My first encounter with a rabid Freeper!!

[sinkingfeeling]

I'm a 59 yr. old woman. I took two of my dogs to the vet's this morning, early before 7AM. I pulled out on to our main drag, a 5 lane street that runs north through our town. There were no other cars on the street going in my direction and I stop at the first intersection for a red light, in the right hand lane. As I'm sitting there, this guy in a red Firebird approaches in the left lane. About 2 car lengths from the light, he swerves into the right lane, inches from my back bumper. I think, "Glad you don't know where the hell you're going." About then, the light changes to green and I pull away, thinking he's going to make a right turn.

But he didn't, he pulled back into the left lane and proceeded to stay in my 'blind spot' for awhile and then began to accelerate. I'm still driving the 40 MPH speed limit in the right lane. He then passes me and pulls back into the right lane. Now he's traveling at about 50 MPH and starts hitting his brakes (we do live in a hilly area and so you can pick up speed going downhill). He does this about 5 or 6 times, but it doesn't bother me because I'm that far behind him. I just think he's a terrible driver!

Finally, he's slowed down enough that I'm steadily gaining on him, so turn on my turn signal and start to pass him. He immediately cuts to the left lane. So I go back to the right lane and he cuts over as I do. I start to get irritated and pull to the left .... here he comes. By now, we're coming to another intersection/traffic light and there's another truck coming up on the left. As the truck is alongside the Firebird, I make my move into the left lane behind the truck. So now we're side by side at the stop light.

I said, "WTF is wrong with you?" out loud, though he couldn't have heard me. He flips me the bird as he makes a right hand turn at the light. And I then returned it as it dawned on me that he didn't like my bumper stickers!

I don't have a picture of the back of my car, but here's what's pasted there:
IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY '07
GOD FORGIVE AMERICA
WE'RE THE ROGUE NATION
END THIS ENDLESS WAR
IMPEACHMENT: ONE WAY TO GET OUT OF THIS MESS
HONK IF YOU HAVE BUSH FATIGUE
"THERE IS NO FLAG LARGE ENOUGH TO COVER THE SHAME OF KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE" - Howard Zinn
IF YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY RULED BY RELIGION, MOVE TO IRAN

[truebrit71]

1. I absolutely LOVE the last one....simply brilliant!!

Glad you and the pooches are okay...morans like that can have trouble multi-tasking...

[hobbit709]

2. I've found that the best way to retaliate when they do that

Is to point a finger, cover my mouth and snicker loudly-this always makes their pointy little heads explode.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. Make more than his head explode. Make his ego implode! Here's how;

Insult the size of his penis. I know women know how to do that non-verbally but i'll type it out anyway. Just hold your thumb and forefinger about 1/2 inch apart and then point at him. Then hold your pinky up, point at it with your other hand and then at him.

Message: "You have a tiny dick. If you didn't have a tiny dick, you wouldn't be such a tiny dicked dick"

Drives most guys that are playing Automobile Rambo up the wall. I did that once to a guy back when i was a driving tractor trailers. He ran up on me on the right where the lane was merging and forced in front of me. About a half mile later the road opened up to two lanes again and we came to a stop light side by side (his asinine move saved him NO time at all) He looked up at me and i did that, held my fingers a half inch apart. His face turned bright red and as the light turned instead of taking off he accelerated along with me (the truck i was driving would do zero to 60 in about 2 minutes) just so he could shake his fist and give me the finger. I just kept taunting him like i described above. One of the most satisfying 4 mile stretches i think i have ever driven!


Ahhhh....memories.

[Clark2008]

36. Or wave back and blow them kisses.

When you difuse their hatred with something silly or cute, it drives 'em batty. :evilgrin:

[bleedingheart]

38. I blow kisses...with the hope it will give one of them a stroke.

and as long as they don't have that stroke and injure someone on the road...I would be just fine with that...

:evilgrin:

[NoodleyAppendage]

3. Small mind. Small penis.

The red Firebird should have been your first tip off that sanity was optional for the driver. Sounds like someone has a deep seated anxiety about something down South.

J

[Rageneau]

25. And do all the women Freepers have small boobs? Big vaginas?

I am sick to death of people resorting to sophomoric insults about the size (or lack of it) of the male appendage of people they disagree with. In the first place, penile size has nothing to do with how a person votes or behaves. In the second, such types of insults accomplish nothing except to elicit a nasty giggle on the part of the person slinging the insult. They merely contribute to the sinking level of discourse in this country.

