It has been a wonderful week of bad days this week. I pulled a 17 hour shift on monday, 14 hour shift on Tuesday and averaging about 10-12 so far the rest of this week. Just got back from our honeymoon on Saturday. The honeymoon was great but this week has definitely been wearing on me.
One of my brothers who works at the same company as me had an accident at work trying to help someone move a piece of equipment and ended up having to have his left middle finger amputated at the joint just past the cuticle. I have been covering his job for him as well as mine while he recovers which I gladly accepted to help out.... just a series of bad events...
Anyway, back to the title.
I had a relatively good day considering I worked a 10 hour shift without taking a lunch or leaving my office to try and catch him up. Leave work, on my way home to eat some dinner with my wife and it begins.... idiot drivers everywhere... sitting for 5-6 seconds at green lights texting on their phones with their heads down.... etc. I am trying to put as much space between me from them as possible. Going down the road and I notice a car transport truck sitting in my lane with it's flashers on not moving, so I look over to my left and there is a jeep trying to match my pace and cut me off with a bunch of traffic behind him. So I increase my speed and pass him and move back over... a$$hole, but no big deal... next stop light comes and I continue my course in the right lane, I notice a box truck about 300 feet in front of me in the left lane. I think to myself... maybe I will just stay in this lane and merge over once I get past him, think again... we approach another light and it turns red... so I look behind me in his lane and see an old beat up p.o.s. about 150 feet or more away, I see him starting to increase his speed and I think I better move over so I can make my turn at the next light. He's really moving up now (I still have about 2-3 car lengths before he is too close to merge over, so I signal quickly and merge over. He honks his horn and just upon instinct and my already shitty week I give him an upside down bird as I roll to the stop. One of my first mistakes. I guess his girlfriend or wife is in the car or whatever she was and so he has to be a tough guy and pull up next to me saying stuff out his window about me cutting him off. I should have kept my shield down and let it go. (2nd mistake) I lift my shield up and we meet again at the next stop light. I am in my turn lane and he is in his straight lane. (Odd how he felt the need to speed up for fear of me cutting him off when he wasn't even going to be turning) Anywho... back to my second mistake... I engage in conversation with him... he's mad at me for giving him the finger.... which is justifiable... I'd be upset too. I then say "where the f(&* were you in such a hurry to get to that you felt the need to be a dick and speed up when I started to merge." and after a while of this going on his girl goes all Shaniqua (little white skinny woman mind you) and whip her head around and stick it out his window and start saying if I am going to ride a motorcycle I need to stop thinking I am a badass or I am going to get F*09ing killed and that I am a little b*$( and she is going to beat my ***... To which I replied to both of them, "Tough words coming from two people in a car." and then the light turned green and I continued my way home and turned left. <sigh> I am ready for it to be the weekend.
Moral of the story folks:
Don't do what I did....
Don't buy into road rage and fuel the fire.
If you see someone coming up behind you quickly in the lane you need to get into just let them pass first and any cars that may be behind them.
Never engage in conflict while in traffic, verbal, physical, or otherwise...not only do you put yourself in danger, you endanger the rest of the motorists around you.
I just needed to vent, and try to turn a negative into a positive by sharing what NOT to do.
That is all.... I am going to go have a beer. :iconbeer:
Also... I apologize for the many run on sentences, poor grammar, and incorrect spelling in this post. No more energy in me today to make it right.
One of my brothers who works at the same company as me had an accident at work trying to help someone move a piece of equipment and ended up having to have his left middle finger amputated at the joint just past the cuticle. I have been covering his job for him as well as mine while he recovers which I gladly accepted to help out.... just a series of bad events...
Anyway, back to the title.
I had a relatively good day considering I worked a 10 hour shift without taking a lunch or leaving my office to try and catch him up. Leave work, on my way home to eat some dinner with my wife and it begins.... idiot drivers everywhere... sitting for 5-6 seconds at green lights texting on their phones with their heads down.... etc. I am trying to put as much space between me from them as possible. Going down the road and I notice a car transport truck sitting in my lane with it's flashers on not moving, so I look over to my left and there is a jeep trying to match my pace and cut me off with a bunch of traffic behind him. So I increase my speed and pass him and move back over... a$$hole, but no big deal... next stop light comes and I continue my course in the right lane, I notice a box truck about 300 feet in front of me in the left lane. I think to myself... maybe I will just stay in this lane and merge over once I get past him, think again... we approach another light and it turns red... so I look behind me in his lane and see an old beat up p.o.s. about 150 feet or more away, I see him starting to increase his speed and I think I better move over so I can make my turn at the next light. He's really moving up now (I still have about 2-3 car lengths before he is too close to merge over, so I signal quickly and merge over. He honks his horn and just upon instinct and my already shitty week I give him an upside down bird as I roll to the stop. One of my first mistakes. I guess his girlfriend or wife is in the car or whatever she was and so he has to be a tough guy and pull up next to me saying stuff out his window about me cutting him off. I should have kept my shield down and let it go. (2nd mistake) I lift my shield up and we meet again at the next stop light. I am in my turn lane and he is in his straight lane. (Odd how he felt the need to speed up for fear of me cutting him off when he wasn't even going to be turning) Anywho... back to my second mistake... I engage in conversation with him... he's mad at me for giving him the finger.... which is justifiable... I'd be upset too. I then say "where the f(&* were you in such a hurry to get to that you felt the need to be a dick and speed up when I started to merge." and after a while of this going on his girl goes all Shaniqua (little white skinny woman mind you) and whip her head around and stick it out his window and start saying if I am going to ride a motorcycle I need to stop thinking I am a badass or I am going to get F*09ing killed and that I am a little b*$( and she is going to beat my ***... To which I replied to both of them, "Tough words coming from two people in a car." and then the light turned green and I continued my way home and turned left. <sigh> I am ready for it to be the weekend.
Moral of the story folks:
Don't do what I did....
Don't buy into road rage and fuel the fire.
If you see someone coming up behind you quickly in the lane you need to get into just let them pass first and any cars that may be behind them.
Never engage in conflict while in traffic, verbal, physical, or otherwise...not only do you put yourself in danger, you endanger the rest of the motorists around you.
I just needed to vent, and try to turn a negative into a positive by sharing what NOT to do.
That is all.... I am going to go have a beer. :iconbeer:
Also... I apologize for the many run on sentences, poor grammar, and incorrect spelling in this post. No more energy in me today to make it right.
