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08-09-2005, 05:23 PM
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Did I make the right play here?
Rundown of the story: I am sitting in my car earlier today in the Wendy's parking lot on my lunch break. I'm sitting there text messaging a couple people, reading the sports page, basically procrastinating till I have to go back to work.
Suddenly a large black SUV pulls up next to me really quickly and the driver hops out and runs inside. I see they have food in the car, so I figure they screwed up their drive thru order and he's running inside to get whatever they left out. Whatever. I go back to the newspaper. Also while the driver is inside, the passenger (a woman) starts throwing a bunch of miscellaneous litter out of her window (the side facing me). Looked like peanut shells (?), a tomato slice from her sandwich, a couple bits of paper. This catches my eye, so I look over again. I don't make eye contact with the woman but I notice there's another guy sitting in the back seat. Again, whatever. I go back to reading. Anyway, the driver comes back out, gets in the car and pulls away. I notice though, that instead of leaving the parking lot, he turns around and parks behind me again (not blocking me in, just kind of perpendicular to the spot where he was just parked). He rolls down the window and starts yelling something that I can't hear because my windows are up. He looks pissed. I roll down my window to see what he's saying and it's "DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM???" I give him a baffled look and kind of shrug my shoulders at him. He then yells "THEN WHY THE F*** ARE YOU STARING AT US???" I never did anything that could have been considered "staring." I give another baffled look, say "Uh, sorry?" and roll my window back up and turn back to my newspaper. Fortunately he drives away. Did I handle this correctly or was I a pussy? What would you guys have done? Keep in mind Mr. Testosterone was a good deal bigger than me and looked like he could fight. It just caught me so off guard I didn't even know how to react. I guess if he had gotten out of the car and started coming toward me I would have just peeled out of there. Advice on this type of situation? 
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08-09-2005, 05:25 PM
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Re: Did I make the right play here?
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Rundown of the story: I am sitting in my car earlier today in the Wendy's parking lot on my lunch break. I'm sitting there text messaging a couple people, reading the sports page, basically procrastinating till I have to go back to work. [/ QUOTE ] I stopped reading right there. It just made me too sad.
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08-09-2005, 05:26 PM
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Re: Did I make the right play here?
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I'm reaching for my shotgun here. [/ QUOTE ] I don't own a gun, and even if I did I'm pretty sure it's illegal to have one in your car without a permit. I'm thinking about buying some mace or pepper spray though.
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08-09-2005, 05:27 PM
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Re: Did I make the right play here?
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I'm sitting there text messaging a couple people, reading the sports page, basically procrastinating [/ QUOTE ] procrastinating ... I don't speak english that well, but dude... in your car?
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#6
08-09-2005, 05:29 PM
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Re: Did I make the right play here?
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I'm pretty sure it's illegal to have one in your car without a permit. [/ QUOTE ] This depends where you live.
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#7
08-09-2005, 05:30 PM
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Re: Did I make the right play here?
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[ QUOTE ] I'm pretty sure it's illegal to have one in your car without a permit. [/ QUOTE ] This depends where you live. [/ QUOTE ] Ok, let's just forget the whole gun issue. My question is what I should have done in that scenario - no gun or weapon of any kind, big dude looking for a fight.
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08-09-2005, 05:33 PM
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Re: Did I make the right play here?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I'm pretty sure it's illegal to have one in your car without a permit. [/ QUOTE ] This depends where you live. [/ QUOTE ] Ok, let's just forget the whole gun issue. My question is what I should have done in that scenario - no gun or weapon of any kind, big dude looking for a fight. [/ QUOTE ] You could have text messaged your dad for help.
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