Does breast size have anything to do with how a woman votes or behaves? Would it be acceptable -- when offended by a right-wing woman -- to 'accuse' her of having an overlarge vagina?

If it would NOT be (and it would not) then it is equally wrong and sexist and insulting and classless and ignorant to 'accuse' men we disagree with of having small ding-dongs.

If it isn't okay to insult a woman's body because you disagree with her, then it is not okay to do the same thing to a man. Unless. of course, one is a sexist.

[NoodleyAppendage]

35. Chill man. So, you think all those men with BIG SUVs are riding them for practical purposes?

Like it or not, but outward expressions of male dominance often are associated with deepseated anxieties about masculinity and self-worth. I think the same can be said for females who inflate their breasts to obscene sizes.

Give Freud a read and get back to me.

J

[DIKB]

37. That's why I drive a tiny japanese car

Good mileage and efficient for what I need it for.

The more introspective, and self aware someone is, the less they need to show off for others, or make up for perceived inadequacies.

I love to challenge men who drive SUVs with the following quote, "You live in the city but drive an SUV? Why not just stuff a pair of socks in your pants? It's cheaper."

[NoodleyAppendage]

41. Socks don't contribute to increased carbon emissions, as well.

Good come back. The super size SUV, truck, or sportscar fetish is silly to those who bother to dig beneath the surface meanings of things. Sadly, this sort of introspection is lost or considered "gay" by the very persons who drive these gas-guzzling beheamoths.

Cheers,
J

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. ...

:thumbsup:

[Bluzmann57]

4. A couple of years ago, a freeper got so mad at me

that he wanted to take a swing at me. Now I am around 6'2", weigh a considerable amount and in the past sometimes didn't have enough sense to walk away from something like that. But with this particular guy, I just started laughing uproariously and turned around and walked away from him. He was cussing all the while and others started laughing at him as well. The guy ended up leaving the drinking establishment a short time after that, never to return. I'm glad that guy didn't try anything bad with you. There are some dangerous a**holes out there. Cool bumper stickers by the way.

[deadmessengers]

5. ...and this is why I don't have bumper stickers on my car

The risk of running into a numbskull like that (especially in my far right hometown) far outweighs any benefit it might have.

[tbyg52]

31. Sigh....

I used to have bumper stickers all over the back of my old, cheap car. Then some jerk totalled it as I was sitting waiting for traffic to clear. Now I have a new car, partly courtesy of the jerk, and I find I'm afraid to put bumper stickers on it.

I *will* overcome my fear for the 2008 election, though!

[Ian David]

6. I just counted yesterday, and I have 46 bumper stickers

My wife won't let me put the "I Don't Brake for Republicans" sticker on it, though. Do you want it?

[Nikki Stone1]

24. Can I marry your car?

:D

[Maraya1969]

29. Marry it? Hell I'd just like to take a ride in it!

[madmom]

8. I live in a VERY repug town and I have a DU bumper sticker on

the back of my car, the other day had a cop follow my all the way across town (I even took some side street out of the normal track) and into the parking lot of were I work, when I pulled into a parking spot he turned the other way and left. My SO said it was because of my bumper sticker, I hope it was,the dickhead!:mad:

[Ian David]

11. I had a cop do something like that to me once.

He didn't like my bumper stickers, so he refused to let me get over a lane so I could get to my exit, so I gave him the finger.

(Yes, I know. Bad idea).

Then he pulled me over and offered to meet me while he was off-duty so we could fight.

Anyway, my lawyer and I had a meeting with his boss.

[guitar man]

17. damn

Then he pulled me over and offered to meet me while he was off-duty so we could fight.

I wish I would get an offer like that. I would welcome the opportunity to whip some redneck cop's ass without going to jail for it :evilgrin:

[Marrah_G]

26. I don't put bumper stickers on for that reason

I can't afford tickets in case some jerk doesn't like them and I can't afford to fight any tickets in court.

Sometimes it sucks being a single mom, you just can't take chances on anything.

Couple more years and they will be out of the house and THEN I can plaster all the stickers I want on the back :)

[Ian David]

9. Keep up the good work, and don't let them scare you into silence. n/t

[Warpy]

10. If it ever happens again, get his license number

and take the time and trouble to fill out a police report.

They're taking road rage seriously these days and this guy is a ticking time bomb.

At 7 AM, he didn't have the excuse of having a snootful. He's just an asshole and the cops need to have a paper trail on him.

