To the fat sweaty red faced jogger who swore at me after dashing across Quinpool without looking or pausing at the corner of Beech Sunday morning, -Yes I honked. I would have done much worse if my wife hadn’t restrained me you idiot. 15 years ago there used to be a cross walk there and you could have pulled that stupid manoeuvre and argued that it was a crosswalk. There is a light there now and it was green for me and not for you. I don’t care how infinitesimally high your endorphin to estrogen level was, don’t swear at people when it’s your fault and they may have a tire iron with your name on it. —Dash cam for exculpatory purposes next time.
This article appears in Aug 7-13, 2014.
Fat joggers, dash cams and tire irons… OH MY!!
So you both flipped your lids this morning, sounds like neutral karma to me!
PTSD Op. All kinds of people doing stupid shit on the road .
Nothing gets endorphin laced lipids off a tire iron. Trust me.
Woh.
That is an angry post isn’t it. I see it’s legitimacy aside from being a bit explosive.
I think this is a clear matter of Newton’s first law of motion at play. This law states that an object in motion (i.e. fat sweaty red faced jogger) stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force (i.e. the OB’s bumper). Clearly the jogger lacked the sufficient muscular force to interrupt his/her trajectory whereas the OB was able to easily avoid acting as an unbalanced force by applying the brakes. This allowed the fat sweaty red faced jogger to conserve momentum and comply with Newton’s Law. So the law (Newton’s) is really on the jogger’s side in an oblique sort of sense.
walmart had a sale on this week, for invisible force fields. they must have bought them out.
I understand how this can be quite upsetting, but OB, your reaction is a bit over the top.
You kind of sound like a very angry person… talking about tire irons and dash cams and your wife having to restrain you… all over some dumb who can’t tell when a light is green or red… and you get upset enough that a) you hang on to this WAY longer than you should (it ruined your day, didn’t it? Perhaps you’re still steaming over it – and then you were pissed off enough to write a very angry bitch, probably some hours or days later)…. That’s not a normal reaction. Normal people get angry and then move on.
You’re kinda scary, OB. This shit happens all the time – you can’t let it get to you so badly because you’re going to snap one of these days and end up killing someone. And where will that get you?
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Yea “normal people” don’t allow anger to cross the line by negatively affecting others lives.
You have real anger issues and shouldn’t be behind the wheel of a car, foaming at the mouth like a furious 3 year old. I pity your wife – you must be a total embarrassment to her. No matter how stupid the action on the part of the jogger, your desire to get somewhere .476 seconds sooner will eventually hurt someone. You are the type of driver I despise – cuts NO slack at all and always in a fucking hurry.
OP You didn’t know him.It wasn’t like he stalked you, waited for you to drive up the street then darted out just to get you back for something he imagined you did wrong to him.
Well, TT, the fact that OB’s wife had to calm him down and he mentioned tire irons over someone who crossed on a red light and swore at him (oooh what a crime!), makes it clear this person has a problem with anger. We’re only getting one side here (and a rage filled side at that), but I can only imagine what OB did or yelled at the person crossing before the runner yelled back at them.
This seems to be a male domain, this raging hairy ballsack scenario with the wifey holding him back – I’ve rarely seen a woman spaz out like some male drivers I’ve seen. Said males all resembled OP in temperment and patience. Is it a penis thing to be able to get ahead of someone else? Will our mod ban my use of the word ‘penis’? I wish the Coast wouldn’t assign Sacred Fart Sixth Graders for their moderators.
you didnt see the lunatic caper and her daughter that i met…lady and i successfully maneuvre through a double left hand turn intersection…but she decided to put her blinker on and come over into the lane im in even though we are are nearly side by side. puts me almost off the road but i avoided the collision while laying on the horn. then she slams her brakes on to try and get me to ram her from behind. i safely switch lanes, calmly pass them and then carry on to my destination. THE FOLLOW ME!! not only that, they get out of the car an come after me. Daughter says “just because you are a man doesnt mean you have to go first” i reply, thats the stupidest thing ive heard. She replies, didnt you see our blinker?! i reply, yes, i saw it in a split second before you decided to try and run me off the road. YOUR mother knows shes in the wrong because she wont even talk to me. You just dont get the right of way when a vehicle is already occupying the lane you want and you make an unsafe lane change. she yammers on and i said “look you dumb, im not talking to you anymore you crazy” and she snaps, starts flailing her arms into my chest. i start laughing, my wife starts flying around the corner to nail her..i start laughing and say…and now you are going up for assault. her mom then pipes up “well i WORK for the police’ and i said Well then, you should have fucking known better then shouldnt you have. i called the police and things didnt go their way. kept my wits about me the whole time lol.
its also usually my wife who loses her mind…like the time at the sobeys parking lot…guy gets pissed off after i honked the horn at him(he drove around traffic already in the intersection, and sped through the intersection) he then got out of his car in the parking lot and asked if i got a problem, bumping my chest in the process. I look at my wife and said comon hunny. he said “thats right listen to your bitch” i laughed and said, i just did YOU a favour…im not holding my wife back if she decides to kick your fat old ass lol.
but i did get angry at the idiot volunteer firefighter in the truck down by the windsor exchange yesterday. the idiot had a red light facing him…he crept the whole way through the intersectionw it the red light and made a left hand turn…only in nova scotia can you see people making left hand turns on a red light(and he didnt have his green lights lit either, he was going to look at the vehicles in the car dealership)
fat people dont jog
they kinda do…
a little.
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gee cuja, is there a minute goes by when you are driving that you are NOT in an altercation with someone?
OP. If you don’t know by now, joggers have the right-of-way no matter what. This also applies to cyclists, motorists, pedestrians, unicorns, ghosts, and whatever else type of braindead fucktards believe that traffic rules don’t apply to them.