"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
01/23/2018 at 12:04 • Filed to: None
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"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
01/23/2018 at 12:04 • Filed to: None | 2
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I pulled up to the stop and saw the Explorer down the hill coming up towards me. I had plenty of time so I pulled out onto the street and started accelerating up to 60 or ~5 over the limit.
The Explorer keeps bearing down on me and instinctually I accelerate. Before I know it I’m going 80 and cresting the hill and this guy is right on my tail. Not a big deal he can easily pass me on this side of the hill as it is a legal passing zone, it is clear and he has the momentum.
I start slowing down and he saws the wheel to the left maintaining his rocket like speed and then darts back into the lane. “Where’s the fire buddy?” I think to myself.
For some reason I cannot fathom he gets on the brakes and he gets on the brakes hard. Fortunately I was already slowing and so it wasn’t a huge issue but it was clear that what he was doing was intentional. I take the next left onto my road and forget about this guy.
Fast forward to some months later. Going over the same hill but the other side. It is late afternoon, sunny, I’m maintaining my normal ~5 over, I’ve got my son and we’re heading to the library. Someone starts approaching quickly from behind and we’re crossing over from the 55 to 40 zone when this guy goes screaming past me.
I honk my horn and flash my highbeams at him to try to let him know it’s 40mph. That’s when he stands on the brakes. It’s that same Explorer, vet tags and thin blue line sticker.
Dude guy slows waaay down and I have to stomp on the brakes to not hit him. I flip on my highs and he comes to a complete stop. I’m confused. Is this really happening? I make a move to go around him and he pulls forward and stops again in the middle of the road. I just sit there and let the burning intensity of my high beams tell this guy what I think of him.
Eventually he relents and speeds the fuck away from there through the 40 mph that drops to 30 mph and goes through my village. I can’t even comprehend what this guy was trying to accomplish.
This goes out to you Explorer guy. I will high beam you in broad daylight again. There is no escape from my photon barrage.
Brian, The Life of
> CalzoneGolem
01/23/2018 at 12:25 |
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“thin blue line sticker” Yup
LOREM IPSUM
> CalzoneGolem
01/23/2018 at 12:25 |
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CalzoneGolem
> Brian, The Life of
01/23/2018 at 12:28 |
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Too true.
functionoverfashion
> CalzoneGolem
01/23/2018 at 12:31 |
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It’s people like that who are already having a bad day when they encounter you, a minor source of annoyance. They’re just waiting for a trigger, ANY trigger.
I honked at a guy for blocking a major road with his contractor truck and trailer, when he easily could have waited to go; while I was stopped with a line of cars piling up behind me, and he was stuck blocking traffic while waiting for an opening in the opposite lane, he yelled and gestured out his open window, displaying his name and phone number in 12" high letters on his trailer. Nice guy to work with, I’m sure.
These are the same people who yell at cashiers, servers, really any messenger of mildly bad news such as “sorry, sir we don’t serve breakfast after 11:30.”
OPPOsaurus WRX
> CalzoneGolem
01/23/2018 at 12:31 |
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I’d get a plate number and report him. Multiple instances shows this guy has a problem
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CalzoneGolem
> OPPOsaurus WRX
01/23/2018 at 12:33 |
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Yeah that’s a good idea.
and 100 more
> CalzoneGolem
01/23/2018 at 12:34 |
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The rational side of me wants to remind you that we don’t know the struggles in other people’s lives; that they may treat the world with anger and disdain, because something inside them is deeply hurt from past trauma left unresolved. Show me an angry vet, and I’ll show you someone who has seen some serious shit in his day, and likely has to sleep with it every night. It would be easy to return anger with anger, but that only feeds the demons they are wrestling. And even if tolerance and compassion doesn’t work to soften them, at least you gave them the benefit of the doubt.
The other side of me says fuck this guy, and hopefully he finds the limits of traction quite accidentally while careening around a corner in his typical driving fashion. Keep a dashcam and a Louisville slugger in the ride, just to be safe.
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CalzoneGolem
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01/23/2018 at 12:37 |
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Yeah man I tried to feel bad for him and also tried to remember that he’s possibly armed.
fintail
> CalzoneGolem
01/23/2018 at 12:38 |
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Call him in as a suspected drunk. Get a cam and plaster his vehicle and plate on Youtube.
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CalzoneGolem
> fintail
01/23/2018 at 12:39 |
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I’ll have to get his plate and report him if I ever see him again but really I’m hoping to not see him ever again. Sadly he seems to commute right through my town.
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> CalzoneGolem
01/23/2018 at 12:43 |
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PROBABLY armed. LIKELY armed.
He probably has friends in Blue; if you could manage to grab a plate number and call it in, someone he knows might be able to give him a talking-to.
Elumerere
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01/23/2018 at 13:01 |
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That is the freakiest part of this: he likely will never see any consequences for his actions.
Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
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01/23/2018 at 13:09 |
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He won’t get a talking to, he’ll get high fives all around. Sadly.
Berang
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01/23/2018 at 22:09 |
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The rational side of me says lots of vets don’t drive like assholes.