Maybe the luckiest man around.......
 

So I'm driving home from shopping for my ladies birthday gift, and in a good mood, thinking about the nights events to come. I'm on a road that has 2 lanes going north, and traffic was very light. when approaching an intersection, a car rolls through on my right going west, and didn't appear to be able to stop in time for the light. as his front end enters my lane, I gas it, and swerve ever so slightly entering the left lane, and back over. DAMN! very near miss, but he did get stopped. the minivan behind me to the left blasts me with the horn, and the young lady sitting in the passenger side politely gives me the finger, and I can hear the driver shouting obsenities at me. I wave, and forget about it. At the next light,the minivan stops 10 car lengths behind the car in front of him, and I can tell he's waiting for me to stop so he can pull along side. I stop next to him and apologize for scaring them, but they did not see the other driver nearly hitting me, the reason for me swerving in the first place. He says alright, but he has an infant in the car, thats why he was so pissed. I apologize again, and noone was hurt, and no vehicles got damaged, so its all good. He agrees.
About 3 seconds later, I hear him screaming over to me again that I am "Lucky" I said "excuse me?" he says "I said your lucky, 'cause I don't Play"
Being somewhat familiar with the teenage vernacular, I assume he means I'm lucky he didn't get me along the side of the road and attempt to assault me.
I reply "thank you..I feel very lucky"
This seems to aggravate the young man, and he asks me in a rather rude way to pull over up ahead. I am now getting extremely aggravated myself, as are the other motorists that are unfortunately trapped behind the 2 idiots now at full roar in the middle of the road. I said "Alright mother f@#$er, YOU GOT IT. I'm pulling over right up here."
I pull away, and he pulls in behind me, I slow, and let all the traffic pass us, and I proceed to pull over in a convenient spot. This guy is pissed, I see the van stop even before I do, and I gradually come to a stop about 50 feet in front of him. I see him leap from the van, and start marching my way. When hes about 10 feet or so from my car, I yell to him out the window, "I'M JUST PLAYIN' " and leave him in a cloud of dust, tires squealing. I laughed to myself the rest of the 1/2 hour ride home.
For the record, I did get "Lucky" later that night.
KIDS........:shakes head:

so wat did u get ur GF? :)

an engagement ring, and a plush bathrobe. Seemed like a good combo. lol

:tup: awesome! GL with your proposal. :D

Done deal already... Thanks

Congrats! So you are a lucky man. :tup:

Good thoughts good thoughts. :tup:

Did you stop to think for 1 second he may be packing?

Stupid!

I'm confused. So it was a kid driving and he had an infant in the mini van? Couple in a van with a kid sounds like they would be adults. Then again with the degeneration of our youth, he could have been 16 with a kid. Glad you didn't get hurt or get in a wreck though! Some people are crazy. I would have done the same thing. Made him get out of the car and then leave him the dust laughing. Good for you.

That's why I carry when I drive. Commuting into Atlanta every weekend, you never know who you will come across.

That is why you pack yourself, never leave home without it. I live in Texas.

Sounds like a very risky move if you weren't carrying one on you. But congrats on the engagement!

Well I think even if he was carrying, it wouldn't of been in his best interest to shoot him since he was fueling the argument. Now as long as both parties don't have guns I say fight it out, but you never can guarantee that.

I agree with kidkotic! I never leave home without it unless I know I am going to be drinking or hitting the bars.

Good thing you didn't get beat up, she may have said "no" lol. j/k congrats!

:barf:

:yawn:

:facepalm:

...WTF
I would have not even looked at him...
yet alone stop.
In your case, if you tried to apologize, and he was still acting up, down shift..and bye.

True. No need to put yourself in harms way for no reason at all. These little punks are unpredictable, given their general lack of cognitive abilities.

Hell ya similar situation although the dude just cut me off the after I asked wtf he's was doing he proceeds to do the whole pull over Muthfukr and all that which I did I was given no chance the dude kept throwing his car at mine and wouldent back off I really tried to avoid contact. He stopped quick and got outta his car with a beer bottle <--- go figure lol . Anyway once I saw the bottle either going at the z or my head couldn't really tell I pulled the SIG out and that stopped really quickly never thought if ever have to pull out my gun on someone. But I knew I wasent in the wrong and was scared for my life ( dude was massive tattooed Hispanic man). Anyway I calmly told him I felt threatened and I was going to shoot and he quickly scrambled back to his car wether to get a gun or run idk but I took off outta there like a bat outta hell . And he chased me for a bit but c'mon he was in mustang he dident stand a chance :p anyway I LOVE TEXAS and hate ridiculous drunks :)

Oh yeah and allways carry. Better to have it and not need it that need it and not have it!

