Dear mid-sized, beige Toyota driving on Wildcat Canyon Road tonight,
I’m terribly sorry that my truck full of small children got in your way this evening. Had I known that going 5mph over the posted speed limit, up a dark and winding mountain road, was not fast enough for you, I could have stayed home and spared you the inconvenience.
I’m also sorry that when you got close enough to smell my kids fart, that I slowed down. I can see how you may not have known that I was part of that Facebook Group that slows down on tailgaters. Maybe I should get a bumper sticker? But I was trying to give you a subtle message that you were making me, and my truck full of small children, uncomfortable.
And when the road briefly straightened out, and you decided that it was a good idea to turn on your bright lights, pass me on the double yellow line and hang your middle finger out your window…I really appreciated that. I’d been waiting for an appropriate time to discuss the fine art of flipping people off with my 5 and 3 year old’s.
So, thank you mid-sized, beige Toyota. You made my night that much better by having been almost run off the road by you.
Sincerely,
Full-sized, silver Ford truck full of small children
Oh Rhea, I hate asshole drivers!!! I’m sorry you had to deal with that!!
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It’s a shame the Universe couldn’t make that Toyota accelerator stick for a few hundred feet going up that mountain. That’d be some kind of karma, hu?
LMAO! I’m not sure this didn’t happen…they took off like a bat out of hell. Maybe I’ll just pretend that was their problem. ha.
Oh my…I’m glad nobody was hurt and sorry your blood pressure was probably pushed through the roof!
I despise these careless and wreckless drivers. They probably have a rap sheet of moving violations, accidents etc a mile long and they are paying the highest insurance rates allowed by law.
I ignore the idiots and let them go on their merry way because I know they will eventually get another ticket or wreck their vehicle.
I lose no sleep over the bums because the chances of ever seeing them again in your lifetime is nil.
Now, if only driving records were required in one’s resume when applying for a job! I think there is a DIRECT correlation between driving wrecklessly and the person’s personality and work ethics.
My poor younger sis’s car has been rear ended I don’t know numerous times by tail gaters who couldn’t stop at stop lights in time. She always had little ones in the car too.
Thankfully none of them were never ever seriously hurt any of those times, but she had to put up with the jerks too.
Some of them were saying things like “Why didn’t you go on through that light.” She was like it was turning red and I have kids in the car you idiots.
If those people without a brain cell want to put their kids in danger than fine, but just don’t put our kids in danger so you can get from point A to point B a little faster. By the way, don’t you just love how the idiots that are usually speeding get tripped up further up the road and have to slow down because of traffic, a reck ahead, stop light or a train crossing with a slow moving train on it, and then you end up right along side of them again. I think it’s hilarious and just laugh at them because they don’t really get there sooner. Even funnier is when you see them pulled over by the State Patrol getting a speeding ticket.
Your story is unfortunately very familiar but I like the hilarious spin to it, especially…
you “pass me on the double yellow line and hang your middle finger out your window…I really appreciated that. I’d been waiting for an appropriate time to discuss the fine art of flipping people off with my 5 and 3 year old’s”
I was seriously laughing out loud. THANKS!!!
Oh Rhea, you crack me up!
“…close enough to smell my kids’ farts…”
CLASSIC.
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Soooo frustrating!! Grr!! I slow down for tailgaters too. I don’t care how angry they get, I’m not putting myself in greater jeopardy by pleasing them. I’m glad you are safe!!
LMAO! Love it and I totally slow down when they tailgate me. I’ll got 5 miles an hour if I gotta…I am never in a hurry to get anywhere!
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I love your sense of humor! It’s scary how much we think alike! I do exactly the same thing as you do because I would just LOVE to have one of them hit me from behind – not hard, but just enough so we have to pull over and make a police report. And then I’m gonna make their life a living hell! I will have whiplash, you name it, ANYTHING to make them pay more for their car insurance when I file my claim. AND I’ll be sure to tell their insurance company what a wonderful driver they were (NOT!) when they hit me from behind! But with my luck, the person probably wouldn’t even have car insurance! lol I hope you have a better day today!