Posted: 5/15/2017 5:07:41 PM EDT
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On my way home earlier going southbound 35, just passed downtown Austin. At that point I still have about 7 miles until my exit, for some reason traffic gets real shitty south of downtown. As I'm coming up to the clusterfuck of idiots who can't properly merge onto a highway (which is half of this city apparently), this guy in a shit box with just about every panel a different color decides to merge pretty much right in front of me from a dead stop. Naturally I'm going about 40-50 since this is a highway so after some hard braking, cussing, horn usage and the finger this motherfucker puts his car in park and decides he's going to get out of it and start walking towards me.
On a side note something like this happened to me when I was around 18-19, I drove a convertible foxbody at the time and had the top down so I don't take chances when it comes to shit like this. Anyway so as soon as I see him open his door I reach over to my glove box for my g43 (usually its a g26 with a 17 spare but I switch it up when I ride my bike and don't always swap back right away). He must have known what was up as soon as he saw me reach over because after some shit talking he got back in his car and drove off. I kept behind him since we were in the right lane and my exit was coming up. Meanwhile he kept motioning out his window for me to follow him. He ended up taking the same exit as me and when he pulled into the gas station I just kept going. My only thought at that point was to make sure he didn't follow me home. In hindsight, if this guy would have been more serious about starting some shit I would have been at a serious disadvantage. Although I was pretty quick reaching over, by the time I opened the glove box and dumbly felt around for my pistol it had taken entirely too long. After nearly 32yrs here I'll be moving to rural Tx in a couple months, I can't fucking wait. TLDR: Austin drivers fucking suck, some of them are actually psychotic. I'm moving out of this fucking city soon. |
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Generally lots of drivers really suck and believe everyone else is at fault regardless. My CZ75 sits close at hand when I have to do any city driving anymore - aggressive, ignorant, entitled drivers thinking they own the road and willing to push things too far over it. |
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Yup. Generally lots of drivers really suck and believe everyone else is at fault regardless. My CZ75 sits close at hand when I have to do any city driving anymore - aggressive, ignorant, entitled drivers thinking they own the road and willing to push things too far over it. Quoted:
Yup. Generally lots of drivers really suck and believe everyone else is at fault regardless. My CZ75 sits close at hand when I have to do any city driving anymore - aggressive, ignorant, entitled drivers thinking they own the road and willing to push things too far over it. Quoted:
Austin is a horrible place to drive. I have a theory that it's because the town draws a certain type into moving here: the self-absorbed, immature idiot/asshole who just wants to party. It really shows in the way they drive. |
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Do not flip people off if you want it to be a good shoot. Re-read your Texas handgun license law again and you will understand what I mean. Best course of action is..... https://media.giphy.com/media/PEG8aeFa0sV44/giphy.gif My car is way to nice and parts are way to hard to find (and expensive) to be doing pit maneuvers. |
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On my way home earlier going southbound 35, just passed downtown Austin. At that point I still have about 7 miles until my exit, for some reason traffic gets real shitty south of downtown. As I'm coming up to the clusterfuck of idiots who can't properly merge onto a highway (which is half of this city apparently), this guy in a shit box with just about every panel a different color decides to merge pretty much right in front of me from a dead stop. Naturally I'm going about 40-50 since this is a highway so after some hard braking, cussing, horn usage and the finger this motherfucker puts his car in park and decides he's going to get out of it and start walking towards me. On a side note something like this happened to me when I was around 18-19, I drove a convertible foxbody at the time and had the top down so I don't take chances when it comes to shit like this. Anyway so as soon as I see him open his door I reach over to my glove box for my g43 (usually its a g26 with a 17 spare but I switch it up when I ride my bike and don't always swap back right away). He must have known what was up as soon as he saw me reach over because after some shit talking he got back in his car and drove off. I kept behind him since we were in the right lane and my exit was coming up. Meanwhile he kept motioning out his window for me to follow him. He ended up taking the same exit as me and when he pulled into the gas station I just kept going. My only thought at that point was to make sure he didn't follow me home. In hindsight, if this guy would have been more serious about starting some shit I would have been at a serious disadvantage. Although I was pretty quick reaching over, by the time I opened the glove box and dumbly felt around for my pistol it had taken entirely too long. After nearly 32yrs here I'll be moving to rural Tx in a couple months, I can't fucking wait. TLDR: Austin drivers fucking suck, some of them are actually psychotic. I'm moving out of this fucking city soon. Sounds like you have anger issues... 
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The worse part when dealing with people like that you dont know if they just killed their wife and kids or not. Some people truly have nothing else to lose. I usually just laugh it off anymore and keep going when Im not in my marked patrol car.
