If it's happened once, it's happened a million times: you'll be cruising down the road and encounter a person that needs to get out of a parking lot onto a congested street and being the nice, courteous person you are you'll help them out by allowing them the opening they need only to be rewarded with...nothing! Nada! Bupkis! There's no friendly thank you wave. There's no Maverick-like thumbs up. No polite look in return. Just, apparently, an assumption on behalf of the inconsiderate prick you just helped out that it was your obligation to let them in front of you.Why these people don't have enough common courtesy (or spare energy) to simply raise their hand to acknowledge your helping gesture puzzles me like Rubik's Cube. Seriously, is it really that much trouble to wave your hand? The last time I waved my hand to someone who extended me some help on the road it took, uhm, one second and - really guys - it didn't tire me out at all. In fact, it made me feel good.
But, I guess I've forgotten in all my warm fuzzies and naivete that the rules are different for pricks of this order. They just sit there in front of you, waiting for the awkward moment to pass, peering at you through their rear-view mirrors with an expression that says "if you gave me enough time, I would have put sugar in your gas tank too you gullible f***." Damn! Could you be a bigger prick?!
People like this make me wish I carried a sledgehammer in my car just for special occasions.
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I usually end up screaming "You're welcome d**khead!" at these people.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about getting two of those scrolling LED signs, one for my rear window and one for my front so that I can say what I'm thinking in a way that there is no mistaking. For instance: a guy is tailgaiting me, so I tell the sign to scroll "Get of my a** you f**king jerk!". Or a guy has his brights shining right into my rear view mirror at night. I just program the sign to say "Thanks! Now I won't have so much trouble reading this copy of "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" and I'm going to slow down to 10 MPH so as to be safe while doing it!"