Last night I was walking down H Street with my sister on our way to get a drink at Biergarten when I got into an argument with an old black female motorist.
My sister and I were on H crossing 13th street when a beat up red car ran a red light. The car was going really slow, but the woman blatantly blew the light and made a left onto H Street. I was a little in front of my sister and took a step back so the car didn't run over my toes. As she went by I said "Red light" and slammed my hand on her trunk.
The lady went nuts and started yelling "You hit my caaa, you hit my caaa!" She was screaming it as loud as she could, and my sister and I started to laugh. Then, with complete disregard for other cars the lady did a sweeping u-turn in the middle of the intersection, again very slowly - about idle speed, and drove over to me at the edge of the sidewalk. All the while she was yelling "You hit my caaaaa!"
As she came near me a large, older guy stepped out of the small crowd that was forming and said "You hit my wife's car?". Things were a little less funny now, especially since this guy was thick and I wasn't sure I wanted to tangle with him. I turned to look at my sister and saw that she was nervously power walking up the sidewalk.
There were a good 25 people standing around now, and both the husband and wife were yelling "You hit my caaaa". I said "You ran a red light and almost hit me, sober up then try driving." I don't know for sure that she was drunk, but she looked and sounded like it, and the husband was going into the liquor store on the corner. She then yelled "You put yo hand on my caaa? I kill you?" I looked at her rusty, oxidized, bucket of bolts 1982 Mazda and said "My hand touching it is the best thing that ever happened to that 'caaaa'".
Her response was an instant classic. She looked at me and yelled "White bitch", then did another U-turn in the intersection and drove off.
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if you had hit my car, I'd get out of the car and beat your fucking face in.
ReplyDeleteYour experience is a classic illustration of the 'can't win' scenario which one can encounter with unknown idiots in public, increasingly common & frequent in recent years (IMO).
ReplyDeleteFirst, the thoughtless imposition is incredible.
Then, expressing a reasonable objection is met with a gust of hositility and threats. I don't care what ethnic category the offender is in, this behavior is stupid caveman knuckle-dragging, which seems to have only two moods: 'Me happy' or 'Me angry!'
Knowing you will likely get this obnoxious moronic response to your protest, it may be tempting to just keep quiet about the jerk behavior, but that choice feels shitty, and can bother you for a very long time later.
NN, Good for you standing up to the angry amoeba behavior.
Hey Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your psycho violence policy.
There are people out there who 'Walk softly but carry a big stick'.
Not everyone easily capable of deadly force makes it obvious to everyone else.
So maybe you'd best not give anyone a good reason to hit your car.
Try to think about it.
AMEN to JKD. This post made me laugh out.
ReplyDeleteDang, Anon. Angry?
ReplyDeleteJKD, you're a vagina. You would let someone beat on your car, and you would take it, just like you took your dad's dick up your ass when you were younger.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous,
ReplyDeleteYour projections are very revealing of you.
Also, you exude the misery of perpetual rage.
I hope you find a good outlet for it, so you can liberate yourself from it and experience a different way of living your life.
[note to myself: must remember to base my self-image and self-respect on consumer acquisitions, such as my car. Also, let others' behavior dictate my own; living life in response mode. A great way to live.]
note to self- I must remember to allow others to push me around, and to have no self-respect or confidence in myself, so that one day I can end up a sniveling pussy like JKD.
ReplyDeleteand btw, you're the outlet for my rage, dummy.
ReplyDelete