Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Where's your resume?
I'd be probably the tickets I have gotten in the past and those I have gotten out of.
Nice of you sticking up for your bbf.
I'd say getting lots of tickets would be pretty good evidence of your inability to handle driving quickly without reducing your attention span to the point of danger. If you aren't capable of watching for cops properly when you are calm, how are you capable of watching for other vehicles around you other than your "enemy" when you're in road-rage mode?
One of these days you're going to take out some clueless mom with her kids in the back seat doing with your aggressive bullshit and you're going to feel like a real douche. But hopefully you grow up enough to understand your responsibilities behind the wheel before that happens.
Everyone thinks they're the shit when they're behind the wheel of 3000 pounds of steel and a couple hundred horsepower. But you know damn well that if you saw another person driving exactly like you, you'd be pissed. And one day, my friend, you will encounter someone who manages their anger just as poorly as you, and that day may be your last.
When I was younger, I once had an experience in which someone pulled in front of me and slowed down. I got on their ass, they brake-checked me. I passed, and brake-checked them back, while giving him the finger. Traffic held me back and he passed again. We chased briefly, then he did a "bring it on" hand gesture and began to pull over into the center median of the freeway and open his door while still moving. I immediately thought grabbing about the "Club" I had in the back seat and the tire iron in the back and beating the shit out of him right there in the median. He didn't look that big and was older than me. But I had just enough of an instant of brains to pull back around and get back on the road. Traffic left him stuck there long enough that I lost him.
When I got where I was going, I sat and thought about it, and when I calmed down, I realized that I almost got into a fight with a deadly weapon with someone on the roadside over being CUT OFF. I started shaking with fear of myself over my lack of control. I could gone to jail or been hurt. What if I pulled out the tire iron and he pulled out a gun? What if I killed him? Either way it's game over for life as I know it. It was just so stupid to have to come that far over something that was really so small.
I realized I couldn't keep driving like that if I wanted to avoid real trouble. I resolved then and there to act differently in the future, and have done so. I can't say it doesn't upset me when someone cuts me off, but I've learned that "punishing" someone on the road is a really dumb thing to do, because sooner or later you'll meet someone with the same mindset and things are going to get ugly fast. I consider myself lucky I got a grip in time to avoid making a big mistake or hurting someone.
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