Road rager fun-amazing how it takes so little to set people off.....

[Popeye the Sailor]

So last night, coming home from the parts store (in the cage), some idiot had decided to just stop on the side of the road (multi-lane road), in the lane. Ok, that's fine-stupidity happens. I begin working my way into the next lane over, and as I start to get near the car, idiot throws open his door as wide as it will go, and steps out in front of me. I swerve around him (lucky for him), and while I do this, having no horn, I blip the throttle as a sort "hey you idiot-look out what you're doing".

This pisses him off enough that he leaps back in the car, and chases me down, screaming obscenities, etc. So, him being in a civic, and me being in a '62 ford, I jumped on the highway and floored it, put some distance between us, got off, made it through a light that he got stuck at behind some other cars, and drove on home. Friggin' annoying as shit. I'm not sure what he intended to accomplish, but if he had managed to keep up, I would've just pulled in the local police department.



I swear people weren't this easy to set off on the east coast.

[the_Journeyman]

Nah, we're pretty laid back if you stay out of the really big cities ~

JM

[Grampa]

hippies are a pissy bunch

[Popeye the Sailor]

hippies are a pissy bunch

Maybe that's why the engine rev set him off. Wasting resources.

[Grampa]

Maybe that's why the engine rev set him off. Wasting resources.

now..... yer learn'n

[DCXCV]

He was hyper-miling.

Car stalled out as he tried to eke every inch out of the previous accelleration.

He saw you coming and was hoping you would push his car with yours so he would not have to use any more gas.

You not only passed him but by blipping the throttle you spat in his face, saying, essentially, "it's only oil, dude."

His rage took over and he tried to hunt you down to turn you into bio-diesel.

[vaclav]

Sounds like half a story. You probably pissed him off miles back and he was calling you out.

[KnightofNi]

maybe he thought you were bign a dick and trying to scare him in an already dangerous situation.


though i still have no idea why he would stop unless somethign was wrong with his car.

[thejsnide]

You are a better man than I am... I would have let him follow me and then seen what he was all about.  Sorry, I just can't take people like that.

[Popeye the Sailor]

Sounds like half a story. You probably pissed him off miles back and he was calling you out.

Unlikely-I had been in a parking lot for quite some time before I even turned out.

maybe he thought you were bign a dick and trying to scare him in an already dangerous situation.


though i still have no idea why he would stop unless somethign was wrong with his car.

Who knows, but given that he gave chase, it couldn't have been that broken.

[red baron]

I swear people weren't this easy to set off on the east coast.

oh how soon ye fergets driving in Boston.

[Ducatiloo]

You are a better man than I am... I would have let him follow me and then seen what he was all about.  Sorry, I just can't take people like that.

+1  They will never learn if you don't take them to school.

[Popeye the Sailor]

+1  They will never learn if you don't take them to school.

The sort of idiot who chases someone down for this sort of thing isn't the reasonable type. I'd basically end up beating the snot out of him in the street. Not really productive, IMO.

[jdubbs32584]

I had a guy in a car chase me down on my bike. Luckily DucPete was with me and caught up to him and punched his mirror out. Dunno what I woulda done without him other than try to keep running. Scared the guy enough to stop and we took off.

To this day, we have no idea why he was screamin and yellin and tryin to hit me.

[KnightofNi]

Who knows, but given that he gave chase, it couldn't have been that broken.

yeah, that was kinda the point of the second part.

I had a guy in a car chase me down on my bike. Luckily DucPete was with me and caught up to him and punched his mirror out. Dunno what I woulda done without him other than try to keep running. Scared the guy enough to stop and we took off.

To this day, we have no idea why he was screamin and yellin and tryin to hit me.

next time be a big scary guy. that should hold the cager at bay