People don't f:censored: stop for "no reason..."

[RecoveringKinkoid]

...you self involved, short sighted twat.

So, yeah. I'd dropping the kid off this morning to get off the school property, you have to drive down this long, winding one way road. Speed limit's 25.

Well, my car fucking stalled. I don't know why, and I'm concerned about that. Maybe it has something to do with the weather, I don't know, it's wet and rainy and foggy over here right now. Anyways, there's a place where the road forks and narrows and goes up a rise and turns sharply, so you have no choice but to slow down a bit, and when I hit that spot, my van stalled on me and went dead.

This little idiot is behind me in her SUV, and having had her behind me the whole way down the road, I can tell you that if she could have sped, she would have. And she was doing her level best close as much distance as she could between me and her. And the instant my van failed, she hit the horn.

And I"m thinking, "Really?" That's needed here?" So I ignore her and try to restart my engine and she does it AGAIN.

So, this little asshole really, honestly thought that I just decided to park my car randomly cockeyed half way through a bend in the road? She thought I suddenly had the urge to take a nap or give myself a manicure?

She thought that, REALLY??

Normally, I would never do this. But I did it this morning. I opened my door, stepped out, looked right through her windshield and yelled "Believe me, I'd move it if I could, Honey." I didn't say it in a nice way. I stood there glaring at her for a moment, got back in my car and just sat there for a moment cooling off

Okay, NOW I'm sitting there fucking around. You want a reason to honk, shithead? Now you fucking well have one. Except she didn't honk again.

I should mention I was not really holding up traffic. There was no one behind her. Remember when I said the road forked? It takes a parallel detour and dumps you right back on the exact same road. It leads to the pick up lane. And it's real obvious you can use to as a alternate route. There was no reason in the world she couldn't just turn down the other road and go around me. So I figured she had some time to kill.

I eventually got the engine turned over and went on my way. She stayed so far behind me at that point that a couple school buses could have got in between us.

I hope that was because she was embarrassed by her own behavior and she realized she was acting like a rude twat. Either I scared her, embarrassed her, or she knows me and was even more embarrassed and didn't want to risk recognizing her. I didn't see who it was clearly, and I know a lot of people at the school, so I guess that's a possibility. But man, she stayed away from me after that.

Asshole.

I swear, some of the stupidest shit I have ever seen I've seen perpetrated by drivers around that school. The cops pull someone EVERY SINGLE DAY.

[PepperElf]

not to mention she's doing it in front of the school where everyone who knows her can see what a cunt she is

[bhskittykatt]

I remember once when we stalled on a busy road. I got out, and started pushing. Cars were honking. Um, hello? If the car would run, I obviously wouldn't be pushing it. Either go around, or get out and help me push (it was an '86 Merc Marquis, and I was going uphill...I hurt when I was done with that one). Honking does not magically fix cars. (Though it would be cool if it did work that way...someone should get on that.)

[Food Lady]

Oh, I know about those Marquis. My mom had one. So many issues.

[blas]

I've been the victim of "piece of shit car" syndrome too many times than I care to share.

One of my favorites, was when my car broke down, thankfully a friend was right ahead of me, so she whipped around and came to help. An old lady was just idling behind me, honking and staring. Hood's up, my friend and I are trying to figure out what's wrong, everyone else behind me is going around, except old Mrs. Impatient Senile.

Another time I was all alone in my car on the highway and my car shit out, and it was blocking a left turn lane, and people were just honking away.

[bhskittykatt]

Oh, I almost forgot this story.

Not to long after the marquis conked out, we passed a woman stalled at an intersection. I was like, "Hubs, let's go help her," since I was fully recalling how it sucked not getting help with the marquis.

so we stopped to help, along with another guy who had also stopped. There was a gas station right there that we were going to push her in to while she waited for her husband to come save her (her car had some sort of hot short, just like the marquis did!).

Literally, all of 20 seconds is what it would have taken. It was obvious where we were trying to push the vehicle, yet cars continued to speed past us, blocking our efforts.

I sent Hubs to do traffic control (he's a certified flagger, so I figured he knew what to do). He stopped the first car in line, who was patient and understanding, but the guy behind him was pissed and honking. Less than 20 seconds later, they were on their way. OMG we held them up sooo long!

