Nearly a fight over a gas pump? (in broad daylight)

[destrekor]

Repent my friend, for you are on the path of HAL.
While it may be easier to claim cultural ignorance and argue to the ends of the earth, lo, a quick Google search would ease your confusion and give you the wisdom you seek.

Where is Hal these days anyway?

This isn't HAL-like at all. I take offense, good sir!

As you see, I am not the only one here who misunderstood the V-sign thing. We Americans just don't have much, if any, history with the concept of having a negative connotation attached to that hand sign.
That, and it seems oddly repetitive to have a two-finger hand-sign represent the same bloody thing that the universally-understood one-finger hand-sign represents. Why raise two when one does the trick? 😛

Flicking the hand from under the chin toward an individual, wrist facing said individual, is an offensive gesture that is English or European in nature, yes? I think I've encountered or otherwise witnessed it in the U.S. all of two times in my life. That's twice more than the V as an offensive gesture. 😉

 

[KeithTalent]

This you op? http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...lls-pistol-after-cutting-in-line-for-gas?lite

A motorist was arrested Thursday after he tried to cut in line at a gas station in Queens and pointed a pistol at another motorist who complained, authorities said.

KT

 

[Abe Froman]

This you op? http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...lls-pistol-after-cutting-in-line-for-gas?lite



KT

Ha. Wrong Coast. clever.