Originally posted by mx5rx7girl(aka Mazdaspeedgirl):
I had a kinda scary road rage experience. Me and spazztroy were cruisin in my Protege5. While stopping for a red light, I saw an ambulance coming out of his station, so I stopped behind the line to let him out (there's signs about not stopping within the lines too). I wait to start moving, since the law says you must stay a few hundred feet away from an ambulance. A guy in a silver civic starts honking at me, and I ignore him, thinking maybe the country he comes from does not have ambulances ( lol ). When I (and the rest of the traffic) start moving again, he incessantly keeps on his horn/riding my ass. So being the colorful American that I am, I flip him off. He stops and backs off for a few seconds, then gets right back to it. So I flip him off again. Prolly not the best thing to do...So he follows me and naturally the PR5 leaves him in the dust, but everytime I have to slow for a light, there he is again. I got to one redlight that I absolutely could not get thru, and I see him get out of his car. Since I keep my kool under pressure, I immediately thought to lock my doors (windows were already rolled up). He comes up to my window screaming half in his native tongue and bangs on my window so hard that I watch it literally bow in!!! Meanwhile I watched to see if his passenger (a big burly guy) was going to get out, but he doesn't. spazztroy sees the traffic clear and I burn em outta there.
I mean, what did this freak wanna do? Beat up a girl for her waiting for an ambulance to go by??? If it hadn't been for his large passenger, I would have gotten out. I do keep a 4 cell MagLite in my car for such situations, but you never know what's gonna happen...
And with that, I am working on getting a tazer (sp?). Mace is fun, but kinda girly. I want something that will put em on the ground for sure.