- Jan 20, 2001
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I had a run in today with an angry woman Jetta driver. So we're at a light side by side. I'm on the right; she's on the left; and there are no marked lanes. So the 2 of us should legally be able to go straight. When I pull up to her right side, she motioned me asking if i was going straight and indicated that my lane shouldn't go straight, which is moronic bullsh!t on her part. She also had a very belligerent attitude in her looks and gestures. In response, I just shrugged and smiled at her. Then as soon as the light turns green, I speed ahead (I always do that at a light, since I have good reaction time), which naturally pisses the Jetta driver off. She's all self-righteous about it too. I didn't do anything illegal AFAIK, just drove aggressively.
So anyway we're going in the same direction and before reaching another light she tries to pass me on the left. Mind you it's a one-lane road, so I sped ahead and didn't let her pass me, which naturally pissed her off even more.
She did pass me afterwards though. There was a light where there were 2 lanes at the light but merged back to single after the light. She squeezed past me and an Acura TL in front of me so she's 2 cars ahead of me; the Acura eventually turns off. I remained cool... BUT I wasn't going to let her get away with successfully passing me. So I'm right behind her at which point I tailgate her ass until the next light.
Then at the next light, it was red; I was behind her. The Jetta driver and her adult daughter storm out of the car and approach my Toyota Echo! They looked really really pissed so I locked my doors and kept my window rolled up. The woman started hollering at me to roll down my window (yeah right), I shrugged and smiled at which point she got even MORE pissed. Trust me, she wanted me to be angry and upset but I wasn't going to let her enjoy that. My shrugging and smiling and general indifference was waaay more effective.
Anyway, she was still hollering and I was still just sitting there all smug. Then she slapped my window a couple times! I'm still just calm and indifferent and very smug mind you. We're still at a light and the 2 women are outside of their parked car and making a scene on this street and this is during rush hour, around 6:30pm at a fairly busy intersection.
Then the 2 women, obviously frustrated with me, flag down some car going the other direction. They tell the random driver their sob story, pointing all these fingers at me and meanwhile I'm still inside my parked car, enjoying this whole situation, knowing I didn't do anything "wrong" and enjoying my A/C. It's awesome.
Anyway, from what I could tell the Jetta woman asked the random driver to call the cops 'cause a cop showed up soon after. Then the 2 women flock to the cop and tell him their sob story, still gesticulating a lot towards me and I'm still just inside my locked parked car waiting. Then the cop comes over to my car; I roll down the window; he could see how calm I am; he asks how I am doing; I tell him I'm fine; and he asks me what happened. I told him I was just commuting home and shrugged. Then he asked why the women claim that I was following the Jetta so closely at which point I acted all concerned and asked if there was any damage to the Jetta. I even poked my head out the window to make sure and to show concern, all this in a very calm and collected tone. Then I explained to him that I was driving closely because it was rush hour and there was bumper to bumper traffic, which was totally believable. Then he walked away. The cop talked to the women again and said we could go home. Then as the cop was driving off, I got his attention to ask if there's any summons and he said no, that I could go home and that's that.
Oh yeah I almost forgot... the Jetta and I were parked before a traffic light. Again there was 2 unmarked lanes at the light so when the cop told us to go, I pulled up to the right side of the Jetta again... and again, I smoked them when the light turned green but it turned out that at that light, the Jetta turned left and I went straight so we parted ways. Aww shucks, hehe. Man, awesome commute today... it's never ever like this either. It's usually the one part of my day that's never had drama until now. I'm usually just on auto-pilot on my commute.
I really hope I don't run into them again because they seem like the vindictive type and who knows what they're capable of... but today's run in was with my rental Echo and I will have my Eclipse back from the shop tomorrow, so they will never know it's me if they see me around town anyway.
*PHEW* All this drama is so funny ass to me though 'cause I was never upset throughout. Anyway, I hope this was nearly as entertaining to you as it was to me.
So anyway we're going in the same direction and before reaching another light she tries to pass me on the left. Mind you it's a one-lane road, so I sped ahead and didn't let her pass me, which naturally pissed her off even more.
She did pass me afterwards though. There was a light where there were 2 lanes at the light but merged back to single after the light. She squeezed past me and an Acura TL in front of me so she's 2 cars ahead of me; the Acura eventually turns off. I remained cool... BUT I wasn't going to let her get away with successfully passing me. So I'm right behind her at which point I tailgate her ass until the next light.
Then at the next light, it was red; I was behind her. The Jetta driver and her adult daughter storm out of the car and approach my Toyota Echo! They looked really really pissed so I locked my doors and kept my window rolled up. The woman started hollering at me to roll down my window (yeah right), I shrugged and smiled at which point she got even MORE pissed. Trust me, she wanted me to be angry and upset but I wasn't going to let her enjoy that. My shrugging and smiling and general indifference was waaay more effective.
Anyway, she was still hollering and I was still just sitting there all smug. Then she slapped my window a couple times! I'm still just calm and indifferent and very smug mind you. We're still at a light and the 2 women are outside of their parked car and making a scene on this street and this is during rush hour, around 6:30pm at a fairly busy intersection.
Then the 2 women, obviously frustrated with me, flag down some car going the other direction. They tell the random driver their sob story, pointing all these fingers at me and meanwhile I'm still inside my parked car, enjoying this whole situation, knowing I didn't do anything "wrong" and enjoying my A/C. It's awesome.
Anyway, from what I could tell the Jetta woman asked the random driver to call the cops 'cause a cop showed up soon after. Then the 2 women flock to the cop and tell him their sob story, still gesticulating a lot towards me and I'm still just inside my locked parked car waiting. Then the cop comes over to my car; I roll down the window; he could see how calm I am; he asks how I am doing; I tell him I'm fine; and he asks me what happened. I told him I was just commuting home and shrugged. Then he asked why the women claim that I was following the Jetta so closely at which point I acted all concerned and asked if there was any damage to the Jetta. I even poked my head out the window to make sure and to show concern, all this in a very calm and collected tone. Then I explained to him that I was driving closely because it was rush hour and there was bumper to bumper traffic, which was totally believable. Then he walked away. The cop talked to the women again and said we could go home. Then as the cop was driving off, I got his attention to ask if there's any summons and he said no, that I could go home and that's that.
Oh yeah I almost forgot... the Jetta and I were parked before a traffic light. Again there was 2 unmarked lanes at the light so when the cop told us to go, I pulled up to the right side of the Jetta again... and again, I smoked them when the light turned green but it turned out that at that light, the Jetta turned left and I went straight so we parted ways. Aww shucks, hehe. Man, awesome commute today... it's never ever like this either. It's usually the one part of my day that's never had drama until now. I'm usually just on auto-pilot on my commute.
I really hope I don't run into them again because they seem like the vindictive type and who knows what they're capable of... but today's run in was with my rental Echo and I will have my Eclipse back from the shop tomorrow, so they will never know it's me if they see me around town anyway.
*PHEW* All this drama is so funny ass to me though 'cause I was never upset throughout. Anyway, I hope this was nearly as entertaining to you as it was to me.
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