Road Rage this Morning... Yup

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Heheh...ya. Sometimes the bristly stuff takes away a little bit more of our tolerance levels....subconsciously, ya know?
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See now today I didn't Shave...  Nope went all scruffy...  And you know what?  I think we are onto something.  

I mean this morning the Stupid BEeeyotch at the Starbucks Coffee walked away from her drive up window to do "Whatever" leaving me and MRS eyeballing our drinks without means to actually get them.  Now we have had problems with this particular person before, she's just honestly rude.  

Did I get excited, did I yell and carry on?  Nope!  I just left, I'm like OK, Enough of this, we are going to the land of Starbucks, I don't need this Rookie hour Hassle.  

Now the Mrs. was a little *Grrr* at me, (she wanted her Mocha) but she was supportive...      

Anyhoo, then I just about get broadsided by an 18 wheeler.... Interesting and kinda funny really.  Then I approach an intersection where I need to turn left.  Well on one side of the road I am turning onto there is a car turning right, in the other lane is a car turning left...  It's only a two lane road...  So, Yeah I aim for the middle and hope these fools can figure things out enough to actually move.... And they Do...     Welcome to Florida...  
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I have no point...  sorry...
Interesting.....


But really though...I honestly think that it can affect our subconcious patience levels. Something about how it doesn't feel good.

Kinda like an itchy pair of winter pants....ya don't feel very good and all jovial-like when you have them on, know what I mean?


Just a thought, albeit a wierd one, from the Head of Pac...
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Rev i think u will find this interesting its a quote of you on aug 25 in the bash stunters thred.  

"Hell I have had a dozen or so fugwits nearly wreck cause I honk at them..."

your a honker???  haha i couldnt resist funny story though, lucky that window held...

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We all have times when our patience wears a bit thin.  Rev, I'm just thankful he didn't retrieve anything from within his vehicle.  Be safe and take your valium bro
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It does go to show that most of the "road ragers" are softies hiding behind their steering wheel and



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Amazing Rev...I've been seeing a clinical psychologist for more than a year now for the exact some thing. Anger.

So, this thread has said some interesting things and you have learned from this episode....but the question begs...

Revlis---what are you really mad at?

What is it within you that would make you risk your life, embarrass your wife and risk arrest for road rage.

Think about this.

Everytime you get angry you release a little bit of a hormone in your bloodstream called Cortisol. THis is not good. It can elevate blood pressure and cause strokes and heart attacks

Long term anger and rage will kill your relationships
It has the potential to get you fired.
It has the potential to kill your marriage.
It has the potential to kill you on your motorcycle as you lose judgement when under the influence of rage

What are you really mad about? I write these things to you Revlis because I know that scene on the road very well. I was one of the ones that did get out of the car so to speak.

My kick boxing and anger got together one evening at a party at UCLA 30 years ago. And to this day, I regret it. so it took 30 years to deal with my anger.....how long are you going to wait?

Sorry for all of this, but I don't want you to suffer like I did. You are one of the most valuable members of this great forum and I don't want you to run into some schmuck like me on the road...because if you do...you will regret knocking on his window.
 
Uhh Rev, you're getting a lot of attention with this post. You sure you're not lonely or some shiite like that?
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Can't you find anything else to do? Maybe something with "SILVER" perhaps?
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It's MIDDAY Rev... c'mon... I'm just fuggin wit ya...
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I wouldn't dare do this in the MORNING...
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Truthfully, if you would have done that to me. I would have pulled out my gun and shot you, see i carry it day in day out religously. I have been carjacked (with my kids in the car) before and i can tell you one thing, it'll never happen again. Sometime you just need to take a breathe an ask yourself is it really worth it to make an ass outta yourself. Its great and all that you "made up" with the guy, but what do u think would have happened if he would have had a gun?
 
VRSCA 2003 has it right....its good you left the scene shaking hands...that is a great way to handle a scene that is escalating.

But you need to find a way to get to that point BEFORE you open the door and get out of the car. Trust me on this boys and girls.

Anger lesson number #1 for anyone who cares.... the portion of our brain that controls emotions is called the amygdala. Revlis had what is referred to sometimes as an "amygdala hijack". You have about a quarter of a second between the catalyst (in this case a honking horn) and how your body reacts. Thats it. 250 milliseconds determine your response in many cases. When you can somehow retrain yourself to recapture this 250 milliseconds....you can successfully control anger. There are many other ways too.

Once a guy in front of me in the toll lane was taking way too long. In my old days, I'd be on the horn in 5 seconds. and royally pissed in 10 seconds. The other day, it happened again....I saw the guy looking for change to feed the toll booth. But, instead of an "amygdala hijack" I got out of the car and PAID the guys toll. My shrink freaked and said way to go....that is real progress (you guys have no idea how bad anger can get)

Total elapsed time 5 seconds. No anger, no guns....the guy looked at me like I was psychotic.....I felt like a million bucks and it only cost me forty cents.....!
 
