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RDP Friday: annoy

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Today at RDP, we are asked to share a story,
 poem, photo, painting, essay, etc., focusing
on the word ‘annoy’. Here’s my take.

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The Jerk

The other day I was driving on the highway heading for an appointment in Connecticut. Traffic was heavy and crawling along at a snail’s pace with a lot of stop and go. Trying to change lanes would have been difficult. I glanced up into my rearview and there’s a red muscle car, engine revving and practically kissing my rear end. If I stopped short, the car definitely would have hit me. The driver was really starting to annoy me. As if that wasn’t bad enough, he began flashing his lights …. a sign that he wanted to pass me. Traffic was moving at a stultifying 3 mph; where the hell did this guy think I was going to go? I wasn’t about to push my way into another lane just so the guy behind me could move up one car length. Checking my sideview, I saw an opportunity to change lanes; I put on my signal and eased into the middle lane. The guy in the red muscle car loudly revved his macho engine and shifted gears like a NASCAR driver, then drove directly behind the car in front of him. I guess his plan was to intimidate his way into Connecticut. What a total jerk!


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RDP Friday! Annoy!

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33 thoughts on “RDP Friday: annoy”

  1. I guess I’m agreeing with the other commenters who said that you don’t dare raise a middle finger to someone who’s being a jerk on the road. You just have to try to get to your next stop in one piece

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  2. Just a week ago a 21 year old man was shot and killed by a 23 year old woman for honking at her when the light turned green in Indianapolis. We had a road rage killing in our city about a year ago in a Kroger parking lot. Scary.

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    1. That’s awful, Lisa. We hear all the horrifying stories surrounding road rage, I hope we never forget just how deadly it can be. No matter how strong the urge is to honk or flip the bird, we need to let it pass. It only takes a second for rage to turn into murder. It truly is scary.

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  6. While I love “Highway Star,” I certainly cannot say the same about aggressive drivers. When I was younger and somebody was tailgating me, I would do silly stuff like slowing down or showing them the middle finger. While every now and then I can’t avoid an angry reaction, in general, I have calmed down a lot. It’s simply not worth risking to get into some kind of fight. Who knows the aggressor might be a lunatic and pull a gun on you!

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    1. You’re absolutely right, Christian. Any reactions I have, I keep well concealed. It’s just not worth the risk. Every time I see a crazy driver speeding in and out of traffic and constantly changing lanes, I always hope there’s a cop waiting just around the bend for nuts like him! Thanks for a great comment!

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  7. I see that behavior all the time here in Texas, but it’s not muscle cars, it’s young idiots wearing their gimme cap backwards, driving a pickup jacked up ten feet in the air with tires as big as a heifer. That’s what we deal with. These days, we don’t use the old one-finger salute because everyone in this state carries a pistol. Momo and I carry guns everywhere we go. If that insulant driver riding her butt only knew what was in my wife’s purse.

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    1. Yeah, he was an asshole and I was cursing him out and giving him the finger with my hand out of view. That’s my therapy. He’s a fucking nutcase and who knows what could set him off and what he’d do. Lunatics!

      Were those any of the names you were thinking of? 😂

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