Some great, shocking and amusing stories in the last ~100 pages
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I-76 between Conshohocken and King of Prussia in PA is possibly the worst 4 lane "Interstate" on the East Coast (two lanes in each direction). Traffic, traffic and more traffic. Tailgaters. I drive this road most weekdays on my way home from work in Downingtown, PA. I seriously wonder every day how I survive each trip home...
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Two stories that I remember:
1. I went to Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown one Saturday afternoon in January with a friend and his girlfriend. After a brewery tour and lunch, we head back to NJ. Near the interchange with I-476 (Blue Route for any locals who read this), I see in my rear view mirror a green Mercedes M-Class cutting up traffic, driven by a middle-aged blonde woman. I'm doing about 70 as there was little traffic that afternoon
. She then proceeds to cut me off and I give my GTI's horn a good workout. She then opens her window and throws something out quite forcefully in my general direction. No biggie, I thought, since it could have been a cigarette or something. I then watch as she continues to weave between lanes to get ahead.
I drop my two passengers off and head home. After I park, I walk around to the front of my car to find two or three small pieces of bread wedged in the front grill. Seriously? Bread?
I thought about eating the pieces of bread for about a split second but quickly came to my senses and chucked them in the trash. Boy, I would have liked to have tracked down that blonde bimbo and make her eat that bread...
2. In Cherry Hill, a major shopping center was opened on what was formerly a horse racing track. Predictably, traffic is quite heavy there, especially on weekends. After getting lunch one Sunday afternoon, I'm driving down the main road outside of the shopping center. At a set of traffic lights, the queue is a bit long. An Asian lady in a Honda that's behind me starts honking almost immediately as soon as the light turns green. Now, traffic is starting to move off slowly but steadily, but there are cars to the right of me (the road is four lanes wide, two in each direction, with a center turn lane). So, I basically have no place to go, even if I wanted to get out of her way. Could have gone in the center turn lane, but probably would have hit another car.
I put my hands up in the air in response. As I'm watching her in my rear view mirror, I start laughing as she's getting more and more agitated, waving her arms around, pounding the steering wheel, etc. I DONT HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO YOU ASIAN BITCH! As a final sendoff, I give her a brake check before she was able to get past me and the other cars.
Probably more to come...