."

If you're more likely to be in an accident because you don't know how to drive, I don't care what you're driving. It's not "safer."

[Dips]

Guess whe ended up behind me again this morning?

I didn't see her until we were approaching the light where she had previously tried to pass me twice.

I glanced in my rearview and saw a black Mercedes SUV. She wasn't tailgating so I couldn't see the driver.

The light was red so we stopped and I checked the mirror again and recognized the driver. It was her.

Geez. Not again.

Anyway the light turned green and the line of cars was a little slow to get going but we all got up to speed.

Check the rearview and bitch is tailgating me. AGAIN.

So I was very cautious in slowing down to make my left turn onto the highway.

This time she beeped at me. Just a little one.

I did what I always when someone beeps at me when I'm not doing anything wrong. I assumed she was saying "Hi!" and waved at her.

You know what she did?

She smiled and waved back. It was actually somewhat friendly.

Then she backed off and left plenty of room as she went around me on the right.



Yeah. I'll never figure people out.

BONUS Roadkill

I didn't luck out so much the rest of the time this morning. I had TWO people try to change lanes into me.

The first one was smart. He heard my horn and stopped coming over. But the second one didn't care and kept coming over even though I was making enough noise that she should have HEARD me even if she hadn't seen me.

I don't know what she was thinking. There was plenty of room behind me. There was no room in front of me and certainly no room for both cars in the same space. So I'm not sure why she didn't just drop back and move over into the wide open space behind me.

I ended up swerving into the breakdown lane to avoid the collision. And, since my exit was right there, I just stayed there and took my exit.

Turns out the idiot was taking my exit too. She wound up behind me anyway. Exactly where she would have ended up if she'd waited until I was out of her way before moving into that lane.

Here's hoping tonight brings me a nice drama-free commute.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I think the problem is that people somehow do not realize that those annoying asshole cars on the road are being driven by people just like them, who are just trying to get to their destination in one piece, and who are not deliberately trying to piss off every other driver on the road.

Once it snaps into their head a living, breathing person is actually driving the car and it is not, in fact, a mindless cylon drone, they tend to change their reaction.

Usually. Not always. I mean, there are people who are just bullying asshats out there. But most people will.

[Dips]

I like that theory. It's something all of us need to keep in mind.

Maybe she thought I was someone she knew after she saw my wave.

I mean it's OK to be an ass and endanger the life of a perfect stranger but we certainly wouldn't want to do that to someone who knows where we live, right?

Either way, I was pretty amused.

[Somewhat related funny story. My youngest younger brother worked with a woman for years. Eventually the woman left and at her going away party, she mentioned that on her first day at that job my brother had given her the finger.

YYB: I did?

Woman: Yeah. On the road to here.

YYB: Gosh. I'm sorry. I honestly don't usually do that unless someone does it to me first.

Woman: Well. I kind of did do it to you first.

YYB: Oh. OK.

She'd been carrying around for years this big worry that she'd flipped off her boss before she even knew he was her boss. To go on like that thinking there was this big elephant in the room that nobody was mentioning and he didn't even remember it. ]

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I mean it's OK to be an ass and endanger the life of a perfect stranger but we certainly wouldn't want to do that to someone who knows where we live, right?
:]

As screwed up as that is, yeah. Pretty much.

I think it's almost a primitive tribal thing. If they connect with you on some level, no matter how trivial, you exist. You are a real person. If you don't, you don't exsist or matter.

Sad, but I am thinking that is how it goes.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

you might be onto something, for what the validity of this publication is worth.

[roothorick]

you might be onto something, for what the validity of this publication is worth.

Oh, they're right, oh so very right. This has been a fairly well-understood and scientifically-accepted concept since long before the age of the Internet, and has been used and abused by leaders of all kinds for as far back as our recorded history goes, and beyond. Cracked.com only helped bring it into the public consciousness, for better or worse.

[Andara Bledin]

I was going to bring up the monkeysphere. Eddie Izzard has a bit of routine that expounds on this briefly when going on about mass murderers. Once you get past a certain number, it stops having any real meaning.

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[RecoveringKinkoid]

Wow. You know, that's really a very good article.