Good for you. :tiphat: I'd pull a gun if I felt that a) my life and well-being was at risk or b) my property was at risk.

OP:

I can not understand why people could think you were just swerving to be a rude idiot, while they all saw the car run the light.

I would not stop to engage this yahoo, after your first chat.

What bothers me most is that this fellow will go to raise a child to behave like him. If you had engaged him I'd like to think the police arrive, you explain the situation and Child Protective Services determines he is an unfit father. At least the kid might get a chance in this world.

i see this often. even in my community. guy failed life 60's. his son is also failing...30's. the guy's grand son will fail in the future 2yr old, looking at how his failing son is raising him.

so we nicknamed the grandson 'Will' :icon17: ;) jk

failure is like part of the gene. he/she can cover it up with good behavior, but deep inside, loser will always be a loser. :shakes head:

This is probably one of the most immature, irresponsible acts I've read about in a while (and there have been plenty).

Next time you may not be so lucky.

:facepalm: @ the guy getting road rage and jumping out to fight while he has an infant in the car. I feel sorry for the kid already.

I never understood why some people try to get you out of your car so they can fight you... :shakes head:

Especially mini van drivers. :icon14:

i know, the glare from their bald head will probably blind me. :eek: i'll be like ok, ok, you win.

:rofl2:

:tup:

Amazingly true.

How many folks would just meet an unknown chick and have unprotected sex with her? Yet road brawlers would take on an unknown dude and mix their blood together, risking a pathogen.

I guess it is easier to hit some one successfully than to hit on someone successfully.

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I carry a pistol as well, but.... Why most of you are always so reliant on guns??? Men today are so afraid to scrap. Most of you would pull out for someone putting up there dukes... Sounds real cowardly to me. Fighting builds character. You win some you lose some.

My piece will only come out with eminent danger present. If you can't tell what that is or when it's going to occur? Stay home....

Too many cowards these days.

I'm terrified of a fistfight these days. All it takes is for one of the participants to fall and hit their head and it goes from a fistfight to serious felony charges.

not in a stand your ground state.... But I lived in new York all my life where fighting is illegal. But I fought anyone who had the urge to try me... Cops come.? You stay quiet and walk away. No one talks? It's not worth I t to the cops. I'm older now so I don't come across that type often. But I'd scrap with any guy that wants to be a man about it. We both live to see the next day. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. But you can walk away as men and at least respect the guy for holding h is own. Win or lose.

Eh, it's always a crapshoot there. If you're using your fists it's because you do not have a reasonable fear of loss of life, so you don't have a lot of the protections of self defense laws. If someone dies under those circumstances, it could get legally iffy. Not to mention civil liability. I'll pass on the fisticuffs unless the other guy agrees to sign a waiver and hold harmless agreement, and we have some grass to fight on. Parking lot concrete is unforgiving.

All of that is assuming it's a one on one altercation. In a world absent of legal repercussions, let's go. If it's me vs. you and all of your friends we have a different situation that fits the definition of "reasonable fear of loss of life" very cleanly.

That being said, I'm not one to advocate using a gun. I've got them, I shoot competitively, carry daily and will not hesitate if my safety or that of my family is threatened. But a lot of people here seem to misunderstand when to use it. If mine comes out it's because I think I'm about to be killed. That's it.

Luckiest Man ?
 

Guns have a strange power on ones mind. I'm all for protection and our rights. My wife has one in her car. But, there are way too many people dead or in jail because a pistol was conveniently close by. I'd rather take an *** whipping than go to jail for a very long time. And put my family thru it.

That's the damn truth. They'd use me as currency in jail.

I've had my *** whipped before, and it'll happen again sometime I'm sure. It's not the worst thing in the world. It's actually an important part of life. You learn a lot getting your *** kicked. I think that's why women will do or say some **** a man wouldn't consider because it would get your *** beat, and women are apparently exempt from that type of consequence.

c'mon guys, really? Sounds a bit immature, no? I have to fight in order to be a man? What century are we in right now? I did have some smaller fights back in HS and college, but please, it takes a bigger man to just walk away rather than get into a fist fight and pissing mach, at least I am confident enough about myself to see it's not worth feeling unnecessary pain. Anyway...just my humble opinion, maybe I'm too old for that teeny crap!

My Father, who's now 78, said in the service they'd get to port, all get drunk, and then just fight for the fun of it, he said the best thing was to get your back in a corner and go at it. He said no one would try to kill you, no one pulled a knife, it was just good drunken fun. Crazy.

Next thing will be a Z for sale.:eek:

I carry a .40 and last time I recall having a crazy **** leave his car amd come at me in the middle of the road I pointed it at his dome. I'm sure he never had that problem again. This was about 2 years back. Silly people. Tricks are for kids.

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