86 replies because a guy blew his horn at you??? TAKE A DEEP BREATH!!! He had every right to blow his horn at you. Turn the tables man, put yourself in his van, would you have honked??? So Billy Bad Ass ges out of his car just to show the general public that he can beat his chest harder than the other monkey in the mini van. You punched his window??? Do you know how incredibly idiotic that is? What if the guy 2 cars behind the mini van had been a cop??? Hey REV...are ya' BULLETPROOF??? If Mr. mini van was armed, and wanted to take this insecurity fest to the next level, YOU'D BE DEAD!! You wouldn't be posting your story for everyone else's amusement, Mrs. Rev would be posting A good time EULOGY!!! Think about that for a second. She would be going to Seattle alone not because of court cases and possible jail time, she would be going alone because YOU WOULD BE DEAD. D-E-A-D Rev...do you get what I am trying to say? I don't know you, but I have read many of your posts. I do not post a lot because I tend to keep my 2 cents to myself most of the time. Rev, you seem like a pretty good guy who might be having a bit of a tough run right now, but look at the big picture man. I feel the love that these people have for you and it is STRONG. You get dead over something SO INSANELY STUPID, you know how many hurt souls you gonna leave behind brother? I am not judging, my cardinal rule is not to judge anybody lest I judge myself first, but MAN, take a deep breath.
EVERYBODY...TAKE A DEEP BREATH. You got the finger...so what? Someone blew their horn at you, SO WHAT? I honestly can't believe what I am reading from some of you folks. It's a scary world we live in and in my opinion, some of the thoughts and ideas expressed in this thread only make this place worse. Be the bigger person...take a deep breath...in through the nose, out through the mouth, right? I have love for all my brothers and sisters on this board and I do not want to lose any of you. just my 2 cents, and now I am kind of light headed because I have been practicing what I preach...so I gotta go lay down now...feeling kinda' dizzy...PEACE Y'ALL
 
Truthfully, if you would have done that to me. I would have pulled out my gun and shot you, see i carry it day in day out religously. I have been carjacked (with my kids in the car) before and i can tell you one thing, it'll never happen again. Sometime you just need to take a breathe an ask yourself is it really worth it to make an ass outta yourself. Its great and all that you "made up" with the guy, but what do u think would have happened if he would have had a gun?
No you wouldn't have bro...
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You might think about it, But I am willing to bet, Deep down... Neither you, me, or even our Hardcore Cop friend here is going to actually pull the trigger on a Dude with empty hands.... Nope... No matter how scared ya are.

Weapon or object in hand yeah prolly... But I believe as strange as it sounds neither you or Bullet (Which Really Sounds Screwed) is really thinking about the whole scene, and the realities involved in a shooting. OK ANYWAY....

OK, Say he had come up with a gun, I was ready, I didn't split. Hell it's Florida and everyone has guns so I was waiting to see which hand it came up in... Call me stupid, whatever, but I kinda hoped he would produce a weapon cause it would sorta open the floodgates if you will, let me off my leash. Does that make sense? It would allow me to actually open up. I dunno, I thought it would be theraputic. I am absolutely UN-concerned about dying due to gunshot. I dunno why, I just know that is NOT how I am going to buy the farm...

I HAVE been there before. I had the .12 gauge against my head, fuggin psycho in a van on the other end... So What did I do? I screamed at him to "Pull the Fuggin Trigger", I repeated it... I said "You pulled the fuggin Gun You piece of Sh!t, NOW YOU HAVE TO FUGGIN USE IT." "YOU HAVE TO SHOOT, YOU FUGGIN COWARD"

I dunno... I know it sounds like a fuggin film clip, I cannot explain my actions, but I believe that in this case it kept me alive... I believe the absolute lack of fear, maybe the "Crazy Eyes"
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Fuggin whatever, actually saved my ass... I think I put the proverbial fear of god into the guy, OR I just called his bluff in the worst way. Either way, both he and the fuggin passanger were shaking. (Just like the poor ####### in the Mini-van) Shaking SO BAD in Fact, that I could hear the cylinder rattling in the frame of the revolver. I remember that clearly. I remember telling the guy to get that fuggin thing out of my face or pull the fuggin trigger... He lowered the .12gauge, and started rattling on about "Sorry" this and that, and how they were just messing around, and didn't mean anything... basically he jabbered like that till the cops arrived....
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So, I believe if he had pulled a gun, he wouldn't have fired fast enough. Or not at all... Just a hunch, I saw his eyes...

OK OK Like I said before I am not claiming to be a fuggin "Tough Guy" far from it, I came here and fessed up... I figured it was appropriate because of the prior days thread and things I HAD JUST written as "THE RIGHT THING TO DO" were things I didn't do just the very next day.... It's simply Fugged up, I am still NOT trying to JUSTIFY ANYTHING... I was plain wrong and it prolly would have been SUPER good for me had the Guy behind me been a Fuggin MMA Heavyweight... Probably would have been excellent stress release Getting a good Solid No questions ASS STOMPING...
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<span style='color:orangered'>vrsca2003</span> I do know what your getting at, and it does come back to the breathing... So I've been much better ALL week and this little Fug up really has served as a Wake UP call, a notice that I am currently wound WAY TOO TIGHT....

