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Courtesy is dead.. Run in with 20 something in parking lot
Self | 12/28/2011 | Self

Posted on 12/28/2011 1:46:20 PM PST by cableguymn

It's been building.. No one opens doors for anyone any more, thank yous are few and far between. But today.. I am just blown away.

I am sitting in my van, enjoying some white castle while reading FR.

I hear a loud BANG on the side of my van. Look over and out the passenger window to see a 20 something kid who looks like he is a LONG way away from the beach. We lock eyes. He had banged his door in to the side of my van.. So I wait for him to walk around to the drivers side of my van.

and wait..

I look in my rear view mirror. He's headed for the door to the restaurant.

I open my door, and ask "hey, aren't you going to at least say sorry?!?!?"

"it's just a little paint man, my car is ok!"

(WTF!!)

It's a old work van, one more door ding is not going to kill me or it. However, his statement just floored me!

And yes, his stuffed Honda Civic had a Zero bumper sticker on it. Both 08 and 12.


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To: Go Gordon
I'm not sure I want to ask this, but what will the result be of sticking a pin in the cable line?

Your cable TV line is 'co-axial', meaning there is an outer mesh shield (ground) and a center conductor (signal). A needle will effectively short the signal out, then take a wire cutter and cut the needle flush with the outter plastic - he won't have cable/internet and until he finds or replace the cable.

41 posted on 12/28/2011 2:08:36 PM PST by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: RatRipper

Rooster Cogburn, aka John Wayne..


42 posted on 12/28/2011 2:08:50 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Forgot to mention. Passenger side, front tire. He won’t see them when he gets in his car.


43 posted on 12/28/2011 2:09:25 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: SkyDancer

I always liked Bronson.


44 posted on 12/28/2011 2:10:36 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: cableguymn
My uncle had this exact thing happen to him, once. Except that he drove a BMW, and was a little more concerned about it. That, and the perp *meant* to do it - Uncle was parked a fair distance away from everything, the guy who hit him couldn't have meant anything else, but to do it on purpose.

Anyway, my uncle said "Allrighty, we'll see who the bigger A**hole is, here." and took a tire iron to the offender's car.

And, that, as they say, was that.

45 posted on 12/28/2011 2:11:01 PM PST by wbill
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To: RightOnline

My wife and I discuss Tawanda many times.


46 posted on 12/28/2011 2:12:13 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I’ll join in on this just for sake of the fun of it.

Both passenger side tires. If you do one the spare will fix that. 2 flats. your screwed.

I remember doing that back in my high school days.

Then someone knocked the jerk outta me.


47 posted on 12/28/2011 2:12:30 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: chris37

Super glue - so many uses for it.


48 posted on 12/28/2011 2:12:38 PM PST by Noumenon ("I tell you, gentlemen, we have a problem on our hands." Col. Nicholson-The Bridge on the River Qwai)
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To: cableguymn
Sometimes, you just have to decide to be the missionary in the jungle and obey the better angels of your nature.

Other times, you can keep a valve stem puller in you glovebox and remove the stems when the offender has left so that when he calls AAA to refill his tires, they can't do anything but offer him a towing service. Just sayin'

49 posted on 12/28/2011 2:12:56 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: cableguymn

Before you extrapolate one person’s behavior to the entire society, just hold that person accountable for his actions. That is best done through the Police.

The second point is that there are those who get their “fix” from the increase in adrenalin that comes with sudden rage. I call those people “rage-a-holics,” but the PC term is people afflicted with “Intermittent Explosive Behavior.” National affliction estimates for IEB are about 6 %.

The Judge may order an anger management course to the chronic IEB person. “Road Rage” is another common name applied to those on our highways with a short fuse.


50 posted on 12/28/2011 2:12:56 PM PST by Graewoulf (( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

DOT 3 brake fluid. Murder on paint. A message on the hood (”I am the 99%!”) or maybe some expansive post-modernist self expression.


51 posted on 12/28/2011 2:16:30 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik (In a tornado, even turkeys can fly.)
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To: cableguymn
"it's just a little paint man, my car is ok!"

Better you than me........If he actually said that, I would have carved the entire Declaration of Independence on his car in BIG letters........but that's just me.

52 posted on 12/28/2011 2:17:50 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Santa missed my house again....or maybe he's stuck in the chimney. I'll go look.......)
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To: Graewoulf

This is just the one that pushed me over the edge. I doubt he meant to do it. My van is nothing special, it’s not a BMW or benz.. (it is hard fuel though.. hmmm..)

I get pushed in line, cut off on the highway, hung up on by customer service (when I am nice to them!)

the action that caused our paths to cross was an accident. His response to it is what set me off.


53 posted on 12/28/2011 2:18:59 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: cableguymn

You could write “It’s just a little paint” in the middle of his hood, using brake fluid for ink.


54 posted on 12/28/2011 2:20:48 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Steve Newton

As the Captain Woodrow said in Lonesome Dove, “I Won’t abide bad behavior in a man.”


55 posted on 12/28/2011 2:21:40 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: cableguymn

Looks like the only teacher that can learn the young man is karma.

Woe is the person that can’t learn from the experience of others. Making your own history is so much more painful and expensive than borrowing it at no cost from others.


56 posted on 12/28/2011 2:22:50 PM PST by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: usconservative

Pretty much anytime I see a Zero bumper sticker on a car in a parking lot, it gets a key run down it’s side...

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You’re as much of an ass as the protaganist of this thread. Congrats.


57 posted on 12/28/2011 2:23:13 PM PST by dmz
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To: cableguymn

Severe temptation to take vise-grips and choke off the exhaust. 5 minutes and misery to the a**hole recipient.


58 posted on 12/28/2011 2:23:38 PM PST by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existance!)
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To: RatRipper

Whose line was it in an old western:

“I never killed anybody that didn’t need killin’”

I just watched last night (for about the tenth time), “The King of New York”.

Frank White: “I spent half my life in prison. I never got away with anything, and I never killed anybody that didn’t deserve it.”


59 posted on 12/28/2011 2:23:37 PM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: cableguymn

Guys like him are why I carry a can opener and a can of clams.....


60 posted on 12/28/2011 2:25:48 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Forced diversity causes dissent!)
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