Life is too short to get into something that will alter the rest of your days over something so small. |
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I would be a liar if I said otherwise. You would have to live here to understand how awful people drive around here. Quoted:
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Sounds like you have anger issues... |
| If someone does something stupid to jeopardize my safety I'm going to let them know they are a fucking idiot, If that means I'm raging so be it. If that person decides to step out of their car on a major US highway during heavy traffic to try and further threaten me that is their decision not mine. Maybe I'm on edge when I drive because I value my life and its easy to lose when people don't pay attention. |
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 If you  really want to  cut down on the number and severity of your interactions with fellow motorists, please study, deconstruct, and ponder  this quote from your second post in this thread:
 "I guess after years of getting in little road altercations where you each talk your shit through the window at the other person and continue on with your lives you just don't expect it to ever escalate." |
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I used to drive in Boston.
And I mentioned to my brother how aggressive the drivers are and how difficult a basic morning commute could be. And his response was I live in Atlanta and our traffic is the worst... until he flew up to visit, rented a car and nearly had a nervous breakdown just trying to drive from the airport (Logan). Honestly I thought New York City drivers were courteous and polite compared to Boston drivers. But they don't call them "massholes" for no reason. |
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On my way home earlier going southbound 35, just passed downtown Austin. At that point I still have about 7 miles until my exit, for some reason traffic gets real shitty south of downtown. As I'm coming up to the clusterfuck of idiots who can't properly merge onto a highway (which is half of this city apparently), this guy in a shit box with just about every panel a different color decides to merge pretty much right in front of me from a dead stop. Naturally I'm going about 40-50 since this is a highway so after some hard braking, cussing, horn usage and the finger this motherfucker puts his car in park and decides he's going to get out of it and start walking towards me. On a side note something like this happened to me when I was around 18-19, I drove a convertible foxbody at the time and had the top down so I don't take chances when it comes to shit like this. Anyway so as soon as I see him open his door I reach over to my glove box for my g43 (usually its a g26 with a 17 spare but I switch it up when I ride my bike and don't always swap back right away). He must have known what was up as soon as he saw me reach over because after some shit talking he got back in his car and drove off. I kept behind him since we were in the right lane and my exit was coming up. Meanwhile he kept motioning out his window for me to follow him. He ended up taking the same exit as me and when he pulled into the gas station I just kept going. My only thought at that point was to make sure he didn't follow me home. In hindsight, if this guy would have been more serious about starting some shit I would have been at a serious disadvantage. Although I was pretty quick reaching over, by the time I opened the glove box and dumbly felt around for my pistol it had taken entirely too long. After nearly 32yrs here I'll be moving to rural Tx in a couple months, I can't fucking wait. TLDR: Austin drivers fucking suck, some of them are actually psychotic. I'm moving out of this fucking city soon. Sounds like you have anger issues... |
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If someone does something stupid to jeopardize my safety I'm going to let them know they are a fucking idiot, If that means I'm raging so be it. If that person decides to step out of their car on a major US highway during heavy traffic to try and further threaten me that is their decision not mine. Maybe I'm on edge when I drive because I value my life and its easy to lose when people don't pay attention. |
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If someone does something stupid to jeopardize my safety I'm going to let them know they are a fucking idiot, If that means I'm raging so be it. If that person decides to step out of their car on a major US highway during heavy traffic to try and further threaten me that is their decision not mine. Maybe I'm on edge when I drive because I value my life and its easy to lose when people don't pay attention. |
| I don't really see it as itching, I see it as if someone is crazy enough to jump out of their car on the highway then I have no idea what they are going to do and I'd rather have a gun handy in case they are truly crazy. People honk all the time, It's not like I was hanging out my window talking shit to the guy. I pretty much just stuck my middle finger up at him from my steering wheel to make sure he knew how I felt. As in my earlier statement about talking shit to eachother that was a generalized statement about people who get in road altercations, I didn't mean myself I thought that would have been obvious they way I phrased it, I guess not. I go to work at 3:30am so theres nobody on the road and when I leave work it's usually not a whole lot of traffic either so this is not a normal circumstance for me. From ya'lls description of me I guess I need to get a therapist, disable my horn and just be oblivious to it all.. |
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I don't really see it as itching, I see it as if someone is crazy enough to jump out of their car on the highway then I have no idea what they are going to do and I'd rather have a gun handy in case they are truly crazy. People honk all the time, It's not like I was hanging out my window talking shit to the guy. I pretty much just stuck my middle finger up at him from my steering wheel to make sure he knew how I felt. As in my earlier statement about talking shit to eachother that was a generalized statement about people who get in road altercations, I didn't mean myself I thought that would have been obvious they way I phrased it, I guess not. I go to work at 3:30am so theres nobody on the road and when I leave work it's usually not a whole lot of traffic either so this is not a normal circumstance for me. From ya'lls description of me I guess I need to get a therapist, disable my horn and just be oblivious to it all.. Fuckhead cut you off, instead of driving defensively you got aggressive and the situation escalated, you admitted to yelling and honking at him also. People are idiots, by contributing you aren't helping the situation. Do better. |
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You make a good point but damn if that isn't hard to do. I guess after years of getting in little road altercations where you each talk your shit through the window at the other person and continue on with your lives you just don't expect it to ever escalate. Especially riding a motorcycle in this city, I'm probably flipping the bird multiple times a day when I ride. My car is way to nice and parts are way to hard to find (and expensive) to be doing pit maneuvers. |
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I see it like this. Fuckhead cut you off, instead of driving defensively you got aggressive and the situation escalated, you admitted to yelling and honking at him also. People are idiots, by contributing you aren't helping the situation. Do better. |
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A couple months ago I observed an amusing pissing content between a guy with a beater Ford Explorer and another guy with a new Bentley SUV. Looked up the SUV later, base price is north of $200k.
