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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:21 AM
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Poll question: Road Rage Poll
Edited on Tue Apr-25-06 12:44 AM by Mayberry Machiavelli
If I get cut off or suffer some other indignity on the roads, I:
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Extend a Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:26 AM
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1. I look for their W04 sticker
and try to make sure they get a chance to see my bumperstickers. ;)
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 03:20 AM
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12. I do the same. Then I shoot their tires out.
:)
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Race4Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:29 AM
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2. Bumper shoving. lots of it.
:evilgrin:
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:39 AM
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6. It's a good thing we've never encountered each other on a highway.
I would drive you batshit.

:D
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Race4Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 01:40 AM
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10. yea, you'd probably get away
the clutch is slipping these days.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:30 AM
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3. Shout obscenties
Funny you ask this. It happened today to me and my friend on our way to the campus.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:34 AM
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4. Learned to drive in Boston. Now drive in SoCal. #4
Sometimes you cant take the asshole out of the boy.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:38 AM
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5. When someone tailgates me, I "granny drive" or I jam my brakes.
If I'm on a two-lane highway, I'll slow down just enough so that they can't pass, and if I need to turn off, I do it at a granny's pace--sloooowly, brake, sloooowly, brake, slooowly--so that the whole turn takes about 30 seconds. If they ride my bumper, I jam on my brakes and scare the shit out of them.

If I'm on a four-lane highway and if I'm already doing 80 in the left lane and some asshole comes up behind me doing 95 and brightens his lights and rides my bumper, I speed up enough to get beside a car in the right lane, and then I maintain just enough speed to keep the asshole behind me from passing...and then, again, I do the brake-slam thing to scare the shit outta him (or of course, her)if he's riding my bumper.

I don't play well with aggressive drivers.

(And I never do any of this if MMjr's in the car.)
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:40 AM
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7. I have engaged in road rage.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:43 AM
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8. There was a time I would've gone after 'em
But I'm much better now. :crazy:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 01:34 AM
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9. All of you just get the fuck outta my way!
psych! :D



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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 01:42 AM
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11. after I finish with them
and their immediate family, I find their other relatives

and their friends


seriously, life is way too short to let idiots get under your skin.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 03:26 AM
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13. Depends upon my mood
If I am feeling serene and happy with the world, I just let it go. If I am mildly annoyed, I make comments about it. If I am feeling combative, I pass them and cut them off myself.
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 03:28 AM
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14. When I was younger:
I can remember getting out of my car at a traffic light to yell at the guy in front of me for cutting me off at 7:30 in the morning.
I loved my lil 73 Triumph Spitfire!

I wouldn't do that today.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 02:28 PM
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15. Yes, since half the folks are driving an SUV or truck these days, they'd
crunch ya if you were in a Spitfire or little Miata. I used to love those Spitfires when I was in high school. Liked the TR7 also, although it seems SO 70's now.
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 04:03 PM
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18. Back then this was my favorite toy:




I still have one small convertible :shrug: some things never change.

:hi:
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 02:45 PM
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16. Well, first I range up next to them
Then I put the car on auto-pilot, climb out the window and fling myself onto their hood. I punch out their windshield, reach in, grab the driver by the throat and drag him/her out onto the hood with me. Then I let them hang down inches from the road which is now flashing by at about 100 mph because somehow the vehicle has kept going through all this. I wait for them to cry, beg and plead for their life and then I grin and drop them, turning them into a mangled mess of flesh on the pavement.

I used to be really bad but I've gotten much better with therapy. O8)
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 02:52 PM
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17. i wear these


steel gauntlets then I just walk up and punch through their window.
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