Impatient Douchebag in Durango
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You know how you can just tell if someone’s going to be a dick just by looking at him? Well, the same thing applied with this bearded mofo in a malibu blue Dodge Durango with lame racing stripes. Seriously, who paints racing stripes on an SUV? And with that color blue, might as well paint pink polka dots on the doors. Anyway, we were waiting to enter the Trader Joe’s parking lot in Toluca Lake, which happens to be very cramped and quite busy in the early evenings as everyone is doing their shopping after work. We were stopped behind a VW bug that was waiting for a car to back out of a parking spot. Now, if a driver is taking a little longer than average to back out of a spot, most people would just sit and be patient. What did this guy do? He started to honk. I’m sorry, but don’t you have an elevated view of what’s going on in your custom-painted vehicle? Oh wait, that’s right, you do…but you just don’t give a damn. This post, like yesterday’s post, is more about the attitude and temperament of L.A.’s bad drivers rather than any particular driving infraction. Because when you break it down, you still have to deal with these dregs of society once they step out of their vehicles.
Filed under: aggressive, parking
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Just the other day, I was driving through a residential area, a rather popular one that many people use to get from one main street, to another, helping them avoid a very busy main drag.
Anyway, at some point, some years ago, the city put in some manual stops because too many people were blazing through this RESIDENTIAL area.
So, now, there are many stops throughout this winding street (about 5), and when you enter one end, the speed limit changes: from 25 MPH for one stretch, to 30 MPH, to 35 MPH when it gets closer to a shopping area. (Of course, very few people follow these street speeds).
So, to my main point, I had just turned left into the 25 MPH area, and a guy in a truck turned in soon after me. How did I notice? He was driving very fast, right up to my back bumper, which he did with an aggressive/impatient jerking motion. I looked into my review mirror, and he got even closer, as I stuck to the 25 MPH.
And because I was following the speed limit, and he didn’t care to, he drove angrily over the double yellow lines into opposing traffic and cut in front of me, where he proceeded to speed up to start tailgating a pickup that had been several car lengths in front of me.
It’s a small wonder that he didn’t cut illegally over the double yellow lines again to cut off that “slow” person.
He tailgated that person all the way through the winding residential area, until he finally got to the traffic signals at the end.
What a prick!!!
Mykal, classic short-sighted, senseless aggression. On that note, I’ve been witnessing a lot of that today for some reason…more than usual. Check out the most recent post…it’s an L.A. classic.
Don’t be jealous of his stripes…Dodge made a very limited edition of durangos in 99 and 00. Viper blue paint with white racing stripes. Also, my durango has stripes on it. It’s not lame.