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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 09:48 AM
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Who here gets road rage when people are on their tails?
I'm sorry, the devil made me post it! Maybe it pertains to cat people? :shrug:
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 09:51 AM
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1. Recovering road rager here
But if you mess with my cats I'll use the triple-S method on you.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 09:54 AM
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3. I'm a road rager, too, but I'm not even into denial yet.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 09:52 AM
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2. I need to add a bumper sticker: "I Brake for Tailgaters"
I did it to some stupid bitch in a minivan the other day. She was, of course, on the cellphone and was less than a car length behind me. Twice I tapped the brakes and once I slowed to about 45mph (on a 65mph stretch of interstate). After the second time, she finally got the hint.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 09:56 AM
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4. I like having big ugly trailer hitches on my truck bumper!
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 09:59 AM
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5. I get "Sudden Brake-atits". Works WAY better than road rage.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 10:13 AM
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9. Bwa ha ha! That works great with a bumper like a RR car hitch!
You can take out a radiator quick!
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vikegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 10:00 AM
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6. yeah, when people tailgate
and when they don't use their turn signals. If someone pulls ahead of me without using them, then *I* tailgate THEM.

Must find cure....blood pressure is already too high.....
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 10:03 AM
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7. that is smart, get pissed off n a dangerious situation, and lose 20 IQ pts
Edited on Thu May-05-05 10:05 AM by sam sarrha
The adreniline caused by anger constrincts the blood vessels in the brain and you lose an average of 20 IQ points. they are out of control.. then you get out of control.. you made you do it. and everyone else around you is in danger.. look around how many mothers and children and fathers ans sons and daughters can die or get hurt and ruined financially, while 2 people have a Piss'n contest on the highway..

if they touch my car, I'm getting my bad neck and back fixed and i am go'n back to college on their insurance money or a lean on anything they own..,

I have a camera in my car.. I take it out and turn it around with one hand and take their picture.. they always drop back. and another when they pass of their plates.. so if they kill someone down the road i can be a witness in the trial.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 10:18 AM
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11. Sorry, I never was much for being docile.
It may be a personality flaw, but when I'm threatened I attack. The philosophy has kept me alive thus far.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 10:05 AM
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8. it's not the people behind me that bother me
it's the ones in front.. My favorites are the ones that are in such a big hurry that they have to turn right on a red light and then go 20mph on a 45mph stretch of road causing me to slam on my breaks and stop.

My goal when I'm is the road is getting where I'm going to and far too many people driving today drive as if they have no where to go, not time to be there.
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 10:15 AM
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10. Me me me.
Open road forward as far as the eye can see. Open road aft as far as the eye can see.

Except for the idiot riding your bumper at near sixty MPH.

I pull off the road at the first opportunity. Let them go.

I refuse to get angry anymore. (Than necessary)

180
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 10:22 AM
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12. My number one pet peeve when driving
is tailgaiters...... they make me so mad!
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 10:25 AM
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13.  friend had a van with a big fish hook boat trailer hitch.. some Low riders
in cherried out rig were tail gating us and honking.. and yelling.. they were really F*cked up on crank apparently.. my friend said "OH NO" and hit the brakes. the gangsters rammed into us hard. we had to stop at a light and the driver of he low rider was lighting a crack pipe and didn't see us stop. they all jumped out and started flashing gang signs and waving their arms and yelling.. my friend just took advantage of a space in the traffic and took off !! we also took with us the front portion of their car with the headlights and bumper.

their car was smoking really bad as we sped away. we went down about 6 blocks and turned and went back on a parallel street, parked pulled off the low riders grill and headlights and walked to the corner and looked back... The car was totally in flames!! apparently the car had an electric fuel pump and they didn't turn off the key.. while they were freaking out and screaming the fuel pump was pooling gas under the car, when the engine caught it set off the gas under the car and the flames were a good 10 feet high.. and apparently the pump was still running..

we ran back and took off.. we were visiting friends about a hundred miles form where we lived.. we didn't go back there in the van.

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