2 years ago on Christmas eve day my fam and i were at the local strip mall, in the wife's Geo Prizm. We were looking for a parking spot in one of the rows, and waiting behind several cars at an in-parking-lot stop sign. All of a sudden the car jumps about 2 feet in the air on the passenger side. Yep, some old **** got in his pickup truck and just backed up into my wife's car despite there being traffic (lots of it) stopped behind him.
Did I mention my wife's car was custom painted GM Fusion Orange Metallic? Did I mention it was about 11 am, 65 degrees and sunny as hell? How the **** do you miss that in your sideview mirror?
Then the old guy asks if we can keep it off the insurance ( of course, he had no damage!) and offers my wife $50 cash. She asked me if it was OK, (I was trying to stay out of it, since it was her first accident and I was letting her handle it as a learning experience) and I looked him in the eye and told him $50 wouldn't buy a quart of ******* paint, much less replace the quarterpanel and was he trying to be insulting? I pointed out that he had just backed into the rear passenger door where my (then) infant son was sitting. When I asked for his insurance and driver's license he got ALL in a huff and so did his wife. When I started taking pictures... "Hurry up then, I have things to do, it's Christmas Eve" - him.
For the record, ******* allstate sucks ass. If I ever get in an accident with someone with allstate insurance again, I'm calling their company right then and there to report the accident and having them acknowledge it on the phone RIGHT THEN... those mother ******* won;t pay a dime until the policy holder agrees/reports that yes, they did have an accident and they were at fault. I think it took a week or so before he finally admitted he had an accident...
I had people completely miss my MGB in there mirrors and pull over into my lane I dunno HOW many times. Sometimes I just couldn't blame them, the thing was only about 29 inches high. That is where i developed my point and shoot, no blind spot riding, be the faster car on the road/ left lane driving style.
I also almost took out a couple of motorcyclists one night in my TSi AWD. They had just left a red light that I caught green and we were goign uphill so I had a closing rate on them of about 40 mph, and somehow I just KNEW one of these bandana wearing stretched chopper ********** was going to cut to the right and into my lane... When he started to change lanes (no signal, no look, jsut a lean over) he was about even with my front bumper.
PSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTT> 18 psi of boost escaped from my Greddy Type S blow off valve, Mr chopper heard that over his "I'm a Douchebag narcissist" brand open exhaust and snapped back to the left so hard he dragged pipe and almost was thrown off his bike, which started pogo-ing left and right repeatedly... Funniest shit ever. Like watching a drunk on the mechanical bull
The two thought Harleys made them bad asses and pulled up on about 6 inches from either side of my car 'boxing me in" at the next light, revving their engines, making angry gestures, etc. And the other guy started giving me shit about MY driving, about having to be careful around motorcycles as if it were my fault he was in imbecile.
The guy started yelling something about ME having to be careful becasue bikes were so much faster than my car... Huh? They were both yelling from both sicdes, revving their engines etc.
The light turned green, and one of them tried to get in front of me while the other started crowding me from one side. Yeah, that didn;t work to good since I could keep up with their bikes easily.
At hte next light, more of the same... I was tired of it, and I straight up told him "Learn to ride your motorcycle, buy mufflers, some turn signals and mirrors, and learn to use them. Your bikes are SLOW, you need to look out for other drivers, it was your fault."
Then I showed him what 0-60 in 4.3 seconds looks like and embarrassed the hell out of his 'fast bike'.