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Rev i think u will find this interesting its a quote of you on aug 25 in the bash stunters thred.

"Hell I have had a dozen or so fugwits nearly wreck cause I honk at them..."

your a honker??? haha i couldnt resist funny story though, lucky that window held...

Matt
"Hell I have had a dozen or so fugwits nearly wreck cause I honk at them..."[/QUOTE] YEAH, But that honking I believe was in reference to folks being oblivious, and creeping out of their lane or something?
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Wasn't It?

Not that it matters because this is sorta the POINT of this thread. Hell Just the Day before my little Jackass episode, I had been commentng on BOTH WWJD's ANd VABusa's threads in regards to Road rage and how to let the "Little Shid" Slide... HOLY CRAP!!!! And here I am a day later, ONE DAY, Doing EXACTLY the OPPOSITE, BEHAVING almost exactly like the ##### in the H2..... *Sigh* It was just such a clear fuggin Hypocrasy, that I nearly fell over from the weight of it....
 
86 replies because a guy blew his horn at you??? TAKE A DEEP BREATH!!! He had every right to blow his horn at you. Turn the tables man, put yourself in his van, would you have honked???
--- NO I wouldn't have honked, because I Honestly DO THINK OF OTHERS to a great extent. I was doing the right thing, there was no way we were going to make the light, we are too far away. And these poor folks on the side street allways get blocked in... I would have recognized and been pleased with someone chillin letting all them folks onto the road... NOT honking... 86 Replies??? I am feeling the love and the hate... Hell I'm here serving as an example of WHAT NOT TO FUGGIN DO!!! I'm glad... OH and I like the Attention... No way around it...
So Billy Bad Ass ges out of his car just to show the general public that he can beat his chest harder than the other monkey in the mini van. You punched his window??? Do you know how incredibly idiotic that is? [/QUOTE]

Um Yeah, Thus A WHOLE FUGGIN REV PULLED A JACKASS IDIOTIC MOVE TODAY FUGGIN THREAD....
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What if the guy 2 cars behind the mini van had been a cop??? Hey REV...are ya' BULLETPROOF???[/QUOTE]

Um, as I mentioned above... Kinda Yeah... So far College, An Adventure outside the Denver Natural History Museum, Saudi, a few AORs, yeah apparantly... Not so much PROOF, so MUCH AS repellent... HE HE... Fug I dunno...

If Mr. mini van was armed, and wanted to take this insecurity fest to the next level,[/QUOTE]

See now your just Being an A$$hole... Yeah I'm insecure... That's why I post such "Heroic" fuggin moments in public...

Rev, you seem like a pretty good guy who might be having a bit of a tough run right now, but look at the big picture man. I feel the love that these people have for you and it is STRONG. [/QUOTE]

And now your being sweet... *Sniffle*
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OK seriously, this is what is SO FUGGED UP... I REALLY am only stressed about GOOD things!!! I am leaving Florida, Wife Has Sweet New job, we are moving someplace I have allways wanted to live... So yeah there is Stress, but it's all GOOD STUFF, Just things to get done... That is what makes my actions so fuggin Repugnant... Baffling allmost... I mean a lot of stress, but NO REAL DRAMA, and Here I am trying to fug it all up because of a HONK??? WTF???

EVERYBODY...TAKE A DEEP BREATH. You got the finger...so what? Someone blew their horn at you, SO WHAT? I honestly can't believe what I am reading from some of you folks. It's a scary world we live in and in my opinion, some of the thoughts and ideas expressed in this thread only make this place worse. Be the bigger person...take a deep breath...in through the nose, out through the mouth, right? I have love for all my brothers and sisters on this board and I do not want to lose any of you. just my 2 cents, and now I am kind of light headed because I have been practicing what I preach...so I gotta go lay down now...feeling kinda' dizzy...PEACE Y'ALL[/QUOTE]

Ya know, I cannot argue with any of this... Yeah it's a little too heartfelt for my liking... But well Said...

You better go lay down...

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Uhh Rev, you're getting a lot of attention with this post. You sure you're not lonely or some shiite like that?
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Can't you find anything else to do? Maybe something with "SILVER" perhaps?
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It's MIDDAY Rev... c'mon... I'm just fuggin wit ya...
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I wouldn't dare do this in the MORNING...
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And now your contributing to my whoring around Bro...

I wish I wasn't flying to Seattle... I was really looking forward to driving through and meeting you for dinner.... Hopefully soon we'll get together...

I got a stack of platform issues we need to cover for 2008 and I was thinking the ROCK would be a perfect Defense Secretary...
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