the Interceptor
I LUV MY PRIUS!!!
Okay, here's another one of mine. I was going home from visiting my uncle together with my parents. I was driving the car though. Close to home, there's a fairly broad road with a speed limit of 70 km/h (44 mph). Just before you get to the crossing where I have to turn right, you go over a bridge. Obviously, this is a blind crest, probably with cars queueing up at the crossing, therefor I think that doing 80 km/h (50 mph) there is enough. The guy behind me didn't think so it seemed, cause he was approaching fast and tailgated me badly. I was in my parents Ford Scorpio by the way, he was in some kind of Nissan Offroader.
Unfortunately for him, we were both going right at the crossing. After you've turned, there's a short acceleration lane, from which you can go on two lanes. The left one goes left only after 300 metres, the right one goes straight. I figured that he'd want to go straight, cause only the people that live there (like us) go left. So, I set my indicator and crossed the middle one to the left lane. The tailgater however didn't want to wait until I am out of his way, he immediately pulled to the very left to overtake me.
So, I honked my horn, because I already was about half on the lane he suddenly appeared on. But I had to give way. After he had passed me, he slammed on his brakes to annoy me. I had to brake pretty hard as well, so I honked again. He changed to the right lane, opened his side window and shouted some pretty bad words at me. Usually I'm a relaxed, calm guy, but it seems I already was on adrenaline. I opened the passengers side window and shouted back. He stopped the car and got out, and so did I. About 0.2 seconds later, we were standing face to face ... in theory. I'm 6'3", rather fat than muscular, but pretty big. I had to suppress a laugh when I saw that a foreign-looking 5'-guy had climbed out of that pretty big Nissan. He asked me if I was stupid, and what my problem would be. I told him that he shouldn't tailgate me, and that he could have been going as fast as he wanted if he'd have been waiting another 3 seconds for me to get out of his way. We were arguing about a minute, then he just stopped, went back to his car and drove off with screeching tyres.
Only now, I noticed that a fair amount of cars, about 20 maybe, had gathered behind us. Funnily, noone ever honked to flashed his lights, they were just standing there, probably waiting for us to hit each other or something. It must have been a pretty funny sight, finding two cars parking on a two-lane-road, and the drivers standing face to face shouting at each other. Anyway, I got back in the car and drove the rest of the way home. My parents looked pretty scared, my mom just said:"I've never seen you like that!".
Regards
the Interceptor
Unfortunately for him, we were both going right at the crossing. After you've turned, there's a short acceleration lane, from which you can go on two lanes. The left one goes left only after 300 metres, the right one goes straight. I figured that he'd want to go straight, cause only the people that live there (like us) go left. So, I set my indicator and crossed the middle one to the left lane. The tailgater however didn't want to wait until I am out of his way, he immediately pulled to the very left to overtake me.
So, I honked my horn, because I already was about half on the lane he suddenly appeared on. But I had to give way. After he had passed me, he slammed on his brakes to annoy me. I had to brake pretty hard as well, so I honked again. He changed to the right lane, opened his side window and shouted some pretty bad words at me. Usually I'm a relaxed, calm guy, but it seems I already was on adrenaline. I opened the passengers side window and shouted back. He stopped the car and got out, and so did I. About 0.2 seconds later, we were standing face to face ... in theory. I'm 6'3", rather fat than muscular, but pretty big. I had to suppress a laugh when I saw that a foreign-looking 5'-guy had climbed out of that pretty big Nissan. He asked me if I was stupid, and what my problem would be. I told him that he shouldn't tailgate me, and that he could have been going as fast as he wanted if he'd have been waiting another 3 seconds for me to get out of his way. We were arguing about a minute, then he just stopped, went back to his car and drove off with screeching tyres.
Only now, I noticed that a fair amount of cars, about 20 maybe, had gathered behind us. Funnily, noone ever honked to flashed his lights, they were just standing there, probably waiting for us to hit each other or something. It must have been a pretty funny sight, finding two cars parking on a two-lane-road, and the drivers standing face to face shouting at each other. Anyway, I got back in the car and drove the rest of the way home. My parents looked pretty scared, my mom just said:"I've never seen you like that!".
Regards
the Interceptor
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