Most jerks try to rationalize their jerkish behavior. They’re still jerks.
Some apparently aim to get other jerks jealous of their jerkishness.
No. It is not funny. In fact, that sort of stupid behavior can actually be dangerous.
Check this one out:
What? Check out what an ass he was?
“Protesting against a regime” sounds so much better than “being a jerk to strangers”.
They are democrats. It is not as if they are real, intelligent, sentient human beings. Consider how they have acted for the last 60 years. They've pretty much used up all my forbearance. Leaving them choking in a cloud of smoke is actually rather tolerant.
Most jerks try to rationalize their jerkish behavior. They’re still jerks.
Last winter I was driving home from work through rural Lancaster County.
It was dark and somewhat foggy and I had to take a detour because the main road I usually traveled on was shut down because of a serious traffic accident. I pulled off into a church parking lot and activated the GPS to navigate my way home.
But that route took me through a series of hilly country roads, some of them very narrow and very winding, I had to cross two one-land bridges and even with GPS, with no street lights and not being familiar, it was a challenge.
As I was driving down one road, I saw what looked like smoke drifting across the road and a strong odor of diesel oil. I thought that someone’s oil furnace had perhaps gone up. But as I went at bit further down the dark road, I saw the tail lights of a large pickup truck in front of me.
Even though I was far behind him, I had never been in front of him as to make him angry that I was not going fast enough, I had not been tailgating him, did not have my high beams on, all of a sudden slowed down, nearly came to a near stop in front of me and then as I got closer, he sped off - “rolling coal”.
Suddenly the road in front of me was pitch black with the thick diesel smoke, so much so as I had to come to a complete stop and wait for it to clear as I feared driving off the side of the road, and the smell of the diesel exhaust, even with my windows shut, made me cough and made me very nauseous.
Why?
As dark as it was, he probably didn’t even know what type of vehicle I was driving – which BTW was an SUV. And he certainly couldn’t have known my political affiliation – I’ve never been a democrat.
The only reason I could think of was he just wanted to be a jerk.
After the smoke cleared, I went on my way and about a two miles further down the road, I passed a house with that pickup (with its two big exhaust stacks) parked in the driveway.
I was so angry that I thought about stopping, keying his truck or putting a screwdriver into one of his tires, but of course didn’t.
But when I got home I thought about getting a custom bumper sticker made and going back late at night and putting it on his truck. It would have said:
“I Roll Coal To Compensate For Having A Very Tiny Flaccid Penis.”
And I don’t think I would have been far off the mark.