Road-Rage incident with MBTA contractor vehicle (politically motivated?)

[Ian David]

So, the other day I'm in a median turn lane trying to take a left across the highway. As I'm waiting for it to be clear, one of those 617-The-Ride vans pulls around to my right and blocks my view.

I pull forward to see around him, and he pulls forward and blocks my view again.

After a couple more times, I start signaling him to stop moving forward (gesturing backward with an open hand, like I'm using it to swim) and he still moves forward two more times.

So finally, I do something that may not have been my brightest move. I get out of my car and tell him (from a few feet away) that I can't see if he keeps moving forward.

He tells me, "You have your own lane, just go!"

I respond back, "I don't care. I'm not going to go if I can't see!"

As I'm getting back into my car, hear him call me a "fucking moron." And as I finally drive away, he cuts me off.

Anyway, I called the MBTA and they refereed me to someone who supervises the independent contractors who run the 617-The-Ride service. He took a complaint and forwarded it to the contractor company.

Today I got a call from the driver's supervisor, and he heard my version of the story, which varies greatly from the driver's.

Interestingly, the driver admitted using obscenity.

Even more shocking, is that the driver says he didn't call me a "fucking moron."

The driver told his boss he called me a "Fucking Liberal!"

Anyway, the supervisor told me that he's concerned about the obscenity no matter what the politics behind it.

Personally, I find it troubling that his words and the actions that led to the exchange could have been at least partly motivated by his reaction to the politics of my bumper stickers.

In other words, did my bumper stickers influence the way he drove, and not just the way he responded afterward.

edited to add photo:

[blueknight]

1. im glad it was you and not me,

because i would have punched him in the fucking mouth

[Ian David]

2. Maybe we should carpool? I would have liked you to punch him in the mouth

[skids]

3. Damn. That's the color prius I wanted.

...but I had to take the mint green to avoid the waitlist.

Lucky you :-)

[blueknight]

4. i dont necessarily like being that way...

thats just the way i am. i probably need anger management classes:wow:

[Ian David]

5. Anger management classes are stupid. They take guys with anger problems...

and put them all in the same room together.

Does that sound like a good idea to you?

[paineinthearse]

6. Your stickers made his/her head explode.

You did all the right things (except maybe get out). Hope this idjut loses his job over the incident.

p.s. You don't have enought stickers, I can still see some paint.

p.p.s. - Love your license plate!

nominated

[Ian David]

7. Before I got out of the car, I tried rolling down the windows so...

he could hear me.

I didn't get out to confront him. I got out so he could HEAR me.

He had been looking at me like I had three heads.

But yeah, getting out wasn't the best thing to do.

That's not my real license plate, btw. I wish it was.

Anyway, yesterday I had told his supervisor I wanted him suspended for three days.

After hearing the lies that he told, and hearing he called me a "fucking liberal" I'm more inclined to ask that they fire his ass.

Will you and my fellow DUers join me in making phone calls and sending emails through the proper channels until the guy ends up on the unemployment line?

That is, if it looks like it has to come to that.

"Fucking Liberal?"

That does it.

He intended to be an asshole even before there was an actual "problem."

[Ian David]

8. In case anyone is wondering, that's not my real license plate

Courtesy of The Acme License Plate Generator
http://www.acme.com/licensemaker/licensemaker.cgi?state=Massachusetts&text=+TaleWgnDg&plate=1988&r=66995550

[woosh]

9. You have to admit, you are a f***ing liberal

and should be proud!