[wagegoth]

I actually saw someone tonight try to cut off an ambulance that was trying to get on the freeway.

[Zellie Crescent]

Not a breakdown or anything like that, but when I was still in school I remember 1 morning we were picking up a couple of kids from another drivers route. We were on a little side street waiting for 1 of the kids and this guy comes up behind us and does the quick double beep then he waits for a minute backs up and goes around us, on the wrong side, on the lawn. Both the kid and his mom came out after that and the bus driver went out and talked to the mom, a couple of minutes after that we left.

[Seshat]

I actually saw someone tonight try to cut off an ambulance that was trying to get on the freeway.

I hope that one day when he needs an ambulance, some asshole slows HIS ambulance down!


Except that that would require a continuous stream of ambulance assholes.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I don't know what it was about 60s and 70s Fords, but if my family's experience is any indication, those vehicles liked to stall like it was going out of style.

My mom had two mustangs, a '66 and a '73, and my dad had a '79 F150. No matter how hard they tried to keep those vehicles running consistently during a trip someplace, the car or truck would be all HAHA NO SIR/MA'AM FU and stall once the brakes were fully engaged.

Then another time, my sister and I went to my cousin's son's birthday party at a Hardees in the next town over with an indoor playground. Our parents brought us to the party, and our cousin would bring us back home when it was over. Not being particularly well off, she had an older Oldsmobile Something-Or-Other to drive.

God is my witness, that thing stalled at least 10 times in the seven or so miles from the Hardees to our house. Each time the car died it would elicit a round of cursing and pleading that it stay running for more than a couple minutes at a crack, especially since we were on busy streets.

[blas]

I had an 87 Tempo that, any time it was over 60 degrees it seemed, you even touched the brakes, the engine killed. Had to shift back into park, turn the engine back on, and try again.

[PepperElf]

had a friend with a busted alternator but no money to fix it. luckily his battery was accessible in the van cab...

at night he'd plug it into the wall. and for stall emergencies he had a hand crank. so the passenger sometimes had crank duty

[wolfie]

I don't know what it was about 60s and 70s Fords, but if my family's experience is any indication, those vehicles liked to stall like it was going out of style.

My mom had two mustangs, a '66 and a '73, and my dad had a '79 F150. No matter how hard they tried to keep those vehicles running consistently during a trip someplace, the car or truck would be all HAHA NO SIR/MA'AM FU and stall once the brakes were fully engaged.

By any chance, was the A/C on when that happened? I've heard stories that some Fords of that vintage (especially Mustangs) used the same A/C compressor as a Lincoln - which required more power to turn than the (base) engine in the Mustang developed at idle. Short story - dropping to idle with the A/C on would inevitably stall the engine.

[Treasure]

when my mom was VERY pregnant with me, she lived in the same town that Lupo just very recently moved away from, and she had some tiny POS car that decided to stall on her, and her almost as pregnant friend. they turned on the hazard lights, popped the hood, and were trying to figure out what the issue was when this jackass decides to blare his horn at them... my mother waddled over and told him he could either go around, or trade her spots - and she'll sit in the A/C and blare the horn at him.....

about that time about 8 Harleys rumbled by.... and then did a U-turn, parked at the gas station and then walked over and told mom and her friend to get in and put it in Neutral... and proceeded to push her car into the parking lot of the gas station.... well, i think 5 or 6 did, the other 2 or 3 walked up to the window of the jackass's car and explained to him why he does NOT honk at 2 pregnant ladies with a stalled vehicle, flashers going and hood up in the Summer in hot and humid parts of Texas....


(and people wonder why I love bikes/bikers)

[Shalom]

By any chance, was the A/C on when that happened? I've heard stories that some Fords of that vintage (especially Mustangs) used the same A/C compressor as a Lincoln - which required more power to turn than the (base) engine in the Mustang developed at idle. Short story - dropping to idle with the A/C on would inevitably stall the engine.

Same story apparently with the Slant-6 in the 1977 Dodge Aspen; if you stopped at a red light, you either had to keep one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, or shut the A/C. Even then, spinning the steering wheel too fast would still stall it out.

My '88 S-10 Blazer tends to stall in cold weather. Nobody's been able to figure out why yet.