I was in the left lane the entire time. Explorer was in the center lane. The Bentley dude was all over the place, constantly changing lanes to try and get ahead of traffic. He swerved into the center lane when there just wasn't any room, so the Explorer guy slammed onto his brakes and horn to avoid the Bentley. Bentley dude came to a complete stop in the center lane... brilliant. My lane kept going, figured that was that. Maybe a mile later, I see the Bentley zooming up in the right line like a fool again. I see the Explorer is behind me. Bentley guy gets into the center lane and starts swerving at the Explorer like he was acting like he was going to ram the Explorer..lol. Bentley douche does this a few times, then stomps the gas to get ahead and cut off the Explorer. But he was a tard and misjudged it. His cut off attempt resulted in him ramming the quarter panel of his $200k+ SUV into the fender of a total shitbox...lol The both pulled over. I'm sure they had a friendly chat on the side of the road  I was tempted to just go ahead and call the cops as I drove away... but decided to MMOB.
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There's no shortage of it during my daily commutes, it's why I have a dash cam. |
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There's no shortage of it during my daily commutes, it's why I have a dash cam. |
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I don't really see it as itching, I see it as if someone is crazy enough to jump out of their car on the highway then I have no idea what they are going to do and I'd rather have a gun handy in case they are truly crazy. People honk all the time, It's not like I was hanging out my window talking shit to the guy. I pretty much just stuck my middle finger up at him from my steering wheel to make sure he knew how I felt. As in my earlier statement about talking shit to eachother that was a generalized statement about people who get in road altercations, I didn't mean myself I thought that would have been obvious they way I phrased it, I guess not. I go to work at 3:30am so theres nobody on the road and when I leave work it's usually not a whole lot of traffic either so this is not a normal circumstance for me. From ya'lls description of me I guess I need to get a therapist, disable my horn and just be oblivious to it all.. |
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Its everywhere now, man. People are fucking assholes. Worst part of my day is the commute to work. Most of it is on rural roads and I still see crazy shit every single day.
I ignore what I can and curse a lot under my breath (this, I've found, actually helps). I never give anybody the finger or do anything to escalate things. I've found its best to speak softly and carry a big stick. I'm not about to start any shit and go to the utmost to avoid any trouble but if trouble somehow manages to find me, I am always prepared to make trouble wish it had picked someone else. |
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Do you have this same face to face interaction with someone standing ahead of you in line that is taking a little to long to place their order? Yes, you typically get away with it on the road because everyone has somewhere they need to be. Keep this behavior up and you will eventually encounter someone that is at there wits end with life and really don't give a fuck. You will be culpable for the aftermath, whether you live, die or other. |
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Yup. Generally lots of drivers really suck and believe everyone else is at fault regardless. My CZ75 sits close at hand when I have to do any city driving anymore - aggressive, ignorant, entitled drivers thinking they own the road and willing to push things too far over it. |
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Its everywhere now, man. People are fucking assholes. Worst part of my day is the commute to work. Most of it is on rural roads and I still see crazy shit every single day. I ignore what I can and curse a lot under my breath (this, I've found, actually helps). I never give anybody the finger or do anything to escalate things. I've found its best to speak softly and carry a big stick. I'm not about to start any shit and go to the utmost to avoid any trouble but if trouble somehow manages to find me, I am always prepared to make trouble wish it had picked someone else. I grew up in the city so road altercations are everywhere, I always just assumed it was part of driving. Maybe that's where I got the habit of showing my displeasure to certain drivers (my dad certainly didn't help as he was always getting into them as well, granted he drove for a living). I agree it's certainly something I could probably improve on. I still have to commute here everyday for work but maybe being able to retreat out of the city at the end of the day will help. |
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In this thread we see who's going to prison one day. |