On edit: cutting in front of you and then slowing down repeatedly is part of what the cops call a "swoop and squat." It's how frauds court bogus accidents to get money out of insurance companies. Describe the behavior to a cop on duty.

All you needed was to have a random car behind you and they'd bust him immediately.

[Ian David]

12. Some people are still drunk from the night before at 7 AM. n/t

[Warpy]

14. Try hung over

That takes the ginger out of 'em and they're not Superman any more.

[Robson]

13. Need one more

LOL you need one other bumper sticker on your car to give pause to the Bubba idiots.

Smith & Wesson: The original point-and-click interface.... or

My Other Auto is a 9mm

[Ian David]

15. I have one that says "Another Armed Liberal."

It's the big blue one way off to the left.

[Robson]

16. LOL that works

The first thing that goes through Bubba's mind when he thinks he sees a lib is there goes another wimp. Some of the idiots might even try and intimidate as happened to the OP.

Such a sticker gives them pause and will put them off balance.

[melody]

18. Dontcha love these RW "moral people"?

They're dangerous when left unattended (by people toting straitjackets).

My husband always tells people who kvetch about Vietnam protesters that the only time
he was ever called a baby-killer was by a right-winger.

We had a wacko block us in a parking lot to complain about our "Keep Abortion
Safe and Legal" bumpersticker. Said jerk started screaming, "baby killer!" My husband
(6'1" tall and wearing his Vietnam vet jacket) got out of the car and said to him,
"yeah, and if I'd do that to an innocent baby, what the hell would I do to you?" He was, of course,
joking, but the impact of fear coupled with awe-of-a-veteran in the jerk's eyes was
amazing. lol

[LanternWaste]

19. Very cool!

Very cool!

But be forewarned, as per some of our own posters, this entire incident may be all your fault as you were doing the speed limit rather than speeding as you should have been (so I hear...)

:sarcasm: :hide:

[ananda]

20. Great stickers!

nt

[Gregorian]

21. Hey, we had to fight them to stop slavery.

That tells one everything they need to know. I think it's a good example of how unempathetic and greedy and heartless and arrogant and ignorant they are.

Slavery. It took an all out war.

[deaniac21]

22. I'm always intimidated by cars with a lot of bumper stickers.

People with many stickers are always so much brighter than I. Maybe he was acting out because sometimes the unintelligent feel that people with a bunch of stickers are 'kooks'? Who knows what those right wingers think?

[Nikki Stone1]

23. He put your life (and his) in danger over a few bumperstickers?

He needs to be reported. Did you get the license number?

[femrap]

27. I love your bumper stickers...

what state do you live in? A blue one?

[sinkingfeeling]

32. No, a red state, Arkansas!

[A HERETIC I AM]

28. THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION HAS NOT BEEN ASKED!!

I took two of my dogs to the vet's this morning

What kind of doggy's and how are they?

One more question: Since they ride in the car, the car actually belongs to THEM and they just let you drive it around for 'em, right?

[sinkingfeeling]

33. Really, there's 3 of them. One Samoyed and 2 Mini American Eskimos. So there's the dogs

and a car full of white dog hair. My Samoyed is going on 12 and has diabetes, Cushings' syndrome, and is totally blind (both eyes were removed and she has prostheses). Hank went along for his yearly booster shots and exam. Criss was there for her quarterly blood tests. Sugar had to stay home alone!

[A HERETIC I AM]

34. Awww...da pup pups...

(sorry....that's exactly what i would say if we were face to face meeting your dogs.)

Dog hair in the vehicle(s) - check
Old dog with Diabetes - check
"Hank" coming along - sorta check
Criss staying home - sorta check (full check if Criss is a cat named Phred that adores Hank & The old one)

Here is my ol' pal, Mr. BB who went blind from Diabetes, all dressed up and no place to go;

Here he is with his bud, the counterpart to Hank, "Shelby" when Shelby was but a pup;

Shelby was a sweetheart female Shepherd mix who grew to 3 times his size but adored him.
Here is Phred the cat that was a pal to both;

That's my goddamned pillow he has claimed, by the way.

Here's young Phred and BB at ease with each other;


Screw that asshole that can't mind his own business. You have pets!

[underpants]

30. Love the Zinn quote

Glad everything turned out all right

[babylonsister]

40. Love you and your stickers, sinkingfeeling!

:thumbsup: :applause: :woohoo: