and this man about 75 or 80 pulls out infront of me.Well i was polite i did not blow the horn or anything i just slammed on brakes.When we got to the red light he prcoceeds to get ou of his car with his CANE stands there beside the care and just starts cursing me out when he got done he got back in his care and gassed it.I could not do or say anything for laughing I think that this man thought i was crazy for laughing at him .Anyway has anything like this ever happen to you?
2007-08-10 06:59:17 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Yes...lol....I was driving home in rush hour traffic and 3 little old men, in a pick-up that was as old as they were, merged into traffic going about 20mph (speed limit was 60mph and most cars were doing at least 70mph). I slammed on my brakes and was trapped behind them for about 5 miles, top speed 30mph.
As it turned out they were going to the same place I was going. I pulled into the parking lot behind them and didn't have much choice but to park fairly close to where they parked.
I was rather amused (had calmed down considerably during that very slow 5 mile drive) as I watched them watching me. They got out of their truck and ran, well I say ran, they moved as fast as three 80 year old men could, into the store and ran behind the counter and told the clerk I was chasing them! It was hilarious!
Fortunately the clerk knew me and convinced them I wasn't going to hurt them. They made their purchase and left as quickly as possible, eyeballing me the whole way back to the parking lot. Needless to say I was nearly rolling in the floor laughing by the time they were gone.
2007-08-10 07:22:40 · answer #1 · answered by EvilWoman0913 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup.
Funnily enough, I had a big truck air horn hooked up in the little Nissan 200SX I was driving at the time and the person (not an elderly person... a younger Asian woman) gets out of her car and starts cursing at me in Vietnamese... For about 3 seconds, I was debating what to do... then I hit the air horn.
She jumped, and looked like she choked and almost started to gag. Then she went all stiff-legged and walked kinda funny back to her car.
She may have soiled herself. I don't really know. All I do know is that my abs hurt for days from the laughing I got out of that.
2007-08-10 07:37:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Never the cursing, but I have had them get mad at me when I had no idea what I supposedly did wrong. Some senior citizens should not be driving. They don't see, react, or judge speed and distance well anymore. Odds are he felt you were in the wrong, going too fast, not letting him over/in or trying to cut him off. He simply couldn't properly judge the distance he was from you or your speed. When I see them, especially if they have on those cataract wrap around shades, I just stay as far away as possible, and give them all the time/room they feel they need. Laughing at him wasn't exactly polite. You probably should have apologized for whatever it was he thought you did offensive.
2007-08-10 07:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by tushanna_m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually when that happens to me I honk at them...just because my car is small & yours is bigger doesn't mean my brakes automatically work better...it's extrememly dangerous & I let them know they are putting my own & their life in danger by not waiting a few extra seconds. Usually then I get the finger b/c I live in Houston & the people here drive like they are the only ones on the road. If they got out of there car & started yelling at me I would take off, you never can tell in Houston who has a gun & is crazy enough to use it....
2007-08-10 08:45:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I once had an older lady in a Range Rover follow me all the way from an intersection to the parking lot of Office Depot, just so she could inform me that I cut her off a couple miles back. She was like, "I could have been KILLED!!!" I honestly didn't know what she was talking about, but I could tell she was angling for a fight, so I just said, "Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to be more careful in the future," and then I gave her my winningest smile, turned around, and walked into Office Depot. I didn't look back but I could just BET there was smoke coming out of her ears!!!!
2007-08-10 07:12:00 · answer #5 · answered by fizzygurrl1980 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"good luck curse" - kind of an oxymoron, no? One time, though, something like that happened to me. I was sleeping in on my day off, and my phone rang, it was my car insurance agent, telling me my car insurance would not process b/c my check bounced. I was able to fix it with an electronic transfer over the phone right then. The freaky thing was, I keep the ringer of the phone off! I would never have gotten that phone call, and would have been driving around uninsured, if that had not happened.
2016-05-19 00:17:04 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh Yes, except for the old man happens to be my husband who has a bad case of road rage.
He drives a tanker truck for a living and he goes on and on about how people don't understand that he can not stop quickly when they pull in front of him. Over the years he has developed into a demon and he thinks that his driving is perfect. One of these days someone is going to shoot that man I swear!
2007-08-10 07:20:42 · answer #7 · answered by hlp4U1799 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
lol i live in florida most of the year, i see this kind of stuff all the time, when people get to around 75 or so they slow down a bit, and do not realize what they are doing, you just have to look out for them and smile, it will do no good to upset them or you might take the chance of causing them to have a heart attack
2007-08-10 07:03:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
omg.. now THATS funny.. not quite the same.. but one day some friends and I were going up in the parking garage near a busy little area.. there was a long line of cars behind us and this one idiot decides hes going to turn left right infront of me and try to go towards all the traffic (the WRONG WAY) so I said "WRONG WAY IDIOT" and he goes "THANK YOU".. I didnt even realize my window was cracked and that he would hear me..
2007-08-10 07:03:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I once had a vaguely similar experience myself . In my case I simply told the old man something to the effect that he was dangerously close to having his cane become a permanent fixture sticking out of his rectum !
That ended the "discussion" there and then .
2007-08-10 07:20:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