"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
05/27/2019 at 12:13 • Filed to: None
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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
05/27/2019 at 12:13 • Filed to: None | 1
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Morning everyone, hope people are having more fun on their holiday break than I am. Im in a lonely office building working away. I don’t mind really I have stuff to do and its quiet. I got to work on some fun stuff on the weekend - working on the boat is kinda like working on a project car, its not really a chore so thats nice.
And the good news is that I didn’t break it winterizing it myself, despite the fact that I forgot the 7th drain plug that I didn’t know existed (ooops) and not plugging the batteries in.
Bad news is that I didn’t get so lucky with the cabin and there is a new valve needed.
the winterization procedure for this place is annoying complex. Hoping to install a blow out fitting soon to just ram some air through it and hope that does the trick.
Okay, story time. There is turn I take every day going into work, it’s a double left but the road it turns onto is one more people need to turn right at the next light. There is plenty of time to double left and merge together for the right though (800+ feet). Its very common that people in the inside lane move into the outside lane after the turn to turn right. Legally, safely and without being pushy. NBD.
There is a van in the outside (red) lane and no one in the inside lane, so I take that spot. light turns green and I gun it. I figure if Im going to move over anyway I might as well be the one wasting my gas to make enough space to make the merge, that way I don’t have to worry about people in the outside line feeling cutoff if they are stacked up. Traffic was non-existent today so I wasn’t worried. Anyway, I’m about mid corner and I hear this terrible noise. I wonder if my idler pulley seized or I flipped a belt. no, that’s not it. Am I losing traction? Possible but not likely. I have 285 section tires I weigh 5500 lbs and Im working with 130-150 whp. Im looking around to see what’s up and then I wonder where the van that was right next to me at the light was? Not in my rear view. I look over and there he is, right next me to...flipping me off. I didn’t merge over, I wasn’t in his lane, I didn’t crowd him on the turn. WTH?! Oh, pretty sure he figured out what I was doing and didn’t like it for some reason or another and had slammed the gas, spun his tires like man possessed and prevented me from performing my planned maneuver.
I didn’t know what to do but laugh. I mean, I was busting a gut. Why so angry dude? I mean...really? I pulled in behind him and made the right, then he turned right again a little while later off the road, I blew him a kiss as I drove by, laughing my butt off.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this move on whether or not I deserved it, but honestly...I can’t see how I would. here is the street if you would like to see.
MM54
> HammerheadFistpunch
05/27/2019 at 12:24 |
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People get so pissed off when driving for zero reason. Shame on you for doing nothing wrong but in a way that somehow in their mind
slightly inconvenienced
them!
A smile and a wave usually is in order, a blown kiss is even better
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> HammerheadFistpunch
05/27/2019 at 12:35 |
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I do this all the time if it means I can be at the front of one of the lanes. The way I see it, I’m getting out of everyone else’s way, rather than getting stuck behind some oblivious Prius at 5 under, pacing the car in the next lane.
LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
> HammerheadFistpunch
05/27/2019 at 12:40 |
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Of course you did nothing wrong. I have this situation all the time around my patt of town. Maybe the guy just isn't used to the situation, but more likely he incorrectly feels that what you were doing was wrong, so he was going to teach you a lesson.
vicali
> HammerheadFistpunch
05/27/2019 at 12:47 |
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What about the kite?
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HammerheadFistpunch
> vicali
05/27/2019 at 12:51 |
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oh, and a kite. Its a 6 foot foil with a 100 foot tail and in a strong wind will pull me across the field and give me wicked rope burn if (when) I am stupid.
Sovande
> HammerheadFistpunch
05/27/2019 at 12:53 |
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People are weird as shit. I was at a light last night, waiting to make a right turn. I didn’t turn right on red because of the giant sign indicating that it would be illegal to do so. The guy behind me laid on the horn until the light changed, then, after the turn onto a two lane city street, proceeded to pass me on the left, in the oncoming traffic lane, pull back in front of me, check the brakes and then speed off. I caught up with him at the next light about a half mile down the street . People are weird.
aaronet
> HammerheadFistpunch
05/28/2019 at 11:19 |
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Sounds like that guy is an agro butthole. I go through an intersection like the one described every day and a lot of the cars making a left are semis. Cars in the left lane avoiding the trucks regularly gun it to get through the intersection so they can get right to get on the interstate. Nobody seems to think much of it. As long as the car in the left lane does not drift over into the path of the car in the right lane then normal drivers won’t care if they gun it or not.
CarObservr
> HammerheadFistpunch
06/01/2019 at 13:08 |
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his finger made a terrible noise? i don’ t get it.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> CarObservr
06/01/2019 at 15:48 |
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his finger was “
what’s
up”.