I think I just didn’t explain the situation thoroughly enough, so that’s on me. Oh well. It’s interesting that so many people are more concerned with whether I was a dick or not as opposed to getting something thrown at my car on the highway.

Can you cite your source on that? In any event, I was not in California.

You know, I’ve been hearing this a lot lately.

All good. I noticed that most people got the situation after I explained a little more. I clicked on some past replies from the folks being more critical, and I’m beginning to notice a bit of a pattern. Guess I should have just cited my spot in the “zipper” from the get go!

He wasn’t on the shoulder. Good point re: the zipper method, in that case he would have been after me as I had just let someone in.

Yeah I’ve decided that I’m going to be just a little more...understanding...moving forward, on account of not wanting to get shot. Nice GC, by the way. My 2014 GC Altitude was on the business end of this angry man’s coffee cup/beer can/apple core/whatever-it-was.

:(

Thought I recognized you.

Stopping short is stopping short, regardless of speed. You could slam on your brakes at 1 mph if you wanted to, although I’ll concede that it wouldn’t be as dramatic as say, slamming on the brakes from say 30 mph.

Just give me the high sign next time you see me out there, and I’ll gladly let you in. No questions asked.

I think that’s a fair conclusion. If I *had* to choose who the bigger dick was, I’d say him. On account of the violence and all.

Well I don’t know about fiery! I worded my post that way knowing it “implicated” me because the actual situation was absurdly unreasonable on his part. If I would have just said “yeah some dude threw something at me, weird...” of course you would wonder what the hell I did. In reality, it was a 3-5 mph situation where…

Amen, brother. The little “wait that’s all i did to get this guy to act like that?” lightbulb will probably make me err on the side of passivity next time.

I see your point. I had the right of way (his lane was ending) and my policy is that if I have to slam on my brakes for you to have space to get in, you’re the asshole. If I would have maintained my current speed, he would have hit me, and I didn’t feel like slamming on my brakes and getting rear-ended by the guy…

Just yesterday, a guy (in his numbered work van, with company name/number plastered all over it) threw something at my vehicle after I sped up to keep him from merging in front of me with about 8 inches to spare (for the record he was in the lane that was ending). It was also 5mph creeping traffic so I’m not sure what…

I could easily see this devolving to college-roommates-arguing-over-the-utilities-bill levels of chaos.

Hey, I didn’t know @PFTCommenter ventured into Kinja...

Had a similar experience this past weekend. Saw a guy brush past another guy at a bar and ash a cig on his head (accidentally, I think). Trying to explain to the guy with a smoldering ember on the back of his head that he was sort of on fire was kinda tough with music blasting. I finally just decided I’d risk getting…

Would be great in a Ford Probe.

“What, me worry?”