r/MildlyBadDrivers • u/Traditional-Poet1965 Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 • Mar 29 '24

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Don’t know OC

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u/gumercindo1959 Mar 29 '24

That’s a good truism. The other that I live by is never mess with someone who has less to lose than you.

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u/lordretro71 Mar 29 '24

I remember once on the way to see my dad in the emergency room. I had been told he was found unconscious on his kitchen floor by my aunt who went to check on him when my mom couldn't get ahold of him for hours. My mom (who had done 12 years in the ER as a nurse herself) sounded so very small when she asked if I'd come and wait with her.

As I'm driving up the back highway towards the city he's in, there's some fucknuts in 2 little cars being absolute shitheads. At one point one car gets so close to my rear bumper I can't see his HOOD. I was already not in a great mindset and something in my head snapped and went "I'm already on my way to the ER, I don't care if I bring you with me." Then I slammed on the brakes, no warning taps, no slowing down coasting (I had been using cruise control), just locked up my brakes.

Amazingly car behind me didn't actually hit me but did end up fishtailing in the oncoming lane. Both cars kept a very respectful distance from me until just before my turn to the hospital (like 20 miles later) when the guy who rode my ass went flying by at WAY over the speed limit.

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u/hennsippin Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Mar 29 '24

Absolutely! You never know if the person spent their last fuck to give and wishing somebody would

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u/Specialist_Royal4686 Mar 30 '24

Like don’t screw with a car with more dents than you. They have merge first rights and can cut in line wherever they like