Nice....nothing like getting into a fight with the FedEx guy on your way home....

Fausto

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So I'm riding home and it starts pouring when I'm about 5 min away from my front door. Great. My neighborhood is all downhill from the turn at the top until you get to my house. I'm almost home and coming around a gradual left-hand bend and THERE'S A FREAKING FEDEX TRUCK COMING AT ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAMN ROAD! I try to swerve around him to the right, but there's a parked car on the right side of the road and only about a foot between him and the car (like I said, he's in the middle of the road) so I'm forced to hop the curb around the parked car and end up eating sh*t in the middle of someone's front yard.

Does he stop to see if I'm okay despite his stupidity? Nope. :|

Now, I'm really pissed, so I pick myself up and chase back up the hill to find this asshole. He's about 20 houses up getting out of his van to make a delivery. I pull up and start bitching him out for being waaaaaay over the center of the road and causing me to crash. Instead of apologizing, he gives me some bullsh*t excuse that there were some tree limbs hanging in the way or something. I tell him that between brushing some tree limbs and potentially getting into a head-on collision with another vehicle he'd better opt for the goddamn tree limbs next time. He carries on with this whole "Hey, it was just an accident" attitude and even goes so far as to call me a "Fscking asshole" for getting in his face about almost killing me. I finally just gave him the old "aaaaacchchch...ptoooey!" on the shoes and told him to go fsck himself and that FedEx would be getting an earful about his driving skills and vocabulary (they just did and said they'd "Look into it." Right.
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I swear it was all I could do not to beat the hell out of the guy.:|
 

Kevin

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If you were on a hill, you should've tried and released his breaks. Would've been funny waltching him run after it...
 

Mill

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You should have scratched his delivery truck. Drivers are so very anal about making sure the paint is blemish free. When I worked there they would freak if a package touched the outside of the truck.
 

Entity

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So how often do you nearly get hit riding home? I'd say it's about once/week for me. :p

Rob
 

DiZASTiX

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Originally posted by: Fausto1
I finally just gave him the old "aaaaacchchch...ptoooey!" on the shoes and told him to go fsck himself

Haha, great sound effects. But you really should have beat the sh|t ou of him...Oh an were you on your bike?

:confused:
 

mpitts

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Heheheheheh.. What was his name? Maybe I can give him a nice beatdown if I see him in the area. :D
 

Fausto

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Originally posted by: Entity
So how often do you nearly get hit riding home? I'd say it's about once/week for me. :p

Rob
There are always "moments" going to and from work, but this was scary as hell. I was almost sideways coming down the hill trying to slow down and not hit the van or the parked car. I have no idea how I managed to keep the bike upright before I got onto the grass.

 

Originally posted by: DiZASTiX
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I finally just gave him the old "aaaaacchchch...ptoooey!" on the shoes and told him to go fsck himself

Haha, great sound effects. But you really should have beat the sh|t ou of him...Oh an were you on your bike?

:confused:
I agree with both points.
 

Fausto

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Originally posted by: DiZASTiX
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I finally just gave him the old "aaaaacchchch...ptoooey!" on the shoes and told him to go fsck himself

Haha, great sound effects. But you really should have beat the sh|t ou of him...Oh an were you on your bike?

:confused:
Yeah, I commute to and from work on my mountain bike to save gas and avoid sitting in gridlocked traffic.

 

SaltBoy

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Was he that same dirty 60 year-old guy that wanted to give you... ahem... favors?
 

Entity

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Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Entity
So how often do you nearly get hit riding home? I'd say it's about once/week for me. :p

Rob
There are always "moments" going to and from work, but this was scary as hell. I was almost sideways coming down the hill trying to slow down and not hit the van or the parked car. I have no idea how I managed to keep the bike upright before I got onto the grass.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've had a few of those; most of mine are just "moments" though. Kate got hit by a car the other day -- kinda. She was in the bike lane and a car turned right from another street, pulled out, and then stopped at a light, blocking the lane. She hit them at a fairly slow speed after slamming on her brakes. They flipped her off as they passed by her; I told her next time that happens, call the cops and report a hit and run. If that's what you'd do if you were in a car, that's what you should do on a bike, I say. :p

Rob
 

Fausto

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Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Was he that same dirty 60 year-old guy that wanted to give you... ahem... favors?
You're thinking of Viper GTS....same avatar. ;)

 

BooGiMaN

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hey i feel cheated...your thread title promised violence...and here you merely had words...now go track him down and get into a fist fight...then it will fit your thread title better..


damn false advertisement... :p
 

DiZASTiX

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Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: DiZASTiX
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I finally just gave him the old "aaaaacchchch...ptoooey!" on the shoes and told him to go fsck himself

Haha, great sound effects. But you really should have beat the sh|t ou of him...Oh an were you on your bike?

:confused:
Yeah, I commute to and from work on my mountain bike to save gas and avoid sitting in gridlocked traffic.

Wow, thats really cool. Hope it is a short distance though...
 

SaltBoy

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Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Was he that same dirty 60 year-old guy that wanted to give you... ahem... favors?
You're thinking of Viper GTS....same avatar. ;)
D'oh! I kept on thinking, "how come I don't come across as many strange people as he does?" :)

 

Nitemare

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should have beaten the crap out of him and then posted pics of it.

You are learning grasshopper...
 

