Clarification on the flipping-off

[prog]

I don't get angry at peoples' bad driving; not at all. I tend to completely ignore that, actually, since I assume that everyone drives like a lunatic and so nothing's really surprising.

I do get blindly, almost murderously angry at people who get angry while they're driving and take it out on their fellow motorists or my fellow peds, especially through sudden torrents of verbal abuse. These are the people that I flip off. This helps soothe the fantasies I have about pulling them from their cars and beating them to death right there on the street.

I mean, I have the fantasies anyway, but at least I feel I did something about it.

Comments

Funny.

[kyroraz.livejournal.com]

I was walking from the Kendall stop to work and was crossing the large Carlos street when someone ran a redlight and almost smashed into a pedestrian already in the crosswalk. The pedestrian engaged the driver rather angrilly and the driver got out of the car. Anger pursued.

What's going on with this wacky city? I blame the cold.

Re: Funny.

[radtea.livejournal.com]

What's going on with this wacky city? I blame the cold.

If it were the cold then we'd have you beat here in southern Ontario (high today -16 C, -35 with windchill). And drivers in the really cold parts of Canada, like Winnipeg, are as friendly and polite as can be.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Didn't need any clarification for me. I walk to work every day in city traffic, so my middle finger gets plenty of exercise.

My favourite move is to give someone the finger as they cut in front of me while I cross the road, and turn and follow them out of sight with it.

Also they "hey I'm crossing the road here" gesture, by which you indicate yourself and spread your arms as though to ask, "am I invisible or something?" You know what I mean.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I know that gesture well. "'Ey! I'm walkin' heah!"

dude, you've been UHubbed:

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

http://www.universalhub.com/node/7385

Re: dude, you've been UHubbed:

[prog.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

I didn't even know about this blog. Did you tip them off?

Re: dude, you've been UHubbed:

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Nope, not me.

I wonder who did, and which blogs they read? So far I've seen three of my LJ friends there: you, hahathor, and derspatchel. Spatch's entries appear there alot.

[(Anonymous)]

"This helps soothe the fantasies I have about pulling them from their cars and beating them to death right there on the street."

And I thought I was the only one who had those fantasies. In the winter I'm also tempted to throw snowballs at the cars of drivers who lean on their horns for no good reason. - Othemts (http://othemts.wordpress.com/)