rubydlite
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AKentuckyLady
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2016 has been a definite standout in the last 10 years. I'll remember it as the year I regained my confidence, independence, and made the changes that I was reluctant to do. Once I finally made up my mind, my willpower alone made it happen.
The first half of the year has been amazing. I wonder what the last half of the year will bring - whatever it is, I'm facing it with a positive attitude and a regained sense of anticipation.
DarkSimian
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I need what she's having; my year has been a rollercoaster
There is nothing especially memorable about this time of my life except that I'm alive and in relative good health.
rubydlite
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I feel like I need to revisit this as I answered quite quickly. I will look back at 2016 as a banner year for one specific reason. This is my first full year in over a decade as a single woman. In fact this week marks one full year .
I'm focusing on the big Me....as much as a momma can.
There's something to be said for being 100 % responsible for your own happiness and owning if you are or aren't.
I'm focusing on the big Me....as much as a momma can.
There's something to be said for being 100 % responsible for your own happiness and owning if you are or aren't.
AKentuckyLady
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I got my life back.
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ChainedUp
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Is a Monday morning peppy person worse than a Saturday morning peppy person? Lol
Someone cuts you off on the way to somewhere. We all curse the person, it's human nature to react. But what prompts you to go to the next level. A horn honk, waving your arms, yelling out the window at them, rolling up at the next stop light and staring at them, and do I dare say getting out to converse with the other driver at the grocery store parking lot?
In a related matter , if we all think there's bad drivers on the road driving, and everyone you know agrees that there's bad drivers, what are the chances that you are one of those bad drivers?
Someone cuts you off on the way to somewhere. We all curse the person, it's human nature to react. But what prompts you to go to the next level. A horn honk, waving your arms, yelling out the window at them, rolling up at the next stop light and staring at them, and do I dare say getting out to converse with the other driver at the grocery store parking lot?
In a related matter , if we all think there's bad drivers on the road driving, and everyone you know agrees that there's bad drivers, what are the chances that you are one of those bad drivers?
beachbaby179
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If whatever they've done affects me directly and makes my heart pound, then it was a close enough call to warrant an extended honk of my horn. I usually don't go past that, though, because as a woman who is usually driving alone, that's just not wise.
I make an exception, though, for perfectly healthy dolts who park in handicapped spots. I will approach them in parking lots.
And no...no chance I'm one of them.
I make an exception, though, for perfectly healthy dolts who park in handicapped spots. I will approach them in parking lots.
And no...no chance I'm one of them.
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I know I'm not a great driver. I used to be better, when I drove a lot to get to work, but now I drive infrequently, so I am absolutely rubbish at judging the width of my car, for example. Which is a considerably handicap on my little single-track rural roads when there's a massive tractor bearing down on me...
Or even a little Smart car, actually On the plus side, modern cars have lots of helpful devices now, parking camera, beepings when you're getting close to something and so on. So maybe no-one knows
I've worked at controlling my road rage very early on.
Cutting me off with me having enough time to brake, I don't care. I'll mutter under my breath.
Cutting me off with me having barely enough time to brake, I don't waste time thinking up imaginative ways to curse them out until after the situation has passed, even then, the situation has passed. What's the point in getting yourself upset without them gaining the pleasure of hearing you curse them out?
Riding on my bumper makes me a surely individual. When I was younger, I used to tap my brakes to let them know I don't appreciate it. But some folks are just plain ornery and don't take a clue. I'm breathing heavily, getting madder, rolling my eyes, but I don't act on my base road-rage and move into the other lane for the lazy jackass. Normally, I am in the slow lane so that means I have to go into the fast lane to move aside. If there isn't two lanes, then I pull over. Again, I am either too full of rage to say anything coherent, or I just let them pass without comment.
If I spot them laughing as they pass, or if they try to push me off the road, or any other form of aggressive driving like that combined with a smug attitude, unless they are a cop; all bets are off.
I've had where cops also play bumper tag and draft on you like they are in Indianapolis. At which point I yelled out at the top of my lungs; "GET OFF MY FUCKING ASS YOU FUCKING IDIOT!"
Usually they quit playing games at that point.
edit: Hrm... A horn is a warning device. It is not meant to be used to wake the person ahead of you who isn't moving fast enough at a light, to get the attention of a friend on the side of the road, or to let someone know you are pissed off. I have used a horn one time in my life and that was to let someone know they were drifting off the side of the road; probably asleep.
now what was the related question after the yak yak yak?
I am a very simple minded person. Either you deal with the problem (no, not THAT way) or you are the problem. I never allow myself to be the problem. After that, you really have to work hard to make me do otherwise. At which point I've pulled out a camera and taken a photo of someone sitting on my bumper at speed, and full on so they can see me doing it (It's easier when you have a convertible or t-top).
I've never had someone curse me out, or beep their horn at me. I don't cut people off and never would I put m nose on someone's bumper... while driving
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Paul_Chance
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I'm very calm when I drive, but that was a deliberate choice to learn how to be, based on experience. It wasn't always the case. About the only time I'll tap the horn is when I end up at a stop light behind someone who is playing with their phone - and then it's just a "pay attention" tap.
About twenty years ago, I was driving home one day after work and got stuck behind a car that was stopping about forty feet back from the light, obviously not paying attention, and then slow moving when the light changed. After a few intersections of the same routine - stupid driving, horn honking, stupid driving, horn honking - the driver (a male) jumped out of his car and starting waving his arms and shouting at me. I immediately bailed out of my car and started for him at which point he jumped back into his car and took off. LOL - it retrospect that was a stupid thing to do on my part and a wake up call about the potential for road-rage. Times changed, I changed, and now I just accept that a.) I'll get there when I get there, b.) if I want to make it somewhere at a certain time, leave plenty of idiot-cushion time and c.) drive defensively.
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I am somewhat not at all ashamed to say that I get the road rage from time to time. I don't know that I've actually uttered the word "motherfucker" other than in the confines of my vehicle. I have honked the horn, flipped the bird, thrown up my hands in the universal "what the fuck?!?" sign. The string of obscenities that I am capable of spewing is impressive.
And then I usually end up laughing at myself because I call someone a cow cunt.
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2016 so far has been good. Not nearly the disaster that last year was. A couple not so great surprises bit fortunately nothing I didn't bounce back from quickly. I hope 2016 keeps getting better. I think it will.
Just a word of caution. My sister told me once how she flipped someone the bird because they honked at her. They saw and pushed her off the side of the road. She told the state highway officer what happened including that she flipped him the bird.
The officer walked away when she mentioned that, and told her "This is what you get when you do that." A state highway officer, not no backwoods sheriff.
This was in Connecticut if that matters.
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I wasn't the guy that pushed her off the road. It's just a finger. You think that's impressive, here's a whole bouquet of them.
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^^^
I did something similar to this in a Road rage incident. I reached in the backseat like I was getting something, then flipped the guy a bird. I got my ass chased for like ten miles by a man who could ruin me. That was my last road rage incident.
I still call them motherfuckers all the time.
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I'm still laughing at "cow cunt", can't say that I've ever heard that one.
So let's hear them, your best swear phrases, your go to curse and your most original creations.
"Dick pump" is a favorite go to.
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