Like many of us, I don't drive much. I still have the skills tho.
So the other day I'm driving, I got on the highway and did the signal/gas/swerve move. It's rush hour Boston inbound drive time and I know the rules. They don't call us MassHoles for nothing. Actually this merge-move was mild, more like ballet than quarterback blitz. But there it is - the flashing lights and honking horn. The car I "cut off" moves left and is soon next to me.
Now I'm not a big guy - 5'10", 180lb soaking wet, and white collar/chicken schlitz through and through. But on the road I stand my ground. So I roll my window down, as did the white OldsmoBuick that pulled up to me. I got off one round: "Waaaaaaah, you don't like driving? Take a fu(kin' bus!" to their "...gonna shove that <something something something>". Two no-neck meatheads wearing sunglasses on a December morning. I get it - roid-raging pricks.
Like I said, I still have the skills. They made a nice gap in front of them slowing to bitch at me, so I gunned it and slipped in front of them. They tried to get alongside (but highway 93 South into Boston narrows to 2 lanes, and I leveraged a 50mph tractor-trailer to box them in). The road widens suddenly to 5 lanes, but anyone who knows the morning drive dynamics knows what lanes to be in/when to keep moving. Then I ditched their a$$es when the highway split in the tunnel.
Adrenaline pumping. Pissed off I replayed the events in my mind - what did I do wrong? Did I respond appropriately? What next?
Really - it was a freikin' lane change. These douchebags were ready to mix it up - right there on the pavement. And I was in a car. An admittedly small car. But if one of them got out - I could easily run over and kill them. Or lock the doors and hunker down against the worst a fist can do.
Most of us spend our time on bikes. The fact that such losers will pick a fight against a motorist for the smallest of infractions - a 15mph, slow-speed, signaled lane change - indicates just what small brains we are dealing with.
Did I mention that neither of them had a neck?