Closest I came to killing someone...

[TomCollins]

So I'm driving to work this morning. I drive down a few semi-residential streets (the streets are sorrounded by neighborhoods, but no houses are actually on these streets). The one part is pretty narrow, but has a double yellow divider. Running towards me 2-wide are these two 30-40 yr old soccer moms. Sidewalk is of course right next to the road. I get closer and closer, and they make no effort to get to the side of the road, and continue to block half my lane.

I get a little closer, slow down a little, and they still have made no effort to move. They start motioning me like "drive over the double yellow line". There was a car coming towards me, but not too close. I probably could have moved over, but they had no way of knowing if there was opposing traffic. So I honk, they half move over, I drive over the yellow and give them the finger. They stop, start motioning me like crazy, a few middle fingers.

That did it. I U-Turned my car, and drove towards them. For an instant, I thought of trying to run them off the road. But I drove by and yelled at them out the window, and made my way to work. But they don't realize how close to getting hit they really were. They picked the wrong day to mess with me.

[bwana devil]

sounds like you handled it perfectly. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

name of the street?

[joshman1204]

haha the street name is definetly needed here!

[bwana devil]

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haha the street name is definetly needed here!

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eh, we're both in austin. it doesnt change the story just trying to get a visual. austin's small enough.

he goes to lengths to describe the street. why not just say the name if i know it anyway?

although Tom are you the parent of the Forest school kid? that's way out in the boonies. i dont know that town.

[TomCollins]

It's in Round Rock. And I'm not a parent.

Not saying they deserved to be hit, nor justifying my actions. Any alternatives? (of course ignoring it and just driving around them). I might run into them again driving to work. I guess the plan is to stop the car and block the entire road if they don't move. Make them walk around me.

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But I drove by and yelled at them out the window

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Do you remember what you yelled? For me, I find yelling 'WHOOOOORES!" at the top of my lungs to be very therapeutic in these instances.

[TomCollins]

"Get the f** out of the road you stupid bitches!" I think. It's kinda a blur. It was funny to see the look on their face when I U-Turned the car when they thought they were in the clear and could act all powerful.

[bwana devil]

i guess id be more likely to come to a dead stop in front of them and not too calmly tell them about walking in the street. all you did by giving them the bird and driving on was make them think you were a complete jerk and you were in the wrong. they probably would have stopped and assessed the situation by seeing the other car instead of flipping you off too. just a hunch.

oh, and i dont know dell rock. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[joshman1204]

nah that was my forest kid [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[TomCollins]

Wtf is a forest kid?