Fausto

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Originally posted by: Nitemare
should have beaten the crap out of him and then posted pics of it.

You are learning grasshopper...
Believe me, I really, really, really wanted to but I wasn't going to throw the first punch. He didn't actually hit me with the van and I don't need a nice battery charge on my record.

 
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Originally posted by: Fausto1
So I'm riding home and it starts pouring when I'm about 5 min away from my front door. Great. My neighborhood is all downhill from the turn at the top until you get to my house. I'm almost home and coming around a gradual left-hand bend and THERE'S A FREAKING FEDEX TRUCK COMING AT ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAMN ROAD! I try to swerve around him to the right, but there's a parked car on the right side of the road and only about a foot between him and the car (like I said, he's in the middle of the road) so I'm forced to hop the curb around the parked car and end up eating sh*t in the middle of someone's front yard.

Does he stop to see if I'm okay despite his stupidity? Nope. :|

Now, I'm really pissed, so I pick myself up and chase back up the hill to find this asshole. He's about 20 houses up getting out of his van to make a delivery. I pull up and start bitching him out for being waaaaaay over the center of the road and causing me to crash. Instead of apologizing, he gives me some bullsh*t excuse that there were some tree limbs hanging in the way or something. I tell him that between brushing some tree limbs and potentially getting into a head-on collision with another vehicle he'd better opt for the goddamn tree limbs next time. He carries on with this whole "Hey, it was just an accident" attitude and even goes so far as to call me a "Fscking asshole" for getting in his face about almost killing me. I finally just gave him the old "aaaaacchchch...ptoooey!" on the shoes and told him to go fsck himself and that FedEx would be getting an earful about his driving skills and vocabulary (they just did and said they'd "Look into it." Right.
rolleye.gif
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I swear it was all I could do not to beat the hell out of the guy.:|


cliff notes? hahaha just yanking your chain Fausto!

You should write it in a letter and send it to multiple people. That way you will be less likely of getting a bullshit response like "we will look into it".

were you on your bike?


 

Nitemare

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Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Nitemare
should have beaten the crap out of him and then posted pics of it.

You are learning grasshopper...
Believe me, I really, really, really wanted to but I wasn't going to throw the first punch. He didn't actually hit me with the van and I don't need a nice battery charge on my record.

I would have already been in booking by now ;)
 

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LOL. When i read it i thought you drove a car onto someone's lawn somehow. When you said "my bike was almost sideways" I assumed Motorcycle and I said, "Damn, maybe this guy can actually handle his bike". Then when you mentioned that it was a mountain bike...LOL, the situation is almost laughable. You are not a car. You are a bike. Deal with it. When i rode my bike a lot, duh, guys in cars can be dicks and you get your fair share of close calls. But i'll tell you right now, the biggest dicks on the whole road are these spandex clad dickwads on bikes bitching at you saying "TREAT ME LIKE A CAR!". I have no problem treating you like a car, until you go through a red light and then take up 1/2 the lane when I get there.

Anyhow, it seems like you werent being a stupid dick on a bike, but i still found it funny :) Glad you're alright though, I would have spat on his windshield too when i took off. People don't like that.
 

Fausto

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Originally posted by: SammyBoy
LOL. When i read it i thought you drove a car onto someone's lawn somehow. When you said "my bike was almost sideways" I assumed Motorcycle and I said, "Damn, maybe this guy can actually handle his bike". Then when you mentioned that it was a mountain bike...LOL, the situation is almost laughable. You are not a car. You are a bike. Deal with it. When i rode my bike a lot, duh, guys in cars can be dicks and you get your fair share of close calls. But i'll tell you right now, the biggest dicks on the whole road are these spandex clad dickwads on bikes bitching at you saying "TREAT ME LIKE A CAR!". I have no problem treating you like a car, until you go through a red light and then take up 1/2 the lane when I get there.

Anyhow, it seems like you werent being a stupid dick on a bike, but i still found it funny :) Glad you're alright though, I would have spat on his windshield too when i took off. People don't like that.
Well, he was in my lane. End of story. I obey signs, lights, etc and I expect cars to do the same. The laws applying to each are essentially the same aside from bikes having to ride near the curb unless they're moving at the same speed as traffic. I don't have any more respect for cyclist that break laws than you do because they make us all look bad and people judge all of us by the idiotic actions of a few.

EDIT- for the record, hitting a parked car at 30mph because of some brain-dead smacktard in a FedEx truck is not "laughable"

 
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Originally posted by: SammyBoy
LOL. When i read it i thought you drove a car onto someone's lawn somehow. When you said "my bike was almost sideways" I assumed Motorcycle and I said, "Damn, maybe this guy can actually handle his bike". Then when you mentioned that it was a mountain bike...LOL, the situation is almost laughable. You are not a car. You are a bike. Deal with it. When i rode my bike a lot, duh, guys in cars can be dicks and you get your fair share of close calls. But i'll tell you right now, the biggest dicks on the whole road are these spandex clad dickwads on bikes bitching at you saying "TREAT ME LIKE A CAR!". I have no problem treating you like a car, until you go through a red light and then take up 1/2 the lane when I get there.

Anyhow, it seems like you werent being a stupid dick on a bike, but i still found it funny :) Glad you're alright though, I would have spat on his windshield too when i took off. People don't like that.

You're dumb. A jackass is driving down the wrong side fo the road, and you say its alright? Do you work for Fed EX?