Dallas, TX: City of Brotherly Love



I decided to take Live Oak home from work today. You should know that it's a pretty major street with a fair amount of traffic. I usually take Swiss Ave, the residential street next to Live Oak, but there was almost no traffic at 5pm on a Saturday, so I figured, "What the fuck, why not?" I was halfway home with no problems; the few cars that were out had been politely passing on my right (Live Oak is a two-way four lane street with a center turn lane, so there's more than enough room).

I got through the second light before my turn when I felt a car slow down behind me. There weren't any other cars anywhere near me, the street was clear going both ways for a full block. I waved the car around with my left arm in the International Gesture for "Go Around Me", but the driver just layed on his horn, then started a series of short rapid horn bursts. He sped around me and I saw that it was blue mid-80's Crown Victoria with the side smashed in. The driver, a little white trash dude in a sleeveless t-shirt floored it around me and cut back into the lane ahead of me. As he was cutting me off, the following conversation took place.

White Trash Dude: (yelling) FREAK!
Me: (yelling back) FUCK YOU COCKSUCKER!

It didn't piss me off, I found it amusing, if only slightly irritating. But seriously, what an asshole. So it's official, I'm a freak.
- posted by Mason @ 6:38 PM