Not-so-excellent adventures
Post your worst D moments. I'll start:
Today, while returning home from the car wash, an SUV decided they really needed to be in my lane that instant. I tried to lay on the horn, remembered too late that it wasn't in the middle of the steering wheel, and ended up on the curb in an effort not to get smacked in the LFF, taking out a couple of wooden survey sticks in the process. I was about to get out and check for damage but then the other driver started to pull away (this was in the right turn lane at an intersection) and I just said OH HELL NO (only there were a few filthier expletives involved) and drove off the curb after them. I was honking and waving for them to pull over and when they finally stopped at the light just south of my house I jumped out and went to yell at them. I wasn't even thinking about the possibility that they might be a gangbanger with a Tec-9, I just wanted to rip them a new one and/or get their insurance info in case my suspension was trashed (in the moment, it was mostly the former, NGL).
It turned out to be a youngish woman who was apologetic about it so I didn't curse her out or anything but it turned out her insurance agent was a couple of streets up so we both went straight there. They were at lunch but we exchanged info and I went straight to the shop to get it looked at. With MW Mike on speaker we looked over the suspension & wheels and didn't find any glaring damage (and I got the impression she was a single mom so I might have just eaten it if it had been less than $500) so all's well that ends well, I guess. Still took about 10 years off my life, though.
Maybe I should have bought a Bricklin in Safety Orange. If whoever was behind us filmed it and gets a million views on Youtube, I better get a cut of the profit...
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Originally Posted by Lwanmtr
