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Originally Posted by chemgear
Wait, multiple incidents? I guess I'm in the tiny minority where I've never gotten out of car or gotten into a confrontation about driving? Reading some of this thread, the number of incidents and degree of escalation seem kinda excessive in my ignorant bubble of short commutes?
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For me it goes back to the 90's so it's a matter of how long you have been driving in the city. Foothills industrial a semi truck driver is trying to block me off at the end of a merge on Barlow and I squirt in front of him before I get cut off at the end of the merge lane. He gets out of his semi-truck walks towards me and I get out. He says his peace and I say mine. Incident over.
Guy in minivan cuts me off and I flip him the bird. He loses it and tails me swerving so I get fed up and turn into Nose Hill park parking lot to which he follows. I park and see him running at my car so I get out I just came from a work out and had a muscle shirt on that was showing off my 16" biceps and once he realized he was up against a much bigger man he backed off. It was actually comical as he went from full rage to afraid and backing up. I'm not going to beat anyone up so we had some calm words and parted ways.
Sitting at the front of a turning lane on Country Hills Blvd I am playing with my car radio (distracted driver ha ha) and the light turned green and the guy behind me honks so whatever I go through the intersection but he comes to the right of me and is flipping the bird and then cuts me off to which I get a little ticked and we go back and forth flipping the bird etc until I turn into my community and he follows so I pull over because I don't want him following me home and he's going nuts in my face telling me to hit him to which I'm laughing saying "you are the one that wants to fight, why would I hit you". Eventually he realizes I'm not going to oblige and we part ways.
There's a few more and I'm the first to admit that I was just as guilty as others and very immature. Now I have kids and think that there's just nothing good that can come out of these exchanges as the next person could have a knife or gun, or maybe we fight and I hurt him bad and get charged. Just nothing good so I'm generally pretty mellow now and rather than flip the bird when someone's going nuts I ignore them or just kind of brush them off.